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Richard Ashcroft

United Nations Of Sound

Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse Present…

Dark Night Of The Soul

Don Your Rose-Tinted Glasses: Oliver Stone’s South Of The Border

A documentary maker doesn't always make a good journalist, finds Valerie Siebert, as she views the unbalanced story offered by Oliver Stone's latest

Still Uniting, Still Fighting: The Prodigy Live At Warriors Dance

Dayal Patterson looks at the strange 20 year career of The Prodigy and, seeing them at the Milton Keynes Bowl, finds a group who still have the power to flatten the boundaries between dance and rock.

Where The Slime Lives Volume Two: Extrreeeeme Depression!

It's the second metal column from our Jenn Selby, who interviews Pombagira and pays tribute to the late Daniel Krauss of Admiral Angry. Live photos by Al Overdrive

The Teardrop Explodes

Kilimanjaro (reissue)

Department of Eagles

Archive 2003 - 2006

Critical Stargazing: An Interview with Laurie Anderson

In a fascinating chat, Robert Barry speaks to Laurie Anderson about life and work with husband Lou Reed, and why the political has become personal on new album _Homeland_

It’s Not The Drugs Anymore: UNKLE & The Heritage Orchestra Live

Now generally retired from chemical capers, Ben Graham takes in UNKLE & the Heritage Orchestra's live show at De La Warr Pavilion and is transported back to a different time.

I Nearly Just Got Run Over: Crocodiles Interviewed

Sophie Parkes talks to Chuck Rowell of Crocodiles about lazy comparisons, San Diego and the Dum Dum Girls

Actress

Splazsh

The Inevitable Rise And Fall Of The UK Film Council

Last week's decision by the Coalition Government to close the UK Film Council offended many. But, argues Austin Collings, it was an organisation that represented the worst side of London-centric English culture under New Labour

Rock’s Backpages: Blondie In Conversation With William S. Burroughs

This month's feature from Rock's Backpages sees Victor Bockris' getting Blondie and William S. Burroughs around the dinner table for a chat about Concord, UFOs and why the English are the worst people in the world

Iron Maiden The Final Frontier Track By Track Review

John Doran has only listened to _The Final Frontier_ once, but that's enough for him to herald its brilliance. He explains why the Irons aren't like most normal bands...

Why Gainsbourg Is Not A Myopic Music Biopic

Jeremy Allen laments the status of the music biopic and thinks Joann Sfar's film does the music legend, if not the facts, justice. Join Branchage for a celebration of Serge tonight at the Curzon Cinema(details below)

Field Day 2010: Tony Da Gatorra And Gruff Rhys Interview

Adam Anonymous talks to Super Furry Animals visionary Gruff Rhys and Brazilian TV repair man Tony da Gatorra ahead of their slot on our stage at tomorrow's Field Day festival

Michael Gira On Swans’ My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

Michael Gira has reactivated his No Wave/industrial/apocalyptic folk project SWANS for the first time in 13-years, so who better to ask than him for a track-by-track review... Listen to tracks here

Wavves

King Of The Beach

School Of Seven Bells

Disconnect From Desire

Field Day 2010: Oscillate Wildly – Silver Apples Interviewed

Ahead of their highly-anticipated set at Field Day this Saturday, Emily Bick speaks to Silver Apples' Simeon about a remarkable history of musical invention

The Ozman Cometh: Ozzy Osbourne’s Egg Beef With Bruce Dickinson

Ozzy Osbourne tells a frankly gobsmacked Joel McIver the truth about drugs, Iommi – oh, and Bruce…

Max Richter

Infra

Aorta To The Blade Of The Day: Doseone On Alan Moore & More

Kiran Acharya talks to Anticon's leftfield lyrical laureate about Alan Moore's _Unearthing_, Jack Kerouac, and battle-rapping in your underpants

The Real Story Of Life: Dean Wareham On Galaxie 500 and Lou Reed

Wyndham Wallace catches up with Dean Wareham on the eve of the release of _13 Most Beautiful… Songs For Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests_ with partner Britta Phillips to ask him 13 Beautiful Questions…

Field Day 2010: Flower Corsano Duo Interviewed

Frances Morgan talks to Chris Corsano about his relationship with Mick Flower and the duo's upcoming slot on the Quietus Village Mentality stage at Field Day

Mount Kimbie

Crooks & Lovers

Field Day 2010: Beth Jeans Houghton Interview

Beth Jeans Houghton plays the Village Mentality Stage at this year's Field Day. Here, she tells Jamie Bowman about escaping the kooky folk tag

A Huge Dollop Of Fun: The Fabulous Penetrators Interviewed

Julian Marszalek talks to bastions of rock & roll The Fabulous Penetrators about work ethic, standing out from the crowd and serenading girls

Field Day 2010: Runners Get Set To Go The Distance

We continue looking forward to this weekend's Field Day Festival with a chat with Leeds group Runners, whose anxious brilliance won them a slot opening the do

The Lowland Hundred

Under Cambrian Sky

Robyn and Stealin’: A Trip To Stockholm To Meet A Pop Superstar

Phil Hebblethwaite embarks on a surreal adventure into Europop, in an attempt to make sense of Sweden’s perpetual outsider. Photographs by Erika Wall

Field Day 2010: Mouse On Mars On Pimping Your (Bike) Ride

This Saturday, Mouse On Mars headline the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at the Field Day Festival in Victoria Park, London. To kick off a week of special content, we talk to Jan St. Werner about a teenage obsession with cycling