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Infallible: Where Did Son Of Bazerk Go Wrong?

In the latest of his stellar hip hop retrospectives, Angus Batey looks back at one of rap's great lost albums, Bazerk, Bazerk, Bazerk, asking where did they go wrong and where are they today?

Black To Con: The Nice Guys Reviewed

Matt Packer revels in the assault and battery of Shane Black's latest dysfunctional bromance

And If You Need An Explanation: Manic Street Preachers interviewed

In 1996, Manic Street Preachers released Everything Must Go, the million-selling album that restarted their career after the trauma of losing Richey Edwards. Simon Price meets James Dean Bradfield and Nicky Wire on the record's 20th anniversary to get the rationale behind the nostalgia, their memories of recording it, and the ultimate track-by-track guide to the album itself

Stian Westerhus

Amputation

City Yelps

The City Yelps Half Hour

Lead Review: Karl Smith On Gold Panda’s Good Luck And Do Your Best

Listening to Gold Panda's Japan-inspired fourth studio album Good Luck And Do Your Best, Karl Smith finds not only a more sensitive, atmospheric reflection of the country's cultures than some in recent memory, but also a dream-like landscape that points toward a second source of inspiration

Heavenly Music: An Interview With T’ien Lai

With the highly prolific Jakub Ziolek, of long-term Quietus favourites Stara Rzeka and Innercity Ensemble, now working on his electronics project, he tells Lucia Udvardyova about music and politics, memory and forgetting

Melanie De Biasio

Blackened Cities

Bear Necessities: Gold Panda’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his third album, Good Luck And Do Your Best, Derwin talks to John Freeman about the 13 albums, from Michael Jackson to the Akira soundtrack, that helped shape his Gold Panda project

Giuda: The Glam And The Sass That Goes With It

Jim Fry of The Pre-New shares his love for mighty Italian glam rock bovver boys, Giuda in this new band feature cum (on feel the noize) live review

Coil Interview & Extract From England’s Hidden Reverse

The American writer Derek de Koff got in touch with us recently to offer us this rarely seen or read Coil interview (with John Balance and Peter Christopherson) from 2001. And we've also got a long extract from David Keenan's excellent England's Hidden Reverse on the narcotic and artistic influences on Love's Secret Doman. Thanks to Luke Cartledge & Mark Pilkington

May’s Best Music, Chosen By The Quietus

In the second instalment of this undeniably consummate column, Quietus staff pick their favourite albums, EPs, tracks and reissues of the month, shining a light on things we've not managed to cover on the site and nodding toward a handful of the best of what's already been reviewed

Under Siege: An Interview With Tangerines

Before they play Field Day next month, the London-based four-piece tell Julian Marszalek why their songs are driven by the struggle of making music in the capital in the face of escalating rents and zero security

Full Clip: May’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed By Gary Suarez

With summer rapidly approaching, now’s the time to start building a durable rap soundtrack to the sunny days and desperate nights, says Gary Suarez

Behold! May’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With some brilliant small press and anthology work from the UK, Europe and the USA, plus mysterious dispatches from Pantherland, it’s May’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & co.

A Devil With The Detail: Joe Coleman Interviewed

With his latest work recently unveiled at Jeffrey Deitch’s Unrealism show in Miami, painter and performance artist Joe Coleman speaks to Sean Kitching about art, autopsies, and explosions

The Flipside Of Technology: Cory Arcangel Interviewed

With a new show open at London’s Lisson Gallery, Cory Arcangel discusses music, nostalgia, clickbait and trash

Austentatious: Love And Friendship Reviewed

Patrick Gamble reviews Whit Stillman's new Jane Austen adaptation, out in cinemas now.

The Last Hurrah Or The New Normal? Radiohead Live

Joe Banks went to see Radiohead live on Thursday night and witnessed a band who were fitter, happier and altogether more relaxed than they have been for years. Gallery of live pictures courtesy of Valerio Berdini

Pedro Soler & Gaspar Claus

Al Viento

ABC

The Lexicon Of Love 2

Manic Street Preachers

Everything Must Go (Reissue)

An Unexpected Journey: Elijah Wood’s Favourite Albums

As his new film The Trust hits the cinemas, actor, movie producer and DJ Elijah Wood tells us about 13 albums that have blown him away at various points in his life

Where When: Malcolm Le Grice And Cinema History

Ahead of an evening of his work at the BFI Southbank tonight, William Fowler looks back at the work of experimental British filmmaker and performer Malcolm Le Grice

A Universal Language: Owiny Sigoma Band Interviewed

Tara Joshi hears about the ongoing excellence of the group's "big experiment", overcoming the death of their percussionist and taking their hybrid of East African traditional music and electronica back to Kenya

Lead Review: Amelia Phillips On Klara Lewis’ Too

Digging into Klara Lewis' second full-length, Amelia Phillips finds an artist balanced on the knife edge of internal/external experience, and a musical narrative that puts the listener at the subjective forefront even as it details and abstracts the objectivity of the physical world around it

From The Lighthouse: Kristoffer Lo Interviewed

Kristoffer Lo recorded his new album of tuba and flugabone drones in a lighthouse out at sea during a storm. And it's great, says John Doran, who interviewed him recently

Raw Takes: Richard Fearless’s Favourite Tracks

Before the release of their sixth album this week and appearance at Atonal in Berlin this August, the Death In Vegas head honcho, producer and DJ scours the fruits of his record-collecting history and picks 13 tracks that have informed Transmission for Joe Clay

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May With Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath rounds up all of the essential cassette releases from homemade mechanical techno to a sonic portrait of Preston. Laurie Tompkins video still by Joel Wycherley

Michael Tanner

Suite for Psaltery And Dulcimer

Time Is Elastic: An Interview With Selvhenter

Wreaking destruction on musical idioms through their harsh approach to group composition, the Danish five-piece are the band you wish all those working under the banner of 'heavy music' were like, says Danny Riley