Daniel Patrick Quinn

Can The BBC’s Luther Challenge The American Crime Hegemony?

As The Wire's Idris Elba stars in BBC1's Luther, can his new show compete with the US box set brigade?

I Feel Lang: Giorgio Moroder’s Metropolis Reassessed

Giorgio Moroder's MTV-era version of the 1927 sci-fi landmark is finally available on DVD in the UK. Stephen Dalton takes another look

Some Thoughts On ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror In Asbury Park New Jersey

Luke went to New Jersey for ATP and was once again melted by Swans. But America, why you not dancing? Images thanks to Abby Braden

North Sea Scrolls: Coughlan, Haines, Mueller Present New History

Messrs Luke Haines, Cathal Coughlan and Andrew Mueller are currently chasing Hawkwind's hot air balloon to the Edinburgh Festival in search of the true history of Britain. Ben Graham investigates. Portraits by Al Overdrive

Raphael Rogiński 

Talán

Polish guitarist seeks inspiration along the Black Sea’s coastlines for his latest set of haunted blues meditations

The Noise And How To Bring It: Hank Shocklee Interviewed

John Tatlock speaks to Hank Shocklee about key Public Enemy productions and other sonic innovations

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For April

Do you feel lucky punk? Well do you? That's good, because Noel Gardner is back with more of the stuff you love. Home page photo: Romero

YĪN YĪN

Mount Matsu

Dutch psych-funk quartet make up in experimental flourishes what they lack in grit, finds Jeremy Allen

Designed To Kill: James Chance & Melt Yourself Down’s Pete Wareham

Before they share a stage at London's Village Underground this Wednesday, the no wave luminary and Melt Yourself Down's bandleader and saxophonist discuss compositional processes, influences and lyrical approaches

Billy Childish

Archive From 1959

FKA Twigs Shares New Short Film, ‘We Are The Womxn’

The video was filmed around the UK artist's trip to Atlanta's Afropunk festival last year

Morality Play: Insecure Men Interviewed

Saul Adamczewski of Insecure Men and Fat Whites talks to John Doran about wholesome projects, sonic wrongness and his superb new album.

The Little Battle Of The Big Horn: Colin Stetson Interviewed

John Doran talks to Colin Stetson - the sax-wielding creator of New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges, one of our albums of the year so far - about copping flak from the jazz community and apocalyptic feelings

Evil Blizzard

Everybody Come To Church

The Buggles

Adventures In Modern Recording

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