Music of the Month

New Documentary, ‘Better Days’, Charts The Story Of UK Rave

Overmono have provided the score for the film

Iron Maiden

The Final Frontier

Ellen Arkbro & Johan Graden

I get along without you very well

Two Swedish composer-performers produce a unique take on pop song writing, finds Daniel Hignell

Horns Up Ya Shitters! A Look Back At 2012 In Metal

It's a Columnus Metallicus special as Toby Cook not only reviews the best recent Metal albums, but picks his highlights from 350-odd days under the horns

Jello Biafra Of The Dead Kennedys Interview

Biafra’s back – and this time he’s packing a ‘real’ band. The former Dead Kennedys frontman is re-energised by fronting a new group, The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, who tour the UK in September 2009. Alex Ogg chews the fat with him

From Death Factory To Norfolk Fens: Chris & Cosey Interviewed

As we continue our series of Mute Short Circuit previews, Luke Turner talks to Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti about their lives and work together. Photograph taken by Chris and Cosey in their home studio

Moses Sumney

Aromanticism

The Californian singer takes an ethereal journey into solitude

Bringing Out The Dead: New York Dolls On Their Highs And Lows

Mark Eglinton meets living legends Sylvain Sylvain and David Johansen of New York Dolls. Photo courtesy of Max Lakner

Fishy Tales: Rodrigo Fuentes’ Trout, Belly Up

The debut collection of short fiction by the award-winning Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Fuentes gets its English translation by Ellen Jones

Is Stockhausen’s Licht The Most Bonkers Operatic Spectacle Ever?

This week, one day of Stockhausen's week-long opera Licht comes to London's Southbank Centre. Bobby Barry explores the history and significance of one of the greatest and most outlandish musical spectacles the world has ever seen. Photos by Meng Phu

The Strange World Of… Madlib

Eden Tizard takes a look behind the bewildering array of aliases and the huge back catalogue in order to ask, who is Madlib?

JOYFULTALK

Familiar Science

JOYFULTALK goes free jazz on new album, *Familiar Science*