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Two Poems By: Siobhan Bledsoe

Week two of new writing comes once again via New York City in the form of two poems by Siobhan Bledsoe

Requiem For Youth: An Interview With Darran Anderson

Darran Anderson is the author of poetry collection Tesla’s Ghost, a forthcoming biography of Jack Kerouac, and Histoire de Melody Nelson, a book about Serge Gainsbourg and his most provocative album. He speaks to Christiana Spens about music, censorship and Lolita, and the relationship between poetry, pain, and pleasure

Beyond The Ones & Zeroes: Pynchon’s Bleeding Edge Reviewed

Finding conspiracy theories, old friends and pop culture en masse, Aug Stone considers Thomas Pynchon's latest novel - as a stand alone piece, a companion to its predecessors and another contribution to the author's sprawling universe

The Art Of Self-Objectification: Alissa Nutting Interviewed

Emily Berry speaks with the author of Tampa, perhaps the year's most controversial novel, about gender roles, the power of transgressive art and the inevitable comparisons with Nabokov's Lolita

Charlotte Church

THREE

The Fun Is Not Over: Flux Of Pink Indians Interviewed

With their three-decades old debut album newly reissued, Neil Macdonald speaks with members of the anarcho-punk group about a love of feedback, reissue culture and their 2007 one-off reunion gig

Thor-mula One: Rush Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan waves the chequered flag on the new motor racing biopic from Ron Howard

The Temperance Movement

The Temperance Movement

Big Sean

Hall Of Fame

“Well, I Died…” Martin Newell On Creativity, Writing & Resurrection

Aug Stone speaks to the wild man of Wivenhoe about death, the state of modern pop, and how the miners' strike inadvertently brought about his writing career

Kavus Torabi/Various Artists

The Exquisite Corpse Game

Colin Stetson

New History Warfare Vol. 3: To See More Light

Masta Ace Incorporated’s SlaughtaHouse – 20 Years On

Ahead of Masta Ace's appearance at Incubate Festival in Tiburg, NL, next week, Angus Batey revisits the classic LP SlaughtaHouse

Breaking Apart The Sky: Dustin Wong Interviewed

Using just guitar, effects and a loop pedal, Dustin Wong conjures up hypnotic and immersive instrumental psych-pop. He speaks with Tristan Bath about new album Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy, musical dualities and drawing inspiration from Tokyo

Pond

Hobo Rocket

Body/Head

Coming Apart

A History Of Wolf Eyes’ Most Crazed Gigs, By Wolf Eyes

US noise kingpins Wolf Eyes recently released their new album, No Answer: Lower Floors. Ahead of their shows at Incubate, the group's John Olson - under the guise of INZANE JOHNNY - recounts a history of some of their wildest gigs, from accidental mace-related head injuries to Italian construction sites

Smashing Pumpkins

The Aeroplane Flies High (Box Set Reissue)

Turning Rebellion Into Money? The Clash Sound System Box Set Reviewed

On the release of a large (near) career encompassing box set, Julian Marszalek undertakes a fearsome challenge - to persuade the Quietus editors that The Clash are a band worth taking seriously in 2013...

Escaping The Candy Store: No Bra Interviewed

No Bra's new album Candy is as witty and weird as ever, setting her customary deadpan humour and provocations to sparse instrumental backdrops. She speaks to Bryony Beynon about avoiding capitalist gender stereotypes and fantasising about "having sex with random construction workers in random suburbs of London"

Arctic Monkeys

AM

Gabe Factory Floor On: Caring For The English Bulldog

In the second of our series of Factory Floor features, drummer Gabe Gurnsey tells us about the pleasures, pongs and musical potential of his English bulldog, Vince. Photos by Anna Stroe, classic album covers feat. Vince by Gurnsey

Diabolical Intent: Erik Danielsson Of Watain Interviewed

Magickal, transcendental and Satanic. Toby Cook talks to Erik Danielsson about raising hell and "murdering" dogs

13 Different Ways: Nik Colk Void Of Factory Floor’s Favourite LPs

As Factory Floor release their debut album, we speak to Nik Colk Void about musical re-education and her favourite 13 LPs. They're a noisy bunch...

Goldfrapp

Tales Of Us

To The Invisible Lighthouse: Thomas Dolby Interviewed

Thomas Dolby talks to Joe Stannard about the fragility of memory and UFO sightings as his UK tour kicks off

Superchunk

I Hate Music

All Tomorrow’s Voices: Melissa Lee-Houghton

In the first installment of his Quietus column, showcasing new and emerging voices in poetry, Bobby Parker speaks in-depth to, and brings us a new poem from, Melissa Lee-Houghton

Two Poems By: Mira Gonzalez

The first instalment of weekly new writing comes by way of two new poems from twenty-one year old Mira Gonzalez

An Open Letter To Sean Thomas

Stephen Connolly writes in response to a cynical Telegraph blog on the life and work of Seamus Heaney

Experiments on Experiments: Multiples Reviewed

In Adam Thirlwell's Multiples Thomas Brewster finds a mixed bag - a formidable, perhaps even groundbreaking anthology - both cause for concern and celebration

Talking A Load Of Rap: Jeanie Finlay Talks The Great Hip Hop Hoax

Documentary director Jeanie Finlay talks to Colm McAuliffe about her upcoming film The Great Hip Hop Hoax and discusses her choices of movies showing at Nottingham's Broadway Cinema in September