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Coming Twice: Why Do Artists Feel Compelled To Reenact Past Events?

Jeremy Allen investigates the current vogue for artistic reenactments of concerts and tours, from Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway to The Cramps and Einsturzende Neubauten making a racket at the ICA. Featuring interviews with Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Jo Mitchell, Vivienne Gaskin, Jeremy Deller Mike Rutherford impersonator Sébastien Lamothe

Younghusband

Dromes

Bl’ast From The Past: Grohl & More Talk Hardcore Innovators

This month, cult California hardcore pioneers Bl'ast release an album of long-lost recordings, remastered with the help of Dave Grohl. The band, Grohl and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson tell Jamie Thomson about the band's history and how a chance discovery led to their resurrection

David Yow

Tonight You Look Like A Spider

I Fought The Nazis – And Now We’ve Voted Them In

Twenty years ago this month, the BNP won its first ever seat, in an East London by-election. In an exclusive extract from his book Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right, Daniel Trilling speaks to the people who were there at the time

Belle & Sebastian

The Third Eye Centre

Croydonian Dada: Basically Johnny Moped Reviewed

Bryony Beynon checks out a new documentary on heroic punk outsiders Johnny Moped

Joanna Gruesome

Weird Sister

20 Years On: KRS-One’s Return Of The Boom Bap Revisited

Angus Batey claims that KRS-ONE is hip hop's "spirit guide and conscience"... and we're in agreement. Here he revisits his first official solo album two decades after its release

Jumping The Shark: An Interview With Hjaltalín

With the release of their third album, Enter 4, Hjaltalín frontman Högni Egilsson talks to John Freeman about dead sharks and recording demos in a psychiatric hospital

Choice Of An Angel: Charlotte Church’s Favourite Albums

Charlotte Church, former world-conquering child soprano turned alt-rock auteur, picks 13 albums that may entirely change your view of her. But, as the Quietus finds out, challenging preconceptions is something she's used to

Complete Communion: A New Quietus Column Devoted To Jazz

It's a new Quietus column! On jazz! Jamie Skey brings us birthday wishes and fond remembrances for jazz legends departed, along with great new albums by Magnus Ostrom, Joachim Kuhn, Blue Touch Paper, Sons of Kemet (pictured) plus a live review of Kentyah Presents: M1, Brian Jackson and The New Midnight Band

Mulatu Astatke

Sketches Of Ethiopia

Can You Feel The Forceps: Carcass, Surgical Steel And Heartwork Revisited

On the release day of their new album, Surgical Steel, Dan Franklin serves up a reminder of why we're lucky to have Carcass back...

letlive.

The Blackest Beautiful

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