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Content With Content: Lee Rourke & Kit Caless On Will Wiles’ The Way Inn

Kit Caless sits down with novelist Lee Rourke one afternoon in a café in Leigh-on-Sea to discuss - via junkspace, non-space, soft furnishings and fear - the themes explored in Will Wiles' second novel, The Way Inn

Confessions Of A Heretic: An Extract From Nergal’s Thund’rous Tome

Behemoth frontman Adam 'Nergal' Darski is publishing his memoirs in English with the help of occasional Quietus writer Mark Eglinton. Here we present an extract about the black metal musician's act of apostasy

Model 500

Digital Solutions

Paper Dollhouse

Aeonflower

Heart Trouble: Cardiac Arrest Remembered

David McKenna looks back at Jed Mercurio's 'Cardiac Arrest' and finds a TV programme more relevant than ever.

The Quietus’ Top Ten Greatest Works of Auto-Destructive Music

Robert Barry follows on from yesterday's Quietus Essay on the chaotic and noisy history of auto-destructive music with ten of the best examples inc. The Durruti Column, Jimi Hendrix, Nam June Paik and Whitney Houston

Sonic Sabotage: The Noisy History Of Auto-Destructive Music

Sub Pop recently issued a deluxe version of Father John Misty's album featuring a "bulging thickness" in the packaging that warped the vinyl beyond repair. But, says Robert Barry, this is just the latest in a rich history of self-destroying art

“No Rules Whatsoever”: An Interview With Lotic

Before he plays Corsica Studios tomorrow night alongside Jam City, Total Freedom and others, Lotic talks to Seb Wheeler about Heterocetera, his intimate new EP for Tri Angle, and laying waste to sexless mainstream club culture with the Janus collective

Tour De France: On The Road With Jon Spencer

On the road with Jon Spencer, talking Heavy Trash, the Blues Explosion and turning 50. "I don't mind being old. I'm happy to be alive," he tells Mark Andrews. Portrait by Jean-Luc Karcher

Boundary-Free Work: Future Brown Interviewed

Before Fatima Al Qadiri, J-Cush and Nguzunguzu released their much-discussed self-titled debut last week, Christian Eede talked to the group about the album, their cast of collaborators and using parody as critique

Ilyas Ahmed

I Am All Your Own

Swervedriver

I Wasn't Born to Lose You

The Panpopticon With Amy Pettifer: This Month In Pop

Just as the late winter slowly loosens its icy grip, pop offers cold hearts with the promise of future sunshine, writes Amy Pettifer

Wading In Deeper: Katzenjammer Interviewed

With their third album just released, Tristan Bath catches up with the Oslo quartet to talk about the inspiration behind Rockland, the troubles of having a giant balalaika in your instrument arsenal and the ascendant Norwegian scene

Sonance

Blackflower

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke

Behold

The Demon Advocates: Gene Simmons’ Favourite Albums

The Kiss man picks a giants-of-rock top 13 albums for Val Siebert (and finally gives drum machines the talking to they deserve)

World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends

Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 25 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins them on a journey from their early days to their inevitable worldwide breakthrough

Aidan Baker

The Confessional Tapes

John Wiese

Deviate From Balance

The Reflective European: Frisk Frugt Interviewed

The Quietus favourite Anders Lauge Meldgaard, aka Frisk Frugt, speaks to Tristan Bath about researching the "Danish beat", homemade toy flute organs and taking influence from isotopes

The Month’s Electronic Music: ‘Anti-Austerity Music’

Rory Gibb's electronic music column returns after an extended hiatus, to review a selection of the month's releases, including records by Nidia Minaj (pictured), Insanlar, DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell, Ekoplekz, DJ Bone and Levon Vincent

35 Years On: The Smiths’ Meat Is Murder Revisited

Angus Batey looks back at The Smiths' second album and how this record changed his life

Verfreundungseffekt: The Translator Is Present – Saskia Vogel Interviewed

This month’s column swings the focus to the unsung hero – the literary translator – but just as much on contemporary Swedish literature and inventive ways of publishing literature in translation. (Portrait of Saskia Vogel by Richard Phœnix)

Peer Review: Ornate Resignation – Crispin Best Interviews Rebecca Perry

As part of our running Peer Review series, where authors are interviewed by their contemporaries, Crispin Best and Rebecca Perry sit down - at different computers in different locations - to talk about avocados, the key events of 1983 and the titles that could have been for her recently-released book of poems, Beauty/Beauty

Lo-fi Sci-fi: Coherence Reviewed

James Ubaghs reviews low-budget science fiction brain-twister Coherence

From Dad To Worse: The Wolfe Brothers On Catch Me Daddy

Katherine McLaughlin talks to the directors of visceral British thriller Catch Me Daddy, out in cinemas now

Cold Harbour: An Interview With Ansome

Before he plays Corsica Studios' main room as part of the Perc Trax tenth birthday party tomorrow night, Kieran Whitefield tells Albert Freeman about his noise-flecked industrial techno constructions

Half Japanese

Vol. 2 1987-1989: Music To Strip By/Charmed Life/The Band That Would Be King (Reissues)

Chilly Gonzales

Chambers

Vessels

Dilate

Between A Dream And A Nightmare: David Mitchell On It Follows

Mat Colegate sits down with David Robert Mitchell to discuss his horror debut, the original and terrifying It Follows