Matthew Vaughn

Resistance Is Fertile: Snapped Ankles’ Come Play The Trees

As gentrification strangles our public life and culture, the fightback can be found in fecund hedges and crevices across the country. This new weird Britain is going to win, says Eoin Murray - and it sounds great

Collapsed Horizon: Philip K Dick’s A Scanner Darkly, 40 Years On

In the fortieth anniversary year of Philip K Dick's fortieth novel, Eli Lee finds a prescient and poignant work of grief, less concerned with sci-fi predictions of the future than with exorcising the ghosts of the past and confronting the quiet horror of addiction in the present

Why We Need To Stop Seeing Grassroots Venues As Mere Rungs On A Ladder

With music venues in crisis, does celebrating them as places where bands appeared on the way to fame overshadow their true purpose as the places in which music is played for the sake of communal joy, asks Luke Turner

Unsound To Return To New York Next Month

Caterina Barbieri, Tim Hecker and more will play the two-day event

Piercing Highs: Mondkopf’s Favourite Albums

Fittingly enough for a man who makes music of a decidedly bracing bent - be it the hulking techno of Mondkopf or the grindcore-inspired electronics of Extreme Precautions - French producer Paul Régimbeau's top 13 LPs are a suitably heavyweight suite. Brace yourself...

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