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Walsall My Soul To The Devil: John J Presley Interviewed

Ahead of his gig at The Lexington in London this Friday, the Midlands-born bluesman tells Julian Marszalek why there's nary a "woke up this morning" to be found in his dirty guitar music

There Are No Horizons: The Holy Bible At 25, By Taylor Parkes

Taylor Parkes picks through the bones of one of the best rock albums of the 1990s and the artistic apex of Manic Street Preachers' history. Photos courtesy of Mitch Ikeda

The Inward Circles

Nimrod Is Lost In Orion And Osyris In The Doggestarre

Slim Twig

A Hound At The Hem (Reissue)

We Are All Freemans: Pop Culture and Future Reckonings In 2014

Taking into account Richard Grusin's idea of premediation – the notion that the future is always already mediated through popular culture and fantasy – Ryan Alexander Diduck looks both forward and back

If That’s Not A Freak Out, Then I’m A Dutchman: The Heads Interviewed

All four members of cult stoner quartet The Heads talk to Tristan Bath about their "sloppy magnum opus" Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (currently riding high in tQ's reissues of the year chart) and how releasing a record is like taking a big shit

Short Fiction By: Guillaume Morissette

This week's new writing comes via Montreal in the form of an excerpt from Guillaume Morissette’s novel, New Tab, published earlier this year by Vehicule Press.

Going Back Home: A Journey Through Estuary Myth And Identity

In an extract from an essay taken from his co-authored collection with Lee Rourke, Trying to Fit a Number to a Name, Tim Burrows discusses the culturally (re)enforced and self-fulfilling stereotypes of the TOWIE Essex and the 'archetypal' UKIP-supporting Essex Man via Samuel Beckett, Wilko Johnson and Mike Leigh

Falling And Laughing: The Possibilities Are Endless Reviewed

Helen King reviews James Hall and Edward Lovelace's documentary about the former Orange Juice frontman

Juju & Jordash

Clean-Cut

Touch The Cold Air: Gazelle Twin Live In Montreal

A journey across the Atlantic to witness Quietus album of the year, Unflesh, in all its sinuous glory, as Gazelle Twin plays M For Montreal

Women Singing Against Binary Britain: Goldfrapp & Lips Choir

Tim Burrows speaks to the all-female 70-strong Lips choir at their recent gig with Goldfrapp about the importance of creating autonomous spaces of song in a sexist and nasty age. Photographs by Hayley Hatton, live picture by Christie Goodwin

Fountain Of Living Water: The Strange World Of Robert Hood

As he prepares to release a career-spanning box set, Robert Hood guides Mike Shallcross through two decades of techno experimentation, Detroit and how his religious belief inspires his music

Odes To The Moon: Samaris Interviewed

The Icelandic electronic trio talk to Erin Lyndal Martin about poetry, soundpulses and fashionable Christmas trees

Benjamin Schoos

Beau Futur

Stuart Chalmers

Imaginary Musicks Vol. 1

Girls Don’t Cry: Rumer’s Favourite Albums

Platinum-selling MOR singer Rumer is back with her third album, Into Colour. She tells Simon Price about her Baker's Dozen of inspirational LPs

Obvious Injustice: The Jungle Brothers’ Done By The Forces Of Nature

30 years after it was released, Angus Batey revisits The Jungle Brothers' Done By The Forces Of Nature, and argues that it is a record that did more than most to explore the possibilities of hip hop

Into The Wilderness: An Interview With Ariel Kalma

With an archive release of his music out last month on RVNG, the Paris-born musician talks to Russell Cuzner about his label Music Mosaic, music therapy and his transglobal experiments in sound

Promenading: Martin Duffy Interviewed

With his excellent album Assorted Promenades released on Tim Burgess' O Genesis label this year, JR Moores traces the journeys that led the Primal Scream keyboardist to arrive at this debut solo effort

And It’s Goodbye From Them: British Murder Boys Interviewed

British Murder Boys, the twosome of Regis and Surgeon, are sadly now defunct. Before they both play on the same bill at Bloc this weekend, they talk to Luke Turner about Gene Vincent, the influence of pantomime and channelling the errant daydreams of winos into pummelling techno

Spool’s Out With Tristan Bath: Tape Reviews For November

Master of the Tapes Tristan Bath is back with a look at all of the essential recent releases on cassette

Tony Allen

Film Of Life

Ned Collette & Wirewalker

Networking In Purgatory

Various Artists

Certified Connections

Robert Wyatt

Different Every Time

Crisp-Packet Ballard: The Myth Of Brilliant Summers Reviewed

Dale Lately submerges himself in the world of Austin Collings' The Myth of Brilliant Summers — a literary funeral pyre for rose-tinted spectacles of youth spent and misspent in the North —a once-real universe rendered in underpasses, morning hues and uneven teeth

Short Fiction By: Livia Franchini

New writing this week comes in the form of a set of three pieces short fiction by London-based writer, editor and translator Livia Franchini

Jungle VIP: The Secret Behind Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey

Mat Colegate is granted an audience with the reclusive star of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, which is reissued by the BFI this week

Mogwai On: Rave Tapes & Mogwai Whiskey

Mr. Mitch

Parallel Memories

The Budos Band

Burnt Offering