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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

Bad Seeds? Lawless Reviewed

Declan Tan watches John Hillcoat's Prohibition-era gangster flick, based on a Matt Bondurant historical novel and adapted for the screen by Nick Cave

Bass Culture

Four New Reggae Compilations On Nascente

“I Want Lou Reed To Kick Me Down The Stairs” – Lawrence Interviewed

Indie-pop outsider extraordinaire Lawrence – the Felt/Denim/Go-Kart-Mozart frontman who turned 51 last month – talks to Jude Rogers about sounding like Nicki Minaj and his ex-girlfriend from Saint Etienne...

You Don’t Get Over A Broken Heart: Jens Lekman Interviewed

Siobhán Kane talks to Jens Lekman about the writing process, Tracey Thorn, and his new record I Know What Love Isn't

Drums In The Deep: An Interview With Pearson Sound

Even as the UK's club scene has changed around him, David Kennedy's music has continued to embody the rhythm-focused and adventurous approach that also characterises his label Hessle Audio. He speaks to Rory Gibb about the compulsion to keep exploring new avenues

Erol Alkan

Another Bugged Out Mix & Bugged In Selection

Every Love Story Is A Ghost Story: A Life Of David Foster Wallace

Charlie Fox reviews D.T. Max's biography of David Foster Wallace - a writer morned and maligned in seemingly equal measure

Camera

Radiate!

30 Years On: Q – The Winged Serpent Revisited

Andrew Stimpson flies back to 1982 and Larry Cohen's cult creature feature, which is screening as part of Scala Beyond in London this week

Reach For The Lasers: An Interview With Robin Fox

Australian musician and audiovisual artist Robin Fox locks human nervous systems to the rhythms of the machine. Ahead of his laser show at Cafe Oto on September 16th, he speaks to Rory Gibb about scoring for dance and cracking technology

As Wide As The Universe: Dead Can Dance Interviewed

We were offered a very brief phone conversation with Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance recently. There was nothing for it but to activate our many teeted, lizard agent from Interzone, Jonny Mugwump, whose feverish brain and forked tongue work in double time...

Red River Dialect

Awellupontheway

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