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All About Reality? Straight Outta Compton Reviewed By Angus Batey

The NWA film has failed on several levels. Angus Batey takes a look at the problems involved in trying to get a music industry story like this onto the big screen

Savant

Artificial Dance

A Quick Fix: The Cure’s Head On The Door Revisited

Ned Raggett looks back 35 years to when Robert Smith's newly formed quintet version of The Cure were poised for global recognition

Scatter, Matter, Shatter, Shock: Brixton’s Black Cultural Archives

On the occasion of its recent anniversary — and in the light of history, empire, diaspora, and the area's steady gentrification — Jeanette Farrell explores the creation and necessity of Brixton's Black Cultural Archives

Two Poems By: Alex Bell

New writing on The Quietus this week comes full circle, back to a more tQ-immediate locale, with two poems by London-based writer Alex Bell. (Image: The Skin I Live in, Almodovar)

O Brothers Were Art Thou? The Wolfpack Reviewed

Fred Wagner reviews the documentary on the Hollywood reared siblings discovered by film maker Crystal Moselle

Regis

Manbait

Romolo Grano

Musica Elettronica (Reissue)

The Lead Review: John Doran On AFX’s Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006 – 2008

He was looking for a horse, and then he found a horse, and heaven knows John Doran is happy now that there's a new AFX EP out

Thee Tsunamis

Saturday Night Sweetheart

Tapestry Traverse: Tom Furse Of The Horrors’ Favourite Exotica Albums

Before The Horrors' keyboards man launches his new compilation of exotica and library music from the Southern Library of Recorded Music tonight, he takes us on a tour of some of the guiding lights behind Digs

The Next Next Level: Rap, Friendship & Almost Giving Up

Leon Neyfakh's The Next Next Level is a triple-memoir of sorts —covering the stories of his own life up until now, the musical career of his friend, Juiceboxxx and the story of their seemingly-permanent intertwining

A Long Lunch With Jock Scot, Robert Rubbish & Lias Saoudi

Colm McAuliffe girds his loins and his liver before sitting down for (a liquid) lunch with the poet, the artist and the singer. Illustrated lensman Al Overdrive was also in attendence

Flamingods

Moon

On The Way To The Peak Of Modular: Bobby Barry On Synth Overload

On the tenth anniversary of the death of Bob Moog, Bobby Barry jumps in at the deep end with a Modular System 55. But has he left his inaugural dabble too late?

Science And Limitation: An Interview With Nap Eyes

Canadian scientist-cum-singer-songwriter Nigel Chapman tells John Freeman how Nap Eyes' debut album Whine Of The Mystic was honed by self-limitation and inspired by an 11th-century wine-loving Persian astronomer

South Of No North: Greg Anderson Of Sunn O))) & Goatsnake Interviewed

Toby Cook speaks to Southern Lord boss Greg Anderson about the new Goatsnake album and the ever increasing stature of Sunn O)))

Terminal Cheesecake

Cheese Brain Fondue: Live In Marseille

Movement Ex: Golden Age Hip Hop’s Great Lost Album

This month Angus Batey turns his clinical eye away from the history of rap's powerhouse groups toward a duo who pretty much sank without trace... despite recording one of the all-time great hip hop LPs

Life Is Wasted On People: Loneliness, Sincerity And Noah Baumbach

With his newest film Mistress America out in cinemas now, Adam Howard takes a look at the work of Noah Baumbach

Various Artists

Pod Tune Volume: Ambient

Hammer Of The Mods: The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Reviewed

Tom Duggins goes solo to review Guy Ritchie's stylish retro-spy caper

Out Of The Shade And Into The Light: Luminous Bodies Interviewed

Noisy supremos Luminous Bodies, featuring members of Gum Takes Tooth, Terminal Cheesecake and more, tell Matt Ridout about their quest to make knuckle-dragging rock & roll. Photographs courtesy of Monica Staniaszek

Second Layer

World Of Rubber (Reissue)

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

All of this month's best hip hop albums reviewed? It ain't nuthin' but a Gary Suarez thang

Silicon

Personal Computer

Cold Showers

Matter Of Choice

Mitchellin Man: Destroyer’s Favourite Albums

Before he releases his new album Poison Season later this month, Destroyer's Dan Bejar places a call to Merek Cooper to talk to him about saxophones, heroin and going through a seven-year Joni Mitchell phase

Death Or Glory: Iron Maiden Interviewed

Iron Maiden are just about to release their 16th album, The Book Of Souls; Harry Sword thinks it might be their best yet. He gets the inside story from guitarists Adrian Smith and Janick Gers

Hang Yourself: An Interview With WARMDÜSCHER

At the point where personal hygiene ends and Kraut-garage begins lie WARMDÜSCHER, a collaboration between members of Paranoid London and Fat White Family. They tell William Dickson about their raging live sets, debut LP Khaki Tears and why they want "to include everyone in the party"

No Commercial Value: Nigel Ayers Interviewed

Amelia Phillips speaks to Nigel Ayers, aka industrial musician Nocturnal Emissions about a lifetime of resistance

Dr. Dre

Compton