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A Working Class Mythology: Alan Moore’s Jerusalem Reviewed

Ben Graham plunges into Moore's 600,000 word new novel, and concludes that it's a post-psychedelic proletarian masterpiece that, if anything, could have been longer

New Order’s Music Complete: A Track-By-Track Preview

Luke Turner celebrates New Order's return with an album that is "largely thrilling, progressive and fun, which ought to stand as a highlight of their career"

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For June Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores peruses the latest psych rock releases, following some advice for when gigs return (if ever). Homepage image of Monster Magnet courtesy of Jeremy Saffer

Peer Review: Stephen Pastel Interviews David Keenan… And Vice Versa

Ahead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us

Advertising That Money Can’t Buy: That Time Depeche Mode Started A Riot In LA

In an exclusive extract from their new book, Halo, David McElroy and Kevin May recount the events that led up to the Los Angeles police showing up to an instore signing session

What kind of Language is this? Kate Bush’s Aerial At 20

Two decades on Matthew Barton considers how the revered artist came back after a 12 year absence with an album that was well worth the wait

Marco Shuttle

Systhema

The Trouble With Menimalism: Rescuing Histories From The Cutting Room Floor

The BBC's recent minimalism series has turned the form into a narrow, exclusive Music For (Male) Musicians narrative. Jennifer Allan argues that the media needs to catch up with fast-evolving histories

What Does ‘Hard’ Mean, Anyway? Unpicking Dance Music’s Extremity Fetish

Ben Cardew looks at how dance music's obsession with hardness is an arms race that cannot be won. Image via Bangface.

Reel Sounds – Vol. 4: St. Vincent, Damien Dempsey And More At Doc’N Roll 2021

This year's Doc'n Roll festival grapples with artifice and authenticity as it returns to the big screen, finds Neil Fox

Bill Orcutt

A New Way To Pay Old Debts

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner’s August Punk & Hardcore Column!

In this month's column on the best in punk and hardcore, Noel Gardner bastes his ears with new music from Snõõper, Landowner, Parallel Worlds, Gimic, Fashion Change, Piñén, Spirito Di Lupo, Motorbike, JFA, as well as a reissue from early 90s Glaswegian group Dawson

Dig it: Mining The Deep Horizons Show In Middlesbrough

John Quin burrows away at a collaborative show in MIMA featuring work by Martin Creed, Theaster Gates, Hannah Rullmann and Faiza Ahmad Kahn

LIVE REPORT: The Human League

Touring in support of the kind of retrospective that the band, and their fans, truly deserve, Ian Wade finds the Human League showcasing their versatility and their steadfast commitment to being — as the record says — "a very British synthesizer group." (Photos by Maria Jefferis.)

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock For April Reviewed By JR Moores

JR Moores momentarily prises himself away from web-based lexicon challenges to bring a fresh batch of psych. Home page photograph: 50ft Wave

Hulubalang

Bunyi Bunyi Tumbal

An album of maximalist electronica from Indonesia proves an ambitious, if difficult listen for Alex Rigotti