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Development Hell: High-Rise Reviewed

John Grindrod surveys Ben Wheatley's adaptation of JG Ballard's classic dystopian novel

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New album a corker too

Flash Bang Wallop: The Grandmaster Interviewed

Grandmaster Flash may have a rep as an unstoppable egotist (who wouldn't be under the circumstances?) but John Doran found him to be good company

Deeper Shadows: An Interview With Jaakko Eino Kalevi

The prolific Finnish multi-instrumentalist has left behind his job as a part-time tram driver to produce one of the best pop albums of the year. With the record out this week and a London gig imminent, he talks to Laurie Tuffrey

The Strange World Of… Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke

Jeremy Allen talks to the Einstürzende Neubauten mainstay about early forays into electronic and industrial as well as drunken country and western plus an album inspired by the joys of Blackpool. All photographs courtesy Alexander Hacke

“It’s Not Easy Listening”: Thirty Years Of Pure Fucking Mayhem

On their 30th anniversary - with an appearance at Oya Festival booked and a new album ready for release - John Doran looks beyond the murder, the suicide, the extremism and the immolation, and talks to Mayhem's founder Necrobutcher about their radical music and nothing else

Mary Halvorson

About Ghosts

The New England guitarist beefs up her ensemble for a stunning suite of modern jazz instrumentals

Kling Klang

Half Life

Kling Klang’s latest is gritty, bassy and stuffed to the gills with unusual synths from the get go

The Atoms That Made Us: Manic Street Preachers Interviewed

Nicky Wire tells Patrick Clarke how insecurity, glitzy 70s pop and the loss of his parents influenced Manic Street Preachers' new album The Ultra-Vivid Lament

Into The Ryanverse: Tom Clancy’s Tom Clancy

Author Tom Clancy gained fame and broad recognition for his creation of the character Jack Ryan. But perhaps his greatest creation was Tom Clancy himself, argues Chris Fite-Wassilak

Romantic Trauma: Andrzej Zulawski Remembered

Agata Pyzik remembers the inflammatory Polish director, who died last week.

Taylor Swift

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