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React In Kind Or Get The F**k Out: Queer’d Science Interviewed

Manchester's Queer'd Science are fast establishing themselves as one of the UK's most thrilling and visceral bands, a whiplash whirl of barked vocals, alien-chirp guitars and strobing rhythms. The trio meet Simon Jay Catling to discuss how beneath their harsh exterior lies a message of inclusivity

“A Reaction To Mediocrity”: Spectres Interviewed

With their debut album Dying fresh on the shelves yesterday, the Bristol four-piece's Joe Hatt and Adrian Dutt talk to Joe Clay about pushing their abrasive sonics to the limit, putting on gigs in crypts and police cells with their label Howling Owl and why they're hoping their music will have the audience launching cheap booze their way

The Fightback: Rob Crow Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to the cult Pinback, Heavy Vegetable, Thingy, Optiganally Yours and Goblin Cock musician Rob Crow about returning to the fray

“Being Different isn’t Something to Take Lightly”: Jarvis Cocker Interviewed

Pulp are back with their first new album in nearly a quarter of a century; Jarvis Cocker joins us to talk about More, but also outsider art in America, an attic full of wonder in London and revolution versus violence in Sheffield. Words by Darran Anderson. All portraits by Tom Jackson

INTERVIEW: Arabrot

As Arabrot release brilliant new LP The Gospel and head out on tour, Kjetil Nernes speaks to Luke Turner

A Heartbeat That Resonates: Ghetto Priest’s Favourite Albums

From The Jackson 5 and Nat King Cole to John Holt and Dennis Brown, this is the baker's dozen of albums that shaped Ghetto Priest

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Anois, Os Ard: May In Irish Underground Music By Eoin Murray

In the ninth edition of our column on the sounds of Irish undergrowth, Eoin Murray finds culchie surrealism, rural kosmische, acerbic punk, improvised psychedelia, lo-fi hip hop and much more

The Strange World of… Steve Aylett

With Heart Of The Original, his radical treatise on creativity, back in print and new novel The Book Lovers out last December, cult author Steve Aylett is ripe for discovery. Aug Stone talks to him and offers ten points of entry into his back catalogue

DJ Revenue-Sharing Platform Aslice Announces Closure

The company facilitated the sharing of more than $422,000 with over 27,000 producers since its launch in 2022

The City Surreal: How Underground Rap in the 2010s Located Truth in the Bizarre

Liam Inscoe-Jones explores the psychedelia inherent in the music of Danny Brown, Earl Sweatshirt and others, arguing that it reflects the increasingly surreal reality of working class life far more effectively than rock’s outdated cliches 

Moral & Aesthetic Truths: An Interview With Liturgy

Liturgy's Aesthethica is one of The Quietus's Albums Of 2011 So Far. Kevin McCaighy talks to the band's Hunter Hunt Hendrix about extremity, desire and D.H. Lawrence

Digging From The Inside: An Interview With Jlin

With her debut album Dark Energy finding the Indiana producer pushing footwork's sound forward, she tells Christian Eede about finding value in failure and why she's put a bar on creating from a "happy place"

Best Left Unsaid: An Interview With Empath

Empath speak to Patrick Clarke about the many layers of their new album Visitor, which draws on found sound, fragments of memory and extra-musical sources to create immersive new worlds

Talking Heads Unveil Rarities Compilation for Record Store Day Black Friday

Tentative Decisions collects early demos and live recordings of songs that appeared on the band's first two albums