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Empire Of Dirt: Sam Byers On His New Novel, Come Join Our Disease

Sam Byers' new novel imagines a shit-stained temporary autonomous zone in E10. The author of Idiopathy and Perfidious Albion talks to Robert Barry about writing, radicalism and rot

William D Drake

The Rising of the Lights

Star Trek Reviewed Plus The Odd-Numbered Films Reassessed

Has the new _Star Trek_ finally broken the curse of the odd-numbered Trek film? Dean Sobers decides and takes another look at the much maligned 'odd' half of the franchise.

Jim James To Play Solo Show At The Roundhouse

My Morning Jacket's Jim James takes part in a series of intimate 'In The Rounds' performances at London's Roundhouse next week

Anger Management: Du Blonde Interviewed

Beth Jeans Houghton has left behind her old persona for new project Du Blonde. She tells John Freeman why it allowed her to "explode" on her incendiary new album Welcome Back To Milk

Owen Pallett

Island

Owen Pallett's new album may be his best yet, finds Nick Roseblade

Take Me to a Happiness Beyond Human Reach: The The Live in Brixton

Tariq Goddard finds himself not just entertained but understood by Matt Johnson as he sees him perform new The The album Ensoulment in full before a run of greatest hits. But, in an era where music has ceded its centrality in everyday life, were he and 5000 others packed into an echo chamber?

The Human Centipede & Cinema’s Finest Mad Scientists

Simon Jablonski steadies his stomach for digestion shock-fest _The Human Centipede_, and looks at the greatest deranged men of science in film history

Not Pastel Colours: Boris Blank Of Yello’s Favourite Albums

With a new box set of his soundtrack work just released, the composer and Yello man takes Rob Heath from Sun Ra to The xx in his all-time top LPs

Train Driver In Eyeliner Preview: Earl Brutus & Nick Sanderson Remembered

In advance of Monday's Nick Sanderson tribute concert, Roy Wilkinson remembers the man and the legend that is Earl Brutus

Rats On Rafts

Tape Hiss

LISTEN: New Bjork! WATCH: Omar Souleyman!

'Crystalline' online now, plus see Omar Souleyman & group preparing remix