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The Sound Of Rain: Mark Fell And The Quietest Room In Europe

John Doran speaks to the renowned leftfield electronic music producer and sound installation creator about 64 Beautiful Phase Violations - an experiment in an anechoic chamber. With thanks to Rory Gibb and Kit Turner for essential moral and technical guidance. Features embedded short documentary. Mark Fell portrait by Connie Treanor

String Theory: A Little Orchestra Interviewed

London's A Little Orchestra combine classical composition with an indie-pop guestlist. Ahead of the release of their debut album, Stuart Huggett speaks to founder Bobby Barry and violinist Natalie Hudson

Daft Punk

Random Access Memories

Boards Of Canada’s Tomorrow’s Harvest, Track-By-Track

Warp's shadowy duo Boards Of Canada return in June with their first album in six years. Joe Clay attended the album's first playback, and gives us a run through of his initial impressions

All That Is: James Salter And The Big Time

Stuart Evers considers, and discusses with the much underrated American author, the apparent succeses and failings of his latest novel, All That Is, and why, only now, he has made it to the mainstream

Where in the World is Quorum? On The Poetry Of William Fuller

Maya Osborne examines the contrasting roles of the pastoral and contributions of Microsoft Word in the American poet's newest collection

Goldblade

The Terror Of Modern Life

Cut! Not Enough Hollywood Directors Know When To Quit

As Steven Soderbergh and Baz Luhrmann consider their retirement from feature films, Tristan Bath argues that it's time for a few veteran Hollywood directors to be put out to pasture

The National

Trouble Will Find Me

Vår

No One Dances Quite Like My Brothers

Films For Music: The Pet Shop Boys’ It Couldn’t Happen Here Revisited

Anthony Nield takes an overdue look at The Pet Shops Boys' cinematic collaboration with Jack Bond, It Couldn't Happen Here

For Love Of Charanjit Singh: Disco Ragas On The Road

Ahead of Charanjit Singh's performance on the BleeD stage at Field Day this Sunday, his manager and booking agent Rana Ghose explains why the recently rediscovered Indian producer's proto-acid music has taken over his life and work

Time Capsule: An Interview With Christopher Owens

As the ex-Girls frontman embarks on his solo career, Christopher Owens tells John Freeman about debut album Lysandre and life after the demise of his former band

The Memory Band

On The Chalk (Our Navigation Of The Line Of The Downs)

For Those About To Smooth Jazz: Sade’s Stronger Than Pride Revisted

Chad Parkill revisits one of his earliest musical memories: listening to Sade on a hippy commune in the Australian bush in a piece looking at Stronger Than Pride 30 years after its release

The Focus Group

The Elektrik Karousel

‘I’m A Walking Bordello!’: Charlemagne Palestine Interviewed

The New York artist/composer sits down for an in-depth interview with Erin Lyndal Martin, to discuss animism and stuffed toys, ringing church bells in '60s New York, sacred musics and trance states

The Clang Of The Yankee Reaper: Van Dyke Parks Interviewed

Taylor Parkes talks to the American songwriting legend

Neon Neon

Praxis Makes Perfect

Queen Sized Polly: PJ Harvey’s Rid Of Me Revisited

25 years after its release, John Freeman looks back at Polly Jean Harvey’s torrid and brilliant second album, Rid Of Me, a slate-cleaning ball of fury that would shock and awe in equal measure

Roots & Branches: An Interview With Tree

With the second volume of his Sunday School mixtapes just released, Chicago rapper/producer Tree speaks with Kyle Ellison about the importance of a good voice and the city's current generation of hip-hop and rap artists

Chance The Rapper

Acid Rap

Singing No Evil: Jad Fair Of Half Japanese Interviewed

Jad Fair has been making visceral outsider art and music for nearly four decades now. April Welsh talks to him about the reissue of the Half Japanese debut, Half Gentlemen/Not Beasts

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