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Transcending Tradition: An Interview With PELbO

Norwegian trio PELbO trample the lines between jazz and rock, drenching their instruments in effects and stirring a healthy dose of pop into the mix. Sam Spokony met them in Oslo to talk about their latest album Days Of Transcendence

The Month in Electronic Music: Not Yet Further Than

Rory Gibb uses the start of 2012 as an opportunity to explore newly opening paths in UK-rooted dance music, care of an exceptional new 12" from Objekt

“The Horror In Music Comes From The Silence” – John Carpenter Interviewed

Horror movie auteur John Carpenter is a long time hero of the Quietus' so we were made up when he agreed to talk to Joseph Burnett about how he approaches his film music

Minny Pops

Standstill to Motion: Live at the Melkweg 19-03-1981

Black Gold Of The Sunn O))): Stephen O’Malley Interviewed

Wyndham Wallace talks to Stephen O’Malley about volume, improvisation and the reissue of Sunn O)))’s debut album ØØ Void. SOMA portraits by the author. Doll photo by Maria Jefferis

100 Lost Rock Albums From The 1970s – An Extract

Matt Ingram aka Woebot reckons we've lost touch with the true nature of rock music in the 1970s, a subject he tackles in his new ebook. Here is the intro and an extract on Rock Fusion

Remembering The Everything Man: A Jimmy Castor Interview

Angus Batey pays tribute to the late Jimmy Castor, and we publish an extract from an extensive interview the journalist conducted with Castor over a decade ago

La Femme Familiar: Haywire Reviewed

Steven Soderbergh's new thriller reprises the rogue-operative-seeking-revenge-on-her-paymasters genre. Yasmeen Khan weighs the pros and cons of this popular action formula

Leveson Inquiry II: Alex James In A Web Of Fries & Evil!!

Samuel Herlihy is a human being god dammit! He is as mad as hell and he is not going to take this any more!

Richard Youngs

Amaranthine

Monotheism, The Midwest & The Genesis Of Craig Thompson’s Habibi

Alex Burrows talks to graphic novelist Craig Thompson about exploring the connections between Islam and Christianity with his new masterpiece Habibi. Author picture courtesy of Alicia J. Rose

Subliminal Frequencies: An Interview With Pinch

Pinch has been one of dubstep's foremost figures since long before its current flirtation with mainstream pop-dance dynamics. Here, he speaks to Harry Sword about the current state of the genre and the ideas that went into his excellent new addition to the Fabriclive mix series

Alcest

Les Voyages de L’Âme

Lawrence On: Lawrence Of Belgravia & His Love Of Film

Nicholas Abrahams talks to Lawrence of Felt, Denim and Go Kart Mozart about film and seeing his life appear onscreen in Lawrence Of Belgravia

Private School – Public Image: What PiL’s Album Means To Me

Wyndham Wallace recalls how Public Image Ltd.’s most commercially successful release, Album, helped him survive life at a red brick boarding school

For Whom Debelle Tolls: The Return Of Speech

Mercury Prize winner Speech Debelle returns next month with her second album, Freedom Of Speech. Simon Jay Catling speaks to her about the pressures of sudden exposure and the life experience that's informed the next phase of her musical development

The Maccabees

Given To The Wild

The Funk Continuum: An Interview With B. Bravo

San Francisco's B. Bravo is one of a growing number of artists putting funk squarely back in the sounds of the West Coast. Melissa Bradshaw speaks to him about his musical history and the intangible, alchemical nature of funk

Frank Turner

The Second Three Years

Drexciya

Journey of the Deep Sea Dweller I

Enter Shikari

A Flash Flood Of Colour

Total Sensory Embrace: Hofesh Shechter & Antony Gormley’s Survivor

Joseph Burnett is moved by a collaboration between sculptor Antony Gormley and choreographer Hofesh Shechter at the London Barbican

Prog Is A Four Letter Word: Steve Davis And Kavus Torabi Hold Court

Over lunch at Ottolenghi and a few pints at the King Charles I, Steve Davis and Kavus Torabi discuss Magma, alternative radio and the Romford Rap

Pinch

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Maggieography: Why The Thatcher Biopic Should Be Resisted With Prejudice

Meryl Streep's latest Oscar-seeking vehicle The Iron Lady purports to show Margaret Thatcher's 'human side'. David Stubbs is not for turning

Bonjour Tristesse: A Nocturnal Tryst With Mansfield TYA

In the latest of his columns on French music, David McKenna speaks to Nantes-based duo Mansfield TYA about singing in French and the lure of the night

EastEnders: The Death Of Pat, And The Decline Of The Soap Matriarch

The elder stateswomen of serial drama are an endangered species, says Terry Staunton

Laura Gibson

La Grande

Candid Cameron: Why Multiplex Dave Is Wrong About UK Film

Darren Lee takes on David Cameron’s recent assertion that the UK film industry needs to be more mainstream

Wiley

Evolve Or Be Extinct

Richard Skelton

*Skura

Reaper Rebuttal: In Defence Of Neil Marshall’s Doomsday

London band Teeth Of The Sea love Neil Marshall's epic Doomsday so much they've created Reaper, a live soundtrack event inspired by it. But as David Moats's feature earlier this week made clear, mainstream critical reaction to the film was anything but glowing. Avowed fan Andrew Stimpson dons a gimp mask and presents his rebuttal