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Hidden Life Force: An Interview With LHF

Over the course of several EPs and now a debut album through Keysound, LHF have plotted a course through dubstep's rhythmic framework that draws from London's dance music history, sci-fi and cosmic sounds from further afield. Rory Gibb opens up channels of communication

Wilko Johnson: Things I Have Learned About Canvey Island

Zoë Howe co-wrote Looking Back At Me with rock renaissance man Wilko Johnson, so who better to talk to him about fires, floods, time machines and other things Canvey Island related

Marina & The Diamonds

Electra Heart

The Magickal Mysteriis Tour: Matt Pike Of High On Fire Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to one of the Quietus' favourite rock stars, Matt Pike, about the new High On Fire album and a new reissue of Sleep's mighty Dopesmoker

The Art Of Soundtracking: Steven Severin Interviewed

Shunning the rock reunion circuit, Siouxsie And The Banshees co-founder Steven Severin now explores a fertile seam composing film scores. Resuming next week, his current UK tour pairs fresh electronic sounds with Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1932 classic Vampyr. Ben Graham learns more

Gravenhurst

The Ghost In Daylight

Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of Glassworks By Philip Glass

Erin Lyndal Martin looks back at a bizarre but successful attempt to combine classical and pop... for the Walkman

The Nightingales

No Love Lost

40 Years On: We Return To The Birthday Party’s Junkyard

Julian Marszalek talks to Mick Harvey about Australian post punk's high watermark statement

Heart Felt: Being Elmo Reviewed

This big screen profile of the Jim Henson Productions veteran Kevin Clash spotlights a highly skilled art form that's been eclipsed by technological advances. Chris Bell offers a personal perspective in praise of puppetry

Swans

We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head

Positivity In Pop: An Interview With Kwes


His status as a producer is assured, but with the Meantime EP Kwes is stepping into the spotlight. In advance of his London show with Micachu on Saturday, Kiran Acharya meets him to talk Warp Records, visual art, and cabbages



30 Years On: Revisiting Pavement’s Slanted And Enchanted

Jim Keoghan slips back three decades to listen to Pavement's debut and finds it, thankfully, just as messy as it used to be

Countdown To Hero: Avengers Assemble Reviewed

Kiran Acharya catches the latest Marvel Comics adaptation, written and directed by cult fantasy favourite Joss Whedon

Caught In Your Undertow: The Romance Of Ane Brun

Wyndham Wallace goes Dutch with Ane Brun, the Norwegian singer songwriter who has matured into Scandinavia's own Kate Bush: winningly inventive, determined and unique. Live Photograph by Wyndham Wallace

Death Grips

The Money Store

Number 13 Baby: Frank Black’s Favourite Albums Revealed

Mic Wright takes down the details of Frank Black's Baker's Dozen, talking to him about old poetry and skewed authenticity

The Month In Electronic Music: Degrees Of Separation

Care of new releases from Hessle Audio, Livity Sound, Szare, West Norwood Cassette Library, Vessel and Dream Continuum, Rory Gibb zooms in on some genre-mangling sounds in UK dance music.

The End is Nigh: Burial Hex’s Clay Ruby Interviewed

Clay Ruby has spent the last near-decade plumbing fathomless depths as Burial Hex. Now with the project nearing the end of its natural lifespan, he speaks to Russell Cuzner about the "seductively dramatic" nature of the occult

Disappears

Pre-Language

Funny Dames: Damsels In Distress Reviewed

Darren Lee enjoys Whit Stillman's long overdue return to the big screen

How Soon Is Now? Extract: The Rise Of Blast First

For this Tome On The Range, we print an extract from Richard King's How Soon Is Now? that looks at the thirsty rise of the Blast First label

Torche

Harmonicraft

Levon Vincent

Fabric 63

Acquainted With The Void: Simone Felice Interviewed

John Freeman talks to Simon Felice about how birth and death visited him hand in hand

Sleepy Sun

Spine Hits

“I Can Fend For Myself”: The Inimitable Mr Tony Allen Interviewed

To many people who make music, including Brian Eno and Blur’s Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Afrobeat innovator, is simply the greatest drummer alive. After talking to the Nigerian living legend, John Doran finds it hard to disagree

“We Broke MySpace”: Geoff Barrow’s Quakers Interviewed

Working on a wide range of projects, as well as the new Portishead album, Geoff Barrow has just released a hip-hop record with Quakers. Robin Turner caught up with him to speak about how a social networking site helped piece the album together

Santigold

Master Of My Make-Believe

Label Of Love: Second Run’s Cinematic Treasure Trove

Anthony Nield hails the questing catalogue of UK-based DVD label Second Run, which provides a pan-genre passport to worlds of cinema old and new, from South America to the Far East. Still from Blissfully Yours

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Arem

Field Day 2012: Tim Burgess’ Guide To R. Stevie Moore

R. Stevie Moore is playing the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at Field Day 2012. Here, his collaborator Tim Burgess (who'll be DJing around R. Stevie's gig at Field Day) guides us through his Strange World...