Hands

Columnus Metallicus: Your Heavy Metal For January

Starting the year as we mean to go on, with Lugubrum Trio, Corrosion Of Conformity and Agrimonia.

Van der Graaf Generator

Do Not Disturb

Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti

Mature Themes

Moving Mountains: Green Man Festival 2021 Reviewed

Long one of the UK's finest festivals, even by its own lofty standards Green Man's triumphant 2021 return is an edition for the ages, find Patrick Clarke and Julian Marszalek

Elbow

The Take Off And Landing Of Everything

The Cure Reveal Concert Film, ‘Show Of A Lost World’

The film was captured during the band's performance at London's Troxy late last year to mark the release of Songs Of A Lost World

Visceral Views: Duma Spill Their Guts

Nairobi's Sam Karugu and Martin Khanja have made one of the most arresting debut LPs of 2020 as Duma. Richard Foster speaks to them about gore, gabber and grindcore

Enter The Void: On Kode9 & A Brief History Of Nothing In Art

As Hyperdub head honcho, Kode9 (aka Steve Goodman), announces his new album named, about, and inspired by nothing, we take a look through some of the artistic precedents for Goodman’s minimalist inspiration, from sculpture to painting and performance

Adz And It Shall Be Given Unto You: Sufjan Stevens Interviewed

Jeremy Allen pulls up a pew and listens to Sufjan Stevens talking about his new direction and the lord...

Current 93

Baalstorm, Sing Omega

Chewed Corners: Mike Paradinas’ Favourite Records

The pioneering electronic musician familiarly known as μ-Ziq, Planet Mu label founder and one half of Heterotic - who have just released their second album, Weird Drift - gives Joe Clay his potted biography in 13 top records

Fabric Announce Epic 12th Birthday Party

London club to stay open from Saturday 22nd October to Monday 24th; invite Moodymann, Villalobos, Ben Klock and more

Joy Subtraction: Titus Andronicus Interview

Our man Lewis Parker grills Titus Andronicus in a basement, then pushes the gun to his temple at their live show. All pictures courtesy of Richard Johnson

An Invitation To The Dance: Lewes Psychedelic Festival

Ben Graham trips out to the South Downs and finds psychedelia as alive and amorphous as ever.

The Warm Block: Beats & Rhymes In E7’s Urban Village

In an exclusive extract from her new book, *Terraformed: Young Black Lives in the Inner City*, Joy White looks at Forest Gate through the lens of three classic grime videos

Sweetest Perfection: Depeche Mode’s Violator 30 Years On

Three decades on from its release, Emily Bick remembers how as a teenager in Mall America, _Violator_ was a record that spoke of sex with style, and paved the way for _Twilight_