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Taping A Slave: Django Unchained Reviewed

David Stubbs is impressed by a career best performance from Samuel L. Jackson in Quentin Tarantino's latest, Django Unchained. Contains moderate spoilers

Dutch Uncles

Out Of Touch In The Wild

A Sense Of Touch: The Ex Live At Thirty-Three And A Third

At The Ex's recent anniversary gig in Paris, Robert Barry muses on the tactile physicality of the Dutch legends' sound

Video Nasty? V/H/S Reviewed

Mat Colegate watches hand-held, portmanteau horror V/H/S, ahead of its release tomorrow

Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear: Neil Kulkarni Interviews Come

In the latest of his series on should-not-be-forgotten groups of the 90s, Neil Kulkarni speaks to Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zedek of Come

Ben UFO

Fabriclive 67

Wildly Addictive: An Interview With Dutch Uncles

John Freeman finds out that Dutch Uncles’ third album, Out Of Touch In The Wild, was fuelled by a thirst for creative freedom and anchored by the concept of addiction

Realities & Fictions: The Mountain Goats’ John Darnielle Interviewed

John Darnielle's The Mountain Goats recently released their latest studio album Transcendental Youth. Erin Lyndal Martin sat with with Darnielle to discuss piano tuning, his pro-choice activism and the tensions between fiction and non-fiction in his work

Yo La Tengo

Fade

Within These Walls: On L.Pierre’s The Island Come True By A Piss Artist

This is not a record review. This is (no longer) a speech that John Doran intends to give at some distant point in the future either. As the AA yellow card says: "Who you see... what you hear... leave it here."

I Was Attacked By A Grammarian, By Eugene S. Robinson

Oxbow front man Eugene S. Robinson is one of our favourite authors cum rock stars, not to mention an accomplished fucker, fighter and fine diner, so we invited him to write about his time in the UK for us. Chic picture by Kasia Meow, head shot by Tom Millea

The Smashing Pumpkins

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (reissue)

Strap, Crackle & Pop: L. Pierre’s Aidan Moffat Interviewed

The decaying sample collages of Aidan Moffat's L. Pierre project are beautiful and unsettling in equal measure. He tells Luke Turner that marvelous new album The Island Come True is like a Choose Your Own Adventure story

“Nasty Idiotic Tripe”: Stand Against Julie Burchill’s Years Of Transphobia

Why are we surprised at Burchill's bigotry, asks John Tatlock, after all, she's been venting poison about trans people for well over a decade

Quietus Writers Choose Their Best TV Of 2012

Adey Lobb has polled the Quietus TV writters to find out what our favourite shows of last year were. Thanks to April Welsh, Austin Collings, Julian Marszalek, Joe Clay, Terry Staunton, Neil Kulkarni and Alex Niven

Villagers

{Awayland}

HTRK / Tropic Of Cancer

Part Time Punks Radio Sessions

Nico: Facing the Wind – The Marble Index Trilogy

The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End are three of the most uncompromising records of the 60s and 70s, and arguably surpass Nico's work with the Velvet Underground. Matthew Lindsay takes an in-depth look at their history and significance

Feminist Porn And The Impossible Subject

Hannah Gregory analyses the wealth of ideas and issues in two recent Zero Books publications, on sex, porn and the nature of femininity

Ghost Town Music: Stalking Bobby Parker

Richard Scott speaks with the enigmatic, talented but seldom-discussed poet about his life, his work and his Facebook addiction and we present two new, previously unpublished poems

Dirty Body Music: Èlg Interviewed

In the first Rockfort French Music column of 2013, David McKenna delves deep with the extreme physicality of Èlg

Fishy Business: Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Reviewed

Patrick Smith enjoys David Gelb's profile of Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono, which goes on limited theatrical release across the UK today

Kendrick Lamar

good kid, m.A.A.d city

A Second Face: Notes On The Cover Of David Bowie’s The Next Day

Ryan Alexander Diduck explores absence and Bowie's identity with reference to the artwork to forthcoming album, The Next Day

John Foxx & Friends On Identity Amidst The Machines

Foxxy, Benge, Gazelle Twin and Scanner discuss music and identity in a digital age

Douglas J. McCarthy

Kill Your Friends

We’re Only Gonna Die: Bad Religion And The End Of The World

Who better to spend the 21/12/12 Mayan Apocalypse with than Bad Religion frontman and evolutionary biologist Dr. Greg Graffin, PhD? Alex Burrows takes notes at the end of days

L.I.E.S

American Noise

Not So Golden Boy: What Richard Did Reviewed

Colm McAuliffe watches Lenny Abrahamson's drama about an affluent Irish teenager gone wrong, which opens in UK cinemas this Friday

Big Boi

Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors

Forbidden Games And Beyond: René Clément On DVD

Anthony Nield delves into the eclectic filmography of unfashionable French director René Clément, the subject of four new home entertainment releases. Still from And Hope To Die

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