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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

Fabriclive.61

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

Big Riffs At Close Quarters: And So I Watch You From Afar

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The Northern Irish quartet arrived on a wave of confidence and unity, but after a year peppered with international acclaim and broken bones they lost their founding guitarist. Kiran Acharya spoke to the band about the recording of second album Gangs

Over The Edge: An Interview With Dead Fader

Dead Fader construct savagely abrasive dance tracks from molten blocks of noise and distortion. Angus Finlayson speaks to the duo's John Cohen about making synthesizers bellow

An Econo History Of The Minutemen

John Calvert throws open the doors onto the strange and frightening world of the Minutemen

The Lemonheads

Hotel Sessions

Own Brand Mysticism: An Interview With Peaking Lights

Not Not Fun/Weird World signed duo Peaking Lights released one of the most talked-about underground albums of last year in their dubby pop record 936. Huw Nesbitt speaks to them about the origins of the band, numerology and the internet

Trencher

All Suffering Soon To End