In this month's Low Culture essay, Roy Wilkinson writes about the the sleeve for Motörhead's Bomber LP and how it became both an Airfix kit and a curious artefact that sat in the anti-militarism of his brothers' band, Sea Power
Riffing on the themes he explores in his new book The Babel Message: A Love Letter to Language, Keith Kahn-Harris shares his love of diacritics and explains how the heavy metal umlaut might be less teutonic than it first appears
Steady the ship, ready the engines, sail forth through the infinite black portal of space and dream - once fitful sleep overtakes you - of turbulent purple seas over a desolate planet. It’s Hawkwind, b’gads, and Harry Sword is talking to Captain Dave Brock ahead of this weekend's Desertfest
As ZZ Top take their live greatest hits album on tour, their lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons talks Kiran Acharya through his top 13 LPs, setting aside some of his more well-worn classics in favour of recent favourites
With his contribution to Stroboscopic Artefacts' new EP helping celebrate the label's fifth birthday just out, Theo Darton-Moore talks to the producer about his evolving aesthetic and taking a meticulous approach to track construction
With new album V, Bay Area duo Barn Owl soar into more overtly electronic territories than ever before, infusing the gorgeous, glacial drones of their earlier work with a dub-inspired sense of shifting space. Ned Raggett catches up with them to discuss this gradual evolution
On the eve of the release of Evian Christ's punishing new EP for Tri Angle and ahead of shows at Field Day and Sonar, he meets up with Daniel Cohen to discuss physicality in sound, working with Kanye for Yeezus, and discovering the sweet spot between EDM and abrasive noise
Before she plays the Tate Modern's Turbine Festival this weekend, the producer and genre-scouring NTS DJ talks to Olivia Cheves about her ethnomusicology studies, sampling internet pornography and flipping music industry image conventions. Photographs courtesy of Rosie Harriet Ellis
David Peschek remembers recently-deceased Glasgow club Divine as he speaks to the likes of founder Andrew Divine, JD Twitch from Optimo, Stephen Pastel and Stuart Murdoch of Belle & Sebastian, who recalls the time he wore a dress... Oh, and there's a mix too.