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There’s A Riot Goin’ On: Ice Cube’s The Predator Revisited

Twenty years after its release in the aftermath of the Los Angeles riots, John Freeman looks back at the anger that fuelled Ice Cube’s greatest solo album

X-TG

Desertshore

Haarlem Knight: Joost Swarte Interviewed

Comics great Joost Swarte talks to Aug Stone about his love of music and noteworthy involvement in Dutch records

Michael’s Videos: Haneke And The Banality Of Evil

Robert Barry considers the question of evil in relation to the work of celebrated Austrian filmmaker Michael Haneke

Holly Herndon

Movement

Tim Hecker & Daniel Lopatin

Instrumental Tourist

Nationalism Is Pure Nostalgia: DAF Interviewed

As DAF prepare to release a new album, Filip Kalinowski speaks to Robert Görl and Gabriel 'Gabi' Delgado-López about using synths for punk rock, and why Nazi nationalists are doomed

Los Pirañas

Toma Tu Jabón Kapax

Pink Sky Thinking: An Interview With Nathan Fake

This summer's Steam Days album found Norfork's Nathan Fake continuing to sink deeper into his own idiosyncratic and woozy take on techno and electronica. In advance of a tour with Orbital next month, he speaks to Jim Keoghan about folk ethics and working solo

Veterans Of Disorder: Royal Trux Interviewed

With their formative album Accelerator recently reissued, Neil Kulkarni asks Jennifer Herrema to look back over the noise-rock duo's career, taking in junkiedom, spectrum analysers and stomach-churning artwork

Chad Valley

Young Hunger

Dean Blunt

The Narcissist II

Crime Plays: Writer Ian Rankin On His 13 Favourite Albums

Ian Rankin talks to Luke Turner about his life in music, and how he'd like to write novels based on Joy Division and David Bowie albums

20 Years On: Malcolm X Reassessed

Declan Tan turns the cinematic clock back two decades for another look at Spike Lee's epic portrait of an African-American icon

Supremely Demolished Beats: An Interview With Pete Swanson

From the rhythm-driven noise of last year's Man With Potential to a new album with Sarin Smoke, Pete Swanson has traveled along remarkable paths since his former duo Yellow Swans disbanded. He tells Joseph Burnett that beats have always been crucial to his music

Devilman

Devilman

A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna’s Unapologetic

Provocation for Profit? Assault as a Marketing Accessory? Why the Rihanna PR Machine show sad signs of our times

Chimney Tops And Trumpets: Visions Of The Blue Nile

The Blue Nile’s first two albums are about to be reissued, remastered with bonus material. Wyndham Wallace takes a personal, nostalgic trip to his own private Glasgow

Mumford & Sons

Babel

Happy Nightmares: An Interview With DELS

London-based rapper DELS has just released his latest EP, Black Salad, a darkly psychedelic tryst inspired by dreams and altered states. He meets with Joe Clay to discuss darkness in music, spontaneity and last year's debut album GOB

Legowelt

The Paranormal Soul

A Ladder To God: Swans Breathe With Space, Live In London

The Swans play live in Koko. John Calvert breathes in and out with them and the universe. Photographs by Valerio Berdini

Cut Hands

Black Mamba

Dreams Of Rain: The Sisters Of Mercy’s Floodland 25 Years On

Twenty five years on Julian Marszalek revisits Andrew Eldritch's all out bid for chart success and asks, was it worth it

Goats Whitehead Soup: Charlie Is My Darling Revisited

Peter Whitehead's long-lost Rolling Stones documentary has been restored and re-edited for home entertainment release, plus a UK television premiere this weekend. Anthony Nield examines both the band's relationship with the big screen and its maker's brief but fascinating cinema career

Carlton Melton

Photos Of Photos

A Line In The Sand: Untold & Hemlock Discuss UK Dance Music

Hemlock is one of the most enduring labels to have emerged from the shadows of the dubstep scene. With a new compilation just released, Angus Finlayson meets label bosses Untold & Andy Spencer and signee Randomer to talk UK dance music's past, present & future

My Cervical Cancer: An Interview with Chew Lips’ Tigs

On the second anniversary of being given the all-clear, Tigs from Chew Lips talks to John Freeman about her experience of cervical cancer and why she will never miss a smear test again

The Art Of Conversation: Ali Smith Interviewed

Josh Hall delves, with the author, in to Artful - her new collection of essays - and discusses with her the purposes of form and the state of contemporary society through the scope of literature

“We Are Quite Savage Islanders” – Ben Wheatley Interviewed

Ben Wheatley chats to Stephen Dalton about the savagery of modern Britain, soundtrack choices and his blackly comic third feature Sightseers, which goes on nationwide theatrical release at the end of this month

Oneida

A List of the Burning Mountains

Lee Gamble

Dutch Tvashar Plumes