In the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus
Ahead of their show at this year’s Skaņu Mežs festival, Jack Barnett of These New Puritans takes Claire Biddles through an eclectic Baker’s Dozen, taking in everything from flamenco and Greek traditional music to Steely Dan and Bob Dylan
Imperial Triumphant’s sixth album sharpens up their avant metal sound and polishes it to a burnished sheen. Cooking up a storm that mixes Stanley Kubrick, Art Deco and jazz, with a huge dollop of New York City, Dan Franklin speaks to Zachary Ezrin about how self-imposed restrictions expanded their modernist vision. All portraits by Shannon Void