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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

Savages: Silence Yourself Track-By-Track Preview

James Ubaghs gets his ears around the much-anticipated debut album from Savages for a Quietus track-by-track preview

Hypnotic Infinity: An Interview With Elgato

Shadowy producer Elgato trades in extreme, provocative minimalism, sketching out his rolling house and dubstep-influenced tracks with tiny brushstrokes of percussion and glimmering synth. In a rare interview, he sits down with Angus Finlayson to discuss a love of repetition

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part III – In The Valley Of The Keyboard King

The third of John Doran's blogs from Cairo sees him meet Nile Delta Synth star Islam Chipsy and learn a salutary lesson in heeding his own warnings

Enjoy The Silence: Michael Rother On The Joy Of Quiet

Ahead of his set of Neu! material at Focus Wales this weekend, Michael Rother talks to Jude Rogers about avoiding sensory overload, the meditative qualities of watching snooker and why total silence would be torture

‘A Thousand Braying Asses’: Kim Gordon & Churnalism’s Busy Sewer

This week's sensationalist reframing of a nuanced profile of Sonic Youth's Kim Gordon to focus entirely upon her split from Thurston Moore, writes Paul Tucker, cast light on a wider problem

Karl Hyde

Edgeland

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part II – The Wedding Of The Year

In the second of his blog posts reporting from Egypt, John Doran travels just out of Cairo to Salam City - to the birthplace of Electro Chaabi and the marriage of its founding MC, Sadat

Wrapped Up: Eurythmics’ Sweet Dreams, 30 Years On

It's been three decades since the release of Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart's classic. Matthew Lindsay casts an ear and an eye back over a "sad, strange and popular" album that "pulled off the New Pop trick of having your cake and eating it; revelling in what you deconstruct"

Morris Cowan

Six Degrees

An Actor Prepares: An Interview With Surgeon

For nearly 20 years Anthony Child, aka Surgeon, has sent dancers into collective states of hypnosis with his overwhelming, elliptical techno. Having just released a beatless album under his own name, he speaks with Rory Gibb about introspection, method acting, the importance of intention, and what continues to excite him about club music

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part I – A High Speed Ballet

John Doran is spending a week in Cairo to report on the city's new Electro Chaabi scene. He's keeping a blog while there, and this is the first part

Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Mosquito

Savage Guardians: Why Bands Are Right About Cameras At Gigs

Jeremy Allen normally gets annoyed at people leaving notes telling him what to do. But in the case of Savages and Yeah Yeah Yeahs instructing their audiences not to wave their cameraphones around like bellends, he can get behind the cause... even if it is doomed

For Victory: An Interview With Narrows

Transatlantic crew Narrows, featuring former members of Botch, These Arms Are Snakes and Bullet Union, among others, are about to embark on what might be their final European tour. Quietus editor John Doran catches up with them to talk Bolt Thrower, Game Of Thrones and Greenland

Karl Ove Knausgaard: Between Meaning and Nothingness

Daniel Fraser gets to grips with the banal, the bleak and the beautiful in the second instalment of the Norwegian writer's intense literary memoir

Nothing New For Trash Like You: On Harmony Korine’s Debut Novel

While mimicry is often the sincerest form of flattery, Declan Tan examines the ins and outs of Harmony Korine's 'Great American Choose Your Own Adventure novel' by way of emulation

Joy On The Peripheries Of Rock: British Sea Power Live

Andy Thomas witnesses so many of the things that make British Sea Power special at their Shepherd's Bush Empire gig. Photo thanks to Eleonora Collini

At The Drive-In

Acrobatic Tenement / Relationship of Command (Reissues)

Milk Music

Cruise Your Illusion

Come On Fry Young: Sam Herlihy & Cold Mathematics

In the latest edition of his food column, Sam Herlihy easyJets to a freezing cold Copenhagen for a meal containing flavours by turns fascinating, delightful and which "taste like you just fell face first into a grey briny wave"

Jai Paul: A Scam To Feed The Internet Sausage Machine

It wasn't just the fact that Jai Paul's music is "cobblers" that got Alex MacPherson's goat. Here he explains why the album/non-album farce is representative of the click-at-me desperation of the blogosphere