Anthony Nield

Xiu Xiu

Dear God I Hate Myself

I Can’t Accept That: University Challenge, Jungle And How Glibness Creates Bad History

A viral question about jungle on University Challenge gave everyone the chance to be an expert and get a few laughs – but it also revealed some pernicious underlying assumptions, says Joe Muggs.

Flying Saucer, Attack! Mr Bungle’s Disco Volante 25 Years On

Twenty-five years since its release, Matt Evans revisits the purposefully difficult second album that pulverised his young metalhead brain

The Liars Have It: Field Day Festival 2012 Reviewed

We had another rare old time at Field Day in London, curating the Village Mentality Stage and hurtling around the far larger, better sounding site catching all the other ace stuff that was on. John Calvert, Angus Finlayson, Matthew Foster, Rory Gibb, Emily Mackay and Julian Marszalek pick up pens and pieces of their minds, and review the best of the day. All photographs by Jenna Foxton

INTERVIEW: Perc

We speak to Ali Wells ahead of his gig for us at Birthdays next week

Eiko Ishibashi

The Dream My Bones Dream

Exploring history through a dense patchwork of off-kilter rhythm, symphonic flourishes and staticky fuzz

Modular Love: Daphni & Caribou’s Dan Snaith Interviewed

With Daphni's Jiaolong, Caribou's Dan Snaith has completed a transformation from electronic pop auteur to full-blown dancefloor fiend. He speaks to Rory Gibb about real world textures, mathematics and music

Not Masochism As A Simplistic Concept: CTM 2015 Reviewed

Sophie Coletta, Luke Turner and Sonja Matuszczyk visited Berlin last month for the sixteenth edition of CTM festival. Here's what they saw, in and amongst their thankfully edited out moments of debauchery. Photos: Udo Siegfriedt, Fausto Caricato, Benjamin Renter and Marco Microbi

Karl Sanders Of Ithyphallic Death Metallers Nile On Ancient Egypt

Run The Jewels

Run The Jewels 2

Anti-Sus Soundsystems: An Interview With Dennis Bovell

Melissa Bradshaw talks to Dennis Bovell about police powers, imprisonment and premium noise levels

Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Jazz may just be returning to the live stage, says Peter Margasak, but the musicians never stopped producing great music, and this month we cover new work from Maria Grand, Milford Graves & Jason Moran, and the new quartet Hearth

Inventing Soutine: On Artists In Fiction

Steve Stern, author of the new novel, *The Village Idiot*, based around the life of painter Chaim Soutine, surveys a brief history of artists in fiction

Flash & Blitz: Beyoncé Live In London, By John Calvert

Caught up within the two-hour long human/machine synergy of Beyoncé's London performance, John Calvert reflects on its peculiar mix of sincerity and cynicism and the functional brilliance of her signature sound

War Of The Certain: John Higgs Interviewed

The KLF, the cult of the individual and the bollocks of neoliberalism are all up for discussion alongside Robert Anton Wilson, multiple model agnosticism, and a sincere optimism about the upcoming generation when Ben Graham meets with author John Higgs

Gnod

La Mort Du Sens

*La Mort Du Sens* is Gnod at their most grindingly direct and brutally succinct, says Bernie Brooks