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Hex & The City: Eccentronic Research Council & Maxine Peake Live

Christophe Riesco watches the Eccentronic Research Council and Maxine Peake perform 1612 Underture and finds relaxation in short supply. If you want a flavour of the ERC, watch their short film below

JJ DOOM

Key to the Kuffs

“We Were Engulfed By Acid Vapour” – Samsara’s Mark Magidson Interviewed

Erin Lyndal Martin chats to producer Mark Magidson about the final instalment in the wordless, non-narrative movie trilogy he created with director Ron Fricke, ahead of its theatrical release next week

Spector

Enjoy It While It Lasts

Synthesizer Soul: Yazoo’s Upstairs At Eric’s 30 Years On

On the 30th anniversary of its release, Vince Clarke tells John Freeman how Yazoo’s groundbreaking debut album was all about "the singing and the tunes"

The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends

Folk Songs II

Music From The Dolls House: Amanda Palmer’s Favourite Albums

Theatrical, glamorous, a glory of synths, saucy, dark... and Neutral Milk Hotel. Amanda Palmer talks Matt Evans through her favourite 13 albums

Voodoo Rams: An Interview With Goat

John Freeman chats to shadowy Swedish collective Goat, about how ancient voodoo rituals influenced their extraordinary debut album World Music

The Eccentronic Research Council And Maxine Peake

1612 Underture

‘Yeah, Rock & Roll!’: Metallic Taste Of Blood’s Eraldo Bernocchi Interviewed

Quietus metal correspondent Toby Cook sits down with Eraldo Bernocchi, of the mighty Obake and more recently Metallic Taste Of Blood, and valiantly attempts to match him espresso-for-espresso

Truths And Lies: F For Fake Revisited

Yasmeen Khan has fun getting lost in Orson Welles' mid-'70s maze of 'factual' misdirection, which has been digitally restored for a nationwide theatrical re-release this week. Stills courtesy of the BFI

Herbert Goes ‘Banana’: Germany’s Biggest Star Takes On England

Virtually unknown in Britain, Herbert Grönemeyer is a huge star in his native Germany, having sold 18 million albums. Now his sights are set on the country he called home for over a decade. Wyndham Wallace meets him at Berlin’s Hansa Studios…

Minotaur Shock

Orchard

Girlfriend In A Comedy: Amy Lame’s Morrissey Show Unhappy Birthday

With her hit show about being a Morrisey fan running at the Edinburgh Fringe, Amy Lame tells David Peschek about her childhood as a chubby, closeted kid in suburban New Jersey, her fabulous permanent adolescence and why Morrissey is for life

Bloc Party

Four

Earthy & Complicated: The xx’s Coexist Track By Track

Next month, London trio The xx release their much-anticipated second album Coexist. Luke Turner takes you on a track-by-track guide through its eleven "far more earthy, sticky, complicated" songs

Listen, Move, Dance: An Interview With October

Bristol's DJ October plays in Fabric's Room 1 this Saturday. With a number of excellent records released in recent months, he sat down with Rory Gibb to discuss minimalism, punk rock and digital music's "crazy circus"

Stealing Sheep

Into The Diamond Sun

Filmmaking As Therapy: The Singular Vision Of Jane Arden

Anthony Nield explores the work of late British cinema maverick Jane Arden, whose three features with partner Jack Bond are reissued on DVD and Blu-ray this month. Still from The Other Side Of The Underneath

Forwards Not Forgetting: Owen Hatherley Interviewed

Jamie Sutcliffe talks to the firebrand of architechtural criticism Owen Hatherley about his recent book A New Kind Of Bleak. Main photo by Agata Pyzik

The Bug

Acid Ragga 7"

Alive & Wriggling: Animal Collective’s Centipede Hz Track-By-Track

John Calvert gives us a track-by-track run-through of Centipede Hz and finds that amidst all the familiar Animal Collective hippy tropes, there's much new - and exciting - to be found

Accidents Of Evocation: COI + Mordant Music = MisinforMation Explored

Kevin Mccaighy revisits this disquieting DVD featuring audio by Baron Mordant set to visuals from the Central Office of Information, originally available through specialist outlets and now reissued by the BFI

Metal Vicar Rachel Mann: Why Jesus Would Have Been A Pussy Riot Fan

As Pussy Riot begin their two year prison sentence, lady of both the cloth and the rock the Rev. Rachel Mann gives a Christian critique of the actions of the Russian Orthodox Church

Who’s Your Man? Take This Waltz Reviewed

Named after the Leonard Cohen song, Canadian actress turned writer-director Sarah Polley's second feature is about a woman torn between her husband and a new suitor. Daniel A Nixon finds that three's a crowd

Multiple Nightmares: The Haunted Legacy Of Lynch’s Eraserhead Soundtrack

Following its Sacred Bones vinyl reissue, Charlie Fox re-evalutates the terror of the Eraserhead soundtrack, and its influence on a vast array of musicians over the years since the film's initial release

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Mature Themes

A Family Affair: Natasha Soobramanien’s Genie And Paul

We review and publish an extract from Natasha Soobramanien's debut novel, a tale of brother and sisterly love. Plus a Q&A with the author, who discusses ideas of "cultural cannibalism" Photo by Dominik Rippl. Words by Josh Warren

Wooderson

Let The Man Speak

50 States Of Mind: Ride Discuss Going Blank Again, 30 Years On

In 1992, Ride released Going Blank Again, the record that saw them emerge from Nowhere's swirls into more pop territory. Joe Clay speaks to Andy Bell, Loz Colbert, Mark Gardner and Steve Queralt about the lost classic

Like A Whirlwind: Rodriguez And The Search For Sugarman

Rob Hughes speaks to Sixto Rodriguez and the makers of the Searching For Sugarman documentary which charts his unique and uplifting story

‘We Are Part Of This World’: Gojira Interviewed

Toby Cook meets French metal troupe Gojira, whose new album L'Enfant Sauvage adds to a back catalogue impressive enough to earn them their very own adjective