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Where The Slime Lives Episode 1: From The Sublime To The Ridiculous

Jenn Selby starts her new extreme metal column with Gigantic Brain, Coffinworm, Oranssi Pazuzu and Skat Injecktor - the only band Anal Cunt are afraid of. You have been warned.

Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space

As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community

Mystical Discipline: Anthony Braxton Interviewed

"In a way I feel like a billionaire" says US composer and improvisor Anthony Braxton to Stewart Smith, in a wide-ranging and deep interview that touches on several new projects and his connections with an international vibrational family

A Sorry State: Pop Marketing & Rihanna’s Unapologetic

Provocation for Profit? Assault as a Marketing Accessory? Why the Rihanna PR Machine show sad signs of our times

LISTEN: Stream Lost Aphex Twin LP

Caustic Window now playable on YouTube following Kickstarter campaign

Gig Wise: Songkick Launches Today

Online concert archive unveiled

Alan Wilder Of Recoil & Depeche Mode’s 13 Favourite LPs

As Short Circuit fast approaches, we talk to Alan Wilder about his 13 favourite records, and how they shaped his work in post-Depeche Mode project Recoil

She Keeps Bees

Nests

Wild Sting: In Defence Of Dune

In the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus