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A Rudderless Ship? Working For A Nuclear Free City Interviewed

Simon Jay Catling wonders how much job satisfaction Working For A Nuclear Free City actually get - as well as asking about their new album _Jojo Burger Tempest_ and escaping Manchester music clichés

Hope In Extremity: An Interview With Barney Greenway Of Napalm Death

Keith Kahn-Harris chats with legendarily personable Napalm Death vocalist Mark ‘Barney’ Greenway about what extremity and radicalism mean in a plague year

“There’s More To Us Than Shouting”: Hawk Eyes Interviewed

John Freeman meets up with three quarters of noise-rock outfit Hawk Eyes to discover just how their mighty new album Ideas ably demonstrates that less can sometimes be more

Rewire Reveals First Artists For 2022 Edition

Ryoji Ikeda, Slikback and more will play the festival in The Hague in April

In The Driver’s Seat: The Demented Fun Of ByNWR

In the age of endless, breathless film streaming options, Nicolas Winding Refn's offering, byNWR find a way to still celebrate demented specificity. Neil Fox speaks to the platform's many masterminds

Cleaners From Venus

Return To Bohemia

PJ Harvey’s Back Catalogue To Be Reissued

First up in the 12-month reissue campaign is her 1992 debut album, 'Dry'

New Martha Wainwright LP Due In October

Third studio album “a culmination of my life experiences so far”

Screen Wash: Are Music Docs Becoming Little More Than A PR Tool?

On the release of soft soap film Peter Doherty: Stranger In My Own Skin, Daniel Dylan Wray asks if music documentaries made in conjunction with their subjects can ever be anything other than a PR exercise, or "doc washing"

Trupa Trupa

Headache

Björk

Vulnicura

Reissue of the Week: Rythmetic – The Compositions of Norman McLaren

Though best known as a pioneering animator, a new compilation shines an overdue light on the parallel brilliance of Norman McLaren's sound work, says Daryl Worthington

LISTEN: New Xiu Xiu & Larsen

XXL, the collaborative project of Xiu Xiu and Larsen, announce new album

Bill Callahan’s 2001 Radio Session for John Peel, as Smog, to be Given New Release

The studio performance saw him and band perform Smog songs, and cover Stevie Nicks and Lou Reed

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

“Everything Was In The Moment”: An Interview With Manuel Göttsching

As he prepares to take the stage at the Barbican for Convergence Festival, performing a special version of E2–E4 plus material from the Ash Ra Tempel albums Schwingungen and 7Up, Manuel Göttsching talks to Bobby Barry about free music, minimalism, and being the loudest band in West Berlin