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“Retro Monumental Avant-Garde”: Laibach Live At Tate Modern

Never mind Damien Hirst diamante tat skull, it's Laibach and NSK who put the power back into Tate Modern's Turbine Hall. Words: Luke Turner, photos: Katja Ogrin

The Brothers Gonna Work It Out: Orbital Interviewed

Jude Rogers talks to the brothers Hartnoll about about new album Wonky and how to provoke an emotional response in the listener

Dean Blunt & Inga Copeland

Black Is Beautiful

Spiritualized

Sweet Heart Sweet Light

Collective Unconscious: Carol Morley’s Edge Reviewed

Screening as part of BFI Southbank's Made In Britain season and now released on DVD, Carol Morley's new fictional feature Edge actually predates her adored doc Dreams Of A Life. Val Phoenix delves deeper

Haunted House Music: Schneider TM’s Construction Sounds Live

Berlin based Schneider TM has built an album from the sounds of the city's gentrification. Wyndham Wallace (words and photography) attends one of its first live performances…

Orbital

Wonky

Clark

Iradelphic

Western Saharan Harshness: Listening To Sahrawi Music With New Ears

Eddy Frankel looks at the reasons why Sahrawi music remains unexplored territory for most westerners

Screamwipe: The Cabin In The Woods Reviewed

Scripted by genius Buffy The Vampire Slayer creator Joss Whedon, this smart horror flick is being promoted as "a game-changer" for the genre. Chris Roberts can't give too much away...

The Psycho-Geography of Record Fairs, By Johan Kugelberg

If you want to know why we at the Quietus support going to Record Store Day over record fairs, then read this cautionary essay by Johan Kugelberg, taken from his new anthology Brad Pitt's Dog on Zer0 Books

The Exploits And Opinions Of Gavin Bryars, ‘Pataphysician

Robert Barry traces the fascinating history of Gavin Bryars' The Sinking Of The Titanic ahead of performances in Birmingham and London this week. Main portrait courtesy of Gautier Deblonde

Love Songs To Lost Clothing: Seamus Fogarty Interviewed

Seamus Fogarty, who releases his debut album through Fence Records later this month, crafts beguiling songs out of a whole arsenal of traditional and not-so traditional instruments. He speaks to Nicola Meighan about finding inspiration in a lost t-shirt

Actress

R.I.P

We Need Horses On Stage… And Lassos: Santigold Interviewed

Dale Berning talks to Santi White about the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, obsessive listening and post punk

A Mammoth Undertaking: UFOmammut Interviewed

There are 4,777 metal bands in Italy. Toby Cook speaks to the best

Addison Groove

Transistor Rhythm

April Blood Showers: The Month In Cult Film & Horror DVDs

Presenting the first in a semi-regular column by Cigarette Burns Cinema founder Josh Saco, home testing the latest cult film and horror releases on DVD and Blu-ray. Still from A Horrible Way To Die

Rail Replacement Rock – Jim Fry Of The Pre-New Interviewed

Jim Fry, formerly of Earl Brutus and World Of Twist, talks to John Doran about his new band The Pre-New, pop art, rock music made by estate agents and the horror of Banksy...

Beyond The Buzz: An Interview with Friends

John Freeman talks to Samantha Urbani about how everything from Adam Ant to Belize has inspired Friends' sonic brew

Equal Rights By Peter Tosh: Revisiting The Masterpiece 35 Years On

35 years on from its release in April 1977, what was Peter Tosh addressing with his Equal Rights album, asks Thomas Hasson, and what, if anything, has changed since?

Alabama Shakes

Boys and Girls

Untrue And International: Living In A Post Black Metal World

Brad Sanders celebrates the 25th anniversary of the birth of modern black metal by looking at how the genre has finally emerged from the long shadow cast by the True Norwegian scene and where it is headed

Listening Without Prejudice: Tallinn Music Week 2012

Visit Estonia’s Tallinn Music Week – now in its fourth year –and you will find an event that is very much ahead of the curve, in a country where the power and political significance of music is not to be underestimated or forgotten. Zoë Howe writes. Photo thanks to Mari Kadanik

Don’t Go Home With Your Hadron: British Sea Power At CERN

It's a perplexing weekend of particle physics, crazy boffins and the elusive Higgs Boson as British Sea Power premiere their soundtrack to Out Of The Present at the CERN CineGlobe 2012 film festival. Luke Turner (words and pictures) rode the beam...

Wenderlust: This Must Be The Place Reviewed

A whimsical road movie anchored by Sean Penn's star turn and a David Byrne cameo, Paolo Sorrentino's English-language debut suggests that the acclaimed Italian director has, like Wim Wenders before him, entered the dread orbit of U2. Stephen Dalton muses on this cinematic Curse of Bono

Having Faith In Atheism: Bad Religion And Richard Dawkins At Reason Rally

Sam Spokony braves a biblical downpour to report back from atheist festival Reason Rally, in Washington D.C. Photographs by the author

Council House Music: Exploiting Local Authority Architecture

Josh Hall looks at how musicians such as Damon Albarn and David Guetta exploit London tower blocks and housing estates. Thanks to Arthur John Picton for Heygate photograph

AU

Both Lights

Streetwise & Elegant: An Interview With Levon Vincent

With a signature sound that's by turns stern and subtly beautiful, Levon Vincent's name is hugely revered in house music circles. Angus Finlayson spoke to him about DJing philosophy and how his work fits into a centuries old musical lineage

Modular Love: Suzanne Ciani Interviewed

John Doran talks to Suzanne Ciani about how no-one was ready for the electronic instrument revolution, not even members of New York's avant garde and why intimacy with your machine is a must

Black Dice

Mr. Impossible