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Fruitmarket Edinburgh Unveils New Music Festival, Deep Time

The new festival of experimental music takes place later this month

“I Worry That My Music Is Too Simple”: Perfume Genius Interviewed

John Freeman talks to Mike Hadreas, aka Perfume Genius, about battling his demons and finding well-fitted clothes

Birthday Ass

Head of the Household

Brooklyn's Birthday Ass are as free-spirited and rambunctious as their name suggests, finds Zara Hedderman

Evil Blizzard

The Dangers Of Evil Blizzard

Jóhann Jóhannsson Removed From Blade Runner Soundtrack

Composer Jóhann Jóhannsson previously tapped up to work on the new Blade Runner's soundtrack has now been replaced by Hans Zimmer and Benjamin Wallfisch

Mi Ami – Punching Through Skulls With Sound

Are they dancey punks or punky dancers? Goddamn suave gent Charles Ubaghs gets to the bottom of it all . . .

The Countryside Is Disturbing: An Interview With Drenge

Small town frustration resounds through the bone-shaking punk-blues of Drenge. The duo's Eoin Loveless speaks with Joe Clay about rural living, brotherly love and, following their recent run-in with Tom Watson MP, feeling distanced from the world of Westminster

DOWNLOAD: Crime and The City Solution

Grab 'I Have The Gun' from forthcoming compilation below

The Enemy Crawl Towards Camden

Band plan to large it in a boozer

Three Decades On: One Thousand Years Of Trouble By Age Of Chance

Angus Batey revisits an unfairly overlooked album in the history of cut and paste music

Low Culture Essay: Audrey Golden On ‘Lost’ FAC Film The Mad Fuckers

In this month's Low Culture Essay, author Audrey Golden explores Factory Records film The Mad Fuckers, which could have been the UK's answer to Pretty In Pink but ended up as one of the label's great ideas that never was – though it did inadvertently give the world Madchester

INTERVIEW: Tortoise

Josh Gray speaks to Tortoise's Doug McCombs and John Herndon following the release of their first new album in almost seven years

Sonic Router 020: Lando Kal Takes Things Further

For this month's Sonic Router, Oli Marlow talks to the nomadic Lando Kal about his musical evolution

Digga Please! The Quietus <3 Record Store Day

Old man John Doran explains his love for vinyl and Quietus staff pick their top ten must have items on sale on Saturday

Opeth

In Cauda Venenum

Opeth's thirteenth album – and their first to be sung in Swedish – finds the group in a playful mood whilst still delivering a powerhouse performance, finds Dean Brown

That’s Viking Talk: Amon Amarth Interviewed

Dayal Patterson talks to Amon Amarth about Viking weddings and their brutal 2011 album Surtur Rising