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Angel On My Shoulder: Serafina Steer’s Baker’s Dozen

From a song so good she almost forgot her shopping, to the iconoclastic brilliance of Alice Coltrane, Bas Jan’s Serafina Steer guides Stephanie Phillips through thirteen songs and albums that have inspired her

Let’s Take A Walk: Clara Hill Interviewed

With her fourth album, former Jazzanova protégé Clara Hill has reinvented herself as a singer of experimental indie-electronic torch songs. Wyndham Wallace asks her how she found her true voice

Reissue Of The Week: Khanate’s Things Viral

At the beginning of the millennium, Khanate created a twisted and challenging new form of sonic torment. Dan Franklin revisits the band’s reissued back catalogue and explores the harrowing context of their existence. CW: contains graphic discussion of torture and war crimes

Hypnotic Loops: An Interview With Ulrika Spacek

Two school friends realise they both write music, record an LP that recalls prime Television and Pavement in a house called KEN and play it at their Oysterland night. Suzie McCracken investigates this moniker mania

The Liars Have It: Field Day Festival 2012 Reviewed

We had another rare old time at Field Day in London, curating the Village Mentality Stage and hurtling around the far larger, better sounding site catching all the other ace stuff that was on. John Calvert, Angus Finlayson, Matthew Foster, Rory Gibb, Emily Mackay and Julian Marszalek pick up pens and pieces of their minds, and review the best of the day. All photographs by Jenna Foxton

Everything Was Fucked: Warren Ellis Discusses The Dirty Three

A few years ago, The Dirty Three were in a pickle, having to ask festival crowds for song ideas. Warren Ellis tells Luke Turner how they overcame writers' block to write new album Toward The Low Sun

Optimo Returns!

Twitch & Wilkes EPIC COMEBACK this spring

Portishead on: collaborating with Public Enemy

The Great Fake Organ: An Interview With Robert Piotrowicz

Ahead of a performance at the ninth Sanatorium Of Sound, Jakub Knera speaks with Robert Piotrowicz about how he created the sound of organs using a modular synthesiser and his creation of ‘fake folk’ music