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The Strange World Of… Howlin’ Rain

Ethan Miller, key cosmonaut with Comets On Fire and lead grizzly dreamer in Howlin’ Rain, recounts his path to neo-psychedelic nirvana to Stevie Chick, taking in feral punk rock, doomy folk and feedback-soaked poetry readings along the way

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Ascent Is Immanent: The Strange World Of Ben Chasny

Ben Chasny is an outlier in the world of psychedelic music, going deeper and further than any of his contemporaries in the field. Danny Riley caught up with him talk about his idiosyncratic vision

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Hazy Debauchery: Comets On Fire Interviewed

Ahead of their set at the final ATP holiday camp festival this weekend, Californian noise rockers Comets On Fire tell Colm McAuliffe about reuniting, psychedelic "secret handshakes" and memories (or what's left them) of holiday camp weekenders past

News 4

LISTEN: New Bums – Black Bough

First taste of debut album from Ben Chasny/Donovan Quinn collaboration

Comets On Fire Announce Live Shows

Pioneering Californian noise rockers announce three upcoming dates

Mogwai, Godspeed, Low For ATP Festivals

Mogwai to close festival in December

Supersonic 2012: Ben Chasny Q & A

Our man in Orange County, Ca, Ned Raggett talks to the Six Organs Of Admittance guitar savant

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Live Report: Blood Sport

After seven years of techno, post-punk, industrial noise, polyrhythms, mangled vocals and brain-melting live shows, the mighty Blood Sport have called it a day. Just a few months after the release of their ‘Harsh Realm’ EP on Helena Hauff’s Return To Disorder label, Alex Keegan, Nick Potter and Sam Parkin play one last show at the Leadmill.

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Radiohead’s Music Publisher Denies Lana Del Rey Lawsuit

Warner/Chappell, Radiohead's music publisher, has issued a statement denying the existence of a lawsuit against Lana Del Rey

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Star Tissue: Nostalgia For The Light Reviewed

Opening on Friday in UK cinemas, Patricio Guzmán's dual-stranded doc about astronomy in the Atacama Desert and searching for the remains of Chile's disappeared is powerful viewing. Colm McAuliffe explains why

Art

The Secret Of His Great Strength: Ai Weiwei At Idomeni

As the global refugee crisis rolls on, Bryony White considers the symbolics of Ai Weiwei's haircut in the Greek border town of Idomeni

Film

The Art Of Dissent: Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry Reviewed

Kiran Acharya gets fired up by first-time director Alison Klayman's illuminating portrait of the iconic Chinese artist

Film

Crippled Black Phoenix & Sean Hogan Discuss Horror Soundtracks

As Frightfest begins, Josh Saco chats to Sean Hogan and Crippled Black Phoenix's Justin Greaves about the importance of music to film, audiovisual collaboration and the 'John Carpenter sound'

News

KINOTEKA Polish Film Festival This Month

Event showcases best of Polish cinema new and old; screening of 1978 classic The Shout set for tomorrow

Film

The Blockheads On Ian Dury Biopic Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll

When looking to ascertain how well the Ian Dury biopic reflects the man's life, who better to quiz, says Zoe Street Howe, than the Blockheads themselves...

Film

A Shot in the Dark: 16mm’s Last Reel

Independent filmmaker Austin Collings laments the uncompromising rush to 'go digital' as 16mm film stock goes on the endangered species list.

News

WATCH: John Robb On The Holy Bible

Second in our series of interviews from The Holy Bible: My Testament doc

News

WATCH: Carcass Album Trailer

Surgical Steel set for release in September; tour dates below

Film

Poster Children: Died Young, Stayed Pretty Reviewed

This charming documentary about punk rock poster artists examines the designers, collagers and scribblers behind the likes of Nirvana, Hole, The White Stripes and Lightning Bolt. _Died Young Stayed Pretty_ is showing this week at the ICA.

Art

Time, Work, Discipline: The (Not) Music Of Bruce Nauman

With the release of a new vinyl record of the soundtrack to Bruce Nauman’s first violin film, Craft/Work considers the artist’s place in the development of a new music aesthetics

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Huffing Wronguns: Why Real-Music Dads Are Destroying Music Criticism

Last week, Jennifer Lucy Allan wrote a loving, honest live review of Steely Dan - and got a load of abuse for it. Would the same thing have happened if she were a man?

Film

Exorcising The Past: A Retrospective Chat With William Friedkin

In a previously unpublished 1998 interview, Hollywood veteran William Friedkin talks to Ian Johnston about The Exorcist, moral ambiguity, directing actors with a firearm and feeding raw eggs to a demon

Art

Against Everything: Club 57 At MoMA

Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, at the New York Museum of Modern Art celebrate the spirit of gleeful defiance initiated when a group of artists stormed an East Village social space

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Howlin’ Rain The Russian Wilds

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LISTEN: New Bums – Black Bough

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