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Approximating A Cyber World: An Interview with Black Rain

New York duo Black Rain have just reissued some of their lost soundtrack work from the mid-nineties, music that feels stunningly current despite its age. Joseph Burnett caught up with Stuart Argabright to chat NYC history, no-wave, meat cleavers and science fiction

Back To The Führer: Iron Sky Director Interviewed

This spring's unexpected cinema hit is set to be a Finnish science fiction comedy about Nazis from the Moon. Iron Sky director Timo Vuorensola talks fascism, fan funding and uniform fetishes with Stephen Dalton

Son Et Lumière: Joshua Light Show Interviewed

Joshua White's Joshua Light Show was an iconic visual presence in the sixties and seventies, accompanying performances by the likes of Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa. Laura Snoad spoke to him ahead of his recent Light Show with Oneohtrix Point Never

Home Is Where The Heart Is: An Interview with Bowerbirds

Phil Moore tells John Freeman how the making of new album The Clearing pulled Bowerbirds back from the brink of extinction

Dirty Three

Toward The Low Sun

Men Say Go! Martin L Gore & Vince Clarke In A VCMG Interview

Martin L Gore and Vince Clarke have reunited after three decades on new techno project VCMG. Luke Turner speaks to them both about rediscovering their collaborative creative energy for one of the best albums of 2012 so far

Wire

The Black Session

Brötzmann: That’s When The World Is Mine Director Interviewed

Best known for documentaries about Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Einstürzende Neubauten, for his latest project Uli M Schueppel has profiled German avant-guitarist Caspar Brötzmann. The director talked to Dino Gollnick at the recent Berlin Film Festival

The Magnetic Fields

Love At The Bottom Of The Sea

Shearwater

Animal Joy

Akke Phallus Duo

Terroir/Pissoir

No Checked Tablecloths: Rockfort & The Meaning of ‘Frenchness’ in Pop

Pondering on the recent Jonathan Meades series On France, our French music correspondent David 'Rockfort' McKenna looks at definitions of Gallic pop

Your Attention Please… Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs Interviewed

Greg Dulli is coming out swinging... fighting for his rep as always. Simon Price takes notes

Kool Things: Blank City Reviewed

Debbie Harry, Jim Jarmusch, John Waters, Lydia Lunch, Steve Buscemi and Thurston Moore are just a few of the talking heads in this documentary looking back at 'New Cinema New Wave New York'. David Pollock is entertained. Photo by Marcia Resnick

Hood

Recollected (box set)

Julia Holter

Ekstasis

Everything Was Fucked: Warren Ellis Discusses The Dirty Three

A few years ago, The Dirty Three were in a pickle, having to ask festival crowds for song ideas. Warren Ellis tells Luke Turner how they overcame writers' block to write new album Toward The Low Sun

Reel Gone: A Useful Life And Cinema’s Premature Nostalgia

Released on DVD this week, Uruguayan critical favourite A Useful Life is an elegiac love letter to celluloid. Hannah Gregory muses on our growing obsession with old media and analogue formats, in film and elsewhere

Mutate To Survive: Andrew Bird Interviewed

Jeremy Allen talks to Andrew Bird ahead of next Monday's Sold Out Barbican show about protection via obtuseness and working for Muppets

“I Feel Like This Is My Best Work”: James Mercer Of The Shins Interviewed

David Pollock talks to James Mercer before the release of their much anticipated new album, Port Of Morrow

Hanne Hukkelberg

Featherbrain

Davy Jones Of The Monkees – A Tribute By Taylor Parkes

Remembering the former Monkee who died this week at the age of 66

25 Years On: Franks Wild Years By Tom Waits Revisited

Marc Waldburger primes his high ball glass and tells us how he feels about the least talked about LP in Tom Waits' Island trilogy

Starting Over: The Ting Tings Interviewed

Stephen Dalton talks to Katie and Jules about Babylon an' Ting

Baader Romance: If Not Us, Who? Reviewed

German documentary maker Andres Veiel's first feature film portrays the 'radical love story' behind the Red Army Faction. Val Phoenix assesses the dramatic value of this de facto prequel to The Baader Meinhof Complex

Talk Less, Say More

England Without Rain

School Of Seven Bells

Ghostory

Against The New Naive: ‘Innocence’, Branding, & Michel Houellebecq

Making reference to "grating" artist Robert Montgomery and the Western quest for washy naïveté, Joe Kennedy wonders if controversial French novelist Michel Houellebecq might have the antidote

You Can Dance Until You Die: An Interview With Beth Jeans Houghton

John Freeman goes to Beth Jeans Houghton’s hometown of Newcastle-upon-Tyne to drink coffee and find out why, with the release of her debut album Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose, her career can finally begin

The Month’s Electronic Music: Alive In The Sea Of Information

Hyperspecific spends time with some of February's best dance music. Rory Gibb is your correspondent

Pop Ist Nicht Tot: Rammstein Flame It Live At The O2

Days after the Brits tediumathon at the O2, Rammstein set fire to the place not only with eyebrow singeing pyrotechnics, but also some killer tunes that even your Billy Joel fan would love, says Toby Cook. Photographs by Katja Ogrin