Chris Taylor

Things Learned At: Dockville

Andy Thomas travels to Hamburg to the Sommer Festival at the Kampnagel Theatre and MS Dockville at Wilhelmsburg Island on the Elbe River. Here are some things he learned about naked experimental theatre, radical art, ballet and Thurston Moore being ace. Photos by Pablo Heimplatz

Tripping With Good Weirdos: An Interview With Midday Veil

Joseph Stannard catches up with the Seattle cosmic voyagers to talk recording in extraterrestrial-inspired geodesic domes, cathartic improvisation and the city's current musical community

Franz Ferdinand

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action

The Strange And Frightening World Of . . . Fabric’s First 100

To celebrate the recent 100th release from Fabric (that's 50 each for its live and mix series) we look back on some of their best mixes. There's a bundle of ten albums up for grabs too

Platonic Ideals: Michael Pedersen On Boy Friends & Missing Scott Hutchison

Michael Pedersen's Boy Friends is a book about male friendships – especially the author's friendship with Scott Hutchison of Frightened Rabbit. He talks to Becca Inglis about art, language and opening up

Aiming For Epic: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> Reviewed

Erin Lyndal Martin weighs up the pros and cons of recasting the epic in this latest work from Canadian poet Anne Carson, follow-up to her acclaimed Autobiography of Red

Reissue Of The Week: Wolf Eyes V/A – Difficult Messages

A compilation dredged together from a series of private press recordings of the core Wolf Eyes crew collaborating with friends is the perfect weird prism through which to examine the lockdown period we've just been through, says Daryl Worthington

Sight Lines & Separations: Recording Killing Joke’s Debut Album

Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut

Peer Review: Rachel Cantor & Jeremy P. Bushnell On Their Debut Novels

In a head-to-head interview, Rachel Cantor and Jeremy P. Bushnell - candidates, even at this early stage, for producing two of the most exciting novels of 2014 - discuss their own, and each other's mind-bending new books

Last Thrash: Metallica’s Master of Puppets Revisited

John Ridpath re-assesses Metallica's finest fifty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds

Not All Men: Sex And Power In Last Night In Soho

Edgar Wright centres women for the first time in his ode to 1960s London, but maybe he shouldn't have – this feminism is bleak and insulting, finds Ella Kemp

Roll With It: Sir Bradley Wiggins On His Life In Music

Luke Turner was unable to convince Sir Bradley Wiggins that Kraftwerk were synth-wielding mods, but here the Tour De France and Olympic cycling champion talks about his love of music, and how Liam Gallagher inspired him in his youth

You Don’t Have To Rob A Bank: The Roots Of Peter Rehberg

By the time the late Peter Rehberg was at secondary school, his appetite for noisy mischief-making was already well established. John Eden, who was in the year below, remembers his youthful guide into far-out sounds

Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Peter Margasak reviews this month's most notable jazz releases while noting that many of this music's finest practitioners are increasingly rejecting this genre tag as a racist mechanism designed to keep them in a fixed place

Martin Duffy’s Son Criticises Primal Scream In Inquest Letter

Keyboard player Duffy, who died in December, was "not able to cope" after being cut out of rights deals and tours

Radio-Activity V: In Praise Of Mary Anne Hobbs

Jude Rogers tunes in to the new weekend breakfast show from Mary Anne Hobbs, and finds a wonderful antidote to the blokey shouting of weekday mornings