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From The Joshua Tree To Pop: Angus Batey Revisits U2

Angus Batey travels back 30 and 20 years to find, respectively, a flawed milestone and an under-appreciated gem but also a band who had lost some of their optimism

25 Years Of Troubling Love: Ferrante’s Women & The Fight For Privacy

For two decades, Italian author Elena Ferrante maintained her privacy – until a recent article claimed to reveal her 'true' identity. Twenty-five years after the publication of her first novel, Lauren Strain considers the example that her fight for selfhood – and the struggles of the women in her novels – sets for us today. (Image from the film L'Amore Molesto, based on the novel)

A Leak In This Old Building: Yuko Mohri At White Rainbow

Alice Woodhouse explores the jerrybuilt systems at work in Yuko Mohri's exhibition for White Rainbow gallery, Moré Moré [Leaky]

Capitalist Realism: American Art At The Royal Academy

The Royal Academy's new show of depression-era American art is a curatorial triumph

Fear, Anger, Love: The Quietus At CTM Festival 2017

At 2017's edition of CTM Berlin, a festival now in its eighteenth year, Karl Smith finds a project dedicated not just to forward-thinking music and experimentation but also to a sense of unification in a time when it is sorely needed

Stop The Music: How Rocketing Business Rates Will Kill Small Venues

The Government's recent review of business rates will almost certainly put grassroots and independent venues across the country out of business. Patrick Clarke speaks to venue owners to explore the very serious repercussions.

A Kind Of Blue: Reflections On The Moonlight Soundtrack

Laurie Chen takes an in depth look at the Oscar winning Moonlight's use of music, from chamber orchestration to chopped and screwed hip-hop

The Voices From The Regions: Ken Loach interviewed

Elizabeth Aubrey talks to the I, Daniel Blake director about the conditions that inspired his BAFTA winning film

The Month’s Electronic Music: Working With Restrictions

Christian Eede takes a look at the benefits of limitations in producing a mix CD, while also reviewing releases from Inga Mauer (pictured), Smagghe & Cross, Sapphire Slows and more

Josh Gray On Sleaford Mods’ English Tapas

Josh Gray uncovers the message of inclusivity through apathy that lies at the heart of the Nottingham duo’s latest release, and the traits that make them the perfect opposite of punk

Back On Track: An Interview With Dutch Uncles

John Freeman goes karting with Dutch Uncles to find out why their fifth album, the career-high Big Balloon, was inspired by Ukrainian techno, Gentle Giant and a desire to get back to what they do best

Harsh Sonics: An Interview With Pan Daijing

Following the recent release of her second EP, Pan Daijing tells Aurora Mitchell about her relationship to noise music and the value of queer spaces

A Stellular Selection: Rose Dougall’s Favourite Albums

As she prepares to tour new album Stellular, Rose Dougall guides Jeremy Allen through her favourite 13 records, from dub reggae to folk and the otherworldly pop of Broadcast

Moiré

No Future

‘Life Is Ridiculous’: An Interview With Ravioli Me Away

Ravioli Me Away discuss their new album, plans for an opera and facial surgery through the prism of Ravioliphilosivision with Melissa Rakshana Steiner

Depeche Mode’s Spirit: A Track-By-Track Review By Julian Marszalek

Julian Marszalek went to the Spiritland bar in Kings Cross to listen to Depeche Mode's 14th album. Here he gives us his first listen, track by track run down of what we have in store

A Universe Behind What You Hear: The Strange World of Surgeon

A mainstay in electronic sound for over two decades, the music of Anthony Child AKA Surgeon joins the dots between the techno underground and an abrasive, absurdist lineage that stretches back to the days of COUM. Ahead of Child's set at the legacy of COUM event in Hull on 18th March, Harry Sword hears of his love of Burroughs, watching Mike Leigh with Mick Harris and the dangers of the artistic comfort zone.

Kleistwahr

Music For Zeitgeist Fighters

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For February

Tristan Bath is back with another round of the best recent cassette tape releases - including the epitaph for recently defunct rockers Bad Guys, schizoid electronics from Edinburgh and the soundtrack for an imaginary 70s French thriller

Enter The Golden Age: BDP, Public Enemy, Eric B & Rakim 30 Years On

Angus Batey revisits the three albums, released within months of each other, that changed everything in hip hop: Paid In Full, Yo, Bum Rush The Show and Criminal Minded

The BBC’s SS-GB: The Downton Abbification of Nazism

John Tatlock reports on a bizarrely genteel imagining of conquest by a murderous totalitarian enemy, in which everyone has an excellent haircut

The World Zooming In: Remembering Ren Hang

Karl Smith pays tribute to Chinese photographer and poet Ren Hang who died this week

Stormzy

Gang Signs & Prayer

Private Territories: Room and House Work

Different images of domestic interiority are explored at two London group shows: Room at Sadie Coles HQ and House Work at Victoria Miro

Letherette

Where Have All The People Gone?

The Second Sex: Philippa Snow On Paul Verhoeven’s Elle

Philippa Snow takes an in-depth look at Paul Verhoeven's polarising rape revenge comedy

Children Of Alice

Children Of Alice

Thundercat

Drunk

Kangding Ray

HYPER OPAL MANTIS

Ben Cardew On Aleksi Perälä’s Colundi Sequence Vol. 2

In the second instalment of the Finnish artist's Colundi recordings, Ben Cardew finds both a record more engaged with the idea of space and another component part of Perälä's key to complete musical escapism

Mutated Tradition: An Interview With Konstrukt

Konstrukt’s avant-everything out-jazz is striking fear into the heart of jazz purists across the planet. Danny Riley caught up with their guitarist to talk tradition, techno and improvisation

I Was Struck By Teenage Lightning: On Milo’s Downfall & The Abuse Of Boys

In the wake of Milo Yiannopoulos' career-ending comments on the sexualisation of young boys, Luke Turner writes that this might be an opportunity to bring the little-discussed subject of male sexual abuse out into the open