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The Hidden Eye: Charlie Siskel On Finding Vivian Maier

Lisa Jenkins talks to the director of the new documentary about enigmatic photographer Vivian Maier

Shabazz Palaces

Lese Majesty

Jethro Tull

A Passion Play (Reissue)

Grumbling Fur

Preternaturals

Pallbearer

Foundations Of Burden

In Our Blood: Slint Discuss Spiderland’s Enduring Appeal

With the band bound for the UK next week, Nick Hutchings gets an update from Britt Walford, David Pajo and Todd Brashear, discussing a new generation of fans, the Breadcrumb Trail documentary and revisiting their seminal second album

How Motorik Infected The Mainstream, By Future Days Author David Stubbs

David Stubbs, author of Future Days: Krautrock And The Building Of Modern Germany, published recently by Faber, looks at how the influence of Klaus Dinger's drumming spread far and wide

Ecstatic Impulses: An Interview With Death Shanties

Ahead of their performance at Supernormal this weekend, Stewart Smith meets mixed-media free jazz trio Death Shanties to discuss their fiery and weird debut album Crabs, "balls to the wall" improvisation, and exploding folk forms

Jenny Lewis

The Voyager

Ritual Music For The Accumulation Of Energy: Anji Cheung Interviewed

The transportive, ritualistic drones of London's Anji Cheung conjure up portals to uncanny other worlds, heavy with the thrill of the unknown. Ahead of her performance at Supernormal this weekend, she meets Jimmy Martin to discuss a fascination with the occult, and how Throbbing Gristle and Coil have inspired her music's trips into inner space

Back To Radio City: An Interview With Big Star

With the documentary on the seminal power pop band, Nothing Can Hurt Me, screening in cinemas in the UK, Matthew Horton joins founding member Jody Stephens and producer John Fry to reflect on the band's landmark second album

Nachtmystium

The World We Left Behind

Self-Confident Weirdos: Kavus Torabi’s Favourite Albums

With Knifeworld's second album The Unravelling just out, Matt Evans gets the top albums rundown from the band's leader and prolific multi-instrumentalist

Dancefloor Escapism & Physical Abandon: Ronika Interviewed

Ronika's debut album Selectadisc is one of tQ's favourite albums of 2014 so far. Ahead of tonight's London gig, Al Needham speaks to her about coming up through the Nottingham music scene, channeling a fascination with electronic music, and the positives and pitfalls of running her own label

Magic, Tragic, A Loss, A Win? Faith No More’s The Real Thing 30 Years On

Matt Evans looks back fondly on his gateway drug to metal which came out 30 years ago.

Absolved! The Quietus Writers’ 50 Favourite Guilt-Free Pleasures

Why exactly should the enjoyment of a great piece of music be marred by guilt? Following last week's Black Sky Thinking about the problems (and positives) of the concept of the 'guilty pleasure', the Quietus writers declare their undying, entirely non-ironic love for their favourite uncool songs. Introduction by Jimmy Martin

Full Clip, Reloaded: August’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed by Gary Suarez

Back! The one you've been waiting for! Hardcore! Reviews galore! Gary Suarez is back in full effect with this month's hip hop write ups

Short Fiction By: Lee Rourke

New writing this week comes in the form of new short fiction - 'Tenses Change In Moments Like These' - by editor, writer, poet and novelist Lee Rourke, author of the recently-published Vulgar Things (4th Estate)

America Eats Its Young: On George Clinton’s Grand Statement

In an edited extract from his new book, George Clinton & The Cosmic Odyssey Of The P-Funk Empire, Kris Needs examines the circumstances - social, political, cultural and personal - that lead to Funadelic's under-appreciated Grand Statement America Eats its Young

A Bigger Bloat: The Hollywood Blockbuster Taken To Task

Jason Ward takes a strimmer to the summer cinematic tentpoles's more corpulent tendencies

Cocteau Twins

Blue Bell Knoll/Heaven Or Las Vegas (Reissue)

Not A Lorre Laughs: Fritz Lang’s ‘M’ Reviewed

Tristan Bath reviews a restoration of Fritz Lang's proto-noir masterpiece

Everything But The Gig: The Fat White Family, The Future Of Rock & Gaza

The conversation that takes place around rock & roll is often so engrossing that there's barely enough space or time to discuss the actual music, as John Doran found out after attending The Fat Whites' Slide In For Palestine gig in Brixton last week. All pictures Lou Smith

Chasing Perfectionism: An Interview With Source Direct

Few have crafted electronic music as virtuosic, as moving and as futuristic as groundbreaking drum & bass duo Source Direct did in the late 1990s. In one of his first interviews since returning to action, including a set at Fabric tomorrow, Jim Baker speaks to Harry Sword about Source Direct past and present, searching for futurism in sound, and the tantalising prospect of new music on the horizon

Bega’s Belief: On Camp, Cheese & Why We Should Enjoy Guilt-Free Pleasures

As Spotify announce a new collective playlist, Robert Barry explores the history and validity of the concept of the 'guilty pleasure'

Cosines

Oscillations

Horns Up Ya Shitters! Columnus Metallicus Albums Of 2014 So Far

He is return'd! Slay the fatted lamb! Fill the monkey skull goblets with Jager! Toby Cook is back with his favourite metal albums of the year so far

Various Artists

I Know Why The Caged Girl Sings

Neil Young & When Musicians Lose Their Moral Compass

After Neil Young came close to breaking the cultural boycott of Israel recently, Nick MacWilliam looks at some other occasions of musicians throwing ethics to the wind

Earthling Society

England Have My Bones

Precarious Music: Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at Supernormal Festival next weekend, Russell Cuzner meets Manchester-based duo part wild horses mane on both sides to discuss their deeply meditative improvised music, and how immersion in the moment leads to new mindstates

Penny Orchids

Worse Things