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Baby, It’s Okay To Be Slutty: Chastity Belt Interviewed

The Seattle-based four-piece's singer and guitarist Julia Shapiro talks to Anna Wood about the underuse of the word labia, calling out mansplaining and taking lyrical inspiration from John Carpenter's 1982 cinematic masterpiece

Neo-Prog 35 Years On: Marillion, IQ, Pendragon Etc. Revisited

With Marillion riding high in the charts, 1985 was the peak year for neo-prog. Joe Banks relives his misplaced childhood, and wonders if any of the music from this scene bears revisiting now

Silver Fox: Bryan Ferry Live In Brighton, By Simon Price

Simon Price admires the attractive artifice of Bryan Ferry, and concludes that it's best to never scratch beneath the surface

Micachu & the Shapes: No Pigs Were Harmed In The Making Of This LP

For their latest, Good Sad Happy Bad, experimental pop group Micachu & The Shapes sank a few then confined themselves to a rehearsal space for a stripped-down, marathon recording session; some metal ensued, as they tell DJ Pangburn

The Scaramanga Six

The Terrifying Dream

Uncanny Flatlands: Wysing Art Centre at the Edge of the Real

Robert Barry examines works by Lawrence Lek, Benedict Drew, Katja Novitskova, Holly Herndon and others at the Wysing Art Centre’s ‘Uncanny Valley’ exhibition

Auto-Constructing Abraham: From Frieze Masters to the Tate Modern

Inspired by a talk at Frieze Masters, Robert Barry ponders Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas’s new commission for the Tate Modern Turbine Hall

The Illusion Of Success: Nicolas Winding Refn On The Act Of Seeing

Mat Colegate talks to the director of Only God Forgives, Drive and Bronson about his newly published collection of exploitation film posters (contains NSFW images)

Flying Saucer, Attack! Mr Bungle’s Disco Volante 25 Years On

Twenty-five years since its release, Matt Evans revisits the purposefully difficult second album that pulverised his young metalhead brain

The Lead Review: Mat Colegate On MY DISCO’s Severe

Mat Colegate examines MY DISCO's experiments with psychedelic minimalism, as exemplified on their first new full length in five years

Boundless Intonations: An Interview With Jessica Pratt

The Californian singer-songwriter talks to Suzie McCracken about following up the excellent On Your Own Love Again, lyrical ambiguities and playing games with language before she plays Hackney's MIRRORS festival

Constellations In The Sky: Jonathan Donahue Of Mercury Rev’s Top LPs

From spooky narrations in the Catskill Mountains to avant-garde masterworks, the New York band's singer and guitarist tells Yousif Nur about the albums and one song that have had a lasting impact on his own music

Sing It Again: Rod Stewart Interviewed

After five decades at the top, Rod Stewart finds himself telling Chris Roberts about stage-fright and swagger, recovery from illness, disco fever, wearing too much make-up and missing his shin pads

Protomartyr

The Agent Intellect

Dave Heumann

Here In The Deep

The Month’s Electronic Music: Something In The Water

Christian Eede continues at the reins for the latest round-up of the month's best electronic music, taking a look at a variety of recent releases from Bristol as well as new records from Kamixlo (pictured), Call Super, DJ Richard, Pearson Sound, Laurel Halo and more

A Lot Of Respect: Erasure On The Strange World Of Erasure

Flamboyant, radical, joyous and purveyors of some of the finest pop songs to ever grace The Quietus' ears, this year Erasure celebrate their 30th birthday. Vince Clarke and Andy Bell (with a little help from Mute's Daniel Miller) guide Luke Turner through their beautiful world

It’s A Dirty Job: Workin’ Man Noise Unit Interviewed

With their debut album Play Loud due imminently, Matt Ridout talks to the Reading four-piece about embedding hooks within the noise, Julian Cope and potato grading, and we premiere their video for Yeah, I Was Hypnotised

Scott Fagan

South Atlantic Blues

Kode9

Nothing

Janet Jackson

Unbreakable

Full Metal Racket: Aino Tytti Interviewed

After taking part in William Basinski's Arcadia series last year, Sheffield-born sound artist Aino Tytti tells Robert Barry about embarking on his second project for Touch, a sonic exploration of London's Millennium Mills

Oxygène Of Collaboration: Jean-Michel Jarre’s Favourite Albums

As he releases his first new material in eight years, the French composer, producer and laser harp maestro talks Yousif Nur through a Baker's Dozen of LPs by artists who shaped or collaborated on his Electronica albums

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

Your humblebragging American servant takes you on a cross country trip through this month’s hip-hop albums, spending an inordinate amount of time in Los Angeles

Levitation

Meanwhile Gardens

Baron

Torpor

Rats On Rafts

Tape Hiss

Artist Run: A New Quietus Arts Feature – Inside No.w.here

For the first in a new regular series exploring independent project spaces and artist-run initiatives, tQ's Robert Barry explores No.w.here, a centre for film in East London set up by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

The Lead Review: Rory Gibb On Joanna Newsom’s Divers

With Drag City to release Joanna Newsom's first new album in five years next week, Rory Gibb examines the singer's exploration of time, sonic heterotopias, and compact sound

VHÖL

Deeper Than Sky

Aisha Devi

Of Matter And Spirit

30 Years On: Run DMC’s Back From Hell Revisited

The New York trio's poorly-received fifth album gets a reappraisal from Angus Batey, who finds lessons about social pressure, creative limits and sonic exploration gone awry within its tracks