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Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For March By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath returns with Spools Out, The Quietus' regular tape review column. This month he covers Shit & Shine, Broshuda, Deathcount In Silicone Valley, Silver Waves, Dikeman, Roger Tellier-Craig, Félicia Atkinson, Eartheater, Nigel Wrench, Black Spirituals and Extnddntwrk

Dutch Uncles

O Shudder

The Fyre Of London: An Interview With Busdriver

The Los Angeles rapper and Project Blowed veteran talks to Calum Bradbury-Sparvell about his recent album Perfect Hair, working with his Hellfyre Club label and why hip-hop is folk music

Mr Agreeable: Auf Wiederzane Prick – A Farewell To Zane Lowe

When Mr Agreeable found out that Zane "Hottest Record In The World Right Now" Lowe was leaving Radio One, and had been compared to John Peel, he asked if we might sign his leaving card

IRM

Closure

Jlin

Dark Energy

No Spill Blood

Heavy Electricity

Hey Colossus

Black And Gold

English Heretic

A Study Of Lunar Research Flights

As American As Capote: The Cramps’ Songs The Lord Taught Us Revisited

Julian Marszalek revisits The Cramps' debut and finds a glorious, hermetically sealed world of dark delights and puerile pursuits

Stalker Humanoids: The ERC, Maxine Peake & Lias Saoudi Interviewed

The Eccentronic Research Council, Maxine Peake and Lias Saoudi get together with John Doran to talk tactile knobs, pop star crushes and the secret history of early electronic pop

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