Arjun Sajip

Revelling In Failure: Bruce Springsteen’s Shut The Fuck Up Tour

25 years ago The Boss played Brixton Academy as part of his least successful tour since his first but, says, Liam Inscoe-Jones, while he may have been underperforming catastrophically in financial terms, this was also a time of creative rebirth

Earthly Delights: Konx-Om-Pax’s Favourite Music

Christian Eede speaks to Scottish producer Konx-Om-Pax about his love of 808s and his new album on Planet Mu, as well as his favourite music, from Autechre to Popol Vuh, Kode9 to Gas, Regis to happy hardcore mixes by Scott Brown

David Holmes

The Dogs Are Parading

Why Did The Activist Cross The Road: What Happens When Comedy Gets Serious

In this exclusive excerpt from their new book, A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice, Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman look at how the collaboration between civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and comedy website Funny or Die succeeded in changing the law about victims' rights

The Art Of Self-Objectification: Alissa Nutting Interviewed

Emily Berry speaks with the author of Tampa, perhaps the year's most controversial novel, about gender roles, the power of transgressive art and the inevitable comparisons with Nabokov's Lolita

The Strange World Of… This Mortal Coil

As 4AD reissue the three albums of their “in-house covers band” – Blood (1984), Filigree & Shadow (1996) and It’ll End In Tears (1991) – we look at This Mortal Coil’s distinctive strain of introspective melancholy

Beck Details New Album, Hyperspace

He's also shared the record's two opening tracks

Elegiac

Elegiac

A collaboration between Blurt's Ted Milton and Wire's Graham Lewis proves a bracing but welcome relief for Julian Marszalek

Monumental Achievement: East India Youth Interviewed

Culture Of Volume hasn't been off the Quietus stereo since we first heard it months ago. William Doyle explains the genesis of this astounding album to John Doran

Andy Williams Dies Aged 84

Singer dies following struggle with bladder cancer

Pixies

Indie Cindy