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Push It To The Limit: An Interview With LICE

LICE speak to Patrick Clarke about their ambitious new album WASTELAND, a rebuke to the inadequacy of modern post-punk songwriting, and the inspiration of Italian modernism, Brian Catling and William S. Burroughs

Electric Light Orchestra: Viridian Ensemble Interviewed

Jennifer Lucy Allan talks to four members of the Bristol group who experiment with music and film, prompted by 12th century texts about women's medicine, shrimp in the West Country, and finding the edges of their instruments

A New Nineties US Edition: Part One – An Introduction

Neil Kulkarni revives his excellent A New Nineties Series, this time to look at the now barely remembered bands of the US

Shackleton To Release Second Tunes Of Negation Album

'Like The Stars Forever And Ever' sees the producer team up with Takumi Motokawa, Raphael Meinhart and Heather Leigh

Embracing Change: An Interview With Mike Oldfield

Mike Oldfield tells Brad Sanders about Tubular Bells, the new re-issue of his Incantations LP and why his coffers are always swelled after Halloween re-runs of The Exorcist

Brian Eno

Here Come The Warm Jets / Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy / Another Green World / Before And After Science

Four albums of peak Eno, restored and re-released on delicious vinyl.

Sufjan Stevens Interview: Expressway Yourself

Laura Snapes talks to Sufjan Stevens about his latest musical exploration of the American landscape

Two Poems By: Mira Gonzalez

The first instalment of weekly new writing comes by way of two new poems from twenty-one year old Mira Gonzalez

The Third Man: William S. Burroughs At One Hundred

On the day that would mark the inimitable writer's centennial birthday, Darran Anderson considers the lifetime's work of a true genius and a true bullshit artist, and how - on issues as pressingly contemporary-seeming as censorship, surveillance and the War on Drugs - his work is as relevant now as it's ever been

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For February

Tristan Bath is back with another round of the best recent cassette tape releases - including the epitaph for recently defunct rockers Bad Guys, schizoid electronics from Edinburgh and the soundtrack for an imaginary 70s French thriller

Into This Wild Abyss: The Existential Terror Of Alien

With Alien Covenant out in cinemas Christopher Machell looks back at HR Giger's greatest creation and analyses exactly what it is that gives it its ferocious and lasting power

GbClifford

My Heart is Bigger Than the Grief Inside of It

Beneath the digital noise, a pop sensibility still peeks through on this first album under a new name for an award-winning Czech singer-songwriter

Rockfort: Your Fresh Releases de la France for January & February

There are several trips to France’s mountainous south east in this month’s column, and a serious tobogganing incident.

Pete Shelley’s Homosapien Revisited

Much has been written in the days since Pete Shelley's passing about his deft touch when it came to human sexuality. Yet his most honest statement should feature predominantly in his legacy…

Rashad Becker

Traditional Music of Notional Species vol.II

Gold Standard: Kobi Onyame Interviewed

From makeshift studios in Accra to arenas in Glasgow, Ghanaian-born artist Kobi Onyame talks to Matthew Neale about finding his divine purpose