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Spit Out Your Teeth: An Interview With Black Moth

Black Moth's The Killing Jar is a lumbering beast of a debut, hypnotic and skull crushing in equal measure. Amanda Barokh caught up with the band's frontwoman Harriet Bevan, to chat poetry, dirty riffs, alcohol and L7

Tortoise: Shell On Earth, By Simon Reynolds

The Quietus are proud to be hosting the Village Mentality stage, headlined by Tortoise, at Field Day this Saturday. Writing for the Melody Maker in February 1996, Simon Reynolds heralded their album Millions Now Living Will Never Die as the future...

The Garbage Collection – Butch Vig’s Favourite Albums

Louie Gatas talks to imperial grunge producer and Garbage man about his favourite albums

El-P

Cancer For Cure

Hairy Tale: Island Of Lost Souls Revisited

Censored for decades, Erle C Kenton's taboo-flaunting 1932 adaptation of HG Wells' The Island Of Dr Moreau is finally being given a UK DVD release next week. David Pollock asks, Are We Not Men?

Don’t Talk! In Defence Of Queen’s Hot Space

The fans hated it, Roger Taylor and Brian May loathed it, even John Deacon and Freddie Mercury thought it was a mistake. However, says Dan Ross, don't write off Hot Space just like that...

Paul McCartney

Ram (reissue)

Motion Sickness Of Time Travel

Motion Sickness Of Time Travel

Always Waiting For The Shivers To Happen: Grimes Interviewed

Ahead of her appearance on the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at next weekend's Field Day Festival, Grimes talks about her live show, frostbite, and why she's over Canada

Before And After The Grass Arena: John Healy Interviewed

Austin Collings chats with author, chess master, ex-prisoner and former boxing champion John Healy, the subject of new documentary Barbaric Genius, which opens this weekend. Chess photograph by Glyn Roberts

Squarepusher

Ufabulum

“Manifest Of Ambiguity”: Wolfgang Voigt & Jörg Burger Of Mohn Interviewed

Wolfgang Voigt and Jörg Burger reunited this month for their first collaborative album since 1996's Las Vegas, under the name Mohn. Joe Snape caught up with the Kompakt veterans to talk physicality in music and sleep deprivation

WITCH

We Intend To Cause Havoc

JK Flesh

Posthuman

Lucky For Some: Alexander Tucker’s Favourite Albums

Dom Smith takes down Alexander Tucker's Baker's Dozen and chats to him about the personal experiences attached to the records

Twist And Scout: Moonrise Kingdom Reviewed

Daniel A Nixon enjoys the new Wes Anderson picture, opening this Friday

Meditation & Repetition: An Interview With MAKE

Chapel Hill's purveyors of psychedelic metal epics, MAKE, recently released their debut album Trephine. Kevin McCaighy caught up with the three-piece to discuss how they formed and the themes behind the album

Laurel Halo

Quarantine

Zammuto

Zammuto

Whirled Around: An Oral History Of Levitation

20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites those involved to share their cautionary tale…

Sweet Lights

Sweet Lights

Caught By The River: A New Fanzine Extract By Jeff Barrett

Before Caught By The River there was, and is, Heavenly Records. Before that, Jeff Barrett ran record Plymouth shop Meat Whiplash. Here's his story

The Month In Electronic Music: Electro-Shocked Blues

In his latest electronic music column, Rory Gibb gets battered senseless by bolshy synthlines, fat handclaps and modern twists on the classic grime template, c/o Swindle [pictured], Kuedo, Logos, Slackk, Heatsick and more

25 Years On: The Young Gods’ Debut Revisited

David Stubbs writes about how the Swiss violence of The Young Gods debut album arrived in time to save him from fey C86 indie and "Bono's big white hat"

Saint Etienne

Words And Music By Saint Etienne

Shit & Shine

Jream Baby Jream

Sounds & The City: An Interview With Julia Holter

Following the release of her recent album Ekstasis and in advance of her appearance at Field Day on 2nd June, Adam Bychawski catches Julia Holter out-and-about on the phone in LA, and talks capturing the essence of environment

Brötzmann / Edwards / Noble

...The Worse The Better

“Absolutely No Interviews”: Human Don’t Be Angry Interviewed

Former Arab Strap man Malcolm Middleton plays under his Human Don't Be Angry alias tonight in London. Over the course of three interviews with Nicola Meighan, he delves deep into pop music, teenage metal phases and checking your head

King Of The Beats: Slayer’s Dave Lombardo Picks His Favourite Albums

Ahead of Slayer's Reign In Blood ATP IBYM show and the release of PHILM's debut album Harmonic, Dave Lombardo tells Toby Cook about his 13 favourite albums

The Devils’ Double: Mother Joan Of The Angels Exhumed

Continuing the saga of the Loudun possessions made famous by The Devils, Jerzy Kawalerowicz's picture actually predates Ken Russell's masterpiece by a decade. Anthony Nield watches a landmark of Polish cinema, newly restored for DVD release later this month

Robin Gibb Obituary

Bee Gees singer Robin Gibb passed away on May 20th, aged 62, after a long battle with cancer. Mic Wright remembers the career of a man whose achievements stretched far beyond his band's associations with disco