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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

Factory Floor

Factory Floor

Where Consciousness Ends: How Can Art Coexist With Nature?

How can art provide an illuminating window on human society's changing relationships with nature? The gradual reclaiming of the sculptures at Ireland's Lough Boora by their surroundings and the work of musician Richard Skelton offer powerful examples, writes Ian Maleney

A Label On A Mission: Two Decades Of Kompakt

Theo Ploeg speaks to Wolfgang Voigt, Michael Mayer and Hans Nieswandt about 20 years of minimal techno, ambient and pop. Mayer photograph by Anne Vlaanderen

Tropical Storm: An Interview With Machinedrum

On his new album Vapor City, Travis Stewart stirs rhythmic tics from drum & bass and footwork into intensely humid and immersive urban collages. He speaks to Rory Gibb about throwing out the blueprints and the enduring appeal of jungle

Washed Out

Paracosm

The Experiment Is Vital: Damien Dubrovnik Interviewed

Emerging from the same close-knit Copenhagen scene as Iceage, Damien Dubrovnik create coruscating vistas of provocative synth-noise, as raw as a fresh stab wound. With latest album First Burning Attraction released this year, they speak with Ian Maleney about making new worlds

Manic Street Preachers’ Nicky Wire Reviews Rewind The Film

Manic Street Preachers' bassist and propagandist-in-chief Nicky Wire takes Marc Burrows through their new album track by track. Photographs courtesy of Alex Lake

The Outer Church

The Outer Church

Just Some Modern Rock Songs: Stuart Murdoch’s Favourite Albums

The Glaswegian indie pop pioneers' frontman picks out his top 13 records

Gone Man: Seamus Heaney Remembered

After the sad passing of one of poetry's true behemoths this weekend, Tim Smyth recalls a life spent in the warm and formidable shadow of Seamus Heaney, possessed with a desire above all else to "chase the man"

Babyshambles

Sequel To The Prequel