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An Open Wound: Swans’ Cop Revisited

Catharsis was just another word for sonic dismemberment, says Ned Raggett about this 1984 noise rock album from Swans

Bleak Psychedelia: Michael Gira Of Swans’ Favourite Albums

Michael Gira's mighty Swans play live at London's Koko this Thursday, 15th November. In advance of the show, Joseph Burnett speaks to the man himself about thirteen of his favourite albums, from Miles Davis and Gorecki to Throbbing Gristle and Pink Floyd

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May By Pavel Godfrey

From the muddy banks of the Huron, our man in black stateside, brings us the best in pagan metal and more. Some images are NSFW

Suck My Finger: An Interview With Chúpame El Dedo

As they prepare to take their surreal blend of Colombian music, metal and grindcore to Milhões De Festa, we catch up with the barmy, brilliant Chúpame El Dedo

Manchester Will Haunt Itself: The British Pop Archive Reviewed

At the launch of the British Pop Archive at the John Rylands Research Institute and Library, Lottie Brazier asks what it means to exhibit Ian Curtis's handwritten lyrics next to Shakespeare and the Gutenberg Bible

Soundtrack To The Interzone: Justin Robertson’s Baker’s Dozen

In a self-penned Baker's Dozen, DJ and producer Justin Robertson recalls the thirteen pieces of music that soundtracked his rise from home counties obscurity to the outer edges of dance music, via run-ins with Jimmy Page and Mark E. Smith

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Trevor Jackson Presents Metal Dance 2

Love Letter To A Vanishing City: Willy Vlautin On The Night Always Comes

Set in a changing Portland, Willy Vlautin’s new novel tells the story of its desperate residents chasing after normalcy. The author of Lean On Pete and singer of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines talks to Adam Zamecnik about gentrification, trauma, and Portland, Oregon

All The Glitter: Ira Kaplan Of Yo La Tengo’s Favourite Albums

Yo La Tengo’s frontman leads April Clare Welsh through a selection of his most played LPs