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A Tower Of Songs: Sylvie Simmons’ Favourite Music

Like a gamekeeper turned poacher, rock journalist Sylvie Simmons has a new album of her own music out. Here she guides Manu Ekanayake through 13 lifelong inspirations, from Leonard Cohen to Johnny Cash, Miles Davis and Black Sabbath

Poe Faced? The Raven Reviewed

Icon of gothic literature and detective story pioneer turns fictionalised sleuth, in a historical thriller from the director of the divisive V For Vendetta adaptation. John Cusack stars. Valerie Siebert watches this mystery unravel

Not Masochism As A Simplistic Concept: CTM 2015 Reviewed

Sophie Coletta, Luke Turner and Sonja Matuszczyk visited Berlin last month for the sixteenth edition of CTM festival. Here's what they saw, in and amongst their thankfully edited out moments of debauchery. Photos: Udo Siegfriedt, Fausto Caricato, Benjamin Renter and Marco Microbi

Karl Sanders Of Ithyphallic Death Metallers Nile On Ancient Egypt

Run The Jewels

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Anti-Sus Soundsystems: An Interview With Dennis Bovell

Melissa Bradshaw talks to Dennis Bovell about police powers, imprisonment and premium noise levels

Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Jazz may just be returning to the live stage, says Peter Margasak, but the musicians never stopped producing great music, and this month we cover new work from Maria Grand, Milford Graves & Jason Moran, and the new quartet Hearth

Inventing Soutine: On Artists In Fiction

Steve Stern, author of the new novel, *The Village Idiot*, based around the life of painter Chaim Soutine, surveys a brief history of artists in fiction

Flash & Blitz: Beyoncé Live In London, By John Calvert

Caught up within the two-hour long human/machine synergy of Beyoncé's London performance, John Calvert reflects on its peculiar mix of sincerity and cynicism and the functional brilliance of her signature sound

War Of The Certain: John Higgs Interviewed

The KLF, the cult of the individual and the bollocks of neoliberalism are all up for discussion alongside Robert Anton Wilson, multiple model agnosticism, and a sincere optimism about the upcoming generation when Ben Graham meets with author John Higgs

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La Mort Du Sens

*La Mort Du Sens* is Gnod at their most grindingly direct and brutally succinct, says Bernie Brooks

Iron Maiden The Final Frontier Track By Track Review

John Doran has only listened to _The Final Frontier_ once, but that's enough for him to herald its brilliance. He explains why the Irons aren't like most normal bands...

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Winning It All: Prince’s Purple Rain Revisited

Ned Raggett remembers the audacity – the white heat – of a first encounter with the OST in 1984. This feature was first published on 25 June 2014

David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Madonna & Asparagus: Kraftwerk In 1976

This extract from David Buckley's excellent new Kraftwerk biography Publikation (out now on Omnibus) looks at an album collaboration that didn't happen and an expedition to buy seasonal vegetables that did

Vulnerability At Its Finest: Frank Ocean Live At Lovebox

With his music, Frank Ocean gives us insight into his deepest thoughts and feelings. Veronica Irwin asks why we don’t care.