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Draw A Straight Line: Linear Obsessional Recordings Interviewed

From recordings of Russian spaceports to musical machinery, Richard Sanderson's free-download label has been charting the sonic hinterlands for three years now. The founder and musician talks to Robert Barry

LISTEN: Melvins – City Dump

First spin of track from the band's upcoming album Tres Cabrones

“Direct And From The Gut”: With The Dead’s Lee Dorrian Interviewed

The former Cathedral man and Rise Above boss talks to Harry Sword before he releases the debut LP by his doom supergroup with Tim Bagshaw and Mark Greening. Plus, watch the new video for Crown Of Burning Stars

Light Asylum

Light Asylum

A Black Atmosphere: Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo Interviewed

Daniel Dylan Wray meets the Italian composer and the Neubauten/Bad Seeds man to talk about their new collaborative album, Nerissimo

Memorabilia: Dave Ball Of Soft Cell And The Grid Interviewed

Duncan Seaman speaks to the Soft Cell musician about his life and times on the publication of his autobiography

Massive Attack And More Feature On X-Ray Records

Massive Attack, Pussy Riot, Noam Chomsky and more donate audio and tracks to be pressed onto records made from X-ray films for new series raising money for The University of the Underground

The Maiden Voyage: Bruce Dickinson Interviewed

Iron Maiden's larger than life frontman talks to author John Higgs about magical practice, the hallucinatory mandrake root, how to survive a rough childhood and why William Blake is an artist we should look to for inspiration. All photographs by John McMurtrie