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Poetry Column: Zona Nouă — Report on Some Young European Poets

For the third instalment of his inexplicably titled 'Poetry Column', Sam Riviere considers the work of - and discusses, among other things, tennis and Žižek karaoke with - five young European poets from July 2015's Zona Nouă festival in Sibiu

Short Fiction By: Ryan Sartor

New writing on The Quietus comes to you this week in the form of short fiction in the truest sense of the term, via NYC's Ryan Sartor

Chemical Brothers

Born In The Echoes

M.E.S.H.

Piteous Gate

The Stuff Of Legend: Lost Media In Kumiko The Treasure Hunter

Rachel Jones examines Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, Juaja and Tomorrowland and discovers surprising similarities in their focus upon our anxieties regarding lost media and the passing of time

Modular Living: Rockfort On Jonathan Fitoussi & Clemens Hourierre

Jonathan Fitoussi and Clemens Hourrière were invited by EMS to get to grips with the rare modular synth, the Buchla 200. The Five Steps album was the result. David McKenna reports

No Reconciliation Necessary: Doug McCombs’ Favourite LPs

With the prolific bassist and guitarist and Tortoise and Brokeback founder about to release a new album, Works For Tomorrow, with Eleventh Dream Day, he gives Nick Hutchings a tour of his most seminal records

Pere Ubu

Elitism For The People 1975 - 1978

Conrad Schnitzler & Pyrolator

Con-Struct

Requiem For A Scream: Suicide’s ‘Punk Mass’

John Calvert witnesses Suicide's 'last stand' at the Barbican. All pictures by Paul Heartfield

Dirty Trash Talk: An Interview With Cruising

With their debut EP imminent, John Freeman meets up with the all-Ireland indie supergroup to discuss Al Pacino movies, Venn diagrams and writing songs in 20 minutes. Plus, hear new track You Made Me Do That

Carlton Melton

Out To Sea

Heathered Pearls

Body Complex

Life In Hell: Sleaford Mods Interviewed By Taylor Parkes

Jason Williamson, one half of Sleaford Mods meets up with Taylor Parkes to chew the fat, and the gristle, and the bone. All photographs by Duncan Stafford

45 Years On: Funkadelic’s Let’s Take It To The Stage Revisited

Ned Raggett asks... no, commands... that you get off your ass and jam: in celebration of Funkadelic's 1975 album Let's Take It To The Stage

Flying Saucer Attack

Instrumentals 2015

Deep Listening: Only Connect Oslo In Review

John Doran and Peter Meanwell report back from Oslo's Only Connect Festival Of Sound. All photographs Henrik Beck

How Live Aid Ruined My Life, By John Doran

In an extract from Jolly Lad, John Doran remembers how in 1985 Live Aid was one of the three events that set him off the straight and narrow into two decades of depression and alcoholism. Illustration by Krent Able

Rolo Tomassi

Grievances

Reading The Riot Act: Roger Robinson Interviewed

Neil Kulkarni speaks to the dub poet, author and King Midas Sound frontman about his new, Brixton-inspired album Dis Side Ah Town

Matrixxman

Homesick

30 Years On: X-Clan’s To The East Blackwards Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at an album which - post Ferguson - has as much resonance today as it did when it came out.

Two Poems By: Fiona Helmsley

Back in the familiar 'Two Poems By' format — and, of course, on the usual top form — new writing on tQ this week comes from Fiona Helmsley. (Image: Peregrine Honig)

And The Kitchen Sink: The Quietus’ Highlights Of 2015 Thus Far

What links Get In The Sea to Wanda Group to Shia LaBeouf to Bad Guys to x-ray vinyl printing to books about landscape to a day sweating at Berghain to Mad Max? Quietus staffers John Doran, Luke Turner, Laurie Tuffrey, Sophie Coletta, Christian Eede, Karl Smith and Mat Colegate have loved them, that's what. Our cultural highlights of the year so far are...

Heroes And Villains: Love And Mercy Reviewed

Robert Bright reviews Bill Pohlad's biopic of Beach Boys genius Brian Wilson, but is it giving him excitations or is it Sloop John Balls?

Seven Davis Jr.

Universes

Besombes/Rizet

Pôle (Reissue)

Smersh

Super Heavy Solid Waste (Reissue)

To Dance & Disappear: Lauren Martin On Moscow’s Outline Festival

Lauren Martin heads to the Karacharovsky Mechanical Plant for a weekend of raving that's far from the interchangeable line-ups commonly found at Europe's electronic festivals. Photos thanks to Kieran Behan

Playing The (Baker’s) Dozens: George Clinton’s Favourite Albums

With the funk kingpin and founder of Parliament and Funkadelic taking his bands on a festival tour this summer, Suzie McCracken caught up with him to find out about the 13 records that have stuck with him through his lifetime

One Take: A New Grime Column By Tomas Fraser

The Quietus finally has a grime column! In the first instalment, Tomas Fraser witnesses an epic DJ set by Slackk at Peckham's Rye Wax and reviews new tracks from Dark0, the infernally young DeeCee and Ruff Sqwad stalwart Rapid. There's also a look at the imagery of Wot Do You Call It, who provided this photograph of Rapid

Clowwns

The Artful Execution Of Macho Bimbo