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Verfreundungseffekt: Waiting For Something To Happen —Tsou Yung-shan’s The Waiting Room

This month’s column introduces tQ readers to Berlin-based Taiwanese writer and artist Tsou Yung-shan and her novel of ‘inbetweenness’,The Waiting Room. (Portrait of Tsou Yung-shan by Richard Phœnix)

Take No Prisoners: Robert Altman Remembered

David Moats imagines this years Oscars as a battle for Robert Altman’s soul, as a new documentary on the late director of Mash, Nashville, The Long Goodbye and Gosford Park comes to cinemas

One More Grain

Grain Fever

A F**king Joy: Aidan Moffat’s Favourite Albums

With Aidan Moffat's excellent new record with Bill Wells just out, we sent Daniel Dylan Wray up to Glasgow to meet the former Arab Strap man/Quietus sex columnist to discuss his top formative albums. And, with the help of beers, a record player and one powerful deployment of the phrase "get to utter fuck", here's what he picked

Smoke Weed, Listen To Sade – R&B In Review By Alex Macpherson

Alex Macpherson sings the praises of Dawn Richard and Jazmine Sullivan, reviews the best new albums and lists his favourite RnBass tracks, in his new round up column

Tangled Paths: An Interview With Orphx

With the second of their Sonic Groove compilations recently released and a new album on the way, the industrial techno duo have an in-depth conversation with Albert Freeman about the oft-overlooked rhythmic noise scene and the evolution of their sound and approach to production

Colleen

Captain Of None

Errors

Lease Of Life

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

'Asunder, Sweet And Other Distress'

Earl Sweatshirt

I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside

Sufjan Stevens

Carrie & Lowell

An English Trip: An Extract From Jolly Lad & Tour With Arabrot

"This time next year everything will be alright.”

John Doran is going on tour by mistake. He hopes this extract from his new book Jolly Lad will explain why. Author photographs courtesy of Al Overdrive & Jonny Mugwump

A Storm In Heaven: David Vorhaus Of White Noise Interviewed

David Stubbs meets David Vorhaus of influential electronic group White Noise to discuss the importance of forward motion

The Anatomy Of A Photograph: Salford Lads Club & The Smiths

The story of an icy cold afternoon, a nervous photographer and the picture that sparked a gazillion copies, by Mick Middles

Various Artists

Beirut Bath House: The Original Disco Dabke Recordings (1981-1984)

Piss Off! Mr Agreeable Makes A Deposit In Pop Stars’ Tidal Basin

As most of the world's (er America's) biggest pop stars gather together for a press conference announcing new streaming service Tidal, our old friend Mr Agreeable has choice words to say about their grab for cash

Collective Trance: An Interview With Föllakzoid

Domingo García-Huidobro tells Robert McCallum about the Chilean trio's new record III, a space-gazing conglomeration of shamanic ritual and psychic communion with Ash Ra Temple and Popul Vuh

The Strange World Of… Billy Childish

Strange World is a semi-regular guide to artists who have produced bewilderingly large bodies of work. Here Helen King meets Billy Childish to discuss punk rock, door-knockers and dusting his mother's dahlias. Billy Childish portraits by Edd Westmacott

Föllakzoid

III

Keepin’ It Dirty: A celebration of ODB’s Return to the 36 Chambers

Cian Traynor re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew Ol' Dirty Bastard best

Out Of Our Dwam: An Interview With Momus

Oscar Gaynor speaks to the authorial element of writer/musician Momus' multifariously-split artistic personality about his new free-to-download book, Herr F, the limits and possibilities of fog, arts culture post-Here Comes Everybody and the social functions of acting

Short Fiction By: Joe Thomson

Joe Thomson's short story 'New York, 2002' fills this week's new writing segment, covering and confronting the not-exactly-small topics of love, freedom and prejudice in the still-rippling wake of September 11th

Has He Lost His Mind?: The Saragossa Manuscript

Ahead of its showing as part of Martin Scorsese's presentation of the masterpieces of Polish cinema at the BFI next month, Robert Bright takes a look back at Wojciech Has's delirious The Saragossa Manuscript

Things Learned At: Bergen’s Borealis Festival, By Luke Turner

Luke Turner heads to the Norwegian city of Bergen for the annual Borealis Festival for a wonderful weekend featuring composition, experimentation, melting ice, Russell Haswell, Lucy Railton and Richard Dawson, recontextualised rap and more. All photos thanks to Borealis and Henrik Beck.

Taking It Outside: Rockfort Interviews Chloé Raunet & Delphine Dora

Our man in Paris talks to C.A.R. (aka former Battant member Chloé Raunet) about trauma and inspiration, and to Delphine Dora about fetishising madness. Plus: this month’s recommended French releases

Therapy?

Disquiet

Echo Lake

Era

Two To Your Right, Five To Your Left: Okkyung Lee Interviewed

Before she plays the Southbank Centre tonight, the experimental cellist talks to Adam Potts about the evolution of her highly physicalised style of playing and refiguring her instrument as a noise-making tool

LoneLady

Hinterland

Ata Kak

Obaa Sima

Coke & Wet: The Power Station Versus Arcadia By Simon Price

35 years on, Simon Price revisits the undeclared war between Arcadia, who made "the most pretentious album ever", and The Power Station, who made "the most cocainey album ever"; and asks who, if anyone, was the winner

All That Is Solid: Ten Songs With Danny Dorling

Speaking in maps: geographer and inequality expert Danny Dorling talks to Karen Shook about data-spotting, the Duke of York, sexy Greek economists and Sleaford Mods' 'Lily Allen for older people'