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BFI Uncut Season: Maîtresse Revisited

Yasmeen Khan examines Barbet Schroeder's once-controversial 1976 picture, restricted upon its initial release, which is given a Blu-ray upgrade and screened theatrically by the British Film Institute this month

Not So Polite: Wally Van Middendorp Of Minny Pops Interviewed

Nix Lowrey talks to a mainstay of the Dutch post punk scene about reformation, Joy Division and cheeky northerners. Wally portrait by Robin Butter. Live shot by Jos van Vliet

Things The Quietus Learned At Turin's Club To Club Festival

Last week tQ's Rory Gibb flew to Turin, Italy, for the twelfth edition of the city's annual Club To Club festival, and encountered leather-clad bondage cherubs, high-powered gin cocktails and even higher powered dancefloors. He recounts some of the things he learned...

The Irrepressibles

Nude

Soundgarden

King Animal

Horns Up Ya Shitters! October’s Best Metal Reviewed

After narrowly escaping murder at the hands of boozing bastards in his native Norfolk, Toby Cook is back with reviews of De Magia Veterum, Neurosis, Krisiun, Von, Weapon, Ichabod, Converge, Anaal Nathrakh and Pig Destroyer

Time Becomes A Loop: William Basinski Interviewed

John Doran talks to William Basinski about the tenth anniversary of The Disintegration Loops. Main picture by Peter J. Kierzkowski

Fire And Brimstone: An Interview With The Revival Hour

John Freeman finds out about The Revival Hour's imminent debut album and how apocalyptic EP Clusterchord was inspired by the wrath of God

Roseanne Barrr

Repulsion

BATS

The Sleep of Reason

“More Buzz Than A Bee-Keepers Convention”: Pitchfork Festival Paris

Pitchfork's Paris festival found many of 2012's most talked-about acts succumbing to their own self-importance, writes Robert Barry, albeit joined by several excellent exceptions

The Killer In Us: Dragged Into Sunlight Interviewed

Their new album Widowmaker is one of the best, most brutal records of the year. Luke Turner speaks to the anonymous, serial killer-obsessed and decidedly not fluffy-cat-LOL-pics-loving Dragged Into Sunlight

The Dying Of The Light: Amour Reviewed

Jason Ward watches Michael Haneke's second consecutive Palme d'Or winner, which opens in UK cinemas this Friday

Lust For Youth

Growing Seeds

Pleasure In Suffering? The Problem With Death Grips Live, By John Calvert

A scholar of Death Grips, John Calvert expected to prostrate himself before the menace of MC Ride and Zach Hill. But is this the punk he was looking for?

Bleak Psychedelia: Michael Gira Of Swans’ Favourite Albums

Michael Gira's mighty Swans play live at London's Koko this Thursday, 15th November. In advance of the show, Joseph Burnett speaks to the man himself about thirteen of his favourite albums, from Miles Davis and Gorecki to Throbbing Gristle and Pink Floyd

Brian Eno

Lux

Allegory & Metaphor: Ides Of Gemini Interviewed

J Bennett of Los Angeles crew Ides Of Gemini speaks to Jessica Crowe about his band's elegiac, subtle and glacial debut album Constantinople, and life in LA

Clinic

Free Reign

Sidi Touré Interviewed: Hatred & War Have No Place Here

Our man David 'Rockfort' McKenna speaks to Sid Touré about turmoil in Mali and hopes for the future, voodoo, trance and the griot tradition

A Real Guitar Hero: Jason Becker Interviewed

Joel McIver interviews the extraordinary Californian musician and composer Jason Becker, whose struggle against motor neurone disease is charted by a feature documentary opening in UK cinemas this week

On The Road: Travels Between Rock & Hard Places With Andrew Mueller

Andrew Mueller rummages through his now borderline-classic book, Rock & Hard Places, reissued and revised this October, and digs out ten pivotal moments from his years on and off the bus

LA Vampires & Maria Minerva

The Integration LP

Godspeed You! Black Emperor

Allelujah! Don't Bend! Ascend!

Neoprolific History: Julian Cope’s Copendium Reviewed

Jimmy Martin sets off on an expedition in to the rock 'n' roll underworld with the former frontman of The Teardrop Explodes by way of his new book

Darren Hayman And The Long Parliament

The Violence

Siegfried The Dragon Slayer: Die Nibelungen Revisited

Colm McAuliffe bathes in beastly blood and watches Fritz Lang's silent fantasy epic, recently restored for home entertainment release

Zero Past A Hundred: Angel Haze Interviewed

Angel Haze, who has attracted deserved attention for her ferocious wordplay on recent releases Reservation and Classick, speaks to Laurie Tuffrey about growing up in the church, sexuality and collaborating with The Smiths

Crystal Castles

III

Cheval Sombre

Mad Love

Social Media Myth: Why Facebook Hasn’t Stolen Your Friends

Over the past few months, Facebook has been heaving under panic postings from bands and so on claiming that their posts were being hidden in a Zuckerberg quest for cash. Not so, says Charles Ubaghs, head of social media for a major radio group