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Unmasking Dishonest ‘Big Society’ Logic: Alex Niven & Mark Olden Reviewed

Two new volumes published through Zer0 Books, Alex Niven's Folk Opposition and Mark Olden's Murder In Notting Hill, both push for greater understanding of politics at ground level, and provide examples of what can occur if this does not happen, writes Joe Kennedy

Animal Collective

Water Curses

No Reconciliation Necessary: Doug McCombs’ Favourite LPs

With the prolific bassist and guitarist and Tortoise and Brokeback founder about to release a new album, Works For Tomorrow, with Eleventh Dream Day, he gives Nick Hutchings a tour of his most seminal records

Rum Music For November Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Tropical ambient, Enka-noise, minyo footwork and plenty of cross-genre collaboration feature in Jennifer Lucy Allan’s Rum Music round up for the winter months

Rough Trade

Electronic 2011

WATCH: New Wire Video

Plus! Drill: Lexington kicks off tonight!

BIG|BRAVE

Vital

Montreal's Big Brave draw succour from real life struggles to produce a fiercely discordant kind of metal, finds Antonio Poscic

John Peel’s Records: ‘G’ Now Online

Rifle wildly through the latest 100 of Peel's records here

Languages Inhabited: Teju Cole’s Favourite Albums

Following the publication of his first collection of essays, Known And Strange Things, the writer and photographer pens us his own Baker's Dozen, picking "as many kinds of albums that really mattered to me as possible"

Baker’s Dozen: UNKLE’S James Lavelle On His 13 Favourite Records

UNKLE’s James Lavelle steps up to the Baker’s Dozen plate to illuminate us on the records that have shaped him and his band’s sound.

Bread Head: Martin Creed’s Toast At Hauser & Wirth

John Quin takes a bite, has doubts about the spread

Gorillaz

The Singles Collection 2001-2011

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

The Fear Goes On: Dean Blunt’s Black Metal 2

Seven years after the first instalment, Dean Blunt’s *Black Metal* sequel makes a gorgeous addition to the oeuvre of Hackney’s master art-pop prankster, finds Eden Tizard

Robin Mackay

By The North Sea

Author and Urbanomic director Robin Mackay drifts through mourning, melancholia and HP Lovecraft over dusty synths and mutant bass