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Elements Of A Music Scene: Stavanger’s Numusic Festival Reviewed

Each year, Norway's fourth-largest city hosts the Nordic Music Week and Numusic electronic music festival. Angus Finlayson traveled to Stavanger to explore the festivals' relationship with the city's wider music scene

Roll Over Beethoven: Jeff Lynne’s Favourite Albums

Mr Blue Sky works up thirteen of his top LPs

John Cale

Shifty Adventures In Nookie Wood

Supersonic 2012: A Radical Spirit – Jarboe Interviewed

Ahead of her performance at this month's Supersonic festival Ned Raggett talks to Jarboe about Swans, Phil Anselmo and how she's more radical now than ever before. Main picture by Cedric Victor

Scald Rougish

Bardachd / Auen Ansici

Love & Art: Genesis Breyer P-Orridge Interviewed

Joseph Burnett talks to the former member of COUM, Throbbing Gristle and Psychic TV about pandrogyny, Lady Jaye Breyer P-Orridge and their ongoing artistic vision

Voracious Stylistic Promiscuity: Frank Zappa Reissues 1966 – 1972

Everyone at the Quietus is either Frank Zappa sceptic or phobic. Ringo P Stacey tells us why we are wrong in his review of the first 12 reissues

London Film Festival Preview: Beware Of Mr Baker

Ed Owen watches Jay Bulger's tumultuous profile of veteran drummer Ginger Baker, which screens at the 56th London Film Festival this month

Best Served Cold: Lady Snowblood Revisited

Stephen Martin enjoys Toshiya Fujita's female revenge saga, homaged by Quentin Tarantino and recently given a deluxe Blu-ray release

Thy Will Be Done: J.G. Ballard Interviewed by Toby Litt

Taken from the newly released Extreme Metaphors, collecting interviews with J.G. Ballard over his forty-eight year career, British author Toby Litt introduces an extract from his 2006 interview with the 'Seer of Shepperton' on fascism and his then-new novel Kingdom Come

The Velvet Underground of English Letters: Simon Sellars Discusses J.G. Ballard

Extreme Metaphors having been in the public sphere for just over a week, the book's editor and Ballard aficionado Simon Sellars discusses the relevance of the collection and its subject to contemporary culture with Quietus literary editor Karl Smith

The Down Low On Lo’Jo: A Rockfort Interview

David McKenna continues his Rockfort series with an interview with globe-spanning Lo'Jo, who all live in the same house but are pleasingly not hippies

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

Jodi B is back to tell you which mixes and videos are smoking and which MCs need to get spanked...

25 Years On: Street Trash Revisited

Andrew Stimpson rewinds to the VHS era's ultimate melt movie, which is screening at the Prince Charles Cinema in London this weekend

Punk Rock Guilt?: Duff McKagan’s Favourite Albums

The Guns N' Roses/Neurotic Outsiders/Velvet Revolver man picks out his top 13 LPs

That’s The Spirit! Natasha Khan Of Bat For Lashes Interviewed

John Freeman finds out how her stunning new Bat For Lashes album, The Haunted Man, finally allowed Natasha Khan to strip away her ghosts

LFF Preview: Beware Of Mr Baker

Ed Owen watches Jay Bulger's profile of irascible veteran drummer Ginger Baker, screening at the 56th London Film Festival

Mala

Mala In Cuba

Daphni

Jiaolong

‘I Never Want To Play Those Songs’: Fabulous Diamonds Interviewed

Fabulous Diamonds' heat-hazed mix of punk, psych and dub ranks them among the most original acts in the Australian underground. As Steph Kretowicz discovers when they meet to discuss recent LP Commercial Music, their creative impulses are tempered by a contrary streak

Le Grind: The Ongoing Enigma Of Prince

Wyndham Wallace ploughs his way through another Prince biography to find more questions than answers

Tame Impala

Lonerism

Time For Harmony In This World: An Interview With Hieroglyphic Being

Chicago's Jamal Moss sinks the legacies of house music and Sun Ra into abrasive and acutely psychoactive takes on club music, noise and industrial. In advance of a UK/Europe tour, he speaks to Rory Gibb about expressing the ambiguities of real life

We Held Gold Dust In Our Hands: Tori Amos Interviewed

Tori Amos gets deep into her the genesis of her latest album. Erin Lyndal Martin takes notes

“Ghosts Are Scarier Than A Guy With An Axe” – C Robert Cargill Talks Sinister

Austin writer C Robert Cargill chats to Stuart Wright about his Ethan Hawke-starring supernatural horror, which opens in UK cinemas this Friday

Vicious Yet Deeply Human Writing: Sven Hassel RIP

Andrew Stimpson recalls the work of a novelist whose early books captured the horrors of WWII in the kind of gripping manner that no allied soldier turned writer ever managed

The Loaded Dice

Hindsight of a Brand New Soul. A Poor Man's Prophecy

Of DIY & DIY: Tim Burgess & Kurt Wagner In Conversation

Tim Burgess enrolled Kurt Wagner to write the lyrics for his new solo album Oh No I Love You. Luke Turner sat them down at the Barbican and instigated a chat about music and sanding techniques

Incestuous Unions: Pixies’ Come On Pilgrim Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back on a life-changing debut record bursting with darkness, death and illicit sex and brilliant pop songs

Written In The Stars: An Interview With Pegasvs

John Freeman chats to the Barcelona 'kraut-pop' duo about how their glorious debut album is an experiment in "fitting pop structures to experimental noise"

The Mountain Goats

Transcendental Youth

An Oral History Of Led Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti

An exclusive extract Trampled Under Foot, Barney Hoskyns' new oral history of Led Zeppelin