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There Is No Ending: The Strange World of… Arab Strap

Two decades since the release of their debut single, 'The First Big Weekend' – and 10 years since they called it a day – Arab Strap are back with a handful of reunion shows, and a new compilation. They give Nicola Meighan a guided tour of their favourite singles, furthest-flung rarities and bizarrest 'self-destructive ideas'

Dead Man Touring: Mikael Åkerfeldt Of Opeth Interviewed

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin talks to legendary death metal mainstay turned heavy progressive rocker, Mikael Åkerfeldt, about death, rebirth and creative regeneration

The City At Night: Acid Arab Interviewed

Before they release their debut LP and play London at Mosaiques festival, the Paris-based duo tell David McKenna how the record, made with a host of Middle Eastern and North African collaborators, reflects France today

Still Corners

Dead Blue

Their Songs Deserve To Be Heard: Moddi’s Index Of Censorship

Wyndham Wallace talks to Pål Moddi Knutsen about protest, principles, and his brand new album of banned music, Unsongs

Spool’s Out: September In Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath

Every day is Cassette Store Day in Tristan Bath’s house, so as usual he’s seen fit to hand pick the best recent tape releases, including banging beats, vintage cha cha samples, lo-fi folk and a ‘symphony of noise’

El Perro del Mar

KoKoro

State Of Tension: Tomaga Interviewed

Following the release of their second album, the London-based duo talk to Fred Bowler about how live performance, the luxury of forethought and the scrap metal of Tuscany all had a role to play on The Shape Of The Dance

Wrekmeister Harmonies

Light Falls

Capital Offences: Fat White Family Versus Zombie Urbanism

After Fat White Family's whopping homecoming gig at Brixton Academy on Saturday, Anna Wood considers sex, rage and zombie urbanism

Ancestral Register: Shabaka Hutchings Interviewed

Stewart Smith talks to the prodigious and prolific saxophonist, clarinettist and composer Shabaka Hutchings of The Ancestors, Comet Is Coming, Melt Yourself Down and Sons Of Kemet

Uriah Heep

Your Turn to Remember: The Definitive Anthology 1970–1990

Behold! September’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

You can be lonely on the moon or the earth, but there’s always a chance of redemption in September’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & co

Emerging Artists And New Scenes: Exploring The Start Art Fair

The Saatchi Gallery’s fledgling art fair returns for a second year, with performances from Hackney Wick and sculptures from Taipei

The Language Of Flowers: Dorothea Tanning At Alison Jacques

The Flower Paintings of Dorothea Tanning bring to mind one of the greatest mysteries in the history of the book trade

Dante’s Pick: Director Joe Dante Selects His 13 Favourite Films

To coincide with the release of his cult classic Matinee on Blu-Ray, the director of Gremlins, The Burbs and Explorers, Joe Dante, picks a Baker's Dozen of his favourite films for The Quietus

Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani

Sunergy

Luke Turner On Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Skeleton Tree

In the sixteenth full-length recording from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Luke Turner finds perhaps their most perfect musical expression of horror, its realism and sense of inevitability overpowering usual tendencies toward the baroque, and a powerful lesson in empathy

Sharp Dressed Fan: Billy Gibbons Of ZZ Top’s Favourite Albums

As ZZ Top take their live greatest hits album on tour, their lead singer and guitarist Billy Gibbons talks Kiran Acharya through his top 13 LPs, setting aside some of his more well-worn classics in favour of recent favourites

A Flow Of Playfulness: An Interview With Laniakea

Laniakea’s debut album, a collaboration between Grumbling Fur’s Daniel O’Sullivan and Zu’s Massimo Pupillo, is devoted to the artist Ian Johnstone, whose untimely passing also saw the end of the London refuge where the LP was recorded. They tell Russell Cuzner how the life and location the record laments created an ascendant work at once both elegiac and joyous

La Femme

Mystère

North Sea Radio Orchestra

Dronne

Late Junction Sessions: Unpopular Music

Various Artists

The Wheal Thing: Aphex Twin’s Alternative Cornish Language

From the myth of the methane princess to a reflection of Cornwall's rich history of radiocommunications, his home county permeates the music of Richard D James far more than as a cultural backwater, says Laura Snapes

Orchestrating The Sunrise: Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Suzanne Ciani Interviewed

Before electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani and fellow Buchla synth enthusiast Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith release their new LP, they tell Danny Riley about nature, synaesthesia and the sensory qualities of Sean Connery's voice

30 Years On: Pixies’ Trompe Le Monde Revisited

30 years on from Pixies’ “swan song", Brian Coney revisits Trompe Le Monde

Underground Tehran: Techno & Experimental Electronic Music In Iran

Mollie Zhang speaks to Ash Koosha, Sote, Hadi Bastani and Siavash Amini about the electronic underground in the Iranian capital, how scenes can be nurtured in a difficult environment, brain raves, and the similarities and differences between Tehran and London

Liberation Music: Terrie Ex & Thurston Moore Live At Incubate

The spirit of punk rock is not to be found in obscure band T-shirts, screaming distortion, authentic sounding lyrics or pedal boards, argues John Doran. The real fireworks are created by nakedness and a true philosophy of liberation

Gonjasufi

Callus

The Big Texan: Paranoia, Crime, and Metal Cowboys

In an altered extract from his book, Heavy: A Memoir of Wyoming, BMX, Drugs, and Heavy Fucking Music, J.J. Anselmi recounts the time a stolen U-Haul trailer led down a spiral of crime and metal cowboys

Artist Run: Taking Sound Art Further At Frequente, Milan

Craft/Work explores a Milanese organisation dedicated to sound art through research and practice, run by Nicola Ratti, Attila Faravelli, Enrico Malatesta, and Gaia Martino

Angelo Badalamenti

Twin Peaks Original Score