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Poems In People: An Interview With Richard Hawley

With his first three solo albums due for reissue, Richard Hawley talks them over with Julian Marszalek in an in-depth interview taking in pop music, his hometown of Sheffield and why mortality's never far from his mind

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

Gary Suarez may have four score and nineteen problems but a cogent position on all of this month's key hip hop mix tapes ain't one

Matt Nelson

Lower Bottoms

Vashti Bunyan

Heartleap

Doors Of Appropriation: Teju Cole Interviewed

Nathalie Olah speaks to one of contemporary literature's most impressive polymaths - novelist, non-fiction writer, photographer, cultural commentator and art historian Teju Cole - about the pros and cons of cultural appropriation, being a writer in the social media age and the otherworldliness of birds. (Photograph by Teju Cole)

Points Of Divergence: On John Darnielle’s Wolf In White Van

Stephanie Boland gets into the myriad complexities of The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle's world-within-a-world, game-within-a-book debut novel, Wolf in White Van, finding a not unfamiliar cast of characters and references, teen angst made something more potent and a powerful treatise on memory

Never To Pass: Altered Balance – A Tribute To Coil

Richard Fontenoy examines this exploration, neither biography nor hagiography, memoir nor biography, of the life of John Balance and of Coil, finding a collection of remembrances - of poetry, of photography and of personal reminiscences - free from mawkishness, which serve not only to recall but to add to an extraordinary legacy

Pop Satori: Rockfort Interviews Étienne Daho

With the French singer set for his first UK show in 16 years, he tells David McKenna about his latest record, Les chansons de l'innocence retrouvé

Lion With Wings: Ex Hex’s Mary Timony Interviewed

With Ex Hex's full-length debut album Rips released last week, Aimee Swartz catches up with Mary Timony to talk island survival, current rock & roll renaissance, and the worst song in the history of songwriting.

Ex Hex

Rips

Jane Weaver

The Silver Globe

Casino Classics: Elaine Constantine And Lisa Stansfield Talk Northern Soul

Yousif Nur interviews director Elaine Constantine and actor Lisa Stansfield about their new film Northern Soul

Interrelating Elements: A Winged Victory For The Sullen Interviewed

Ahead of their UK tour this month, Tristan Bath chats to Adam Wiltzie and Dustin O'Halloran about creating their score for Atomos, Stars Of The Lid and the creative benefits of wine and cheese

Central To Process: Justin Broadrick’s Favourite Albums

In a piece originally commissioned by The Bug's Kevin Martin, Justin Broadrick follows the release of Godflesh's new album A World Lit Only By Fire by taking a new spin on the Baker's Dozen format and talking Kate Hennessy through his current listening favourites

Decapitated

Blood Mantra

Mirage

Blood For The Return

The First Lady Of Southern Soul: Candi Staton Interviewed

Candi Staton, the legendary Queen Of Southern Soul, is back with an Americana-influenced, Muscle Shoals-made new album - she tells Simon Price about Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, how America's gun culture has killed childhood, how to escape a hellish marriage and, most importantly, how to pronounce her surname

Human Greed

World Fair

Cathartic Release: Divider Interviewed

The effects of Hurricane Sandy are imprinted deeply on the New York hardcore band's debut album All Barren, comprising songs written both before and after the storm struck their native Long Island. Their singer Chris Tzompanakis gives Dean Brown the backstory

Pharmakon

Bestial Burden

We’re All Apprentices Now: On Business TV & Contemporary Britain

As The Apprentice returns to our television screens, Phil Harrison looks at how the programme, and 'business TV' in general, reflects the grim reality of the work market and wider culture in capitalist realist Britain

Running Back: An Interview With The Juan MacLean

The duo of John MacLean and Nancy Whang talk to Chad Parkhill about new album In A Dream, nostalgia, technology and TJM's journey from a solo project to a fully-fledged musical partnership

Unsound 2014: Various Artists On ‘Living The Dream’

This year's Unsound Festival theme is 'The Dream'... The Quietus asked artists including DJ Stingray, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Michael Gira, Perc and Kuba Ziolek what 'living the dream' means to them. Thanks to Chad Parkhill for interviewing Michael Gira and Katarzyna Stuczyńska for co-ordinating.

Human Interactions: Agnes Obel’s Favourite Albums

With two UK dates bringing her European tour to a close next week, the Danish singer-songwriter self-pens us a top albums rundown

Inspiral Carpets

Inspiral Carpets

Ides Of Gemini

Old World | New Wave

I’ll Do Anything For You: Pretty Hate Machine By NIN Revisited

Bow down before the one you serve. Ned Raggett is going to give you what you deserve: a well-reasoned reappraisal of Nine Inch Nails' 1989 debut

The Pop Group

We Are Time/Cabinet Of Curiosities

Realising Fantasies: Cooly G Interviewed

Of her second album, Wait 'Til Night, Cooly G says, "I feel like I'm starting to find myself again". Ahead of its release next week, the Hyperdub producer talks to Christian Eede about the record and abandoning musical tribalism

Maximum Strength: E.E.K. Featuring Islam Chipsy Live In London

If you want to hear really exciting innovation in music you have to be willing to look beyond America and Europe, says John Doran after watching the Cairene trio tear the Boston Arms to shreds. Live pictures courtesy of Kimberly Powenski

Short Fiction By: Nicholas Rombes

This week's new writing comes in the form of an edited, self-contained extract from Nicholas Rombes' forthcoming novel The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing, in which the eponymous cinephile Laing is interviewed regarding the destruction of a rare film

Let A Thousand Flowers Bloom: Lars Iyer Interviewed

Daniel Fraser speaks to Lars Iyer, author of the Spurious trilogy (encompassing Spurious, Dogma and Exodus), about what makes the philosopher such an attractive subject for his work, a secret desire for lightness and the flatness of characters in his new novel, Wittgenstein Jr