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Big Wheel Keeps On Turning: Elvis Costello Interviewed

Terry Staunton spins the wheel with Elvis Costello and takes him back through the years, and discusses Thatcher's death, Britain today, and protest songs

Whistle While You Work: On Music & Toil From Communism To Coldplay

Next time your bellend of a boss tells you to take out your headphones, throw this at him. David Bell interviews Marek Korczynski of the University Of Nottingham about the history and functionality of music in the workplace

Donato Dozzy

Plays Bee Mask

Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Albums: Alex Kapranos’ Baker’s Dozen

The Franz Ferdinand frontman distils his record collection into a top 13 favourite albums

Desert Heat

Cat Mask At Huggie Temple

All The Kids Are Dead Kids: Fat White Family Live

Fat White Family are the seediest, strangest, nastiest guitar group in Britain today, and The Quietus loves them. We sent John Calvert to review a recent gig in a derelict hospital. Photographs thanks to Lou Smith

Årabrot – Årabrot: Track By Track Review

Årabrot are currently one of the best heavy rock bands in the world. Here core member Kjetil Nernes talks (to John Doran) about inspiration

Not Afraid Of Repetition: David Peace’s Red Or Dead Reviewed

In David Peace's Bill Shankly novel, Stuart Evers finds scant comparison beyond the obvious to 2006's The Damned Utd and a great deal more beyond the realms of sporting fixtures to celebrate

Imre Kertész: Music, Silence, Automation

Coinciding with the release of his first (and apparently only) memoir, Dossier K, earlier this year Daniel Fraser considers the writing and the life of Hungarian Nobel Prize-winning author Imre Kertész

Julia Holter

Loud City Song

The Mountain Goats

All Hail West Texas

First Words: The Abyss Gazes Into You

Interspersed with photography from life long friend Spencer Murphy's 'The Abyss Gazes Into You', Cyrus Shahrad considers his fraught personal relationship with writing, the unreliability of memory and the effect of social media

Europe Is Our Playground: Meeting The Voina Group At Roskilde

Jeremy Allen meets the direct action, politically charged performance art group that gave birth to Pussy Riot. Photos - Alexey Plutser-Sarno & Yana Sarnа / Voina Group

Föllakzoid

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

Gary Suarez gets stuck into the last month's mixtapes, with offerings from Jeremiah Jae (pictured), Joey Bada$$, Cory Gunz and Spenzo

Soul-Searching Frequencies: Eugene Hütz Of Gogol Bordello’s Favourite LPs

Following the release of their new album Pura Vida Conspiracy, Gogol Bordello's frontman trawls his records collection to pick out his top 13

Sucker Punch: An Interview With Fist City

Fist City's joyous punk rock mêlée delivers a double knockout blow, blending wild immediacy with subtle lyrical depth. Tom Hannan catches up with singer Kier Griffiths to discuss how both personal and political issues are intertwined in their new album

Eric Copeland

Joke In The Hole

Pure Undisturbed Reality: An Interview With Stara Rzeka

Stara Rzeka's debut album, a thrilling blend of black metal, krautrock and drone, has made it one of the Quietus' favourites of 2013 so far. In advance of his debut UK performance at Unsound London, Joseph Burnett catches up with him to discuss humanity and its connection to nature

High Feedelity: Lindstrøm And Maaemo Cook Up A Storm

When Norway’s best restaurant tried to reinterpret an album by its most revered cosmic disco producer, John Doran was on hand to taste (and listen to) the results

Super Zeros: Kick Ass 2 Reviewed

Mat Colegate Hulks out on 'real-world' superhero sequel Kick Ass 2

Four Tet

Rounds (Reissue)

For The Strangers: What Suede Are Listening To In 2013

Ahead of their concert in the charming surroundings of Hampstead Heath on Friday, August 23, Suede's Mat Osman gives us a run-down of the music that's been exciting him lately. Quietus Ed Luke Turner would like to talk this opportunity to thank Suede for booking British Sea Power to support them at said gig. Cheers!

Lost At Sea: An Interview With Dead Rat Orchestra

Colchester's premiere avant-folk trio meet up with Charlie Frame to discuss curiosity, the hazards of chopping wood in the middle of a busy audience, and making music using pigeons and pieces of an old Chris de Burgh record

Forward Motion: Nick Saloman Of The Bevis Frond Interviewed

Mark Burgess talks to Nick Saloman from cult UK psych rockers the Bevis Frond about persistence and psychedelia

E.m.m.a

Blue Gardens

Things Learned At: Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2013

Mat Colegate shares some insights into the 2013 Nowe Horyzonte film festival in Wroclaw, Poland

Stand Up, People! Yugoslavian Gypsy Pop Explored

Josh Hall speaks with Philip Knox, co-curator of a new compilation of Roma gypsy pop from Tito's Yugoslavia, to discuss the political and social conditions that informed this remarkable, innovative music

20 Years On: The Breeders’ Last Splash Revisited

Emily Mackay enjoys goosebumps - or is that endures horripilation - on relistening to the Breeders' second LP

Lost In Translations, In The Library Of Babel

As translation-focused publishers move out from the fringes and closer to the forefront of the industry (and our bookcases), Thomas Brewster considers the implications of our Anglo-Saxon obsession and the twisting of language

Connecting Nothing With Something: The Sea Inside

Preparing to release an anthology of coastal reflections, Gary Budden of Influx Press considers the possible futures and hidden pasts of the South East Coast and our irrepressible connection with the sea

The Legendary Pink Dots

The Gethsemane Option