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I Think That’s The Lot: Mark E Smith Signs Off On Jan St Werner’s New Album

Formed around a core originally recorded in 2014 at the Cornerhouse, Manchester, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars channels the voice of the late Fall frontman on Molocular Meditation, with uncanny results, finds Adam Lehrer

Bring Your Whole Self: An Interview With Alabaster DePlume

Patrick Clarke drops into the Total Refreshment Centre, where he speaks to Alabaster DePlume about the musician's beautiful new compilation of instrumentals 'To Cy & Lee'

Keep On Keeping On: Cornershop Interviewed

Duncan Seaman talks to Tjinder Singh and Ben Ayres of Cornershop about keeping busy, Brexit and their ace new album England Is A Garden

Gorgeous: Graham Massey Of 808 State’s Favourite Albums

Graham Massey guides Julian Marszalek through 13 favourite albums, from Santana to Bowie, Gong, Magma, Miles Davis, and the time he went out for kebabs with Marshall Allen

Kemper Norton

Oxland Cylinder

Kemper Norton evokes dark and liminal spaces on new album Oxland Cylinder finds Will Ainsley

Building The Future With A Grain Of The Past: DJ Shadow Live

The veteran turntablist masterfully redraws his back pages at Brixton Academy, says Angus Batey

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For March By Tristan Bath

An unusually high amount of fresh ground feels trodden in this month’s tape roundup by Tristan Bath, including a new tape featuring Stara Rzeka, red raw Welsh psych, a surreal retail satire, cosmis Portuguese improv, and more.

MH The Verb

Space Ninja

Space Ninja, the latest album from experimental hip hop artist MH The Verb exudes positivity, finds James Butterworth

New Weird Britain This March Reviewed By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner writes in praise of sticking together, plus new releases from Slum Of Legs, Noods and Handle

Sega Bodega

Salvador

Combining glitchy industrial sounds with emo shrieks and 90s RnB grooves, Sega Bodega's debut album wears its nihilism lightly

You Are Bognor Regis RAR: White Riot And The Anti-Fascist Labour Of Rock Against Racism

Fresh from this year's Berlinale, Rubika Shah's searing feature frames a contemporary fight against fascism, against the backdrop of ever-changing punk communities, finds Neil Fox

Ultraviolence: On Color Out Of Space And Adapting Lovecraft

With Richard Stanley's new take on HP Lovecraft's material in cinemas with Color Out of Space, now is the time to wrestle with the horror author's difficult legacy, finds Mary Beth McAndrews

Tomorrow Belonged To Them: Kraftwerk’s Future Music From Germany

Uwe Schütte’s new book, Kraftwerk: Future Music From Germany places the group in a lineage stretching from the Weimar to Berghain, finds John Quin

The Quire Of Pablo: Picasso & Paper At The Royal Academy

At the Royal Academy, Fisun Güner finds there is still much to discover from a fresh angle on Picasso

Ann Margaret Hogan

Honeysuckle Burials

Ann Margaret Hogan's 'Honeysuckle Burials' effects a beguiling evocation of another world, finds Cathi Unsworth

Brush With Greatness: Portrait Of A Lady On Fire, Cast Interview

One of the most rapturous love stories this side of the century, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is Céline Sciamma's lesbian period drama is a quiet masterpiece. Nick Chen meets the film's stars

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of February 2020

From Katie Gately to Beatrice Dillon via the ghost of Mark E. Smith, here's our guide to the best albums and tracks released in February

How Metal Changes The Way We See The World, An Extract

Ahead of his appearance at the Quietus Social next week, we present an exclusive extract of Dan Franklin's book 'Heavy: How Metal Changes The Way We See The World'

Nuts and Bolts S3 E1 – Jessica Ekomane

Six Organs of Admittance

Companion Rises

Energy Flash: Pulled By Magnets’ Rose Golden Doorways

After the break-up of Polar Bear, Seb Rochford did some searching. Hypnotic, turbulent, otherwordly, the new Pulled By Magnets gives us a glimpse into what he found

Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with another column that rounds up the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal

It Dockumer Lokaeltsje

Alles Is Goed

Dutch noise band It Dockumer Lokaeltsje play covers of DAF in Frisian with abrasive results, finds Richard Foster

Overlapping Terrain: Richard Skelton’s Favourite Music

Following the release of his new album LASTGLACIALMAXIMUM, the prolific Richard Skelton speaks to Luke Turner about the music that inspired his own work, from Thomas Tallis to Phuture, Nico to Sly & The Family Stone, The Stooges and Gorecki

The Strange World Of… Tom Smith/ To Live And Shave In LA

The conceptual conceit of TLASILA is founded upon dedication to chaos, sleaze, hedonism, and libidinal materialism, says Adam Lehrer, on speaking to idiosyncratic poet and contemporary druid, Tom Smith

Immigrant Cowboy: Sunny Jain & The Music That Traverses Time And Place

Sunny Jain is an indefinable musician, says Rob Hakimian, and his new album, Wild Wild East, is a thematic exploration of his parents’ lives as Indian immigrants to America

Nyx Nótt

Aux Pieds De La Nuit

Aidan Moffat gets woozily sinister on his first album as Nyx Nótt

A Kind Of Paradise, A Kind Of Nightmare: These New Puritans Live At The Barbican

These New Puritans' special Barbican performance 'The Blue Door' delivers beauty, brutality and everything in-between

Tame Impala

The Slow Rush

The latest from Tame Impala lives up to its crushingly uninspiring title, finds Cal Cashin

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For February Reviewed By JR Moores

In his first psych/noise rock column of 2020, JR "the menace" Moores heeds the words of Mr Maconie and gets distracted by that famous Q-based band

Crack Actor: PJ Harvey’s To Bring You My Love at 25

In 1995, Polly Harvey reinvented herself as a pink catsuit-wearing vamp peddling an album of stormy gothic American blues. But was it really such a surprise? Ben Hewitt argues the transformation only put up in lights what Harvey had already shown: she was an actor as much as a singer

The Trumpet That Blows Its Own: Nevin Aladag’s Fanfare

A show at the Hayward Gallery by Turkish artist Nevin Aladağ brings the city alive with music