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PREVIEW: Cork Film Festival

We take a look at some of the potential highlights in store for this year's Cork Film Festival

LCD Soundsystem And More To Play Sónar 2018

LCD Soundsystem, Gorillaz and Helena Hauff amongst first acts confirmed for 2018's edition of Sónar

Now The Workers Have Struck For Fame – David Bowie As Political Figure

In the wake of David Bowie's death, some have rushed to 'expose' the 'problematic' nature of some of his political views and aesthetics. But, argues Agata Pyzik, the true picture was far more complex and nuanced

Why Study Art When You Can Make It: The Strange World Of… This Heat

40 years after This Heat’s debut performance Charles Bullen and Charles Hayward are playing together for the first time since 1982 at London’s Café Oto. To celebrate we look at their fresh and forceful music that proved to be so far ahead of its time. All band photographs by Lesley Evans, courtesy of This Heat

INTERVIEW: The Necks

To mark the Australian improvisation luminaries announcing European tour dates in April, we get a look at a full-length video of their set in Copenhagen last October and talk to the band's Lloyd Swanton

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I Thought It Was Us But It Was All Of Us

The Human Machine: Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Interviewed

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects

La Route Du Rock: My Bloody Valentine And The Jolie Laide Festival

L'Homme Du Hackney, Jeremy Allen, recently took the ferry to France and the Route Du Rock festival. MBV pictures, Maria Jefferis/shot2bits.net

The Anomalous Life & Death Of A Motorhead: Ian Winwood On Lemmy

Enjoy this excerpt from Ian Winwood's new book, Bodies, concerning the often unchallenged unhealthiness of the music industry

Sunn O))) Share Unreleased Track On Benefit Compilation

'Shut It Down: Benefit For The Movement For Black Lives' is available from today via Bandcamp

New Mute Records Book Announced

A new book that aims to be the definitive visual chronicle of the much-loved label is released next month

The Rural Juror: Richard Dawson’s The Ruby Cord

Richard Dawson goes down to the woods. You're sure for a big surprise, finds Darran Anderson

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Codes / Early Singles (1981–1982)

A collection of the early work from the German post-punks is released in the same week as the first solo album by the group's former frontwoman. Laviea Thomas investigates…

Talent Not Gender: Babes In Toyland At Beaches Brew

Minnesotan power trio Babes in Toyland have reunited for their first dates in 20 years, encountering fans old and new in the UK, Europe and the USA. Kiran Acharya meets Maureen Herman and Lori Barbero in Italy to find a band – and festival – worth celebrating. Photography by Francesca Sara Cauli