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Jodi B’s Hoody Who! August’s Best Rap YouTubes & Mixtapes

Jodi Burian sifts through mounds of YouTubes & mixtapes and finds a satisfying haul of Sister Act 2, well oiled beefcake in a Pokemon mask and sounds that make her want to dance like G-Style

Toward A Horizon: Land Observations’ James Brooks Interviewed

Former Appliance man James Brooks returns to Mute with a new project, Land Observations, and an album of meditations on Roman Roads. Luke Turner treads a path beside him

FrightFest The 13th: The Cigarette Burns Report

Josh Saco of Cigarette Burns enjoys the recent Film4 Frightfest, which took place at the Empire Cinema in Leicester Square. Still from American Mary

The xx

Coexist

Unsane In The Membrane: Noel Gardner’s Straight Hedge Punk Column

You don't have to be Unsane to work here but it helps, says Noel Gardner as he lists the best punk, hardcore, crust etc. out this quarter

Wild Nothing

Nocturne

25 Years On: Def Leppard’s Hysteria Revisited

25 years on, our Orange County correspondent Ned Raggett eulogizes the 20 million selling high point in the Leps' career

To Wage War With Ghosts: Joe Banks Of Disinformation Interviewed

Jamie Sutcliffe talks to sound artist and author Joe Banks (aka Disinformation) about his new book Rorschach Audio, a history of Electronic Voice Phenomena and other distortions of aural perception

This Is Forever? At The Drive-In Live At Brixton

“GOOD MORNING MIAMI!” After twelve years, At the Drive-In finally lay Relationship of Command to rest - and they do so in typically uncompromising fashion. Photos: Simon Parry

A Fair Coppola? Rumble Fish Reassessed

Colm McAuliffe rides back to 1983 and Francis Ford Coppola's motorcycle gang oddity, which is released on Blu-ray this week

Dan Deacon

America

Darren Hayman

Lido

The Unstageable Staged: Stockhausen’s Mittwoch Aus Licht Reviewed

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht was supposedly too grandiose to stage, and has been used as a 'pretentious' stick to beat him for years. Leo Chadburn witnesses that refuted in a very human performance in Birmingham. Pictures by Katja Ogrin

Foley Cow! Berberian Sound Studio Director Peter Strickland Interviewed

Peter Strickland chats to Basia Lewandowska Cummings about his superb meta-giallo audio-chiller, which previewed at London's FrightFest last weekend and now goes on nationwide theatrical release

David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Madonna & Asparagus: Kraftwerk In 1976

This extract from David Buckley's excellent new Kraftwerk biography Publikation (out now on Omnibus) looks at an album collaboration that didn't happen and an expedition to buy seasonal vegetables that did

The Unwinding Hours

Afterlives

A New Nineties US Edition Part Three: Codeine, A New Kind Of Stillness

Neil Kulkarni continues his secret history of US cult groups of the 1990s, this time speaking to Steven Immerwahr and Chris Brokaw of Codeine

Oren Ambarchi

Sagittarian Domain

An Electrical Storm: Erol Alkan’s 13 Favourite Albums

DJ and producer Erol Alkan has dug deeper than most when it comes to turning up gems for his genre-spanning club sets. He talks us through a suitably eclectic 13 favourite albums selection

Return To Earth: An Interview With Mala

Dubstep pioneer Mala, one half of Digital Mystikz, is about to release Mala In Cuba, a collaborative album recorded with musicians in Havana then transplanted to London's bassbins. He speaks to Angus Finlayson about the human spirit and the importance of process in music-making

Bowiefest Preview: Absolute Beginners Revisited

This weekend London's ICA is hosting a retrospective of David Bowie the movie and TV star. Anthony Nield buys a bargain bin US import DVD to take another look at the Dame's 1986 folly, directed by Julien Temple

Four Tet

Pink

Yeasayer

Fragrant World

A Little Drop Of Blood: Michael Gira Of Swans Interviewed

The Seer is a gargantuan colossus of a record towering over 2012. Luke Turner spoke to Michael Gira about its genesis, evolution, and the commitment required to make it

100% Shock & Awe: Skrillex Blasts Tiny Venue

At Skrillex's tiny London show for Eat Your Own Ears this weekend, dancers and moshers alike were flattened by sonic junk and wave upon wave of bass, "the pitiless God that reigns supreme in the EDM universe". Words John Calvert Pictures: Pete Fallan

Conservation Of Momentum: An Interview With Blanck Mass

As Blanck Mass, Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power evokes sprawling images of an Earth reclaimed by nature. He speaks to Charlie Fox about soundtracking the Olympic Opening Ceremony and Werner Herzog

Ride

Going Blank Again (Reissue)

Things I Have Learned: Jarkko Aaltonen Of Korpiklaani On Drinking

Finland's answer to the Pogues are lords of the grape and the grain, Toby Cook takes notes...

Happy Songs? Stuart Braithwaite Of Mogwai’s Favourite Albums

Mogwai's Stuart Braithwaite takes us through his favourite albums, and explains why it's Margaret Thatcher's fault that everyone in Scotland is a goth and how John Peel funded the Scottish music scene

Maus In The House! Oslo’s Oya Festival Reviewed

Tim Burrows (words) and Hayley Hatton (pics) head to Oslo for the Oya Festival, where they see a John Maus stunner, a Stone Roses groaner, and proclaim Savages the new Dr Feelgood

The Darkness

Hot Cakes

Damn The Torpedoes! The Quietus Comics Round Up Column For August!

Mat Colegate and Aug Stone get to grips with comic releases for August