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Gyratory System

New Harmony

Tamikrest

Toumastin

Portishead’s Adrian Utley On Taxi Driver & His Soundtrack Work

This weekend, Adrian Utley will introduce a screening of the new edition of Taxi Driver in London. He tells Simon Jablonski about his love for the film, soundtrack work, and a never-before-told tale from his distant musical past

She Turned The World Day-Glo: A Poly Styrene Obituary

Zoë Howe pays tribute to the former X-Ray Spex singer

30 Years On: The Curiously Ignored Lyricism In Slint’s Spiderland

Three decades after the release of Spiderland, Joe Kennedy argues that those who waffle endlessly about post rock have made a mistake in ignoring "a lyrical blueprint which places Gothic imagery at the service of modernist ambiguity"

“Once You’ve Arrived, You Have Nowhere To Go”: Tindersticks Interview

Stuart Staples tells JP O'Malley about their soundtrack work with Claire Denis and the rejuvenation of Tindersticks

Lady Gaga’s ‘Judas’ & The Betrayal Of Netocracy

Emily Bick looks at the similarities between Lady Gaga's 'Judas' shtick, subversive Swedish pop group Army Of Lovers and the affiliated Alexander Bard's Netocracy to argue that the star's glamourous facade is a "prophylactic barrier to two-way engagement"

Duran Duran

All You Need Is Now

Architecture In Helsinki

Moment Bends

The Story Of This Is The Sea: An Interview With Mike Scott Of The Waterboys

Wyndham Wallace talks to Mike Scott of The Waterboys about his classic album This Is The Sea, 25 years on from its release…

Goddess Of Light: An Interview With Austra

Sophie Monks Kaufman talks to Austra's Katie Stelmanis about bursting into song, gibberish lyrics and letters from Slipknot

Kode9 & The Spaceape

Black Sun

Erasure’s Andy Bell Selects 13 Favourite Records

As Erasure gear up for the Mute Short Circuit Festival, Andy Bell picks us his 13 favourite albums

Ponytail

Do Whatever You Want All the Time

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week, Simon casts his expert eye over Sweetgrass, T33D, Beautiful Liverpool and Taxi Zum Klo

Avant-Garde Epiphanies In Tilburg: Roadburn 2011 Reviewed

Jamie Thomson reports back on the finest that this year's Roadburn festival had to offer, from Swans to Sunn O))) and Godflesh to Ghost. Photo by Richard Sheppard

An Eastern Spring: Memoir Of A Second Generation Immigrant Part Four

In Part Four of his memoir of life growing up as an immigrant in Coventry, Neil Kulkarni discusses racial tensions in both India and England

Ekoplekz

Memowrekz

“I Admit It, We Failed!”: The First Battles Interview On The Story Of Gloss Drop

In the face of adversity, Battles have produced their most killer album yet. Simon Jay Catling meets the band to discuss Gloss Drop, discarded records and departed members

A Darker Direction For Doctor Who: New Series Preview

Steven Moffat and Matt Smith have proved themselves – now for that difficult second series. Adrian Lobb relishes another helping of fish custard.

Moon Duo

Mazes

Slow Doesn’t Mean Soporific: Nicolas Jaar Live At Fabric

Charlie Frame takes in Nicolas Jaar at Fabric, and finds him an entirely different proposition to Blake, Woon et al

Akron/Family

Akron/Family II: The Cosmic Birth and Journey of Shinju TNT

Finding Beauty In Confusion: An Interview With Alexander Tucker

Siobhán Kane talks to Alexander Tucker about his new record Dorwytch, collaborations and outsider art

Baker’s Dozen: UNKLE’S James Lavelle On His 13 Favourite Records

UNKLE’s James Lavelle steps up to the Baker’s Dozen plate to illuminate us on the records that have shaped him and his band’s sound.

Mirror, Mirror: An Interview With Jamie Woon

Lev Harris talks to Jamie Woon about managing expectations, channelling introspection, collaborating with his mum and why "I think it's the blues, really"

Moddi

Floriography

Pay It All Back: Adrian Sherwood On 30 Years Of On-U Sound

Thirty years since he founded the On-U Sound label, Adrian Sherwood talks to Melissa Bradshaw about its history, the grim early 80s, his work in the studio, and the trouble with contemporary sound. Exclusive photos thanks to and copyright Kishi Yamamoto

Jamie Woon

Mirrorwriting

A Track-By-Track Guide To Beastie Boys’ Hot Sauce Committee Part Two

Two weeks before the Beastie Boys release Hot Sauce Committee Part Two, Colin McKean gives their eighth studio album the track-by-track treatment

De Mysteriis Dom N.W.A: The Similarities Between Mayhem And Gangsta Rap

Tony F Wilson, a Croydon born Jamaican emigree to Oslo who loves hip hop, black metal and the avant garde, explains to John Doran why he thinks Mayhem and N.W.A. have a lot in common...

Dirty Beaches

Badlands