Maddy Sparham

Theory Into Practice: Yoko Ono’s Meltdown Festival Reviewed

The Southbank Centre's annual Meltdown Festival took place this month, curated by Yoko Ono. We sent a crack team of writers to cover events, which explored themes of activism, feminism and the future. Words by Emily Bick, Charlie Frame, Chris Roberts, Steph Kretowicz, April Welsh, David Bennun, Tristan Bath, Joe Kennedy and Maddy Sparham. Photos by Katja Ogrin

HEALTH Die Slow Ahead Of UK Tour

New single found slumped with drugs in its veins

Dubstep’s Early Years To Be Focus Of New Photo-Book

Photographer Georgina Cook's 'Drumz Of The South' takes its name from her blog that charted the development of the scene and genre

Swans

We Rose From Your Bed With The Sun In Our Head

Bizarro Love Triangle: The Wedding Present’s David Gedge Interviewed

JP O'Malley talks to David Gedge of the Wedding Present about playing _Bizarro_ live

Eleventh Dream Day

Works For Tomorrow

Supernormal: TotS, Gnod, Esben & More

Oxfordshire three-dayer returns with ace line-up

Sculpt A Rodin From Mashed Potato: On Tour With Ecstatic Material

Outlands is a new network of promoters, arts organisations and curators putting on strange and wonderful performances in the corners of New Weird Britain. Their last tour featured Beatrice Dillon making a racket to splatter sculptor Keith Harrison's Play-Doh - Jennifer Lucy Allan reports

Sufjan Stevens

The Ascension

A collection of sci-fi torch songs and cyborg songs of praise, Sufjan Stevens latest is a densely packed package, finds Jeremy Allen

Tour De France: Jonathan Meades Selects 13 Exercise Bike Classics

After a recent serious illness, writer and documentarian Jonathan Meades was prescribed 30 minutes a day on an exercise bike. He tells John Doran about his 13 favourite pieces of classical music to accompany his regimen