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True / False: Documentary Film Festival Round up

Shouty neighbors, Liberian warlords, bare-knuckle boxers, potty-trained chimps and real-life trolls!? It must be the fabulous True / False film festival, says David Moats

Wild Palms

Until Spring

Kurt Vile

Smoke Ring for My Halo

Crystal Fighters On The Culture & Music Of The Basque Country

Crystal Fighter's music is a homage to that of Spain's Basque region, inspired by the writings of singer Laure's grandfather. Here, Sebastian Pringle tells Luke Turner about their fascination with Basque culture

No Man Of Mystery: An Interview With Dave I.D.

Ben Hewitt chats creative frustration and media myths with the shadowy figure who's been racking up column inches, even though no-one knows the first thing about him

A Shot in the Dark: 16mm’s Last Reel

Independent filmmaker Austin Collings laments the uncompromising rush to 'go digital' as 16mm film stock goes on the endangered species list.

Mr Dream

Trash Hit

A Classic Kate Bush Interview: Exploring The Sensual World

As Kate Bush prepares to release a new LP based on her classic The Sensual World, we dig into the Rock's Backpages archive for a piece with Len Brown's 7 October 1989 NME interview looking at the background to the record, and her own track-by-track guide to the songs within.

Against Coalition Cuts, We Find Joy In Glee Club, NW1

Cripes & Jivens! on Saturday, Luke Turner wound up in the audience at a Glee musical. This was no West End schmaltzathon, mind, but the fruit of an invaluable community project of the kind currently facing the axe due to government cuts

The World Is Yours: A Bizarre And Fishy Interview With Glasvegas

Glasvegas frontman James Allan talks fishy business, overdoses in front of Zane Lowe and new album EUPHORIC /// HEARTBREAK \\\\

In Conversation: Tony Benn & Nicky Wire of Manic Street Preachers

One of our favourite politicians is about to publish another book. One of our favourite rock stars is about to release another album. We thought we'd get them together. Overseen by (one of our favourite writers) Simon Price.

Tim Hecker

Ravedeath, 1972

Idlewild’s Roddy Woomble On The Joys Of Scottish Hillwalking

Our Quietus At Leisure series brings you Idlewild frontman Roddy Woomble's guide to hillwalking - complete with solitude, serenity and flesh-eating midges. PLUS - see the video for his new single 'Roll Along', which is out now

William Basinski

A Red Score In Tile (reissue)

Taking On The Demon Cleaner: An Interview With John Garcia Of Kyuss

Glen Mcleod finds John Garcia in combative form as they discuss the past, present and future of Kyuss

Sound and Vision: Imogen Heap On A New Score To A Surreal Classic

Singer, composer and inventive pop songwriter Imogen Heap talks to David Moats about her original sountrack to the classic surrealist short The Seashell and the Clergyman, premiering at the Birds Eye View Film Festival this Friday

Parts & Labor

Constant Future

Saying ‘Woah!’ To The Sceptred Art: Shackleton Interviewed

Shackleton is the nihilistic, Eastern-inflected icing on an already decadently endowed electronic cake, says Angus Finlayson. Well, what are we waiting for then? Let's go to the Bloc Weekend...

Art and Propaganda: Crispin Glover Interviewed

Although best known as a masterful character actor, Crispin Hellion Glover has been using his Hollywood paychecks to fund a series of fiercely independent, and sometimes controversial surrealist films. Simon Jablonski discusses typecasting, Buñuel and Hollywood taboos

C86 And All That: The 25th Anniversary

Jim Keoghan explains why the C86 cassette compilation has a far more important legacy in independent music than just giving rise to jangly indie-pop

Elbow

Build A Rocket Boys

Papercuts

Fading Parade

Big Time Astrology: A Classic Bjork Interview By Jon Savage

Given that new material is imminent, we thought we'd bring you a classic interview with one of our favourite singers, Björk conducted in 1995, as it goes, by one of our favourite writers, Jon Savage, courtesy of Rock's Backpages

Odd Future: Youth and Young Manhood

After Tyler The Creator signed to XL recently, John Calvert decided to sift through hundreds and hundreds of tracks to bring you the best - and most distressing - music from the Odd Future collective

News Of The World: Kate Adie Interviewed On Music And War

Kate Adie is one of the most iconic British journalists of the last thirty years. Wyndham Wallace talks to her about war, peace, changes in the media and her role in the 1960s folk scene

Foe Regrets: Built To Spill Interviewed

Will Metcalfe speaks to Built To Spill's Doug Martsch about last album Perfect From Now On and his love of Dinosaur Jr

Munch Ado About Something: An Interview With oOoOO

Robert McCallum talks to Christopher Dexter Greenspan - aka oOoOO - about collaborations, drag and Britney Spears

Queens Of The Stone Age

Queens Of The Stone Age (reissue)

Crowbar

Sever the Wicked Hand

Gil Scott Heron & Jamie xx

We’re New Here

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

Simon casts his expert eye over Patagonia and The Insatiable Moon for this week's column

Nicolas Jaar

Space Is Only Noise