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The World’s Best Punk Group Isolated And Enjoyed: NoMeansNo Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to John Wright about brawling anarchists, dubstep and about the never ending NoMeansNo tour

If You’re Going To San Francisco, Be Sure To Have Lots Of Cash

April Clare Welsh investigates the changing face of San Francisco, where minority groups and artists are being priced out of the city by the all-powerful tech dollar, and talks to activists and artists such as Erase Errata

I Wear My Pain As A Jacket: An Interview With Calabashed

Following the release of their extraordinary debut EP 'Behold A Black Wave', Alabaster DePlume and Joshua Idehen speak to Patrick Clarke about their vulnerable and powerful new project Calabashed

Like Jesus Christ Superstar With Depression: Beak> Discuss Their new Album

As they surprise-release their first album in six years, the Bristol trio speak to Alastair Shuttleworth about how ambiguity, a Welsh farmhouse and a departed pet all played a part in their astonishing new music. Cover portrait by Andre Habermann

It’s Arbitrary And That’s What Makes It Beautiful: Virginia Wing Interviewed

Virginia Wing talk to Bernie Brooks about music as a coping mechanism, training the press, and making a "2020 record"

Machine & Voice: An Interview With Muscles Of Joy

Stuart Huggett meets Glasgow's Muscles Of Joy, a seven-strong band who use vocals and self-built instruments to create songs that are beguiling and jarring in equal measure

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The Sound Of Endless Summer: Still Corners Interviewed

They've only just sorted out a settled line-up, but Still Corners' dreamy-pop is as polished as it comes. They talk to Darren Loucaides about countryside clichés and Twin Peaks

Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx

With the second of their Sonic Groove compilations recently released and a new album on the way, the industrial techno duo have an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the oft-overlooked rhythmic noise scene and the evolution of their sound and approach to production

Love & Art: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Interviewed

Joseph Burnett talks to the former member of COUM, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV about pandrogyny, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and their ongoing artistic vision

Home Is Where The Heart Is: An Interview with Bowerbirds

Phil Moore tells John Freeman how the making of new album The Clearing pulled Bowerbirds back from the brink of extinction

Peer Review: Robert Macfarlane Interviews Hayden Thorpe… And Vice Versa

We left musician Hayden Thorpe and the writer Robert Macfarlane alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked

Avoiding A Career In Music: About Group Talk Improv

Tristan Bath talks to Alexis Taylor, John Coxon and Pat Thomas about About Group's method, covering 'Walk On By' and their third album Between The Walls. Photographs courtesy of Ben Stockley

The Killer In Us: Dragged Into Sunlight Interviewed

Their new album Widowmaker is one of the best, most brutal records of the year. Luke Turner speaks to the anonymous, serial killer-obsessed and decidedly not fluffy-cat-LOL-pics-loving Dragged Into Sunlight

Narcissus In Retrograde: Avalon Emerson Interviewed

Aurora Mitchell speaks to Avalon Emerson about why beat matching isn't the be-all and end-all when it comes to DJing. WATCH: the new video for Natural Impasse below

Spools Out 3: A Cassette Reviews Column For March

The Master Of The Tapes, Tristan Bath is back with a selection of the best releases from February and March