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Evidently Chicken Supreme: John Cooper Clarke’s Favourite Songs

Performance poet, style icon and broadcaster John Cooper Clarke tells Alex Burrows about his most-loved songs of all time and growing up during the birth of rock & roll. Portrait by Paul Wolfgang Webster.

Addicted To Serendipity: Hayden Thorpe Of Wild Beasts’ Baker’s Dozen

As the Cumbrian quartet prepare to release their "'fuck you' to adulthood", Boy King, their singer and guitarist takes us through 13 LPs that shaped it, including Nine Inch Nails, Max Richter and Oneohtrix Point Never

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For March By Tristan Bath

Noisy sound art, zen future grime, Brightonian free improv, and tinny ZZ Top motorik dominate this month’s choice tape picks, reviewed by Tristan Bath

The Heads

Relaxing With The Heads

LISTEN: New We Came Out Like Tigers

Stream the Ever-Crushed At Pecket's Well EP in full ahead of its release

PHILM To Release Album Via Ipecac

LA trio featuring Slayer's Dave Lombardo to release Harmonic on May 14th

Super Sonics – 40 Junkshop Britpop Greats

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A compilation of "junkshop Britpop" – from Bis and Shampoo to Menswear and Rialto – has Ned Raggett feeling wistful

Tell-tale Pulsations: Laraaji Picks His 13 Favourite Albums

From the Faces Of The Christ to the Sounds of Nature, ambient master Laraaji picks the 13 albums that shaped him

The Happy Mondays Reform!

Original line-up back together!

Extreme Style & Steel: Patrick Macnee Of The Avengers Interviewed

With The Complete Avengers 50th Anniversary Edition DVD set for release this May, we have a terrific interview from Ian Johnston with Patrick Macnee, aka John Steed, originally conducted in 1998 and which touches upon the show's legacy, unwitting speed addiction and bondage

Bloc Party’s Gordon Moakes On Being Ushered Into The Dark By Simple Minds

Writing for The Quietus, Bloc Party's Gordon Moakes explains the impact a teenage love for Simple Minds had on his musical future

Extreme Emotions: AJA Interviewed

Aimee Armstrong talks to noise artist Aja Ireland about catharsis and defying expectations

Broken Sounds, Broken Times: Things Learned At Unsound 2016

This year's Unsound Festival in Krakow takes place against a background of bleak political news across the globe, making its theme of Dislocation a timely one. Luke Turner and John Doran explore this via stunning performances by Miss Red to Matmos, Senyawa to Yves Tumor and many many more. Photos by Anna Spysz & Theresa Baumgartner

Prole Art Treat: East Man Selects 13 Visionary Releases

From Kate Bush and The Fall to Mobb Deep and Vybz Kartel, Anthoney Hart, the man behind Basic Rhythm, Imaginary Forces and most recently, East Man, selects the 13 albums that helped steer his art

Road Of The King! Trekking The Annapurna Sanctuary In One Pair Of Trousers

In the first part of Daniel Ross' account of his trek through Nepal's Annapurna Sanctuary, he has several run ins with chillies, chaotic roads and altitude sickness, and ends on a breathless high