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Uneasy Listening: An Interview With Sky Needle

Brisbane's Sky Needle are the sound of fever dreams and dehydrated desert hallucinations given physical form, churning out sickly improvisations on ramshackle home-built instruments. Sanjay Fernandes talks to the band's Joel Stern about new LP Debased Shapes and the art of self-sabotage

Various Artists

Punk 45: Kill The Hippies! Kill Yourself!

The Necks

Open

Cut Copy

Free Your Mind

The Art Of The Control Freak: Juana Molina Interviewed

The Argentinian TV star turned singer-songwriter tells Erin Lyndal Martin about the evolution of her sixth album Wed 21

Knights Of Wrongness: The Strange World Of Regis & Downwards

As Downwards celebrates 20 years with an excellent compilation and new great releases from Oake and Samuel Kerridge, Luke Turner sits down with Karl O'Connor to discuss two decades of chaotic and righteous music making, from Sandra Electronics to Downwards releases, and solo work to the British Murder Boys

30 Years On: The House Of Love’s Debut Album Revisited

Ned Raggett revisits The House Of Love's debut and finds an album that's aged beautifully

Peer Review: Giancarlo DiTrapano Interviews Scott McClanahan

In the first of a series of editor-on-author interviews, Giancarlo DiTrapano of Tyrant speaks to his friend and author Scott McClanahan about life in West Virginia, respecting your audience and having (or not having) beef with George Saunders

Two Poems By: Melissa Lee-Houghton

Having previously appeared on The Quietus in Bobby Parker's first All Tomorrow's Voices column, this week's new writing comes by way of two poems from Melissa Lee-Houghton's new collection Beautiful Girls

All Tomorrow’s Voices: Dan Holloway

For his second column for The Quietus, showcasing new voices in poetry, Bobby Parker speaks to Dan Holloway about his novel in numbers, the perils of reading your work and the limitations of self-publishing

Cosmic Possibility & Utter Weirdness: Revisiting Georges Franju

With French director Georges' Franju's horror masterpiece Eyes Without A Face being screened at the BFI tomorrow night, Michael Wojtas explains why his films deserve to be seen as classics

Kerridge

A Fallen Empire

Culturally Clueless: Race, Feminism & Lily Allen’s Hard Out Here Video

Alex Macpherson is less than impressed with the exploitative and racially dubious aspects of Lily Allen's supposedly empowering 'Hard Out Here' video

Juana Molina

Wed 21

Psychic Space Gypsy – Twin’d Evenings with Hawkwind’s Nik Turner

The Mighty Thunder Rider talks to Aug Stone about Mayan gods, transvestite Mariachi strip clubs, and having a really good time

Where There’s A Will: Rockfort Reviews Nördik Impakt Festival

In his latest French music column, David McKenna visits the Nördik Impakt festival in Caen, has his mind blasted by Gesaffelstein (pictured) and ends up puzzled by latest sensation FAUVE ≠

Future Of The Left

How To Stop Your Brain In An Accident

Wooden Shjips

Back To Land

Emptyset

Recur

Gary War / Purple Pilgrims

Split

Great Hosannah! Icarus Line Live Keep Rock & Roll Rutting

All it takes is 45 minutes of The Icarus Line (and Bad For Lazarus) to restore Ben Graham's faith in rock & roll. Photos by Sam Collins

Krautmock: Sly & The Family Drone’s Psychic Demolition

"No one would forget their first Sly experience..." With their new album Unnecessary Woe released this month, Lisa Lavery reflects on Sly & The Family Drone's ongoing tug-of-war between discipline and delirious chaos

Various Artists

New Orleans Funk Volume Three

Note: Contains Spoilers for the HBO TV show Treme

Cate Le Bon

Mug Museum

Soundhead: Robert Hampson Of Loop’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the first Loop gigs in 22 years, Robert Hampson tells John Doran about the LPs that he feels were neglected at the time but are now finding their audience

Europe Is Our Playground: The Declining Power Of Edith Piaf

Jeremy Allen marks the 50th anniversary of the passing of The Little Sparrow and asks contemporary artists about her significance

Jenny Hval

Innocence Is Kinky

Love’s Secret Ascension: Coil, Coltrane & The 70th Birthday Of LSD

Author and new Quietus writer Peter Bebergal celebrates the original synthesis of LSD with a thoughtful look at acid and transcendent, magickal music

Drum & Haze: An Interview & Mix From Ricardo Tobar

Ricardo Tobar has just released his debut album of melody-soaked, atmospheric techno, Treillis. He speaks to Joe Clay about a love of shoegaze and growing up in Chile, plus has recorded us an exclusive Quietus mix which you can listen to below

Misty Conditions

D'zzzz

Way Through

Clapper Is Still

Post Global Music: David Pajo’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the reunited Slint playing shows this month and next, the hyper-prolific multi-instrumentalist hones his record collection down to a top 13