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Beyond The Magical Mystery Tour: Apple Films Explored

The Beatles' poorly received 1967 TV movie has been restored for Blu-ray and DVD release this week, prompting Anthony Nield to trawl through the wildly variable output of their production company Apple Films

Bo Ningen

Line The Wall

In Tha Murder Business: Angel Haze Live, By John Calvert

In the latest Calvert Report, our man John Calvert starts to feel unusual as he sees Angel Haze live at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen

Chris Cohen

Overgrown Path

The Future Came And Went: A. R. Kane Interviewed

Neil Kulkarni speaks to Rudy Tambala, one half of A. R. Kane

Supersonic 2012: Dizzy Nausea – Grey Hairs Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at this month's Supersonic Festival, Toby Cook catches up with Nottingham quartet Grey Hairs to discuss peanut-butter Kitkats and why there's nothing wrong with citing Nirvana as an influence

“Man Up”? Why We Need To Talk About Depression

Although some parties might be keen to state otherwise - as some disturbing examples this week have demonstrated - now more than ever it's crucial that we learn to talk about mental health, says Josh Hall

Flying Lotus

Until The Quiet Comes

Best Friends Go To Purgatory: Castrovalva Interviewed

Bonkers Leeds noise-rock crew Castrovalva shoehorn bitesize chunks of noise, grime and punk into tracks that rattle like too much caffeine. Fresh from the release of their new album, they speak to Jack Pudwell about a love of making noise

Efterklang

Piramida

I Am Iron Man! Tetsuo And The Cinema Of Shinya Tsukamoto

Anthony Nield salutes Shinya Tsukamoto, whose cyberpunk landmarks are given a UK home entertainment release this week, alongside his new feature

The Strange World Of Johnny Hallyday

The "French Elvis" is performing live in the UK next week for the first time in a career that spans half a century. Sophia Deboick looks at the history of Johnny Hallyday

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