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Overcoming Fear Of A Massive Attack, Live In Paris

In Massive Attack's performance at this year's Rock en Seine festival in Paris, Jeremy Allen finds a performance that asks more questions than it answers and a timely mirror image to the uncertainty of our age. (Photographs by Christophe Crénel)

Fiddlers On The Doof: Decius Vol.1

Lias Saoudi, Fats McCourt, Maggie The Cat and Douglas Lucas join the brothers May for a sordid mandisco manifesto

Venom

From The Very Depths

A Hub Of Potential: Mark Sinker On The UK Music Press

With his new book out now from Strange Attractor Press, A Hidden Landscape Once A Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, former Wire editor Mark Sinker tells Colm McAuliffe about the highs and lows of the old inkies and weeklies

Melancholy Optimism: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed

The Manic Street Preachers thought they might never make another album again, then along came Resistance Is Futile. Patrick Clarke meets Nicky Wire to discuss a record that's either the start of a great new era or the end of it all

Saz’iso

At Least Wave Your Handkerchief At Me: The Joys and Sorrows of Southern Albanian Song

Treasures of Southern Albanian culture, from a collective assembled specifically for the recording of this album.

The Unspoken Magic: Greg Graffin Of Bad Religion’s 13 Founding LPs

As US punk rock hero Greg Graffin releases a new solo album he guides Ian Winwood through some classics of old time Americana, alongside albums by Elton John and former collaborator Todd Rungren

Oneida

Expensive Air

Oneida continue to ride their experimental pysch-rock wave on their brand-new album

Lay Of Her Land: Brix Smith Start’s Favourite Albums

As she prepares to release a debut album with her band of former Fall troopers, Brix Smith Start takes Julian Marszalek through some of the records that have shaped her life

Masked Balls And Papal Bull: Ghost B.C. Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to a Nameless Ghoul from the none-more-entertaining Ghost B.C.

TONIGHT: The Men, Live, London

Noisy New York quartet to play London's CAMP Basement tonight, in advance of the release of their third album

Scuba Responds To Backlash Following Eugenics Theory Tweets

DJ and producer Scuba explains that tweets suggesting he was in favour of eugenics theory were a preview for a new series of "dystopian" EPs

Bard On A Wire: Sleaford Mods’ Spare Ribs Reviewed

From Conservatism to consumerism, there's plenty in contemporary Britain to attract the lyrical ire of Jason Wiliamson. But, argues JR Moores, there's a lot more to Sleaford Mods than needlsharp commentary on the everyday present

Lovely Jubbly: D Double E’s Favourite Music

D Double E guides Aaron Bishop through the albums that shaped him and how the artists behind them resonated with him from Twista and Mobb Deep to Aaliyah and Shabba Ranks

Ongoing Adventures: Rachel Unthank’s Favourite Albums

Jude Rogers speaks to Rachel Unthank about her abiding love for and political importance of maintaining the folk tradition... but explains she wasn't averse to a bit of Faith No More when it all got too much. This week's Baker's Dozen.