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The Fall, YYYs, 808 State Camden Crawling

Good bands gather for London free-for-all

Time For Harmony In This World: An Interview With Hieroglyphic Being

Chicago's Jamal Moss sinks the legacies of house music and Sun Ra into abrasive and acutely psychoactive takes on club music, noise and industrial. In advance of a UK/Europe tour, he speaks to Rory Gibb about expressing the ambiguities of real life

All The Right Moves: A Thrilling Debut From Nuha Ruby Ra

How To Move, the debut EP from sometime Flamingods and Warmduscher collaborator Nuha Ruby Ra, is a slap in the face of convention, finds Michael Appouh

INTERVIEW: Adrian Corker

Plus, listen to Richard Skelton and Circle Traps reworks of tracks from the composer's new EP, Start Merge Fade

Obits

Moody Standard And Poor

We Spoke Of ‘Was’ And ‘When’: Tony Visconti Interviewed

Legendary producer Tony Visconti has recently been revisiting one of his classic Bowie recordings, The Man Who Sold The World, with a tour and a live album. Simon Price asks him about the Dame, Bolan, Sparks, the Manics, and more

The Cost Of Living: Pyrrhon, Skepticism And The Abscess Of Capitalism

New York extreme metallers Pyrrhon have released a new album that eviscerates our current way of living. When the alternatives are insanity and death, perhaps the ancient philosopher the band is named after offers a way forward. Dan Franklin investigates, with a little help from Professor Richard Bett and Travis Bickle

Massive Attack To Reissue Mezzanine

A 20th anniversary reissue of Massive Attack's Mezzanine will include previously unheard remixes by Mad Professor

Reverse Engineering: Danny Hyde On Coil, Backwards & NIN

Two decades after Coil finally finished tinkering with tracks, Backwards has finally been release. Russell Cuzner talks to Danny Hyde, the band’s engineer, co-producer, co-writer and programmer about this 'lost' album and the Nine Inch Nails’ material, released last year as Recoiled. Contains NSFW video imagery

Chromatics Announce Split After 20 Years Together

"After a long period of reflection, the three of us have made the difficult decision to end Chromatics," they said in a statement

Constructs Of Sanity: LABOUR Interviewed

Fergal Kinney talks to the publicity shy duo who appear at the Musica Sanae festival in Berlin this weekend

Low

The Invisible Way

Phill Niblock

Touch Five

Adz And It Shall Be Given Unto You: Sufjan Stevens Interviewed

Jeremy Allen pulls up a pew and listens to Sufjan Stevens talking about his new direction and the lord...

Wire’s Track-By-Track Guide To Red Barked Tree

We're already pretty sure that Wire's new LP Red Barked Tree is going to be a favourite of 2011. Here, Colin Newman, Graham Lewis and Robert Grey guide us through the album. Based on conversations with Quietus writer Wilson Neate

Posthumous Lee “Scratch” Perry Record To Be Released

The career-spanning 'King Scratch (Musical Masterpieces From The Upsetter Ark-ive)' compilation will mark the first anniversary of the dub and reggae icon's death