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Miliband Aid? Why Our Politicians Need Media Untraining

Growing doubt over Ed Miliband's competence highlights far more than just his fantastic lack of appeal – it underlines why the left need to stop trying to play the media's game, writes Connor Bryan

Kasai Allstars

Beware The Fetish

The Las Vegas Story: Kid Congo Powers Of The Gun Club Interviewed

Crunch master Julian Marszalek speaks to Kid Congo Powers about the 30th anniversary of The Las Vegas Story

Boris

Noise

The Eye Of Time

Acoustic

Complete Communion: June’s Jazz Reviewed

Jamie Skey heads to the reunited Loose Tubes' recent gig at Ronnie Scott's, has an in-depth interview with Phronesis' Jasper Høiby and reviews new releases from Bitch 'N' Monk, Alexander Hawkins Ensemble, Neil Cowley Trio and Matthew Halsall & The Gondwana Orchestra

Bridie Jackson And The Arbour

New Skin

A Beautiful World: An Interview With Flamingods

With members currently scattered between Dubai and the UK and ahead of their new album Hyperborea, Flamingods talk to Stuart Huggett about how a lack of a single national identity helps create their music without borders

The Hamsters

Bloody Hell!

Martyn

The Air Between Words

Paid Attention: Johnny Dean Of Menswear’s Favourite Albums

With a new single from the rejuvenated Menswear recently released, frontman Johnny Dean talks about sax appeal, music as maths and why pop is as much about what you see as what you hear

OutKast and Southernplaya- listicadillacmuzik Revisited

Often dismissed by Andre and Big themselves as a misstep, Angus Batey looks for (and finds) much worth in the OutKast debut

“Spacing The Fuck Out Is A Major Pastime”: Jennifer Herrema Interviewed

Jennifer Herrema on Black Bananas, Royal Trux and keeping on rocking. Interview by Nick Hutchings. All photographs by Cat Stevens

Short Fiction By: Chris Killen

New writing returns - in rude health after a two week spell of rest for 'exhaustion' - with a short story on the nature of love and equestrianism, courtesy of novelist Chris Killen

Wrote Through Ghosts To Get Here: Ghosts Of My Life & Cultural Paralysis

Exploring - and taking as a yardstick - Mark Fisher's Ghosts of My Life, Paul Wolinski considers the apparent paralysis of contemporary culture and the slow cancellation of the future through the lens of the success and failures of advances in electronic music production

The Return of Alan Moore’s Miracleman

Joe Banks takes a look at 'The Original Writer's legendary 'lost' series

Stars In Battledress

In Droplet Form

Alex G

DSU

Dirty Movies: An Interview With Matt Johnson

Nadia Attia talks to to Matt Johnson, director of the school shooting-inspired buddy movie, The Dirties

Pleasurable Delirium: Things The Quietus Learned At Sónar 2014

Last week, the Quietus relocated to Barcelona for Sónar Festival, one of the year's major electronic music summits. Angus Finlayson, Luke Turner, Rory Gibb and Ben Cardew report back on some of the life lessons they took home with them

Why Metallica Headlining Is Exactly What Glastonbury Needs

Fourth horseman Dan Franklin rides the lightning to Metallica's defence and compiles a top ten of songs he'd like to see them perform in order to level a crowd of millennials smashed on miaow miaow and entitlement

The Strange World Of… Tori Amos

With her fourteenth album recently released, the prolific singer-songwriter and composer sat down with Alex Macpherson to reflect on some of the more overlooked moments in her back catalogue

Anathema

Distant Satellites

Glass Animals

Zaba

At One With Chaos & Abandonment: The Irrepressibles Interviewed

Joseph Burnett meets The Irrepressibles' bandleader Jamie McDermott to discuss their Nude album and EP sequence, his extraordinary singing voice, and exploring gender and sexuality through song

Francisco López

Hyper-Rainforest/Yanayacu

‘Noise Is Japanese Blues’: An Interview With Boris

With the Japanese shapeshifters' nineteenth album Noise released this month, Tristan Bath meets the mighty Boris in London to discuss the background noise of life, their many collaborative projects and, of course, guitar feedback

Flip Your Wig: Bob Mould’s Favourite Albums

With his new, eleventh solo album Beauty & Ruin just released, the Hüsker Dü and Sugar man gives Nick Hutchings his top 13 records

Siinai

Supermarket

Drcarlsonalbion

Gold

Monty Python

Total Rubbish

High NRG Dancefloor Mayhem: An Interview With Blacknecks

Harry Sword meets the not-so-shadowy duo behind the belting Italo-gabber-techno of Blacknecks, responsible for some of the Quietus' favourite club bangers of the year so far, to chat boogie nights, tape loops and cereal boxes