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X Factor: The Lost Tapes – When Simon Cowell Met Kraftwerk

Sweat! Passion! Vibrato! David Stubbs unearths Simon Cowell's lost tapes of unsuccessful auditions from Public Enemy, Patti Smith, Kraftwerk, Mark E Smith and PJ Harvey

Song To The Siren: Pop Culture & The Warning Klaxon

Robert Barry explores the growing ubiquity of the warning siren in popular culture, all the way from When Worlds Collide to Jason Derulo's 'Don't Wanna Go Home', via hip hop, the rave explosion, sonic weaponry and the panic sonics of contemporary pop

Tindersticks

Across Six Leap Years

Mission Impossible: My ‘NME 500 Greatest Albums’ Voting Hell

NME veteran Johnny Sharp (formerly Cigarettes) contributed to the magazine's 500 Best LPs Of Old Time. Here, he muses on the worth and mechanics of such a thing, and concludes there's only one thing for it: drink

The Space Between One & Two: Sons Of Kemet Interviewed

London's Shabaka Hutchings and Tom Skinner sit down with Tristan Bath to discuss the free-flowing and vibrant grooves of their new quartet Sons Of Kemet, and how they emerge from a desire to explore the hidden currents linking the world's musics together

Matana Roberts

Coin Coin Chapter Two: Mississippi Moonchile

Shilpa Ray

It’s All Self-Fellatio

Blood Sucking Freaks: Herzog’s Nosferatu Revisited

To mark the BFI's Gothic season, Yasmeen Khan reassesses Werner Herzog's 1979 Nosferatu The Vampyr in light of FW Murnau's 1922 predecessor

Gonga

Concrescence

30 Years On: Soul Mining By The The Revisited

Joseph Burnett looks back to The The's debut proper and finds one of the greatest albums of the 80s

Chased By A Sea Beast: An Interview With Robedoor

Ahead of their performance at this weekend's Bring To Light festival, Glen Mcleod speaks to L.A. duo Robedoor about their ritualistic dungeon psychedelia

Complete Communion: Jamie Skey On Current Jazz Part Two

From festivals to gigs to new albums, Jamie Skey gives his opinions on jazz from the last month

A Brave New World Of Sound: Joakim Sundström Interviewed

Ahead of his talk at Oval Space Cinema tonight, Kitty Lester talks to sound designer Joakim Sundström about Berberian Sound Studio and the future of cinematic audio

Black Hearted Brother

Stars Are Our Home

A Wild Combination: Italian Duo Satelliti Interviewed

John Doran speaks to Andrea Polato and Marco Dalle Luche of the superb genre defying duo Satelliti about electric Miles and transporting the listener to a different space

Facing The Other Way: Ivo Watts-Russell & Vaughan Oliver On 4AD Records

Wyndham Wallace talks to 4AD's founder and chief design artist about the history of the label and Martin Aston's new book

Respect Due: Marshall Jefferson Interviewed

John Doran talks to the Chicago house producer and DJ about times past and present

Cass McCombs

Big Wheel And Others

Two Poems By: Rebecca Perry

This week's dose of new writing medicine comes to us from London-based Rebecca Perry by way of two poems

Refracted In All Its Minutiae: An Interview With Sergio De La Pava

Darran Anderson speaks to the author of the initially-self-published (and now PEN award-winning) novel A Naked Singularity about the book's philosophical, literary and political origins and whether there's a hope for us after all

Behold! October’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Guest Reviewer Sean T. Drinkwater joins Mat Colegate, Aug Stone, and Reggie Chamberlain-King to bring you a dozen new comics reviews

James Ferraro

NYC Hell, 3:00 AM

A Parasitic But Necessary Art: Simon Price On The Role Of The Critic

Mr Simon Price questions Will Self's attack on the critic in the internet age

Specs, Drugs & Rock & Roll: True Stories Of Morcheeba

Wyndham Wallace speaks to Ross Godfrey of Morcheeba about their rock & roll past and their new album Head Up High - streaming here in full

A Circus Of Colour & Light: Mercury Rev’s Boces 25 Years On

Ben Cardew talks to Mercury Rev's original frontman David Baker about the band's classic second album

Gary Numan

Splinter

Child Star To Jarman & Everest: The Strange World Of… Simon Fisher Turner

Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about his long and bizarre career, from child actor, to Jonathan King-signed pop singer, to house-sitting for David Bowie, collaborating with Derek Jarman and his new soundtrack to 1924 film Epic Of Everest

Tripping With Good Weirdos: An Interview With Midday Veil

Joseph Stannard catches up with the Seattle cosmic voyagers to talk recording in extraterrestrial-inspired geodesic domes, cathartic improvisation and the city's current musical community

Remembering Syria: Mark Gergis Of Sublime Frequencies Interviewed

Mark Gergis introduced Omar Souleyman to the West and has released an entrancing double CD of his own recordings for humanitarian charities in Syria. He tells John Doran about the importance of looking beyond the news bulletins when it comes to the Middle East

Every Day Counts: Yoko Ono Interviewed

Petra Davis talks to the inspirational artist, musician and activist Yoko Ono

Experimental Sounds From Poland: A Rum Music Special

Rory Gibb, Luke Turner and John Doran round up some of the Quietus' favourite Polish experimental records of the year so far, from grinding tectonic plates and noise-blasted techno to jazzy sample collage and creeping dread. Part II to follow soon...

Okkervil River

The Silver Gymnasium