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This Is War: John Robb Of Goldblade Interviewed

As Goldblade prepare to unleash their ferocious sixth album, The Terror of Modern Life, Ged Babey asks mob orator John Robb why the Punk Rock Wars will never be over. Contains a stream of four new Goldblade tracks

Mikal Cronin

MCII

The Month’s Electronic Music: Pirate Radio Techno

In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb casts an ear over a slew of new UK club music releases, plus new records by Laurel Halo and Kyle Hall

This Must Be The Plaice: Fish’s Favourite Albums

The former Marillion frontman now solo singer-songwriter, picks out the gems in his record collection

Faintly Transcendental: On The Poetry Of Graham Foust

Scrutinising the influences, from time and place to Joy Division, and stylistic idiosyncrasies which together make up the work of this ambitious American poet, Alex Niven provides a guide for the Foust-uninitiated

Cruel Britannia: Ian Cobain Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to the author about his new book - Cruel Britannia - political secrecy, prison camps in London and Guantanamo and the inevitable hostile reaction to investigative journalism

Mulatu Astatke On The Strange World Of Mulatu Astatke

Ahead of his headlining set on the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at Field Day on May 25th, Mulatu Astatke talks Richie Troughton through his life and work

Lost In Translation: The Great Gatsby Reviewed

Baz Luhrmann's adaptation of Gatsby is fiercely stylish, writes Simon Jablonski, but fails to transfer the subtleties of Fitzgerald's novel to the big screen

Standish/Carlyon

Deleted Scenes

Breaking The Silence: An Interview With Colleen

In our latest French music column, Rockfort's David McKenna speaks with Colleen about how falling out of love with music, and reigniting that love again, have informed her first album in six years

Vampire Weekend

Modern Vampires Of The City

RP Boo

Legacy

Films Through The Window: The Cinema Of Bruno Dumont

Bruno Dumont's Hors Satan is finally released on DVD this week. To mark the release Anthony Nield looks back over the director's awkward and fascinating body of work

The Scaramanga Six

Phantom Head

Test Match Music: The Phoenix Foundation Talk Cricket

New Zealand's Phoenix Foundation are cricket fanatics and have described their latest album Fandango as 'test match music'. Duncan Greive accompanied them to a test match between New Zealand and England and found them waxing lyrical about cricket and music

Changeling: Alison Moyet Interviewed

Following the release of her new album the minutes and the one-off Yazoo performances of recent years, Alison Moyet looks back over her musical career with Ian Wade

Owiny Sigoma Band

Power Punch

Sam Amidon

Bright Sunny South

Wide Open Spaces: Standish/Carlyon Interviewed

Former Devastations men Conrad Standish and Tom Carlyon release their sumptuously smooth, dubbed-out debut album this week. Steph Kretowicz catches up with Standish to chat leather hats and differences between Australia and London

Many Rivers Crossed: Jimmy Cliff Interviewed

John Doran talks to a true original and the owner of one of the sweetest voices in popular music, Mr Jimmy Cliff

Tape Adapter: April’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed

In his second column, Gary Suarez finds the much-hyped Chance The Rapper's second tape wanting, while better efforts from Big K.R.I.T. and Cassie redeem April's mixtape haul

Adam Thirlwell On The Great Gatsby

In our final short visit to West Egg before the release of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, Adam Thrilwell, author of Kapow! and Granta Best Young British Novelist, discusses the power of glamour in Fitzgerald's novel

I Am Demo Suzuki! May’s Unsigned Music

‘Everything Is Choreography’: The Knife Interviewed

The Knife's new live show has baffled, irritated and delighted audiences in equal measure. After their show at London's Roundhouse last week, Alex Macpherson sat down with the group to discuss communication, the politics of movement and reconfiguring peoples' expectations

The Fall

Re-Mit

New Wave Of Dutch Heavy Jazz: Dead Neanderthals Interviewed

Dutch free-jazz/metal/grindcore duo Dead Neanderthals bring their incendiary noise to the UK's shores this week. In advance of their shows, they speak with Stewart Smith about disjointed drums and a 'tongue-in-cheek' connection to jazz

Flash & Blitz: Beyoncé Live In London, By John Calvert

Caught up within the two-hour long human/machine synergy of Beyoncé's London performance, John Calvert reflects on its peculiar mix of sincerity and cynicism and the functional brilliance of her signature sound

Primal Scream

More Light

The Jesus And Mary Chain Barbed Wire Kisses 30 Years On

It's 30 years since East Kilbride reprobates, Jim and William Reid released their excellent early doors compilation Barbed Wire Kisses, so who better to revisit it (with Jim, Douglas Hart and John Moore in tow) than their biographer Zoë Howe

Alien Charisma: The Creatures Of Ray Harryhausen

Mat Colegate pays tribute to the special effects legend and king of the movie monster, Ray Harryhausen

Superflous Fetishisation: Ned Beauman On The Great Gatsby

In the first of a short series of vignettes commissioned to mark the release of Baz Lurhman's The Great Gatsby, Ned Beauman - author of the Man Booker Prize longlisted The Teleportation Accident - recalls a curious summer spent in New York doing 'Gatsby stuff'

Away From Prying Eyes: Dan Richards’ Holloway

In a specially commissioned piece to celebrate the book's release, accompanied by Donwood's artwork, Dan Richards recalls his first meeting with Robert Macfarlane and the journey that would eventually become Holloway