Sean Guthrie

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain for July

Bristolian screwjobs, rattling bootlegs retooled in Sheffield and London's most extreme outliers - our bi-monthly round-up of the real stuff returns

Psychedelic Brilliance: The Marvelous Origin Of The Teardrop Explodes

Seldom has a band name been quite so evocative as that of Liverpool's The Teardrop Explodes. Here, band members and associates recall how that name's "psychedelic brilliance" was first unearthed from the pages of an old Marvel comic book

Bark Psychosis: Gazelle Twin Speaks About New Album Black Dog

Elizabeth Bernholz talks to Emma Garland about facing fundamental fears, her childhood experiences with spectral visitors and what ghosts really represent. Her brand new video for 'Fear Keeps Us Alive' is below. All portraits by Teri Varhol

Sune Rose Wagner Of The Raveonettes On Fine Wine

The Raveonettes sing of crushed and fermented grape on their new album _In And Out Of Control_. Here, Sune talks about his love affair with wine. Bottoms up!

Strong & Stable My Arse: The Ephemera Of Jeremy Deller

With a show of Deller’s posters opening at Glasgow’s Modern Institute, John Quin looks at three decades of the artist’s slyly subversive interventions

The Month’s Electronic Music: Taking Stock

In this month's edition of our electronic music column Hyperspecific, Christian Eede looks back at some of the best mixes the year so far has had to offer, while also reviewing new releases from LAPS (pictured), D. Tiffany and Klaus amongst others

Ligeti Quartet x Anna Meredith

Nuc

An album of buzzing, bubbling string quartets by Anna Meredith, performed by the Ligeti Quartet

Howls From The Soul: Bobby Gillespie’s Favourite Albums

After the release of Primal Scream's eleventh album, Chaosmosis, the singer boils his record collection down to a mean 13, a selection that formed his "own private world" while he was growing up in Glasgow

tQ Presents: My Disco

The mighty trio are joined by Hannah Sawtell at Corsica Studios this May

Evidently Chicken Supreme: John Cooper Clarke’s Favourite Songs

Performance poet, style icon and broadcaster John Cooper Clarke tells Alex Burrows about his most-loved songs of all time and growing up during the birth of rock & roll. Portrait by Paul Wolfgang Webster.

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore For September By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner once again brandishes the HC secateurs, leaving the punk rock topiary exquisitely shaped and ready for your appraisal

Bow To The Devilish Prince: James Chance Interviewed

Zoë Street Howe talks to James Chance about his new retrospective collection _Twist Your Soul_ and his relationships with James Brown and Lydia Lunch

Me Lost Me

RPG

From Newcastle, via Upset the Rhythm, Jayne Dent explores folk art and futurism to spellbinding effect, finds Jared Dix

Hudson Mohawke

Satin Panthers

Writing Yourself Into Existence: Tunde Adebimpe And Doseone Discuss Nevermen

The TV On The Radio singer and Anticon rapper tell Kiran Acharya about recording Nevermen, their project with Faith No More's Mike Patton, the role of the frontman and Boards Of Canada's love of stuffed animals

Lucrecia Dalt To Release Score For New Comedy Horror Series

The 28-piece release explores, in Dalt's own words, "weird voices, bodily sounds and throat singing"