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Rejects From The Choir: Smoke Fairies Interviewed

Ailbhe Malone talks to Sussex duo Smoke Fairies about how they conjure their ethereal sound

The Time Is Kernow: Gwenno’s Le Kov

Gwenno’s second album is a sonic dream, a political protest cleansed of any cynical resignation, inviting and bubbling with possibilities.

Sampling The Airwaves & Soundtracking A Morgue: Strange World Of Scanner

Ahead of his collaboration with Gazelle Twin at the Drill:London festival we're curating with Wire, Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud talks Luke Turner through his musical career, from cassettes with Coil to scanning police airwaves for phone conversations, a Derek Jarman tribute record, dance scores and soundtracking a morgue

Nostalgia For The Light Screening

Chilean award-winner premieres in London. Plus revolutionary visions from Afghanistan, Cuba and Ireland.

Like An Octopus On The Citizen: What Even Is A Blade Runner?

Before *Blade Runner* was a film by Ridley Scott, it was the title of a movie treatment by William Burroughs. Before that, it was a novel by Alan E. Nourse. As the Burroughs book gets re-issued by Tangerine Press, Richie Troughton unfurls the whole tale

New Weird Britain 3: Gazelle Twin, Richard Skelton & Hawthonn

The BBC continue their investigation into New Weird Britain... this week arriving at the radical rural

Noise To Signal: Unsound Krakow 2024 Reviewed

John Doran enjoys Lankum, Mica Levi, Petronn Sphene, AYA and Tarta Relena at Unsound whose theme of noise inspires as much optimism as pessimism. Main portrait, Lord Spikeheart at Kamienna

Fucked Up

Couple Tracks: Singles 2002-2009

Culture Wars On The Cobbles: Corrie At 10,000 Episodes

As Coronation Street reaches its landmark 10,000th episode, former soap obsessive Fergal Kinney reflects on what it says about a changing Britain

Canadian House Power: Azari & III Interviewed

Azari & III drop their debut album this June, and Lev Harris recently caught up with them to talk channeling the darker side of house and disco for subversive ends

TUSK Festival Next Month

Day tickets now on sale

Magma’s Retrospektïẁ, Reviewed By Snooker’s Steve Davis

Steve Davis, our favourite snooker player and our favourite Magma fan, walks us through the new reissues of their 1981 live albums.

Alison Cotton Details New Album, ‘Engelchen’

It's inspired by the story of Ida and Louise Cook, two women who helped arrange the paths of refugees out of danger in 1930s Nazi-occupied Europe

Behold! July’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With reviews of things you might even be able to walk into a shop and buy if you’re so inclined, it's the latest roundup of new comics from Pete Redrup & co

Pharmakon

Bestial Burden