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Ebbing Tides: An Interview With Lee Ranaldo

With his new album, Lee Ranaldo has abandoned the harsher, more freeform aspects of his earlier solo work in favour of streamlined songwriting. Chris Woolfrey caught up with him to discuss how it came together, and life after Sonic Youth

Daniel Rossen

Silent Hour/Golden Mile EP

The Horror! Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats Interviewed

Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats' Blood Lust lumbered into our top albums of 2011 like a low-slung, lo-fidelity, Hammer Horror-decked groove mammoth. Harry Sword catches up with the mysterious Uncle to find out more about the band's shadowy selves...

There Will Be Flood: The Island President Director Interviewed

Styled like a drama and soundtracked by Radiohead, US filmmaker Jon Shenk's new doc highlights the parlous state of Indian Ocean 'paradise' the Maldives. He chatted to Anna Coatman ahead of its UK theatrical release

Various Artists

Grinderman 2 RMX

Death Grips’ The Money Store: Track-By-Track

Slot machines in hell. 2-Live Crew meets Tetsuo: Body Hammer. A grenade at a debutante's ball. An upside down sermon on the mount. John Calvert gets to grips with The Money Store

Unidentified Flying Oscillator: Space Dimension Controller Interviewed

R&S' resident purveyor of super-smooth cosmic funk sits down with Rory Gibb for a rare in-person interview, and talks soundtracks, space operas and sci-fi

“I’m Sort Of English Melancholy”: Damon Albarn Interviewed

With an upcoming Blur show and a number of albums set for release in the coming months, Damon Albarn's 2012 looks set to be as packed as ever. He sat down with Stephen Dalton to talk Doctor Dee, the future of Blur, the Olympics, David Cameron and Alex James' cheese

John Foxx & The Maths

The Shape Of Things

Madonna

MDNA

Undercover: The Erotic Films Of Peter De Rome

Anthony Nield revisits the groundbreaking gay cinema of British director Peter de Rome, whose signature work arrives on DVD this week, nearly four decades after it premiered in New York

“A Beauty I Cannot Deny” – David Sylvian Looks Back

Since attaining pop star status in the early 1980s with Japan, David Sylvian has followed a circuitous, challenging path, constantly refining his world of arty pop and ambience. Wyndham Wallace talks to him about finding and following his muse…

Frankie Rose

Interstellar

Joking Aside: Jaz Coleman’s 13 Favourite Albums

Killing Joke's front man chooses his 13 favourite albums. As told to Dayal Patterson

VCMG

SSSS

The Space Is The Place – Taylor Parkes On Abbey Road Studios

Taylor Parkes visits Abbey Road studios and talks to Brian Kehew and Kevin Ryan about the rooms that shaped seminal albums by The Beatles and Pink Floyd

Carter Tutti Void

Transverse

Witness The Change: Trevor Jackson Interviewed

He’s an elusive artist fuelled by his passion for progressive music and outsider sounds. But Trevor Jackson's new compilation dedicated to the EBM, post-punk and industrial dance acts of the ’80s unveils a fondness for the past. We spoke to him to find out more

Kindness

World, You Need A Change Of Mind

4th Pan-Asia Film Festival Roundup

Yasmeen Khan takes in the best of last week's continent-spanning showcase. Main image from Starry Starry Night

Child’s Play? The Hunger Games Reviewed

Suzanne Collins' young adult fiction is a global phenomenon. Co-scripted by the author and directed by Gary Ross, the big screen adaptation of the first novel in the trilogy opens today and looks set to dominate at the box office. Emily Bick finds out why 'the world will be watching'

Mix Mup & Kassem Mosse

MM/KM

David Sylvian

A Victim Of Stars

Bristol Fashion: Mark Stewart Of The Pop Group’s 13 Favourite Albums

Julian Marszalek talks to post punk agitator Mark Stewart about 13 favourite albums

Darkness More Than Anything: Tim Hecker Interviewed

Tim Hecker's Ravedeath, 1972 was one of our favourite albums of last year. Friend and colleague Ryan Diduck headed round to his studio to talk church organs, religious rapture and alien abduction

Jack White’s Blunderbuss: Track By Track

Last night, Jack White hosted a playback of his debut solo album in London. Julian Marszalek was there, and reports on an album clearly influenced by White's time in Nashville

Meeting On The Desertshore: Sleazy Remembered At AV Festival

At Newcastle's AV festival this weekend, Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti premiered Throbbing Gristle's take on Nico's Desertshore, originally the brainchild of late TG/Coil member Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. Luke Turner was there, and witnessed a moving tribute to Sleazy's life and work

Breaking The Cycle: The Kid With A Bike Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan watches the latest Cannes award winner from Belgium's leading cinematic siblings: a contemporary tale about a lonely lad which defies easy 'social realism' pigeonholing. Photo by Christine Plenus

Thomas White

Yalla!

Howlin’ Rain

The Russian Wilds

The Church Of The New Atheism: Alain De Botton’s Epistles Examined

Siobhan McKeown ploughs through Alan De Botton's Religion For Atheists and finds it - along with other New Atheist texts - lacking