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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

The Month’s Electronic Music: Through The Looking Glass

For this month's edition of Hyperspecific, Rory Gibb tours some of dance music's fringes, via improvised electronics, digital Triffids, disembodied grime and hall-of-mirrors house

Neil Young And Crazy Horse

Psychedelic Pill

It’s Time For Brits To Stop Fawning Over US Politics & Set Our House In Order

From the reaction to this just-completed American election, you'd think that Britain was the 51st State. Luke Turner argues that it's time for us to stop looking over the Atlantic, and prepare for 2015 in our own back yard

Stian Westerhus

The Matriarch And The Wrong Kind Of Flowers

Caffeine Funk: An Interview With Cajmere

This month Curtis Jones - the man behind iconic house and techno anthems as Cajmere and Green Velvet - is releasing a retrospective of music from his seminal label Cajual. He speaks to Melissa Bradshaw about the house scene, spirituality and coffee

Jodi B’s Hoody Who! October’s Best Rap YouTubes & MixTapes

If the lady ain't twerkin' then your rap cut ain't workin'! says Jodi B about this month's hip hop finds

Various Artists

Songs For Desert Refugees

Taking Shits In Bags: America’s Election And Its (Other) Disasters

Our man in Brooklyn and Manhattan Sam Spokony looks at American 'disaster narratives' in between Sandy and the election...

Mission To Shah’s: Argo Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan assesses Ben Affleck's dramatisation of the so-called Canadian Caper: a stranger than fiction, CIA-via-Hollywood covert operation attempted during the Iran hostage crisis

Harmonies & Disharmonies: Dusk & Blackdown Interviewed

Dusk & Blackdown's new album Dasaflex is a seamless synthesis of the last near-decade's worth of UK dancefloor innovation, from garage and grime through dubstep and funky. They speak to Rory Gibb about finding new twists on established formulae

Things Learned At Supersonic 2012…

Toby Cook, Cay McDermott, Dave McGonigle, Matt Evans, Noel Gardner, Kevin Mccaighy and John Doran report back from the Custard Factory in Digbeth on their findings

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Melody's Echo Chamber

A Poet’s Guide To Public Transport

To mark the release of his new book, Life In Transit, poet Sam Berkson offers The Quietus ten literary inspired rules for surviving public transport in the modern age

Rolo Tomassi

Astraea

Intricate Shadows: An Interview With Raime

Across a string of 12"s and now an album, London duo Raime have stretched industrial, dub and doom across spiraling, jungle influenced rhythms. They meet with Joseph Burnett to discuss intricate working processes and darkness in creativity

Get In The Ring! Andrew Stimpson Goes Wrestling With VICE

Andrew Stimpson gives us a potted history of pro-wrestling after watching Vice's new documentary The British Wrestler. Pictures courtesy of Jake Lewis

The Curious Case Of Colonel Sun: Kingsley Amis’s Missing Bond Novel

Aug Stone revisits the only James Bond novel to remain out of physical print, discussing its place within the mythology of 007 and Amis's sizeable contribution to the franchise

Wilder Combination: Keep The Lights On Director Ira Sachs Interviewed

New York filmmaker Ira Sachs chats to Ashley Clark about big city life and using the late Arthur Russell's music in his semi-autobiographical drama Keep The Lights On, which is released theatrically nationwide this weekend

Modular Love: Daphni & Caribou’s Dan Snaith Interviewed

With Daphni's Jiaolong, Caribou's Dan Snaith has completed a transformation from electronic pop auteur to full-blown dancefloor fiend. He speaks to Rory Gibb about real world textures, mathematics and music

Are You Looking For Mental? The Live Return Of Eighties Matchbox

Brighton's madcap punk/goth thrashers Eighties Matchbox B-Line Disaster made a scorching return to the fray this week, writes Luke Turner, and just in the nick of time

Borne Under Hunches: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive Interviewed

Joe Clay talks to Neil Halstead, the shoegazer who went folk. Landscape photos by John Isaac, portrait by Andy White

Andy Stott

Luxury Problems

You’ve Got Whale: Rust And Bone Reviewed

Priscilla Eyles admires French writer-director Jacques Audiard's muscular romantic drama, starring Marion Cotillard as an orca trainer, which won top prize at the 56th London Film Festival and opens nationwide today

Mary Epworth On Nature & The Mysterious, Mystical Hare

Mary Epworth's Twitter profile is three words long. It reads 'I like hares'. Here, the singer-songwriter and self-confessed "wildlife-obsessive" talks to John Freeman about the "otherworldly, but hugely misunderstood" mammal.

Young Smoke

Space Zone

Neurosis

Honor Found In Decay

Provoking An Emotional Response: Michael Mayer Interviewed

Kompakt co-owner and Cologne lynch-pin Michael Mayer has released a new album, Mantasy. John Doran catches up with him to talk lions in clubs and why he's not goth. Picture courtesy of Carlitos Trujillo

Extreme States Of Consciousness: Cult Of Youth Interviewed

Cult Of Youth's Love Will Prevail, recorded solo in Sean Ragon's home studio, channels European and American folk musics and chaos magic. He speaks to Pavel Godfrey about recording, religion and gnostic states

Pelt

Effigy