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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

Lupe Fiasco

Food & Liquor II The Great American Rap Album Pt. 1

Prophets, Seers & Sages: Tony Visconti’s Favourite Albums

While the veteran producer has recently been remastering T. Rex's The Slider for its 40th anniversary re-release, he found time to pick out 13 of his top records for us

Roger Clarke’s A Natural History Of Ghosts Reviewed

Mark Norton tackles the many problems, misconceptions and apparent deceptions of Roger Clarke's latest offering in the ever more crowded field of paranormal studies, finding something altogether more human at its core

Leave The Capitol: The Weird Tales Of Arthur Machen

In a Hallowe'en special, we step sideways into the weird world of Arthur Machen, Mark E. Smith's favourite horror writer

Raw Functionality: An Interview With Emptyset

Using effects, processors and old buildings as resonance chambers, Emptyset's stripped-down electronic music plays tricks with space and time. They speak to Rory Gibb about new EP Collapsed, hardware imprinting and allowing machines to take control

30 Years On: Tenebrae Revisited

Dario Argento biographer James Gracey rewinds three decades to the Italian horror maestro's self-reflexive murder mystery. Warning: spoilers

Peter Gabriel

So (reissue)

Main Attrakionz

Bossalinis & Fooliyones

Total Love & Dedication: Nicky Wire Discusses Generation Terrorists

Nicky Wire discusses Manic Street Preachers' Generation Terrorists with Ben Graham, twenty years after it blasted forth in an unholy mix of socialism and GNFNR

Scientology Fiction? The Master Reviewed

Our Boston, MA correspondent Craig Terlino ponders the basis of modern US cinema great Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature, which opens as a 70mm presentation at the Odeon West End in London this Friday, before going on regular nationwide theatrical release from November 16

Ahead Of The Game: An Interview With Pangaea

Hessle Audio co-head Pangaea creates roiling techno/garage hybrids that draw energy from UK pirate radio and soundsystem music history. He speaks to Eleanor Careless about his most substantial record to date, Release, and why rules in music are stifling

“If I Hit You, You’d Feel It”: Leslie Winer, Trip Hop’s Forgotten Pioneer

Some say that Leslie Winer aka © invented trip hop in 1990 with her album, Witch. Now she’s back with a retrospective compilation and Wyndham Wallace meets the reclusive former supermodel. Main picture by Sébastien Chou

Chelsea Wolfe

Unknown Rooms

Botanist

III Doom in Bloom / Allies

Sharp Suits And Sparkle: Jonathan Meades On Acid, Space And Place

John Doran plays ten songs to author, broadcaster and architectural critic Jonathan Meades in order to closer examine his unique perspective on life. All photographs courtesy of Martha Wailer

How Music Works: David Byrne Interviewed

The former Talking Heads frontman talks to Quietus Editor John Doran about the ideas in his new book, How Music Works and we offer you the chance to win a copy of your own, signed by the man himself

Capital Gains! London: The Modern Babylon Explored

Jenny Horwell weighs the pros and cons of Julien Temple's cine-portrait of London, which is released on DVD by the British Film Institute next week

Midnight

Complete & Total Hell

You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits

Bat For Lashes

The Haunted Man

The Shock Of The End: Krakow’s Unsound Festival Deconstructed

Unsound Krakow this year lived up to its theme of The End, says Rory Gibb, via collapsing old buildings, digital asphyxiation, predatory techno and pop star grotesques

GoldenLondonEye: Skyfall Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys the 23rd James Bond flick, which opens in UK cinemas today and finds our hero largely back on home soil

Mount Eerie

Clear Moon