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Go-Kart Mozart

On the Hot Dog Streets

The Month In Electronic Music: Everything & The Kitchen Sink

In this month's Hyperspecific, Rory Gibb takes you through kitchen sink techno, junglist house and VHS-saturated noise

Jesca Hoop

The House That Jack Built

Getting To The Point: An Interview With PINS

Having witnessed their swift progression over a series of gigs, John Freeman chats to PINS about how they’re carefully crafting a blend of noise, texture and melody; plus watch a new live video of 'You Don't Need To Be'.

Some Sort Of Surrender: An Interview With Paul Buchanan Of The Blue Nile

Blue Nile singer Paul Buchanan and David Peschek get teary-eyed discussing mortality, love and Mid Air, his first solo album- and his first release in 8 years

Bethia Beadman

Made Of Love

Cast A Wide Cygnet: Swandown Reviewed

Anna Coatman ponders Andrew Kötting's eccentric feature collaboration with Iain Sinclair, opening in selected UK cinemas this Friday, in which the pair ride a white swan pedalo from Hastings to Hackney

Luke Haines

Outsider / In - The Collection

The Lost Tapes By Can: An Oral History

Can and Jono Podmore talk us through their excellent anthology of previously unreleased material, The Lost Tapes which topped the Quietus' recent mid year chart. As told to John Doran

Distant Echoes: An Interview With kandodo

kandodo's sweeping guitar soundscapes, inspired by a childhood spent in Africa, evoke images of open space and the planet's wildest and most untamed corners. He speaks to Joseph Burnett about how his self-titled debut came together, and the predatory majesty of the hyena

I Can See Clearly Now… Penny Rimbaud Of Crass Interviewed

Penny Rimbaud's album Acts Of Love featured in our recent reissue chart, so we decided to talk to him about his work past and present. Story by Harry Sword

Eternal Tapestry

Dawn in 2 Dimensions

LOCOG Sinister: The Olympic Impact On Local Government Arts

A Quietus reader who works in local government in London got in touch to tell us about what he perceives the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games to be on grassroots work in the capital

Music Of The Moment: Nick Höppner Interviewed

As resident at Panoramabar and manager of Ostgut Ton, Nick Höppner is one of the pivotal figures behind Berlin's most iconic club space. He speaks to Eleanor Careless about his new mix CD, the beautiful simplicity of techno and house, and the debate around royalties currently threatening the city's club culture

Sonic Titan: An Interview With Al Cisneros Of Sleep & Om

Dr Rock hooks up with Al Cisneros of Sleep and Om to find out what's going on in the world of transcendental stoner rock

“Free In The Truest Sense”: Bill Wells Remembers Lol Coxhill

Bill Wells, shy magus of the Glasgow underground scene, remembers saxophonist Lol Coxhill, a man he calls “my total hero.”

Bruce Almighty! The Lacey Rituals Explored

Anthony Nield celebrates veteran polymath Bruce Lacey, subject of a new British Film Institute DVD compilation. Stills courtesy of the BFI

Killer Mike

R.A.P Music

Memory Pain: The Original Total Recall Revisited

Pre-empting next month's remake, Paul Verhoeven's 1990 sci-fi is being released on Blu-ray. Andrew Stimpson can remember it for you wholesale

Vatican Shadow

September Cell / Operation Neptune Spear

“Nijinsky Meets Woolworths”: Ziggy Stardust, 40 Years On

As David Bowie's classic hits its fifth decade and gets a deluxe reissue, Matthew Lindsay takes an in-depth look at the significance of the wonderful creation that was Mr Ziggy Stardust

Czech It Out: Karlovy Vary Film Festival Explored

Graphic sex, punk rock and teenagers in trouble - pretty much the perfect formula for a film festival. Throw in giant bloodsucking alien squid and you have the full package, as Stephen Dalton reports

11 Things You Might Not Have Noticed In The Shining

John Fell Ryan has screened Stanley Kubrick's 1980 masterpiece forwards and backwards, simultaneously, superimposed. He shares a few findings

Twin Shadow

Confess

Milk Maid

Mostly No

A World Unto Itself: An Interview With Dirty Projectors

Dirty Projectors' sixth album, Swing Lo Magellan, marks a shift from the meticulous structures of their previous albums towards a more direct and heartfelt approach to songwriting. Chad Parkhill discussed this transition with lead Projector David Longstreth

The First Quietus Comics Reviews Column!

Mat Colegate squints at some notable recent comics releases and tries to block out the trauma sustained watching the Dredd 3D trailer

Pulse LAX: An Interview With Nguzunguzu

LA duo Nguzunguzu's thoughtful and playful party music draws for global sounds and the mechanics of the UK dancefloor. With new EP Warm Pulse just released, Angus Finlayson met them to discuss throwing DJ curveballs and the life of grime

“There’s No Prescribed Reaction”: Consumer Electronics’ Philip Best Interviewed

For 30 years, Philip Best has been absorbed in the creation of some of the most extreme music on the planet, as Consumer Electronics, as half of Whitehouse and in collaboration with other artists. Ahead of a show tomorrow in Islington, he speaks to Mat Colegate about the essence of his approach and "creative misreading"

Darling Farah

Body

Star Tissue: Nostalgia For The Light Reviewed

Opening on Friday in UK cinemas, Patricio Guzmán's dual-stranded doc about astronomy in the Atacama Desert and searching for the remains of Chile's disappeared is powerful viewing. Colm McAuliffe explains why

Mira Calix Interviewed: Stones Are Where The Heart Is

Jude Rogers speaks to Mira Calix about her rockin' new sound piece, Nothing Is Set In Stone, prejudices facing sound artists and that hoary old label, "women in electronic music"