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The Overachievers: An Interview With Liars

Ben Hewitt talks to Liars about their 2010, the success of _Sisterworld_ and the ideal strength of weed

Neither Saviours Nor False Messiahs: Godspeed Live In Berlin

Godspeed You! Black Emperor are back - but are they returning heroes, or has the comeback just shown up their new clothes for what they are? Wyndham Wallace wonders why either statement has to be true. Thanks to Shot2bits.net for the picture

Fela Kuti And London’s “Underground Spiritual Game”

Attending London's recent Felebration — a fairly Ronal portmanteau celebrating the life and work of Fela Kuti — Lottie Brazier finds a performance rightly reverent of history even as it creates new meaning for all involved, and an event which, in our current Right-lurching climate, is both necessary and in danger of disappearing

Constant Vs. Variable: The Jesus Lizard Interviewed About Down

Nick Hutchings, who interviewed Jesus Lizard for us recently, loves their album Down. Trouble is, Duane Denison, Mac McNeilly and David Wm. Sims don't...

The Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips And Heady Fwends

I Am Reality: Butthole Surfers In Coffee Table Book Shocker

A lavish coffee table book about the Butthole Surfers may seem like a strange idea, but, finds Richard Fontenoy, Aaron Tanner's What Does Regret Mean succeeds in painting a vivid and persisting picture of what was at one point probably the most outrageous band the world had seen

25 Years On: Def Leppard’s Hysteria Revisited

25 years on, our Orange County correspondent Ned Raggett eulogizes the 20 million selling high point in the Leps' career

Fela Kuti

The Best Of The Black President 2

ATP Announce Summer 2013 Festivals

TV On The Radio and Deerhunter to curate in May and June

INTERVIEW: Lee Scratch Perry & Orb LP

Tom Hasson talks to reggae genius. Complains afterwards that it was like "herding marmalade"...

Growing Chorus: Lyra Pramuk’s Fountain Reviewed

With a chorus of paralingual vocalisations, Lyra Pramuk's debut album, Fountain, approaches the uncanny presence of the voice, beyond language and signification, finds Ryan Diduck

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Actress: New LP Details

London-based electronic impressionist finally announces details of long-awaited fourth album Ghettoville

Woah-Ho Heave-Ho: Former Verve Men Set Sail In The Black Ships

Former members of The Verve have reunited in the decidedly psychedelic new band The Black Ships. Dan Wale cracks a bottle of champagne across their bows