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Laniakea

A Pot Of Powdered Nettles

Funereal Pyre: An Interview With Ghold

With the former "weight and grunt power duo" now expanded to a three-piece, they tell Jack Boyce about honing their brand of heavyweight, psychedelically-tinged sludge on their third album, PYR

The Golden Age Is Now: The Strange World Of Kavus Torabi

Kavus Torabi talks Sean Kitching through ten highlights from his bewildering career in music

Alistair Fruish On The Sentence & Alan Moore Art

John Doran speaks to Alistair Fruish about his 46,000 word, one sentence novel and learns about an Alan Moore artwork on sale on eBay today...

Thomas Cohen

Bloom Forever

Konono No. 1

Konono No.1 Meets Batida

The Month’s Electronic Music: Finding Connections

For the second edition of Hyperspecific for this year, Christian Eede looks at how London's clubbers lack connections with the city's club spaces while also reviewing releases from Avalon Emerson (pictured), Blawan, Bruce and more

Mancunian Moon Dog: Paddy Steer interviewed

Daniel Baker talks to North Western musical maverick Paddy Steer about the importance of making your own costumes and designing the arse controlled wah wah pedal

Bye Bye Space Boy: Conceptual Art In Britain

At Tate Britain’s new Conceptual Art in Britain show, Craft/Work finds plenty to sing about

That Creeping Feeling: R. Crumb’s Art & Beauty

At David Zwirner's gallery in London, Suzie McCracken finds issue with the work of R. Crumb

Anohni

Hopelessness

Revenge Of The Auteur: Nymphomaniac’s Musical Miscellany

John Wadsworth examines director Lars Von Trier's use of music in 2013's Nymphomaniac. This article contains spoilers.

Columnfortably Numb: May In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

JR Moores presents the best recent psych-rock records, from Bridgend bedroom bubblers to creaky Italian mystics and asks us to reacquaint ourselves with the mighty Hawkwind...

Lead Review: Tristan Bath On Jessy Lanza’s Oh No

Tristan Bath looks into the sparsely populated world of Jessy Lanza's Oh No, finding a record that manages to be insular without narcissism, that nods to history without being consumed by it, and that's swathed in the light of pop without bowing to its darker contemporary failings

You Might Just Be An Unwitting Apologist For Racism If…!

Impecunious music critic David Bennun is plotting a career change into stand up comedy and asked us if he could try out his new routine on you, our readers. As it's sunny out we decided to give him the floor...

Katy B

Honey

In The Moment: An Interview With Weaves

John Freeman meets Weaves in their hometown of Toronto to find out why their brand of "freak-ass" pop was inspired by a desire to be the band that provides parental irritation while simultaneously celebrating the present

Howls From The Soul: Bobby Gillespie’s Favourite Albums

After the release of Primal Scream's eleventh album, Chaosmosis, the singer boils his record collection down to a mean 13, a selection that formed his "own private world" while he was growing up in Glasgow

The Legendary Pink Dots

Pages Of Aquarius

The Last Shadow Puppets

Everything You've Come To Expect

From Azzazin To Gun Aramaic: Muslimgauze Two Decades On

Louis Pattison looks back two decades to when the electronic musician Bryn Jones was at the height of his powers recording as Muslimgauze - and speaks to the people who knew him and musicians who were influenced by him

April’s Best Music, Chosen By The Quietus

In the first of a new column, Quietus staff pick their favourite albums and EPs of the month not covered on the site and a handful of the best of what's already been reviewed. Comments are open (with cautious optimism), so let us know what you'd have chosen

The Secret Of His Great Strength: Ai Weiwei At Idomeni

As the global refugee crisis rolls on, Bryony White considers the symbolics of Ai Weiwei's haircut in the Greek border town of Idomeni

Off The Grid: Francois Morellet At Ninety

On the ninetieth birthday of the pathbreaking French painter, Geoff Cowart surveys two exhibitions dedicated to the hallucinatory work of the co-founder of the Groupe de Recherche d’Art Visuel

Fast Things First: Remainder Reviewed

Tom Duggins reviews director Omer Fast's adaptation of Tom McCarthy's novel Remainder

If This Is A Man: Son Of Saul Reviewed

Michael Brooks assesses the Academy Award winning holocaust drama, which is out in cinemas now

Joan La Barbara

Voice Is The Original Instrument

RM Hubbert

Telling The Trees

The Lead Review: Lottie Brazier On Brian Eno’s The Ship

With Brian Eno's latest full length out on Warp tomorrow, Lottie Brazier looks at its overarching influences, including poetry, found sound, and the stillness of war.

Wire

Nocturnal Koreans

Revolting Lots: Al Jourgensen’s Favourite Ministry Albums

As Ministry prepare to tour Europe, their leader puts the band's discography in order while sharing wild tales and encounters with William S. Burroughs, Robert Plant and copious amounts of his own stomach lining

Complete Communion: April’s Jazz Reviewed By Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith reviews the highlights of this month's jazz including offerings from Fire! Orchestra, Jamal Moss, Peter Brötzmann and Heather Leigh