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The Month’s Electronic Music: Freaky, Freaky Techno Is What I Like

This month's edition of our electronic music column delves deep into chest-bursting techno and full body ambient, via cassette tapes and tropical storm percussion. Words: Rory Gibb

Horns Up Ya Shitters! August’s Best Metal Reviewed

What is as good as Behemoth, asks Toby Cook. Not much, but anything close is reviewed in Columnus Metallicus this month

“Living Dyingly” – Christopher Hitchens’s Mortality

Matthew Foster on the late Christopher Hitchens' final book

David Byrne & St. Vincent

Love This Giant

Evan Caminiti

Dreamless Sleep

Médico Quién? Doctor Who Is Fast On The Draw In Spain

The intrepid Adrian Lobb travels to Spain to visit the set of tonight's Doctor Who and to speak to Matt Smith. Here is his report...

Supersonic 2012: This Little Girl Ain’t Afraid Of Nobody – Dope Body Interviewed

B-More’s Dope Body have fixed you up a speedball of dirty noise punk and radio friendly alt. rock, which you can mainline at Supersonic 2012 next month

Approaching The Unfamiliar: Stewart Lee On John Cage’s Indeterminacy

Ahead of a clutch of performances, Stewart Lee talks about the overlaps between comedy and avant garde music

20 Years On: Man Bites Dog Revisited

Declan Tan rewinds two decades to this prescient Belgian satire, assembled by a trio of young filmmakers including the late Rémy Belvaux

The Deserters’ Songs: Rachel Zeffira Interviewed

Rachel Zeffira steps away from her Cats Eyes project to set up a label and release her first solo album, The Deserters. Luke Turner speaks to her about the LP, growing up in a Canadian smelting town, and an unfortunate incident involving an oboe and a tattoo

Rock’s Irreplaceables: The Soundtrack Of Our Lives Interviewed

Sweden's The Soundtrack Of Our Lives are calling it a day after 16 years of active service, and playing a final UK gig tonight at London's Heaven. David Quantick spoke to the band's Ebbot Lundberg and Mattias Bärjed about their decision to cease operations, and tells you why you should catch their show tonight

Goat

World Music

All Talked Out: Dismantling The History Of Talk Talk

Wyndham Wallace examines two new celebrations of the work of Talk Talk, 80s synth-poppers turned art-rock pioneers. (Plus an exclusive extract from Spirit Of Talk Talk, the book, by Chris Roberts…)

Cinematograph Preview: John Pearse’s Moviemakers Disinterred

William Kherbek recalls a true rarity of early '70s British cinema, ahead of this Sunday's free screening and director q&a

Cat Power

Sun

Life Is Life: The Strange World Of Laibach, Narrated By Laibach

Laibach are one of the most misunderstood groups going, with their uniforms and martial music wearily misinterpreted. Here, they guide Luke Turner through significant moments in their 30 years of subversion, from being banned in Slovenia, providing grist to Žižek's seditious mill and provoking phonecalls from Slobodan Milošević to this year's Tate Modern triumph

Swans

The Seer

This Megalith Reality: Lady Gaga Live

In the second Calvert Report, we send John down to Twickenham to experience the Lady Gaga Born This Way Ball, a lurid pop Nuremburg Rally with 90s Athena poster aesthetics. Main photo Yoshika Horita, all others Picture Group

The Unlikely Triplets: Stealing Sheep Interviewed

Stealing Sheep chat to John Freeman about how their three very different personalities have made a harmonious and captivating debut album

Land Observations

Roman Roads IV-XI

Teengirl Fantasy

Tracer

30 Years On: The Dreaming By Kate Bush

Matt Lindsay gets to grips with the overlooked masterpiece that is The Dreaming

Screaming For Vengeance: Rob Halford Of Judas Priest Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to defender of the faith and all round good guy Rob Halford about Judas Priest's biggest album

Maddin Men: Keyhole Reviewed

Anna Coatman ponders this latest slice of surrealism from Winnipeg-based auteur Guy Maddin, which opens in UK cinemas on Friday

Calexico

Algiers

John Frusciante

Letur-Lefr

Heavenly Games: The Making Of Toy’s Debut LP

A year and a bit after they played our stage at Field Day, TOY guide us through what went into the making of their debut LP. Photo by Joseph Tovey Frost

A New Kind Of Man: John Foxx & The Maths Live

John Foxx & The Maths play the finest show of their fruitful return at Cargo, says Luke Turner. Photo by Mike Cooper

READ: Paul Auster’s Winter Journal

Paul Auster's Winter Journal is released this week via Faber and Faber. Read an extract here

Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage

Siobhan McKeown visits the San Francisco locations and explores the multiplicity of meanings in Hitchcock's iconic 1958 picture, which is screening all this month at BFI Southbank. Photos by Darren Ambrose

A Night Of Heavy Petting: Pet Shop Boys Live In Berlin

Wyndham Wallace witnesses the global unveiling of the veteran duo’s new album.

Jens Lekman

I Know What Love Isn't