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How Punks In Churches Changed Germany & What Still Needs To Be Done

Thirty years on from the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, Beate Peter remembers a childhood where music was an escape from the strictures of Communism and punk gigs in churches were subversive acts and asks, what needs to happen to complete the process of reunification? Photo of Di Toten Hosen at a church gig by Mark Reeder

Mountain View With Poo Emoji: Hell Gette’s Landscape 3.0

Hell Gette's digital-physcical hybrid paintings collapse the virtual and the real

Short Fiction By: Socrates Adams

Taking the form a new short story - and a piercing mugshot of an author photo - this week's original writing comes to you via Manchester-based novelist Socrates Adams

Sherwood & Pinch

Man vs Sofa

Cosmic Possibility & Utter Weirdness: Revisiting Georges Franju

With French director Georges' Franju's horror masterpiece Eyes Without A Face being screened at the BFI tomorrow night, Michael Wojtas explains why his films deserve to be seen as classics

Iron Maiden Announce Huge World Tour

Band will visit 35 countries in six continents next year travelling in a plane captained and piloted by Bruce Dickinson

Free Download: New Track From Arbouretum

Get 'Destroying To Save' here

R.I.P. The Charlatans’ Jon Brookes

Founding member and drummer of the band passes away

Tycho

Awake

Their Songs Deserve To Be Heard: Moddi’s Index Of Censorship

Wyndham Wallace talks to Pål Moddi Knutsen about protest, principles, and his brand new album of banned music, Unsongs

Imma be the Upgraded new Negro: The Politics of Black Eyed Peas So-Called Party Bangers

Black Eyed Peas have been praised for a supposed return to their "political roots" away from the "party bangers" of now-ten-year-old The E.N.D. But, argues Aida Amoako, the group have always had a politicised Afrofuturism at the heart of what they do.

The Fear Goes On: Dean Blunt’s Black Metal 2

Seven years after the first instalment, Dean Blunt’s *Black Metal* sequel makes a gorgeous addition to the oeuvre of Hackney’s master art-pop prankster, finds Eden Tizard

WATCH: Pixies – Greens And Blues

Video for "new" 'Gigantic' from EP-2

The Hold Steady

Heaven is Whenever

Staying Untuned: Zamilska Interviewed

Her debut album of hard-edged, techno-shaded rattlers was one of our favourites of last year. Before she heads to CTM, Natalia Zamilska talks to Luke Turner about meshing together African music and Emily Brontë, the political aspects of her work and seeking diversity in Poland's music scene

No More Parrillas In BA?: The Vivid Satire Of Marcos Lopez

John Quin gets at the real meat of Argentinian photography in an exhibition by Marcos Lopez at Rolf, Buenos Aires