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Welcome To Rugby Club Land: Godfrey Bloom & Other Dangerous Buffoons

After UKIP MEP Godfrey Bloom was recorded making racist comments about “bongo bongo land”, Joe Kennedy argues that he is just one example of a breed of right wing "trollitician" whose buffoonery disguises a dark, potent, English misanthropy

Horns Up Ya Shitters! July’s Best Metal Reviewed

'Like having your limbs ripped off and being beaten to death with the soggy ends'? Yes, it can mean only one thing - Toby Cook returns to take you by the hand and lead you through the month's best heavy metal

Luke Haines

Rock And Roll Animals

Too Good To Be True: Tom Robinson’s Favourite Albums

The erstwhile punk frontman and now radio presenter and all-round man of music distils his sprawling record collection down to his 13 finest albums

Behold! August’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Mat Colegate, Aug Stone, and Reggie Chamberlain-King present the best comics they've read this summer

Cigarettes & Fine White Wine: Asia Argento & Alan Bishop In Conversation

Asia Argento has finished recording Total Entropy, her first full-length album. Between shooting scenes for a new film in Corsica, she speaks to Alan Bishop of Sun City Girls and Sublime Frequencies about the album, music, writing and, of course, smoking

Pharmakon

Abandon

AlunaGeorge

Body Music

Die AHAA-rd: Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan reviews Alan Partridge's first foray into feature films, but is it classic intercourse or merely monkey tennis?

Darren Hayman

Bugbears

Watain’s The Wild Hunt: A Track By Track Review

Toby Cook fires up the life pipe and reclines on a chaise lounge made from human thigh bones to give you his first listen impressions of the new Watain album

A Drop Of Spontaneity: An Interview With Pinkunoizu

Andreas Pallisgaard of Danish art-rockers Pinkunoizu talks to John Freeman about how processes of improvisation inspired new album The Drop

Robin Thicke

Blurred Lines

When Life Gives You Lemons: Matthew Herbert Interviewed

From sampling a tank rolling over a Nigella Lawson dinner to creating an album detailing the life of a pig from birth to plate (2011’s One Pig), Matthew Herbert has long been one of Britain’s most remarkable musicians. Here he talks to Ben Cardew

Return To Orbit: The Long, Strange Trip Of Terminal Cheesecake

London's clown princes of synapse-shredding noise rock and psychedelia Terminal Cheesecake have just reunited with help from Gnod, and are preparing to lay waste to Supernormal Festival. Jimmy Martin caught up with the band's members to talk onstage drug experiences and their strange and addled history

Moderat

II

Beyond Manu Chao: The Charmed Life Of Peter Culshaw

To mark the release of his new book, Clandestino: in Search of Manu Chao, Adrian Dannatt considers the life, not of his subject but of Peter Culshaw himself

Technology Can’t Fight Back: Untangling The Web With Aleks Krotoski

Emily Bick speaks to the writer, broadcaster and social psychologist about her new book, Untangling the Web, the perceived influence of the internet on our lives and, perhaps more importantly, vice versa

Goose Fare: Only God Forgives Reviewed

Patrick Smith picks a fight with Nicholas Winding Refn and Ryan Gosling's follow up to the acclaimed Drive

Twilight Zone: Jørgen Munkeby Of Shining Interviewed

Norwegian jazz/metal firebrands Shining recently released their latest album, One One One. Dayal Patterson catches up with band leader Jørgen Munkeby to discuss the spiritual connections between jazz and metal, and being led by the heart rather than the head

Grumbling Fur

Glynnaestra

The Icarus Line

Slave Vows

The Strange World Of… The Legendary Pink Dots

Lovers of the strange! The Legendary Pink Dots are back with brilliant new album The Gethsemane Option. The band's Ed Ka-Spel runs through the strange world of their history

Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed

Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'

Various Artists

Manchester Standards

Choose The Good Life: Club Tropicana By Wham! Revisited

Eli Davies looks back at one of Wham!'s biggest hits and admires what she sees

Dead Meadow

Dead Meadow (reissue)

Stripped To The Bone: Factory Floor Interview

Dom Butler, Gabe Gurnsey and Nik Void talk to John Doran about the intense and protracted business of making their first album

Mysterious Handsome Men: An Interview With Girl Band

Dublin's Girl Band tore through Quietus HQ earlier this year with their unhinged and brilliant cover of Blawan's 'Why They Hide Their Bodies Under My Garage'. Paul Tucker met them to discuss the quirks of self-recording and why they're infuriated by Nirvana comparisons

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

Our man Gary Suarez looks back over the month in rap long players

Northern Uproar

All That Was Has Gone

Sweet Narcotic Reverie: An Interview With The Lucid Dream

On their newly released debut album Carlisle's neo-psych trainwreckers The Lucid Dream inject their music with equal parts pop-suss and blistering noise. The band's Mark Emmerson speaks with Ben Graham about avoiding psychedelia's stereotypical trappings and working in isolation