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Short Fiction: ‘Smart People Talk About Sex’ By Lauren Oyler

New writing this week comes in the form of short fiction from writer, editor and newly-appointed chief of the Bookslut, Lauren Oyler

Flickers: The Quietus Film Column – Betamax Collector’s Edition.

doom! doOM! dOOM! DOOM! It's The Quietus's not-nearly-as-regular-as-it-should-be cinematic round-up!

Goat

Commune

21 Minutes To Flow: Rain Parade’s Explosions In The Glass Palace Revisited

Joe Banks looks back three decades to the highlight offering from the Paisley Underground scene

Twee, Dull, Dumb? God Help The Girl Reviewed

Helen King reviews Belle and Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch's debut feature film. But does it Rule The School, or is it Boy With The Arab Crap?

Aphex Twin: Quietus Writers Select Their Deep Cuts

With new album Syro just announced Dale Berning Sawa, Joe Banks, Emily Bick, Charlie Frame, Joe Clay, Tristan Bath, Ned Raggett, John Doran and Cian Traynor select their favourite album cuts, side-project tracks, collaborations, b-sides and rarities

Plaids

Plaids

Tales From The Barrelhouse: A James Yorkston Baker’s Dozen

With his new album The Cellardyke Recording And Wassailing Society, featuring contributions from Alexis Taylor, KT Tunstall, The Pictish Trail and more, out this week, the Fife singer-songwriter writes us a special Baker's, cherry-picking favourite tracks from his old Edinburgh club night

Opeth

Pale Communion

No Longer An Allegory Of War: A Personal Reflection On Images & Conflict

Photographs of the dead in places of conflict are becoming increasingly more common as mobile phones can capture and share in an instant. But what is it like to know someone in such an image? London writer and poet Chimène Suleyman remembers growing up knowing her grandfather only through a photo taken after his death in Cyprus

A Giant Dub Machine: An Interview With Sendai

Ahead of their performance at Berlin Atonal this week, Albert Freeman catches up with Peter Van Hoesen and Yves De Mey, to discuss the exploratory impulses that feed into the jagged techno landscapes of their collaborative project Sendai

Jenny Hval & Susanna

Meshes Of Voice

Real Talk: A Film About Sleaford Mods

With Divide And Exit, Sleaford Mods made one of our favourite albums of the year, an original, visceral portrait of the UK in 2014. In a short film, Louis Pattison meets the duo, Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, in Nottingham to discuss their writing process, mod culture and being gobby

Anti-Musicality: An Interview With Romain Perrot Of VOMIR

Russell Williams speaks to Romain Perrot, one of the main practitioners of harsh noise wall, to discuss how creating his monolithic slabs of caustic static offers a way to exorcise his frustration with the world

OOIOO

Gamel

SHXCXCHCXSH

Linear S Decoded

Paint The White Isle Black: George Clinton Interviewed

Helen Donlon catches up with George Clinton in Ibiza to talk spaceships, drugs and the lot of the black countercultural musician

Trwbador

Several Wolves

Infinitely Inspired By The Club: Total Freedom Interviewed

The DJ sets and collage edits of LA's Total Freedom dissolve R&B, pop and rap into churning noise and razor beats, distorting time and space in the club. He meets Alexander Iadarola to discuss a fascination with club cultures, and folllowing the impulse to fuck with dancers' pleasure centres

Why Me Lord? American Recordings By Johnny Cash Revisited

Two and a half decades on, David Bennun looks back at the monumental importance American Recordings had on the career of Johnny Cash

Paus

Clarão

The Byline: Simon Raymonde On A Love Affair With Spurs

The Byline is our new series in which musicians tell us about their relationship with the beautiful game. This week Bella Union boss Simon Raymonde talks to Andrew Fenwick about his love affair with Tottenham Hotspur

Woman’s Hour

Conversations

If This Is Heaven I’m Bailing Out: The Death Of The Birthday Party

Amid a whirlwind of drug use, chaotic live shows and within-band animosity, The Birthday Party juddered to a halt in 1983. Daniel Dylan Wray traces the story of the band's messy dissolution, and of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' phoenix-like emergence the following year with From Her To Eternity. Interviews with Mick Harvey, Flood, Jim Thirlwell, Barry Adamson, Nick Launey, Chris Bohn, Henry Rollins, Jessamy Calkin and Hugo Race

Happy Days: Enniskillen Samuel Beckett Festival 2014

Ian Maleney heads to the Northern-Irish town of Enniskillen for the third instalment of its somewhat disparate but nonetheless intriguing Samuel Beckett festival, Happy Days

A Righteous Tale: On Julian Cope’s One Three One

Aug Stone hits the accelerator on the Archdrude's 'Time-Shifting Gnostic Hooligan Road Novel'

No Country For Old Men: Charlie’s Country Reviewed

Raphael Hall reviews the latest collaboration between director Rolf De Heer and actor David Gulpilil

FKA twigs

LP1

Sound & Visions: Rockfort Interviews Bernard Szajner

In the latest edition of our French music column, David McKenna meets veteran electronic explorer Bernard Szajner to discuss his reissued 1979 album Visions Of Dune, hiding from the KGB, working with Carl Craig, and visions of the future

White Hills

Glitter Glamour Atrocity (Reissue)

Futuro-logical Error: The Congress Reviewed

Daniel Montesinos-Donaghy takes a look at Waltz With Bashir director Ari Folman's latest

Krautrock? Sauer Sot Mr Agreeable Unhappy With Future Days

Mr Agreeable once took a holiday in Southern Bavaria and for reasons that remain unclear has been furious at our Teutonic cousins ever since. Therefore tidings of a new book about German experimental music from the 60s and 70s broke his poached egg...