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Organic Intelligence XXVI: Dungeon Synth

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Joel McIver slaps on the corpsepaint and buys a 50p keyboard to give us a run-down of the non-more troglodytal world of dungeon synth

“Refreshing, Interesting, Nice & Quick”: NPVR Interviewed

Following the release of NPVR’s debut album, 33 33, Mollie Zhang speaks to Nik Void and Peter Rehberg about safety nets, listening and decision-making. Photo by Magdalena Blaszczuk

Bark Psychosis: Gazelle Twin Speaks About New Album Black Dog

Elizabeth Bernholz talks to Emma Garland about facing fundamental fears, her childhood experiences with spectral visitors and what ghosts really represent. Her brand new video for 'Fear Keeps Us Alive' is below. All portraits by Teri Varhol

No Suede Reunion

Bernard Butler hits out at Britpop's second wind

WATCH: Orphx – Hungry Ghosts

Video for previously unreleased track from industrial techno duo's recent The Sonic Groove Releases Pt​.​ 2 compilation

Massive Attack’s 3D Criticises Pete Tong’s Use Of Track

In a Facebook post, Massive Attack's 3D has criticised Pete Tong's use of 'Unfinished Sympathy' in his Ibiza Classics show

Blast Or Bless? The Ongoing Enigma Of Black Country, New Road

Richard Foster invokes the 'hot or not' spirit of Wyndham Lewis, continental poultry and outsider cat art when he speaks to BC,NR, about their ongoing evolution. Band portrait by Rosie Foster

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LISTEN: New Suede

Suede reveal new track from their forthcoming album; listen below

More Confirmed For Robert Smith’s Meltdown

Low, Death Cab For Cutie and more to play Southbank Centre for Robert Smith-curated Meltdown

Northern Gothic: Rainy Miller Interviewed

In the first interview about his new album, the Lancashire producer Jack Bowes talks to Fergal Kinney about Preston grime, absent fathers, and why he’s exhausted with the discussion about class in British music. CW: Mentions suicidal ideation

Rejoin The Tribe: Sleater-Kinney’s Janet Weiss Interviewed

This week, the seminal Washington trio released their first album in a decade. In an in-depth interview, drummer Janet Weiss tells Emily Mackay about No Cities To Love's genesis, being figureheads to a new generation of riot grrrl-inspired bands and being a part of the feminist conversation. Photographs courtesy of Brigitte Sire

Quietus Festival At WORM Rotterdam

Day festival co-curated by tQ with Mike Watt, ILL, our own John Doran and more at the end of the month

The Strange World Of… U.S. Maple

“There were so many great bad ideas to explore.” Joe Thompson of Wrong Speed records guides us through the imperfectly formed catalogue of the cult Chicagoan noise rock band, with the help of guitarist Todd Rittmann

Unsound Unveils First Acts For 2023 Edition

Autechre, Lee Gamble and 33EMYBW are among the acts playing the Kraków event later this year

Play for the People: Caveira Interviewed

Ahead of a set at this year’s OUT.FEST and off the back of superb new LP Ficar Vivo, Caveira's Pedro Gomes speaks to Stewart Smith about Lisbon’s storied experimental underground, the importance of dramatic dynamics on record, and the art of improvisation