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Horns Up Ya Shitters! The Best Metal Of May Reviewed

Toby Cook is back from the drug sewer to inform us about the best metal albums of May. All together now... AIIIEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

Suffering And Redemption: An Interview With The Invisible

Having recently survived a serious electrocution, Dave Okumu tells John Freeman about how the accident and the death of his mother have changed his life forever

Sways Records, Manchester: When The Gatefolds Open

Post Factory indie in Manchester is just the establishment in disguise, argues Austin Collings, and Sways Records are the solution. Contains a gratuitous photograph of a naked man holding a rifle

Sebastian Tellier

My God Is Blue

The Liars Have It: Field Day Festival 2012 Reviewed

We had another rare old time at Field Day in London, curating the Village Mentality Stage and hurtling around the far larger, better sounding site catching all the other ace stuff that was on. John Calvert, Angus Finlayson, Matthew Foster, Rory Gibb, Emily Mackay and Julian Marszalek pick up pens and pieces of their minds, and review the best of the day. All photographs by Jenna Foxton

Best Laid Plans: Forward Strategy Group Interviewed

Like their Perc Trax labelmates, Forward Strategy Group take a wide-reaching approach to techno that's both eclectic and grounded by a strong sense of place. With debut album Labour Division now out, Luke Turner caught up with the duo to discuss their history and the lure of old TV idents

20 Years On: Eric B And Rakim’s Don’t Sweat The Technique Revisited

Eric B & Rakim's farewell album from 1992 now stands to be considered as their best, argues Angus Batey

The Human League

Dare

Fly Fishing In The Digital Sea: Joel Ford Of Airbird Interviewed

Joel Ford of Airbird, and one half of synth-pop doyens Ford & Lopatin, tells Laurie Tuffrey about his new EP, trawling the internet's 'ocean of recombination' and finding inspiration in the American wilderness

Haunting The Palace: ATP’s I’ll Be Your Mirror Slayer Day Reviewed

Noel Gardner, Amanda Barrokh and Toby Cook were on hand to witness one of ATP's finest days recently at Alexandra Palace...

Boredom Is An Energy: David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King Reviewed

David Foster Wallace's last novel introduced the idea of boredom as a tool of anti-capitalism and a state to be relished in, says Siobhan McKeown

Owen Marshall

The Naked Truth

Tuesday Lunchtime Fever: Johnny Vana & The Big Band Alumni

What happened to the stars of the 1930s big band era? Michael Jaye is in the mood to find out

Yellow Jersey & Brown Ale: Paul Heaton Interviewed

Paul Heaton is currently celebrating his birthday by cycling 2,500 miles - 50 for each of the years he's been alive. And he's playing gigs in pubs along the route. Jim Keoghan investigates

Daphne Oram: Private Dreams And Public Nightmares

Interpretations By Andrea Parker & Daz Quayle

Oh Happy Days: A Personal Recollection Of Working For Jeremy Hunt

Ten years ago, Quietus ed Luke Turner worked for Jeremy Hunt's educational publishing company. As the Secretary Of State for Culture, Media & Sport gives his evidence to Leveson, he remembers the fun times there

Dredder Than Dredd: Geoff Barrow And Ben Salisbury On Drokk

Mat Colegate talks to Portishead's Geoff Barrow and soundtrack composer Ben Salisbury about their Judge Dredd inspired album Drokk. Warning - contains the phrase, "the ribald adventures of shape-shifting warrior oaf Slaine".

Jam City

Classical Curves

Killer On The Loose: The Black Panther Reassessed

Disinterring forgotten homemade films, the BFI Flipside series continues with a DVD/Blu-ray upgrade for this true-crime drama, which was vilified by the tabloids on its original release. Steve Jelbert rewinds 35 years...

Papa’s Got A Brand New Nag: The Turin Horse Reviewed

Hungarian director Béla Tarr has said this austere epic will be his final film. Colm McAuliffe takes a long, hard look

Another City’s Dreams: An Interview With Outfit

Outfit are set to play at Field Day tomorrow, 2nd June, in London's Victoria Park. Josh Hall caught up with them to discuss their debut EP Another Night's Dreams Reach Earth Again, and the peculiarities of the internet age

Ridley’s, Believe It Or Not: Prometheus Reviewed

Simon Jablonski watches the most talked-about motion picture of the year so far. Please note that this article discusses plot points and penile imagery

Copper Blue 20 Years On: Sugar’s Bob Mould Interviewed

Bob Mould gives a full and frank account of the making of the album that established his post-Hüsker Dü career to Julian Marszalek

Leave Your Heart At Home: An Interview With The Men

New York punk crew The Men are set to play at Field Day this Saturday 2nd June in London's Victoria Park. In advance of the day, Robert McCallum spoke to the band's Mark Perro about the pressure to keep moving forward

Love Approval Thirteen: Ian Astbury Of The Cult’s Favourite Albums

Julian Marszalek speaks to the Wolf Child about esoteric drone doom, witch house, krautrock and, of course, The Doors

Beyond The Red Carpet: A Novice Filmmaker’s Cannes Experience

Budding screenwriter Stuart Wright offers a newcomer's perspective on the 65th annual Cannes Film Festival

Liars

WIXIW

DJ Sprinkles & Mark Fell

The Complete Spiral EP / Sensate Focus

Lines In The Desert: Steven R. Smith Interviewed

With his work emerging under a dizzying array of interwoven pseudonyms, it can be tough to get a handle on the work of the enigmatic Steven R. Smith. Speaking to Michael Begg about the range of his music, instrument building and deserts, he offers a window into his world

The World Is Still Waiting: The Significance Of The Stone Roses Reunion

Those seeing the recent Roses reunion as either uplifting nostalgia or lad rock showing its true capitalist colours are missing the whole picture, says Alex Niven

Voices From Valhalla: Quorthon’s Bathory Revisited

This year marks the 25th anniversary of Bathory's seminal third album Under the Sign of the Black Mark, one of the blueprints for black metal. As the Godreah label prepare to release a tribute to Bathory's late mastermind Quorthon, Steve Earles speaks to label head Crin about his influence

Forward Strategy Group

Labour Division