Ann Quin

The Oral History Of Marc And The Mambas’ Torment And Toreros

Forty years ago this week Marc Almond released the album that almost finished his career. Derided at the time as an overblown, self-obsessed indulgence, Torment and Toreros is now considered a flawed masterpiece in the lineage of Lou Reed’s Berlin, Big Star’s Third, and Nick Cave’s Your Funeral…My Trial. Here the people who made the record tell its story in their own words.

Guadalupe Plata

Guadalupe Plata/Three Demons

Spanish blues trio Guadalupe Plata take a deep, dark dive into demonic rockabilly of the highest order

A Face In The Crowd: Carol Morley Discusses Dreams Of A Life

Val Phoenix speaks to filmmaker Carol Morley about Dreams of a Life, which seeks to piece together the life of Joyce Carol Vincent, found dead in her bedsit in 2006 after seemingly disappearing from society

The Bug Teams Up With Moor Mother On New Track, ‘Vexed’

It features on Kevin Martin's forthcoming album, 'Fire'

I, Ludicrous

Songs From The Sides Of Lorries

The ninth album from a band who belong firmly in the tradition of angry, magnificent and slightly surreal Englishmen.

LIVE REPORT: The Charlatans

Joyous vibes greet Tellin' Stories at the Hammersmith Apollo

Pulling Hauntological Triggers: Gong & Space Ritual Live

Emily Bick heads to Gong and Space Ritual at the London Forum and the resulting cleanse of her Third Eye leads to a musing upon hauntological blogs and notions of memory

Lexicon Of Love: The Liar’s Dictionary By Eley Williams

The debut novel by Eley ('Attrib.') Williams turns out to have a heart as big as its vocabulary, finds CD Rose

L.I.E.S

American Noise

Injustice For All: Ripley’s Game Remembered

Tony McKiver takes a look back at Liliana Cavani's underrated adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel.

Eminem

Relapse

Listen: Walls Remix Wilco’s ‘Poor Places’

Our oceangaze favourite Walls cosmically vapourise a track from _Yankee Hotel Foxtrot_

British Sea Power

Zeus

INTERVIEW: Pere Ubu

Pere Ubu's David Thomas and Sean Kitching set out to have a conversation about their new album, Carnival Of Souls, out next week, and end up taking in the merits of melding acoustic, digital and analogue sounds and discussing the finer points of English prog

Flight Of The Conchords

I Told You I Was Freaky

Reissue Of The Week: Heavenly Remixes By Andrew Weatherall

Darran Anderson looks at a pair of compilations drawing together some of the finest remixes constructed by Andrew Weatherall