Ben Pitcher

Crystal Castles: Exclusive Track-By-Track Preview Of Crystal Castles’ New LP

Crystal Castles follow their debut _Crystal Castles_ with second album, er, _Crystal Castles_. Emily Bick discovers a new, darker sound

Beyond Existential Dread: Electric Wizard’s Wizard Bloody Wizard

After more than two decades, Electric Wizard serve up heavy heavy slabs of nihilism and misanthropy with renewed power and purpose.

Oi Wanker! John Robb Remembers Sebastian Horsley, The Last Dandy

Sebastian Horsley passed away yesterday. Here, John Robb remembers his encounters with the outrageous wit and artist

The Most Powerful Man In America: The Godfather At 50

The worlds of the Mafia and American politics are inseparable – and Francis Ford Coppola knew this when making The Godfather 50 years ago, with crime poisoning every echelon of society, finds Sam Moore

L.A. Existential: Rampart Reviewed

Co-scripted by James Ellroy, the second film from writer/director Oren Moverman (Oscar-nominated for 2009's The Messenger) stars Woody Harrelson and a heavyweight supporting cast in a fictional character study set amid the actual corruption of the late '90s LAPD. Our Walthamstow crime correspondent Steve Jelbert investigates

WATCH: Eccentronic Research Council

Homage to the 400th anniversary of the Pendle Witch trials - watch new video below

Classified X: Race & Kings Of Leon’s ‘Radioactive’ Video

"Woah-ho! This cross is on fire" Kings Of Leon's new video for 'Radioactive' flirts with dangerous aspects of racial stereotyping, argues John Tatlock

Verfreundungseffekt: Make The Call – Translation As Afterlife/Reincarnation

The latest instalment of Jen Calleja's Verfreundungseffekt column puts into play a game of Chinese Whispers on a poem by Sam Riviere — with help from Chrissy Williams, Laura Tenschert, Livia Franchini and Jack Underwood — considering the value and the possibilities of translating a translation, flipping Walter Benjamin the bird in the process. (Illustration by Richard Phœnix)

Moving Mountains: Green Man Festival 2021 Reviewed

Long one of the UK's finest festivals, even by its own lofty standards Green Man's triumphant 2021 return is an edition for the ages, find Patrick Clarke and Julian Marszalek

Simon Jablonski’s Weekly Independent Cinema Reviews Column

This week, Simon casts his expert eye over Sweetgrass, T33D, Beautiful Liverpool and Taxi Zum Klo

Rammstein: Industrial Immolation Live In Manchester

Flamethrowers, exploding babies and a sonic apocalypse: John Robb proclaims Rammstein's current tour the greatest show you will see this year

4 Years Ahead Of His Time: Stewart Lee & Michael Cumming On The Nightingales

Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming are making a film about Robert Lloyd and the Nightingales. Neil Fox caught up with them at this year's Sea Change Festival to see how they're getting along

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...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness

Gene Genie: Why Playing A Gig In A Shopping Centre Brings Kiss Alive

It might not be the original line-up, but Jimmy Martin is still in thrall to the ridiculous might of Kiss at their recent Islington Academy gig

Branchage Festival Preview: Amiina On The Animation of Lotte Reiniger

Icelandic Sigur Ros collaborators Amiina will be soundtracking the films of animator Lotte Reiniger at this weekend's Branchage International Film Festival. Maria Sigfúsdóttir tells us more

Hope And Repulsion: The Quietus At Field Day 2016

Braving the mud for the festival's tenth anniversary — and with performances from PJ Harvey, Holly Herndon, Skepta and Fat White Family — Luke Turner, Lottie Brazier, William Doyle, Laurie Tuffrey, Emily Mackay, Glen Mcleod, Christian Eede and Julian Marszalek get stuck in to one of the UK's most varied and exciting festival bills. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini)