Todd Rundgren Interview: Talking With The Wizard & True Star

I want to Mwng with you: Super Furry Animals interviewed

Dan Ross meets up with Gruff Rhys and Huw Bunford to discuss SFA's Welsh language, "career suicide" album

Rediscovering Mystery: Neko Case’s Baker’s Dozen

With her ninth full-length album set for release at the beginning of next month, Neko Case takes Emma Madden on a trip from The Cramps to Joanna Newsom, as she calls at 13 ports of strangeness for her Baker's Dozen.

Iceage

You're Nothing

Magical Literary Tour: Matthew Ingram’s Retreat Reading List

In his new book, Retreat, Matthew Ingram explores the legacy left by the counterculture of the 60s and 70s upon our very modern obsession with health and well-being. Here he shares some of the stranger tomes he read in the course of researching it

Reissue Of The Week: A.R. Kane’s A.R. Kive

As A.R. Kane's burst of late 1980s output is released as a new box set, Jonathan Thornton explores how Alex Ayuli and Rudy Tambala's embrace of science fiction was crucial to their sound

Vatican Shadow

September Cell / Operation Neptune Spear

So High, Solo: Barcelona’s Sonar Festival Reviewed

As one of Europe's largest dance festivals, Barcelona's Sonar is huge enough to become entirely lost within, as Angus Finlayson discovered

Manics: Horrors Album Is Best Of 2009

James Dean Bradfield dubs Primary Colours "the gothic Screamadelica"

LISTEN: New Death Grips Album

Scorching electronic hip-hop/noise crew surprise release their new LP, entitled No Love - Deep Web

Lou Reed Interview: Metal Machine Music Revisited

The Metal Machine Trio tour of the UK and Europe starts this Sunday. Their leader Lou Reed has always trod the fine line between 'rock & roll star' and 'serious artist', and never more so than on his 1975 album, _Metal Machine Music_. John Doran asks him about this period . . . and waits a painfully long time for the answers