Children of the mushroom

The Blue Note legend is not based on distinctive artwork alone. Alfred Lion and Francis Wolff, the company’s founders, cared enough about quality to...

By way of tribute to Andrew Weatherall, whose death was confirmed earlier today, I thought I’d post my interview with him for our Audience...

A classic interview from the Uncut archives

The director talks glaciers, No Wave and The Sons Of Lee Marvin

Julian Cope and co.'s second is an overlooked classic...

"They're bad people, they deserve to be punished," notes one character in Ben Wheatley’s second film, Kill List.

If, as internet speculation and promo footage imply, “Tomorrow’s Harvest” has a Cold War/atomic age subtext, Boards Of Canada’s focus is, as ever, long-range and aesthetic: less on the actual devastation wrought by nuclear weapons, more on nebulous creep and on the terrible beauty of a mushroom cloud when observed from a relatively safe distance. It’s a potentially glib way of toying with signifiers: Armageddon as nature documentary.