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Ecstatic Abandon: Dekmantel Festival Reviewed

Since its beginnings in 2013, Dekmantel has gone on to be hailed as one of the best house and techno festivals in the world, drawing in discerning ravers from all over to its forest location just outside Amsterdam. With the festival in its third year, Christian Eede throws himself into the madness in full force

Laura Cannell

Beneath Swooping Talons

Various Artists

Peru Boom: Bass, Bleeps & Bumps from Peru’s Electronic Underground

Silence As Mantra: Hannah Lou Clark Interviewed

With last year's Silent Type EP, Hannah Lou Clark left behind the theatrics of her old band FOE in favour of sparse introversion. She talks to Alex Robert Ross about presenting her songs in plain terms and writing for catharsis

C.R.O.W.N.

Natron

Into A Time Slip: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Turns 45

As The Rocky Horror Picture Show reaches its 45th birthday, Simon Price looks at the cultural history of the film, the stage show and the cult that's grown up around it, and asks the crucial question: strip all that baggage away, and is it any good?

“Music In Which To Get Truly Lost”: Daniel Avery’s Favourite Records

The Phantasy producer and DJ goes from mid-teen discoveries to recent acquisitions as he writes us his own Baker's Dozen of top albums, EPs and mixes ahead of his b2b set with Erol Alkan at fabric later this month

Complete Communion: Jazz Reviews For August By Stewart Smith

Stewart Smith is back with all the jazz that's fit to review from Matana Roberts, William Parker and Marshall Allen

“We Set Our Own Agenda”: Obnox’s Lamont Thomas Interviewed

Meshing hip-hop and garage rock, Obnox are, as their main man says, finding a way of moving punk forward in the 21st century. Before their third album of 2015, he talks to Julian Marszalek about rock, racism and politics

Ghost

Meliora

Field Music

Music For Drifters

Columnus Metallicus: August’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Toby Cook

Can he walk at all, Or if he moves will he fall? Is he alive or dead? Has he reviews within his head? 'Iron' Toby Cook returns with more metal observations. Horns up, ya shitters...

The Soil

Nostalgic Moments

Fox Millions Duo

Lost Time

Kuedo

Assertion Of A Surrounding Presence

Love And Other Tragedies: Roger O’Donnell Interviewed

Ned Raggett talks to multi-instrumentalist and sometime Cure member Roger O'Donnell about his numerous musical projects

Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin & Je T’aime By Sylvie Simmons

Sylvie Simmons' excellent biography, Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes is back in print and now available electronically. Here is an extract about the song that made him. Portrait courtesy of Patrick Duval

Grist For The Mill: GNOD Interviewed

Infinity Machines by GNOD is one of tQ's albums of the summer. Ian Fraser meets Salford's finest and finds himself put through the Mill – Islington Mill, that is. Band photos by Sam Huddlestone

Verfreundungseffekt: On Translating Gregor Hens’ Nicotine

Part-way through completing a translation of Gregor Hens’ Nicotine, our resident translation columnist Jen Calleja finds herself asking questions about authenticity and exactitude and whether or not translation is creation. (Illustration by Richard Phœnix)

On Ghostwriting: Drake, Meek Mill & T.S. Eliot Back To Back

By accusing Drake of not writing his own verses Meek Mill put hip-hop on a pedestal in terms of its artistic purity. But — true or not — does it matter? At least one other great work of literary art wasn't put together singlehandedly...

Behold! August’s Quietus Comics Round-Up Column

A bleak, brilliant and beautiful selection of comics — covering everything from post-apocalyptic worlds to the life of Vincent Van Gogh — make it into this month's round-up, the first under a new steward in Pete Redrup

Gore Movie: Best Of Enemies Reviewed

Fred Wagner reviews a new documentary about Gore Vidal and William Buckley's televised debates of the late '60s

Listen Up Philistines: Alex Ross Perry Interviewed

Following his film Listen Up Philip's release via Masters Of Cinema, Neil Fox caught up with director Alex Ross Perry to talk sympathy, film stock and independent film making.

Cruising At Altitude: Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Reviewed

Tom Duggins gets stuck in to the latest in the seemingly-never-ending action franchise

Hip Hop In The Holy Land: Mike Skinner Interviewed

Chris Sanders talks to the former Streets rapper/producer about his involvement in Noisey's series of films on Middle Eastern rap music

Gagarin

Aoticp

Always Organic: Cory Rayborn On 15 Years Of Three Lobed Recordings

By day, Cory Rayborn's a business and environmental lawyer, by night (often five nights in a row, packaging records by hand) he's putting out limited-run releases by the likes of Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn and Sun City Girls. As his label Three Lobed marks 15 years of operations, he talks to JR Moores

A New Dance: Dele Sosimi’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his new album You No Fit Touch Am earlier this year, the Fela and Femi Kuti collaborator, lecturer and exponent of all things Afrobeat gives Richie Troughton a playback of his all-time top 13 LPs

Omar Souleyman

Bahdeni Nami

C Duncan

Architect

One Take: July’s Grime Reviewed by Tomas Fraser

Tomas Fraser reviews new music from Edgem, Merky Ace, AJ Tracey and Novelist as well as casting some light onto brilliant young DJ Riz La Teef. All photographs courtesy of George Quann Barnett/ Wot Do You Call It

Eleventh Dream Day

Works For Tomorrow