Max Pilley

Still House Plants

If i don’t make it, i love u

For their third album, the London via Glasgow trio trawl through their teenage idols and smash them all to pieces, finds Hayley Scott

Neurosis

Honor Found In Decay

Sort Out Your Psyche! Mikey Georgeson Discusses The Civilised Scene

Aug Stone chats to The Civilised Scenester about pop music's relation to the unconscious, mystical moustaches, and Making Blackberry Crumble For Change

A Blank Page Gives Me Freedom: Orhan Pamuk Interviewed

The Turkish Nobel Literature Laureate speaks in-depth to Kevin Perry about his reluctant role as the voice of a generation

It Started With Prince: The Soft Moon Interviewed

Friend of The Quietus and New Young Pony Club singer Ty Bulmer talks to The Soft Moon about spirituality and Prince

INTERVIEW: Alexis Taylor

Ahead of his DJ set at Kitsuné's French Kiss Party this weekend, we catch up with the Hot Chip man

WITCH

Zango

WITCH's first album in 39 years may be the freshest and most psychedelic album the Zamrock legends have ever produced, finds Cal Cashin

First Names For Stewart Lee’s ATP

Sleaford Mods, Bordeoms and Shirley Collins & Ian Kearey among first names announced for next year's ATP curated by Stewart Lee

The xx: New Album Announced

Coexist for release on September 10th. Photo by Jamie-James Medina.

Scene And Not Heard: Jesse Rifkin’s Playlist For NYC’s Lost Music Spaces

The new book by Jesse Rifkin, *This Must Be the Place* tracks the rise and fall of music scenes and the places that gave them succour. In his author playlist, he picks out 11 key tracks that exemplify those scenes, from the Greenwich Village folk revival to early 00s Brooklyn noise-rock, via loft jazz, punk rock, hip hop and more

Ian MacKaye At New Glasgow Festival

Fugazi frontman to answer questions as part of film screening

Straight Outta Salford: The Non-Poetry Of Shaun Ryder

A new book collects the lyrics of the Happy Mondays and Black Grape, reconextualising Shaun Ryder’s gritty urban realism – just don’t call it poetry

And If You Need An Explanation: Manic Street Preachers interviewed

In 1996, Manic Street Preachers released Everything Must Go, the million-selling album that restarted their career after the trauma of losing Richey Edwards. Simon Price meets James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on the record's 20th anniversary to get the rationale behind the nostalgia, their memories of recording it, and the ultimate track-by-track guide to the album itself

Soccer96

As Above So Below

Dam And Blast: Night Moves Reviewed

Gary Green goes enviro-mental over director Kelly Reichardt's latest

Gaz Coombes

Matador