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Brett Anderson’s Guide To Black Rainbows

Brett Anderson's fourth solo album Black Rainbows sees him reinvigorated by the return of Suede. Here he guides Luke Turner through the record

Behind The Wheel: Drive Reviewed

The Month in Electronic Music: Club Sounds & Toxic Dread

Rory Gibb takes a look at some of the best club music coming out of the UK this month, alongside the stark industrial experiments of Ekoplekz and Roly Porter

Unearthing The Psychedelic Harp: Serafina Steer Interviewed

Ahead of her live soundtrack at Branchage this weekend. David Moats talks to harpist and songwriter Serafina Steer about her work with John Foxx and Patrick Wolf, being classically trained, the difficulties of doing live soundtracks and psychedelia.

Pajama Club

Pajama Club

A Quietus Field Trip With Aidan Moffat, UFO Hunter

Nicola Meighan takes "swashbuckling cult-pop autodidact" Aidan Moffat for a stroll around his childhood home in search of ET, but ends up discussing his past, and sense of place, family and death

Post-Yuppie Pop: A Classic R.E.M. Interview By Jon Savage

As R.E.M. call it a day, we visit the Rock's Backpages archive for an interview by Jon Savage. He found the dress-wearing group quietly eager to take their liberal politics into the mainstream

Sully

Carrier

Exploration Through Thought: Emeralds’ Mark McGuire Interviewed

Both as Emeralds guitarist and solo, Mark McGuire's instrumentals recall the exploratory spirit of early kosmische synth music, while establishing a distinct identity of their own. He talks to Rory Gibb about the development of his technique, writing music and "the psychedelic nature of all existence"

Of Dreams & Nightmares: Alice Cooper Interviewed

Brad Sanders talks to Alice Cooper about Native American hallucination jewellery and why he's more like Lady Gaga than any modern metaller

Maria Taylor

Overlook

BSP, Big In Japan: An Extract From Do It For Your Mum

In an extract from new British Sea Power and family memoir Do It For Your Mum, Roy Wilkinson writes of the first time the band visited Japan

Pistol Annies

Hell On Heels

In The Dock: An Interview With The Drums

Frontman Jonny Pierce puts to Ross Pounds the case for The Drums' defence, in the face of early hype and its inevitable backlash

20 Years On: Ice Cube’s Death Certificate Revisited

Angus Batey looks at the 360-degree attack of one of the most creatively independent yet offensive hip hop albums ever made

Iceage

New Brigade

Grouper

AIA

An Invasion Of Privacy: Peter Gabriel Interviewed

Peter Gabriel tells John Doran about reworking his back catalogue, almost playing in space, being mistaken for a terrorist and how life might be four video machines slightly out of sync

Obake

Obake

Fac. Dance

Factory Records 12” Mixes & Rarities 1980-1987

French Music Column: Mondkopf Interviewed

David McKenna talks to Mondkopf about metal and trance

Arabrot

Solar Anus

Expecting To Land: The Last Bluetones Interview

The Bluetones are calling it a day after 18-years. Jim Keoghan talks to Mark Morriss about the highs and lows

Wings Of Desire: An Interview With Dustin O’Halloran

Wyndham Wallace visits Dustin O'Halloran's Berlin studio to discuss pianos, peace and A Winged Victory For The Sullen, his collaboration with Stars Of The Lid's Adam Wiltzie

Tinariwen

Tassili

Page One: Inside The New York Times Reviewed

Jeremy Allen analyses this fascinating peek behind the scenes at one of America’s most respected newspapers

Unmasked: An Interview With Kong

Simon Jay Catling talks to Kong's Jon-Lee Martin about the gradual blurring of the lines between himself and his unhinged alter ego Magpie

Future Perfect? Wroclaw’s European Culture Congress

Rory Gibb visits the European Culture Congress in Wroclaw, Poland, to find out how its aims on a wider scale dovetail with its underground arts and music scheduling

St Vincent

Strange Mercy

Fruit Bats

Tripper

Sonic Router 022: Ifan Dafydd: Being Correct Is Boring

Oli Marlow of Sonic Router talks to Ifan Dafydd about missing out on hip hop and living with James Blake. With mix

“I’m A Fan Of Justin Bieber”: An Interview with Girls

John Freeman tries to chill out with Girls frontman Chris Owens to discuss Bieber fever, Twitter therapy and finally being able to bask in the luxury of self-obsession.