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Savages

Silence Yourself

Gone But Still Reigning: Jeff Hanneman And Slayer Live

Over the last decade John Doran has written more Slayer live reviews than he can actually remember. This one sums up why the group means so much to him. Photographs of Slayer live courtesy of Maria Jefferis/Shot2Bits

Wolf People

Fain

Behold! May’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Aug Stone and Reggie Chamberlain-King are back with their favourite comics of the past few months

We Want To Cause Confusion: Vision Fortune Interviewed

The churning drones and hammered percussion of London's Vision Fortune thrillingly blur the lines between electronics and guitars. With their debut album imminent, they sit down with Joe Clay to discuss musical freedom, plus listen to an exclusive advance stream of the full album

The Sun Also Rises: Marshall Allen And James Harrar Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to Arkestra veteran Marshall Allen and left field film maker James Harrar about the Cinema Soloriens project. Photographs courtesy of Ka

Deerhunter

Monomania

A Warm Hand For Mister Fisto’s Entry: The Best Eurovision Acts

The Quietus takes a tour around Europe to find some of the finest Eurovision national runners-up in recent years. Here's what could have been!

Har Mar Superstar

Bye Bye 17

Tricks Of Perception: An Interview & Mix From Helm

As Helm, Luke Younger twists acoustic sounds out of all recognition, his music's gritty ambience playing tricks with the mind. With a London show this coming Monday, he speaks with Josh Hall about construction sites and sonic collage - plus listen to an exclusive mix below

Daft Punk: Random Access Memories Track-By-Track Preview

You may have heard that a pair of French robots are releasing a new album this month - Paul Smith has a first listen

Vitamin Gee: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie Sees The Light

Julian Marszalek talks to the Primal Scream frontman about their new album More Light, the state of rock music in 2013 and living in post-Thatcher Britain

Imperfectionism: An Interview With Lumigraph

Dublin's Lumigraph crafts murky, crunchy dance tracks that draw equally from the rough sample cuts of hip-hop and techno's propulsive fury. He speaks with Ian Maleney about learning that mistakes can be good things

Dancing In Quicksand: Tool’s Undertow Revisited

Twenty five years after its release, Matt Evans revisits the progressive alternative metal band's debut album

James Blake

Overgrown

Masked Balls And Papal Bull: Ghost B.C. Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to a Nameless Ghoul from the none-more-entertaining Ghost B.C.

Iggy & The Stooges

Ready To Die

Various Artists

Sub Pop 1000

Adding It Up: Violent Femmes’ Debut Album Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the newly-reformed Milwaukee trio’s punk-folk classic that perfectly soundtracked his teenage angst.

(Ensemble Pearl)

(Ensemble Pearl)

A Distant Radiating Orb: Barn Owl Interviewed

With new album V, Bay Area duo Barn Owl soar into more overtly electronic territories than ever before, infusing the gorgeous, glacial drones of their earlier work with a dub-inspired sense of shifting space. Ned Raggett catches up with them to discuss this gradual evolution

Private Voyeuristic Pleasures: The Letters And Life Of Kurt Vonnegut

On publication of a new book of the author's letters, Carol Huston looks at the many lives of Kurt Vonnegut

Making Idiots Of Us All: Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle (1963) Revistied

Fifty years after its initial publication Eli Lee examines the themes - among them religion, violence and morality - that categorise Vonnegut's fourth novel and continue to frame our contemporary discourse

Wolf Eyes

No Answer: Lower Floors

“Sing Up, You F*ckers!”: A Heavenly Coach Trip To Paris

Heavenly Recordings is currently the Quietus' go-to label for smart, cosmic indie pop. Laurie Tuffrey jumps on a coach to Paris with label Pied Piper Jeff Barrett and his charges Toy, Stealing Sheep, Charlie Boyer & The Voyeurs and Temples. Photographs courtesy of Neil Thomson

Films For Music: Neil Young’s Human Highway Reappraised

In the first of a regular feature for The Quietus, Anthony Nield looks back at Neil Young's 1982 cinematic folly, Human Highway

Shuggie Otis

Inspiration Information/Wings of Love

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part V – Street Wisdom

Cairo's streets contain different forms of danger. John Doran spends his last evening with the artist and photographer Ayman Ramadan

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part IV – Filming The Revolutionary Party

"Don't politicise the music" was a warning given to John Doran before setting off for Cairo. Easier said than done... part four of his blog where he meets the film maker Salma el Tarzi

Junip

Junip

Phoenix

Bankrupt

Another Wardrobe In My Head: Karl Hyde’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his first solo album, Edgeland, the Underworld singer picks out the jewels of his record collection