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Tape Adapter: July’s Hip-Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

The Quietus' resident hip-hop columnist gets to grips with Lil Wayne's The Free Weezy Album and the best (and worst) of this month's mixtapes, with offerings from the likes of Boogie and Mane Mane

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In The Name Of All That Is Unholy

Never Say Die: Bill Ward Interviewed

Julian Marszalek talks to Bill Ward about his achievements in and out of Black Sabbath. Photographs by Christopher Wagner

Sect Cymbals: Boredoms Live In London

Rahul Desai was 1/88th of the Boredoms' recent temporary cymbal orchestra for a special performance at the Barbican. Photographs courtesy of Mark Allan/Barbican

New Poetry By: Tim MacGabhann

A first on tQ, new writing this week — a poem by Mexico City Lit's Tim MacGabhann — comes in dual-language format: the original English-language version and a Spanish translation by fellow editor María Cristina Fernández Hall

Judas Was A Patsy: Giles Walker Interviewed

Daniel Fraser talks to The Mutoid Waste Co.'s Giles Walker about religious symbolism, confronting death with a sense of humour, and why rejected robots and bird skulls make for great art

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Civil Duty

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Better Late Than Never… The Reverb Worship Compilation

Bingo Bastards Break Out: Heads Down With Bad Guys

Ahead of supporting Ten Benson at the Lex on Saturday, Matt Ridout gets serious with East-London's premier metal pranksters

Stronger Than Me: Amy Reviewed

Nadia Attia reports back from a director's Q&A and screening of the new documentary on Amy Winehouse

Let’s Drift: John Maclean’s Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

As his debut feature Slow West hits the cinemas, John Maclean - former Beta Band member turned director - takes time out to reveal his 13 favourite films to The Quietus

Still Growing: Hans-Joachim Irmler And Jaki Liebezeit Interviewed

Ben Graham speaks to Hans-Joachim Irmler of Faust and Jaki Liebezeit of Can on their revivifying sonic partnership. Photographs by Agata Urbaniak

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Africa Endless: Letta Mbulu Interviewed

Clyde Macfarlane speaks to the doyenne of South African soul, Letta Mbulu about the reissue of In The Music The Village Never Ends

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Hidden Fields

Dark Angels: Jim Jarmusch & Jozef Van Wissem Of SQÜRL Interviewed

Joshua Ford speaks to lauded director and musician Jarmusch, lute master Van Wissem and film producer Carter Logan about collaborative project SQÜRL. All photographs by the author

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

Something in the hall goes click-click, as Gary Suarez reaches for a pile of hip hop LPs and his reviewer's BB Gun

Talent Not Gender: Babes In Toyland At Beaches Brew

Minnesotan power trio Babes in Toyland have reunited for their first dates in 20 years, encountering fans old and new in the UK, Europe and the USA. Kiran Acharya meets Maureen Herman and Lori Barbero in Italy to find a band – and festival – worth celebrating. Photography by Francesca Sara Cauli

Tess Parks & Anton Newcombe

I Declare Nothing

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The Monsanto Years

Petal Machine Music: Hurts Live In Berlin, By Simon Price

In mainland Europe, Manchester synth duo Hurts are huge. On the eve of their third album Surrender, Simon Price sees them dazzle Berlin and shower it with flowers.

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Fingers, Bank Pads And Shoe Prints

Style And Substance: An Interview With PINS

John Freeman meets up with two-fifths of PINS to find out how their storming new album Wild Nights was birthed in the desert and inspired by the bond of friendship

We Spoke Of ‘Was’ And ‘When’: Tony Visconti Interviewed

Legendary producer Tony Visconti has recently been revisiting one of his classic Bowie recordings, The Man Who Sold The World, with a tour and a live album. Simon Price asks him about the Dame, Bolan, Sparks, the Manics, and more

Three Poems By: Siobhan Bledsoe

New writing this week comes from Siobhan Bledsoe — incidentally also the author of the first-ever accepted poetry submission on this website —in the form of not one, not even two, but three poems and a selection of complimenting photographs (including one NSFW)

Out-selfing Will Self: An Interview With Austin Collings

Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers

Behold! June’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Sci-fi, sex, and superheroes! Lots of ace comics this month

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Hazy Euphoria: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2015

Gather some of the world's finest electronic musicians and DJs, scatter them around two gargantuan sites in Barcelona and fill in the gaps with electronic wristband-donning people slowly getting basted by Estrella and sunshine, and you've got Sónar 2015, one of the festival calendar's consummate highlights. Christian Eede and Laurie Tuffrey report back