Walking On The Moon: First Man Reviewed

In Damien Chazelle's new film starring Ryan Gosling, Wyndham Hackett Pain finds yesterday's futures looking increasingly passé

Extrasensory Perfection: An Interview With Matmos

Matmos' excellent new album The Marriage Of True Minds finds the duo delving gleefully into experiments in psychic projection and "very large green triangles". At its core, however, lies simple and tangible human connection, they tell Angus Finlayson

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For February Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan tackles a tidal wave of brand new heavy metal in a particularly stacked edition of Columnus Metallicus, covering new releases from Blood Incantation, Immolation, Venom Prison, Zeal & Ardor and more

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For April By Daryl Worthington

Among drone-folk trips and joyously messed up noise jazz, Daryl Worthington finds the cassette scene has taken a political turn, whether immersive electronics fighting for free time, nostalgia-busting collages, or colonialism attacking text-sound compositions

LIVE REPORT: Nordic Giants

Alix Buscovic reports on a night of theatrics at the Village Underground

Psychedelic Entropy: An Interview & Mix By Imaginary Forces

London's Anthoney J. Hart crafts dark and mind-altering electronic music, steeped in a love of UK rave culture and the psychedelic properties of looped sound. He speaks to Rory Gibb about old drum & bass 12"s and inner space, and has recorded us a mix - listen below

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'

LISTEN: Linda Sharrock Live At Le Guess Who?

Hear a recording of the legendary jazz singer's set at one of Europe's finest festivals below

Genesis P-Orridge Vodun Film: Kickstarter

We talk to film-maker Hazel Hill McCarthy III about her new documentary with Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Bight Of The Twin, following h/er journey to Benin to trace the origins of Vodun and take part in the Twin Fetish ceremonies - watch a trailer below

WATCH: New Diamond Version Video

"Do you suffer from pain?"

Lost Highway: Nick Cave And Warren Ellis’ ‘Carnage’ Reviewed

Nick Cave and Warren Ellis' lockdown album, 'Carnage', is full of vast swings of emotion, strange shifts in reality, endless twists, and frustrating failures of momentum – an accurate reflection of the last year. Patrick Clarke reviews an often remarkable but occasionally exasperating new record

House Of God To Mark 30th Anniversary With Charity Compilation

The release from the Birmingham clubbing institution takes in tracks by Surgeon, Regis and more

Officer!

Dead Unique

Sight Lines & Separations: Recording Killing Joke’s Debut Album

Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut

Baby, It’s Okay To Be Slutty: Chastity Belt Interviewed

The Seattle-based four-piece's singer and guitarist Julia Shapiro talks to Anna Wood about the underuse of the word labia, calling out mansplaining and taking lyrical inspiration from John Carpenter's 1982 cinematic masterpiece

Deftones

Ohms

Deftones are back with a record of raw, concentrated Deftonage, finds Marc Burrows