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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

What Happened: Ranking Roger & Dave Wakeling Of The Beat Interviewed

David Stubbs talks to members of The Beat about pop, politics and race ahead of some timely reissues

Alexander Tucker

Third Mouth

After The Flood: The 13 Favourite Albums Of Howe Gelb, Aged 12-16

In a neat twist on our 13 favourite albums feature, Giant Sand's Howe Gelb talks Stewart Smith through his formative records from his teenage years in Pennsylvania

Roll Out The Barrel: The British Pub On Film Explored

Anna Coatman downs a new BFI DVD compilation of shorts about the nation's drinking establishments. Still from Michael Palin's 1970s trade film Henry Cleans Up

Black Sun Rising: The Congos Interviewed

Heart Of The Congos is a classic album by anyone's standards, so why isn't its name lauded next to Police And Thieves, Natty Dread and The Harder They Come? John Doran talks to Ashanti Roy and Cedric Myton to find out

Sex-Gore Netherworld: Nightbirds & The Body Beneath Disinterred

Manish Agarwal explores the singular, subterranean work of micro-budget filmmaker Andy Milligan, subject of a new BFI Flipside release

“I’m Not That Kind Of Nerd” – Simon Pegg Interviewed

To mark the release of A Fantastic Fear Of Everything, Simon Pegg chats about degrees of geekdom, surreal moments in Hollywood and the dialectic behind his Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy. Interview by Simon Jablonski

LA Vampires

LA Vampires By Octo Octa

French Music Column: dÉbruit’s Breton Groovy

In the latest edition of our French music column, David McKenna chats to dÉbruit about the hyperreal funk of his new album From The Horizon, and casts an ear back over reissues of music by France Gall and Jean Rollin

Guestbusters: The Innkeepers Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan is suitably spooked by US indie auteur Ti West's new picture, which boasts the tagline 'A Ghost Story For The Minimum Wage'

Sigur Ros

Valtari

Trembling Bells (Feat. Bonnie Prince Billy)

The Marble Downs

Japandroids

Celebration Rock

Horns Up Ya Shitters! The Best Metal Of May Reviewed

Toby Cook is back from the drug sewer to inform us about the best metal albums of May. All together now... AIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Suffering And Redemption: An Interview With The Invisible

Having recently survived a serious electrocution, Dave Okumu tells John Freeman about how the accident and the death of his mother have changed his life forever

Sways Records, Manchester: When The Gatefolds Open

Post Factory indie in Manchester is just the establishment in disguise, argues Austin Collings, and Sways Records are the solution. Contains a gratuitous photograph of a naked man holding a rifle

Sebastian Tellier

My God Is Blue

The Liars Have It: Field Day Festival 2012 Reviewed

We had another rare old time at Field Day in London, curating the Village Mentality Stage and hurtling around the far larger, better sounding site catching all the other ace stuff that was on. John Calvert, Angus Finlayson, Matthew Foster, Rory Gibb, Emily Mackay and Julian Marszalek pick up pens and pieces of their minds, and review the best of the day. All photographs by Jenna Foxton

Best Laid Plans: Forward Strategy Group Interviewed

Like their Perc Trax labelmates, Forward Strategy Group take a wide-reaching approach to techno that's both eclectic and grounded by a strong sense of place. With debut album Labour Division now out, Luke Turner caught up with the duo to discuss their history and the lure of old TV idents

20 Years On: Eric B And Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique Revisited

Eric B & Rakim's farewell album from 1992 now stands to be considered as their best, argues Angus Batey

The Human League

Dare

Fly Fishing In The Digital Sea: Joel Ford Of Airbird Interviewed

Joel Ford of Airbird, and one half of synth-pop doyens Ford & Lopatin, tells Laurie Tuffrey about his new EP, trawling the internet's 'ocean of recombination' and finding inspiration in the American wilderness

Haunting The Palace: ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror Slayer Day Reviewed

Noel Gardner, Amanda Barrokh and Toby Cook were on hand to witness one of ATP's finest days recently at Alexandra Palace...

Boredom Is An Energy: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Reviewed

David Foster Wallace's last novel introduced the idea of boredom as a tool of anti-capitalism and a state to be relished in, says Siobhan McKeown