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Luis Luis: The Discreet Charm Of The Bourgeoisie Revisited

Aug Stone celebrates the anniversary of Buñuel's 1972 favourite, newly restored for cinema and home entertainment release

Elation, Elegance, Exaltation: Reimagining John Coltrane’s A Love Supreme

Sacred Music, Sacred Spaces: A re-envisioning of John Coltrane's A Love Supreme at The Chapel, King's College London. Images thanks to Alexis Maryon

Cornershop

Urban Turban

The Life & Times Of Tortoise, According To Tortoise

As Tortoise release their back catalogue, Glen Mcleod spoke to John Herndon to get his guide to the Strange World Of Tortoise

“This Record Sold My Heart”: Bobby Womack Interviewed

"[This record] speaks for itself," says soul legend Bobby Womack of his new album. "If it didn’t sell no records at all, it sold my heart." In a frank conversation, he shares truths, histories and lessons learned with Stevie Chick

The Hunger & The Fight: Jesca Hoop Interviewed

Jesca Hoop's new album The House That Jack Built was informed by the recent death of her father, but still finds room to be playful with both sound and lyrical concerns. She tells John Freeman about how it came together, touring with Peter Gabriel and the compulsion to keep creating

Martin Amis, Geezer-Prat, & His Unfortunate Clichés Of Britishness

With the release of cynical new novel Lionel Asbo: State Of England, argues Alex Niven, Martin Amis continues the patronising run of form that helped install the pernicious and cliché-ridden notion of 'Cool Britannia' and ultimately Boris and Dave's Big Society

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kandodo

Moritz Von Oswald Trio

Fetch

Walken This Way: King Of New York Reappraised

Andrew Stimpson tips his hat to Abel Ferrara's 1990 gangster flick, released on Blu-ray and deluxe DVD this week

Rock’s Backpages: Paul Morley’s 1997 Review Of Radiohead’s OK Computer

Fifteen years after the release of Radiohead's phenomenal OK Computer, we visit the Rock's Backpages archive for Paul Morley's Uncut magazine review

Unlocking The Dancefloor: An Interview With Heatsick

The ramshackle and fiendishly addictive dance music that Berlin resident Heatsick coaxes from a simple set-up opens a direct conduit between his own impulses and the movements of the dancefloor. Angus Finlayson caught up with him to discuss limitation, imitation and "unlocking" the audience

A Place To Bury Strangers

Worship

Go East! Gay London Celebrates With Miss Grace At Lovebox

It's a fruity Sunday at Lovebox, as the gentlemen's gentlemen take over the disco with help from Grace Jones, Chic, umpteen hot drag queens and "the world's first travelling homo disco". Andy Thomas gets down. Photographs thanks to Katja Ogrin

Exorcising The Past: A Retrospective Chat With William Friedkin

In a previously unpublished 1998 interview, Hollywood veteran William Friedkin talks to Ian Johnston about The Exorcist, moral ambiguity, directing actors with a firearm and feeding raw eggs to a demon

So High, Solo: Barcelona’s Sonar Festival Reviewed

As one of Europe's largest dance festivals, Barcelona's Sonar is huge enough to become entirely lost within, as Angus Finlayson discovered

Taking It Easy: Joe Walsh Of The Eagles Interviewed

Julian Marszalek speaks to Joe Walsh about life with the world's biggest rock group, going solo and, er, boshing pills and going out raving to psy-trance

Mere

Mere

Row Fishermen Row: Sun Araw M Geddes Gengras Interviewed

Following on from our interview with The Congos, Tina Winter talks to Sun Araw and M. Geddes Gengras about collaboration, chilling and collie weed

Grief Encounter: Silent Souls Reviewed

Opening in the UK on Friday, this dreamlike third feature from Aleksei Fedorchenko threads sexual memory, death rites and road tripping strangeness into a concise 75 minutes. Colm McAuliffe enjoys the ride

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Appia Kwa Bridge

“Art Is Unavoidably Work”: Terre Thaemlitz Interviewed

Japan-based electroacoustic musician, DJ, lecturer and writer Terre Thaemlitz has just released Soulnessless, a vast audio/video/text project that announces itself as 'the world's first full length mp3 album'. She speaks to Ryan Diduck about the themes, ideas and realities behind such a huge and concept-driven project

Creating A Richer Present: An Interview With Metamono

Crystal Palace-based trio Metamono craft electronic music with their bare hands, armed with electrical tape, soldering irons, buckets of elbow grease and other such sundries. David Stubbs spoke to them about the importance of setting yourself limitations in an age of supposed digital 'freedom'

Neneh Cherry & The Thing

Cherry Thing

From Eden With Love: Everything But The Girl Interviewed

Ian Wade sits down with Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt to discuss the new Everything But The Girl reissues, and why they don't need to do a reunion

Emerging Into Sunshine: Marissa Nadler Interviewed

In the wake of the release of Marissa Nadler's new record The Sister, Erin Lyndal Martin caught up with her to discuss the creation of song worlds and the recurrent themes in her work

The House Of The Lord: Eric Wahlforss Interviewed

Sample-based artist Eric Wahlforss recently tried to tackle a thorny problem - how to combine electronica and church music without losing the core of either. The result was Ecclesia

Constant Forward Movement: Taylor Parkes On Can’s Lost Tapes

"These are the moments where what Can 'lost' in a cupboard sounds most beautifully like what most of us lost when we learned to speak." Taylor Parkes examines the wonderful Can Lost Tapes

Peaking Lights

Lucifer

Saving Flags: British Sea Power Soundtrack The BFI Archive

Luke Turner admires British Sea Power's latest live score, premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest then performed at London's BFI Southbank last week

Meditate On Bass Weight: Why Sunn O))) Are A Dance Act

The mighty Sunn O))) returned to London this week for a scorching show at Koko. Angus Finlayson was there, and felt striking parallels with the physically overwhelming rituals of dance music and sound system culture. Photography by Maria Jefferis of Shot2bits

Light Asylum

Light Asylum