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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

RM Hubbert

Breaks & Bone

Reeko W/ Architectural

The Blue Album

After A Healthy Interval: The Young Knives Interviewed

Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst offers a mea culpa, a unique insight and a robust appraisal of the newly invigorated and under-appreciated rock group, Young Knives

Anger Through Grace: Nicky Wire’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of their eleventh LP Rewind The Film, the Manic Street Preachers man scours his record collection for the list to end all lists

Moving On: Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Tristan Bath puts on Tom Waits' watershed album from 1983 and raises a Mickey's Big Mouth to the singer... and his wife, Kathleen Brennan

Bill Callahan

Dream River

UnicaZürn

Dark Earth Distillery

We’ve Soaked Into People’s DNA: Joe Elliott Of Def Leppard Speaks

Aug Stone chats to the Def Leppard frontman about revisiting Hysteria for the release of their concert film

The Dead C

Armed Courage

Are These The Drones You’re Looking For? Schneider TM Interviewed

Once known for pioneering 'indietronica', Schneider TM is now disappearing into a vortex of beautiful, irresistible noise. Wyndham Wallace talks to him about his new album, Guitar Sounds, working with Pan Sonic and Damo Suzuki, and why "whatever makes sound can be music"

Tape Adapter: September’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez casts his eye over last month's most notable mixtapes... both good and bad

Oneohtrix Point Never

R Plus Seven

Ed Askew

For The World

Corrupting Sonic DNA: Moby’s Favourite Albums

Moby talks Luke Turner through his formative musical influences, from Nick Drake and OMD to the sound of New York via Suicide, Silver Apples, Eric B & Rakim and Public Enemy

White Boys (Can Control It): Boy George Interviewed

Simon Price meets George O'Dowd – the man who changed his life – and hears how he took the decision to get clean and get happy

The Beast Inside: The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen, 20 Years On

Pondering Mad Men and and the writing of Angela Carter, David McKenna goes back to the release of The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen in 1993

The Julie Ruin

Run Fast

An Accidental Comeback: Reassembling Kitchens Of Distinction

The return of Kitchens Of Distinction was unexpected, even for the band. Wyndham Wallace joins them for their first face-to-face interview together in almost two decades

BOOK REVIEW: From The Slopes Of Olympus…

A year on from London's Olympic Games, Joe Kennedy considers a new book from the capital's own Smoke magazine detailing the attitudes and reactions of its citizens before, during and after the event

Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox

The multi-talented Danny Fox speaks to Christiana Spens about his recent painting, poetry and stories explaining how they overlap - and how they don’t