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Elegance & Savagery: The Jim Jones Revue Interviewed

London rock & roll firebrands The Jim Jones Revue play a four-night residency at the Sebright Arms this week. Ahead of the gigs, they sit down with Julian Marszalek to discuss the rigors of touring and the importance of drawing inspiration from relevant current issues

The End Of Punk: Joe Carducci Interviewed

In a wide-ranging and forthright interview Kevin McCaighy speaks to legendary SST lynch pin and underground rock writer Joe Carducci

Divine Machinery: An Interview With Paul Jebanasam

Subtext label boss Paul Jebanasam is one of several Bristol-based musicians blurring boundaries between contemporary composition, process-based recording and the colossal physicality of sound system culture. With his debut album just released, he explains to Pavel Godfrey how "melody has a way of surviving everything"

Aiming For Epic: Anne Carson’s Red Doc> Reviewed

Erin Lyndal Martin weighs up the pros and cons of recasting the epic in this latest work from Canadian poet Anne Carson, follow-up to her acclaimed Autobiography of Red

Restraint, Dear Boy: Emily Berry Interviewed By Sam Riviere

Fellow Faber poet Sam Riviere speaks with Emily Berry about her much-anticipated and highly-lauded debut collection, Dear Boy, the difficulties of political poetry and the idea of submission

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: ‘F**k! I’ve Lost My Slipper!’

Last week Quietus editor John Doran traveled to Cairo with Incubate's Joost Heijthuijsen to learn more about the city's nascent Electro Chaabi scene. In this report from their final day in Egypt, Joost reflects on the tangled relationships between past and present that they encountered along the way

New Maps Of Hell: Why Evil Dead Fails To Bring The Fear

Mat Colegate comes away unimpressed by the new Evil Dead remake and thinks up some new techniques to satisfy shock-hungry audiences. Contains mild spoilers

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