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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

Ebo Taylor

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

Mr Agreeable: His Piss Is The Vinegar On Morrissey’s Chips

Once again the Quietus editors have had to don rubber gloves to open another sour envelope from Mr Agreeable. He's much to say on NME's apology to Morrissey, new Mumford & Sons, Usher and The Stone Roses...

The Deadened Zone: Cosmopolis Reviewed

Mat Colegate tries to penetrate David Cronenberg's new picture, based on Don DeLillo's 2003 novel

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie Revisited

For the lonely nerd in all of us… Andrew Stimpson watches the cult TV series’ 1996 big screen spin-off, newly released on DVD and Blu-ray

The Walkmen

Heaven

Voices from Valhalla

A Tribute to Bathory

Big Balls, A Moustache & A Mullet: Who The Hell Is Bruno Ferrari?

“I think this is best record in the world,” underground Czech legend Bruno Ferrari tells Wyndham Wallace. “Because I hear only my record. I fuck on all other bands.” Contains NSFW video clips. All photographs by the author

Somewhere In The Forgotten Past: The Amazing Interviewed

Sweden's The Amazing have spent the last few years quietly honing a low key and lovely approach to songwriting. Barnaby Smith caught up with the band's Christoffer Gunrup and Reine Fiske to talk parties, jamming and Fleetwood Mac

Maximo Park

The National Health

Czech Great: An Appreciation Of Jan Švankmajer

Anthony Nield profiles the Prague-based master of puppets, subject of three DVD releases this month. Still from Surviving Life

A New Nineties US Edition: Bitch Magnet Interviewed

Neil Kulkarni continues his canon busting look at forgotten bands from the 1990s. This time he interviews Bitch Magnet

Sonic Router 025: Bandshell’s Bruised & Battered Techno

Previously unknown and very low key producer Bandshell has just signed to Hessle Audio for their latest 12", released this month. He speaks to Sonic Router about the crumbly swung techno of his debut EP, and accompanies it with an excellent mix

Hot Chip

In Our Heads

Sleep

Dopesmoker (reissue)

Kicker Conspiracy: Football Beyond The Euros, Hornby & Banter

It's football-bloody-football all over the telly at the moment. But, argues Joe Kennedy, beyond the flag-waving the sport offers a form of popular modernism

Strung Out Steel: An Interview With Claro Intelecto

Alongside contemporaries Andy Stott and MLZ, Claro Intelecto's techno has been a powerful and distinctive voice for much of the last decade. With new album Reform Club shifting label and sound, Harry Sword caught up with him to discuss influences and remixing Depeche Mode