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Wire’s Colin Newman And Tortoise Talk BBC Late Junction Collaboration

This week Wire's Colin Newman and Chicago bods Tortoise collaborate in a session for BBC Radio 3's Late Junction. Session photographs by Lucy Johnston.

Eagle Twin Interview: The Unkindness Of Crows

Gentry Densley of Iceburn and Ascend talks to Toby Cook about his new avant metal project

Incubate In Review: A Design For Life

All pictures Stu K Green/Shot2Bits.net. Reconstructed from notes written on the backs of beer mats by John Doran

Kraftwerk Catalogue Reissue

Catalogue reissue

A Place To Bury Strangers

Exploding Head

John Baizley Of Baroness On Illustration And Heavy Metal Art

David Sylvian Interview: From Japan To Manafon, The Man Revealed

David Gavan talks to David Sylvian about why there's no 'I' in Manafon . . .

From Wolf Eyes To Caretaker: A New Column Exploring Musical Extremes

Frances Morgan starts her new column today, delving into the world of noise, drone, jazz and whatever else takes her fancy. Photograph courtesy Maria Jefferis/shot2bits.net

Fuck Buttons

Tarot Sport

Jamie T

Kings & Queens

Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed

This charming documentary about punk rock poster artists examines the designers, collagers and scribblers behind the likes of Nirvana, Hole, The White Stripes and Lightning Bolt. _Died Young Stayed Pretty_ is showing this week at the ICA.

Reigning Sound

Love And Curses

Wiley: Eskiboy’s Dalliance With An Electro-Dance Alliance

This week saw the first play of Wiley's new single with Chew Fu. 'Take That' meddles with electro; but is he already too far behind Dizzee, asks Tom Thurgood?

The Mountain Goats

The Life Of The World To Come

A John Foxx Interview – Impossible DNA

Emily Bick conducts an in-depth interview with John Foxx about cinematic ghosts, Battersea Power Station and psychogeography. Current portrait of John Foxx: Craig Hewitt

Billy Bragg

Volume 1 Box Set

Le Loup

Family

Glasgow – Tokyo – Brisbane: Stephen Pastel Talks To Everett True

Our Friend In The Antipodes shoots the breeze with his old mucker Stephen McRobbie about the Pastel's fine collab with Japan's Tenniscoats, Two Sunsets

Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions

Through The Devil Softly

Duncan Jones Interview: Moon & A Return To Sci Fi’s Original Aesthetics

Duncan Jones talks about the challenges of making his low budget film _Moon_, his love of sci-fi, and the impact David Bowie's film career had on his life

Interprole: Editors Interviewed

Birmingham-bred purveyors of snake-hipped gloomwave talk new album, new horizons and the process of progress via Depeche Mode, the Daily Mail and filesharing. Just don’t ask them to cheer up.

Mumford And Sons

Sigh No More

Mika

The Boy Who Knew Too Much

Cold Cave: Darkwave And Other Forms Unacceptable In The 80s

Louis Pattison talks to Wes Eisold about his new pop/not pop direction. Original picture courtesy of Stu Green - but doctored by "cheeky internet blighters" . . .

Harmonia & Eno ’76

Tracks And Traces reissue

Monsters Of Folk

Monsters Of Folk

Hugh Cornwell Of The Stranglers On The Hoover Dam

Hugh Cornwell believes that the Hoover Dam is a testament to mankind's ingenuity. And that the recent one day cricket matches were a waste of time. As told to Alex Ogg

Deastro: By The Light Of The Moon

Detroit resident Randolph Chabot aka Deastro shares his thoughts on cute one-eyed babies, 'chilling in a kiddie pool' and hanging music on the fridge. All his friends are made of stone, apparently; Charlie Ivens chips away

Echo And The Bunnymen: Ian McCulloch On Jesus, Smack and LFC

The greatest Macca to come out of Liverpool pulls up a bar stool with AP Childs and shoots the shit about accidental heroin use and PiL, before agreeing to our steak cookery challenge . . .

Speech Debelle’s Mercury Win – A Blessing, A Curse Or Just A Wad Of Cash?

Speech Debelle has just won this year's Cillit Bang Mercury Prize — so her troubles are just beginning, right? Hmmm, says John Tatlock. Live Pictures by Alyson Blanchard

The Quietus Blog From The Branchage International Film Festival

Throughout the weekend, The Quietus keeps you posted on all the best happenings at this year's Branchage International Film Festival

21st Century Tropicalia Sérgio Dias Baptista Of Os Mutantes On Their Return

The greatest Brazilian band of the 60s - the revolutionary and psychedelic tropicalia outfit Os Mutantes - have returned with a new album. Frances Morgan talks to Sérgio Dias Baptista about its long gestation. Photographs by Nino Andres