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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

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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

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

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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

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