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A Cosmic Love Affair: Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia

Third eye pilot Julian Marszelek opens wide to absorb the wonders of the second Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia

20 Years On: The Boo Radleys’ Giant Steps Revisited

Charlie Frame revisits the magpie indie psychedelic album that first blew his mind two decades ago

North-South Divide: In Conversation With David Peace & Luke Haines

Stuart Evers speaks to the rock 'n' roll auteur and Faber's superstar author about the role of the outsider, the shadow history of music and mining nostalgia

Tropic Of Cancer

Restless Idylls

King Khan & The Shrines

Idle No More

How The Baby Boomers Stole Music With Myths Of A Golden Age

Luke Turner despairs of John Lennon tooth cloning and the cultural stranglehold the baby boomer generation have over culture and the media... and asks, in our diverse modern age, might it be starting to weaken?

Music For Dark Rooms: An Interview With Daniel Avery

Daniel Avery's debut album Drone Logic finds the London-based DJ and producer tripping out into expansive, lysergic techno territory. He speaks with Rory Gibb about the enduring appeal of DJing and a love for tracks that blindside you on a dancefloor

The Golden Section: John Foxx’s Favourite Albums

The electronics pioneer pens his own Baker's Dozen and gives us a slightly different twist on the 13 favourites formula

For Whom The Film Rolls: Metallica: Through The Never Reviewed

Cinematic rock folly, ahoy! Tristan Bath views Metallica's new concert film, Through The Never, and tries to contain its sheer epic grandeur in mere words

Yuck

Glow And Behold

Not Pleading The Fifth: Dizzee Rascal Speaks

Laura Snoad travels to Dirtee Stank Studios in South London to speak to Dizzee Rascal about his new album The Fifth, southern rap and the London riots

Hunter Complex

Heat

‘The Music, The Trip & The Beyond’: 11Paranoias Interviewed

Toby Cook raises a claw to the magisterially heavy 11 Paranoias, formed from the embers of the dearly departed Ramesses, and speaks with the band's Adam Richardson about "being paranoid in all planes, spheres and dimensions simultaneously"

Full Clip: September’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Drake is out there. He can't be bargained with. He can't be reasoned with. Drake doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And he absolutely will not stop ever until you are dead. If you want to live, go with Gary Suarez our hip hop guru

Nirvana

In Utero (Reissue)

Unearthly Delights: Lydia Lunch’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the no wave pioneer's set with Big Sexy Noise at The Lexington tomorrow, she reluctantly takes up the gauntlet and picks her top 13 LPs

Destruction Unit

Deep Trip

65daysofstatic

Wild Light

Dog Soldiers: New Model Army Interviewed

At the weekend veteran alternative rock band NMA scored their first hit album in 20 years. Marc Burrows talks to Justin Sullivan, frontman of the perennial outsiders

Chvrches

The Bones of What You Believe

An Eye For An Eye: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds’ Tender Prey Revisited

Twenty five years after its release, John Freeman looks back at an album - created amid chaos - that would become the making of The Bad Seeds.

Songs As Meditations: An Interview With Body/Head

On their debut album Coming Apart, the seething guitar noise of Kim Gordon and Bill Nace's Body/Head project possesses a strikingly raw emotional force. Petra Davis speaks to the duo about the meditative improvisational processes that went into its making

All That Jas: Woody Allen’s Blue Jasmine Reviewed

David Katz reviews Woody Allen's latest alleged return to form, starring Cate Blanchett

Carlton Melton

Always Even

Two Poems By: Martha Sprackland

New poetry this week comes courtesy of the multiple-award-winning and enviably prolific Martha Sprackland

Andrew Weatherall & Michael Smith: An Alchemy of Circumstance

Joe Clay speaks to the novelist and the musician about their relationship, forthcoming Faber-published collaboration, the links between their work and the circumstancial nature of the whole shebang

Manic Street Preachers

Rewind The Film

Things The Quietus Learned At Incubate 2013

Last week, the Quietus office relocated to Tilburg for the latest installment of Incubate Festival. Rory Gibb, Luke Turner, Mat Colegate and Laurie Tuffrey report back from the week's events

Cooked To Perfection: Why You Have To Watch Breaking Bad

With its final installment about to arrive, David Stubbs casts an eye back over the exquisitely bleak, hyperreal vista of one of the most unique TV shows in history and asks - why haven't you watched Breaking Bad yet? (contains mild spoilers)

Mike Doughty

Circles Super Bon Bon Sleepless

Les Gauchistes Authentiques: Rockfort Interviews EDH & Hypo

In our latest French music column, David McKenna interviews the musical pairing who juxtapose ironic detachment with deadly seriousness to thrilling effect

Musiccargo

Harmonie