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Spool’s Out: Your Tape Cassette Release Roundup For June

Beatless techno, dub concrète, a sonic rock garden and sad gabber are among this month's best tape releases, picked by Tristan Bath

Sometimes They Just Want The Heavy Stuff: Baby In Vain Interviewed

Ahead of their appearance at Roskilde Festival next week, Lola Hammerich, the guitarist and singer of Copenhagen trio Baby In Vain, speaks to Jamie Walker about writing death into music, almost losing fingertips, and why London is a dangerous place to be a touring musician

Alan Braufman

Valley of Search

Essential, accessible and masterful free jazz, reissued after 43 years

Ring The Alarm: DJ Haram Interviewed

Ahead of an appearance at Wysing Arts Centre's annual day festival in September, Discwoman's DJ Haram speaks to Kristen Gallerneaux and Bernie Brooks about the scene in her base of Philadelphia and linking up with Moor Mother and the Discwoman collective

We Got This: Let’s Eat Grandma’s I’m All Ears

Walton and Hollingworth’s second album is a richly chaotic collection of warped weirdo pop

Urchins Livin’ Under The Street: Adelle Stripe On The Prime Of Guns N’ Roses

Like a throbbing, yowling time capsule, this wildly completist package of Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction is almost enough to send you back to their ferocious, feral, filthy heyday

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

In This #Problematic Age, Where Is The Millennial Novel?

Difficult times require difficult writing argues Nathalie Olah as she asks why publishing houses seem to be producing a stream of safe novels by the same sort of writer, ignoring the important voices of the day

Project Pablo

There’s Always More at the Store

The modern house demon explores fresh territory

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Roundup For June & July

Hot high-decibel oiks to keep you sweaty right through summer. Clammy vibes provided by Slumb Party, Regional Justice Center, Fetish and more

How did a Major Label Manage to Lose a John Coltrane Record?

The story behind the newly discovered 1963 recordings, released this week, helps us to hear the music and to understand how Coltrane reshaped jazz

It Ain’t That Deep Either Way: Your Massive Midsummer Pop Roundup

Crying, sighing and swooning on a clammy sunny day, with Clairo, Troye Sivan, Charli XCX, BTS, Ajia and more of our midsummer pop picks

Junk Shop Classical On Clara Schumann: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Clara Schumann had one of the most extraordinary lives in 19th century music, says Phil Hebblethwaite. Against the odds, she made it as a pianist, and she ought to have been recognised as a great composer too

A Lark Ascending: Karl Bielik On Painting And Process

Hannah Luxton talks to painter and musician Karl Bielik about connections between his art work and his music

Moviedrone: This Month’s Finest Film Soundtracks, Reviewed

Charlie Brigden casts his expert eye over new soundtrack releases by the likes of Hildur Guðnadóttir, Cliff Martinez, John Powell, John Williams, and Daniel Pemberton

Behold! June’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With dark tales for sunny times, it’s June’s round up of comics from Pete Redrup & co

She Do The Police In Different Voices: Gazelle Twin Interviewed

Ahead of this weekend’s debut performance of Pastoral at Supersonic Festival in Birmingham, Elizabeth Bernholz aka Gazelle Twin talks to John Doran about a vibrant psychic vision of English fascism and the devastating energy of motherhood

Ricarda Cometa

Ricarda Cometa 2

A revelation outta thin air, courtesy of this dazzlingly trigonometrical spritz of minimal rock clang from Buenos Aires

Pusha T

Daytona

The best (probably) of Kanye's Wyoming projects, a short sharp album with mystery at its heart

The Quietus’ Top 40 Books About Music

From New Orleans rap to noughties New York rock, via krautrock, jazz, riot grrrl and the story of political pop, we asked Quietus contributors to pick out forty of the finest music books ever written

Utopian Dreaming: Free Love Interview & New Video

Just before premiering their brand new video for single ‘Synchronicity’ here and heading out to play some UK festival dates, Free Love, the girlfriend/ boyfriend synthpop duo of Lewis Cook and Suzi Rodden, FKA Happy Meals, lounged on the grass in a Glasgow park with Claire Sawers and talked clean buzzes, future utopias and why it was time for a new name

Making Space: Kamasi Washington’s Heaven & Earth

The tenor saxophonist and bandleader expands into new terrestrial and celestial places, drawing from rich seams of funk, soul, hip-hop and free jazz

Rainbow Selection: The Muppets’ Favourite LPs

As The Muppets head to London for a giant live extravaganza, Kermit, Miss Piggy, Animal, Gonzo et all give us a run through of their favourite albums! Plus a guide to the musical history of the crew by Rory Phillips

Bonnacons Of Doom

Bonnacons of Doom

The bonnacon was a mythical beast from the Middle Ages which defended itself from pursuers by spraying caustic faeces out of its furry anus

Surgeon / Manni Dee

Luminosity Device / The Residue

Warm, hectic, pummeling, meditative: on Surgeon's Luminosity Device and Manni Dee's The Residue

SOPHIE

Oil Of Every Pearl’s Un-Insides

Gnashing textures grapple with surreal top 40 sparkle on pop surgeon's latest

The Strange World Of… Charles Hayward

Cologne had Can and Jaki Liebezeit, South London had This Heat and Charles Hayward. Sean Kitching talks to the THINTH, Camberwell Now, Massacre and Monkey Puzzle Trio, drummer, singer and songwriter ahead of his performance at this weekend's Supersonic Festival in Birmingham

Jon Hassell

Listening To Pictures

Jay Rock

Redemption

What He Does With What He Has: Blawan Interviewed

In 2012, Jamie Roberts, AKA Blawan, was poised on the verge of breaking through to a mainstream that he wasn't sure he wanted any part of and then fate intervened in the form of a life-threatening illness. On the release of his debut album Wet Will Always Dry, he talks to John Doran about how this ended up being a blessing in disguise

Why Everything Is Love Is Tidal’s Last Desperate Throw Of The Dice

This weekend, Jay-Z and Beyoncé released joint album Everything Is Love exclusively via their Tidal platform. But with the record already on Spotify, Eamonn Forde argues that this is yet another vain lunge by the 1% and a platform that is failing to take off

Sink Ya Teeth

Sink Ya Teeth