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We Need To Talk About Kevin Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan reviews Lynne Ramsey's adaptation of We Need To Talk About Kevin, and asks whether it's possible to provide insight into mass murder without explanation.

The Power And The Gory: The Walking Dead Bites Back

It may have lost a creative lynchpin and had its production budget slashed, but The Walking Dead is very much alive and kicking in its second season, says Terry Staunton

Make Your Transition: Future Shocked At Krakow’s Unsound Festival

Rory Gibb travels to Krakow for the Unsound Festival, and gets lost in a week's worth of forward-thinking music, art and discussion

Tom Waits

Bad As Me

Leyland Kirby

Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

#Occupying My Thoughts: A Personal Response To The Global Protest Movement

Their message is apparently incoherent, inarticulate and definitely in another language, but Wyndham Wallace finds Berlin’s #Occupy protests inspiring… All photographs by the author

Fix Up Look Sharp: Dickon Edwards Meets Turbonegro’s English Gent

The Quietus took Turbonegro's Tony Sylvester and legendary fop Dickon Edwards to the pub for an afternoon. Over gin, strong lager and red wine, this is what transpired. Photographs by Al Overdrive

Lou Reed & Metallica

Lulu

The Ladies Of The Norse: Iceland Airwaves Review

Stephen Dalton heads to storm-lashed Iceland for the Airwaves Festival, and finds an event where, refreshingly, it's the female artists who take take the prow. Yoko Ono shot by Alexander Matukhno, Bjork by Ari Magg

Daemons In Hoods: Cloaks Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at Supersonic this weekend, Luke Turner speaks to Cloaks about twisting dubstep into brutalist industrial forms

These You Have Loved: Part Chimp For Your Stereo

Stevie Chick is working on a massive history of London rock bastards Part Chimp for us. Ahead of this weekend's Supersonic he performs featurus interruptus to advise us on the purchase of their back catalogue with the help of Tim Cedar...

More Than The Mind Can Take: An Interview With Cut Hands

William Bennett's new project Cut Hands finds his music taking new, percussive and punishingly effective new routes post-Whitehouse. Ahead of this weekend's performance at Supersonic, Rory Gibb speaks to him about the development of Afro Noise

Rustie

Glass Swords

No Thyself: Magazine’s Howard Devoto Interviewed

Nix Lowrey talks to Howard Devoto of Magazine about sex and personality management. Portrait: Graeme Oxby

Getting To Know Your Neighbours: Zun Zun Egui Interviewed

Bella Union's international brigade have come to Britain to blast us with one of the best debuts this year, tell us to respect the elderly and explain why there's no community at Tesco

Wild Flag

Wild Flag

Sines Of Awakening: Pierre Henry & Bergen’s EKKO Festival

Quietus cynic of the avant-garde Wyndham 'Indie Wyndy' Wallace goes to Bergen's EKKO Festival to have his circuits reprogrammed

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

While there's nothing unexpected about Noel Gallagher's Bakers Dozen selection, John Doran salutes his unique perspective on The Canon

John Fahey

Your Past Comes Back To Haunt You (The Fonotone Years 1958 - 1965)

Go With The Drift: Reviewing Coracle By Walls In A Flotation Tank

Flotation tanks are not just the preserve of well-off fans of whale music. John Doran gets inside an ergonomic space pod full of Europa-strength sea water to listen to some oceanic electronica

Ryan Adams

Ashes & Fire

Dos and Don’ts: Vice’s Scourge Of Unfortunate Dress

John Calvert speaks to Vice editor Andy Capper about the magazine's new book of its 'Dos and Don'ts' series

Horns Up Ya Shitters! Toby Cook Goes To Bloodstock

Quietus Man of Metal Toby Cook goes to Bloodstock and does battle with the likes of Motorhead, W.A.S.P. and Exodus

Plaid

Scintilli

Vile Imbeciles

D Is For W

The Future’s Still Coming: An Interview With Kuedo

Kuedo, the producer formerly known as Jamie Vex'd, has made one of the most striking electronic albums of the year in Severant. Rory Gibb speaks to him about his working process, the nature of scenes and past visions of the future

Studio One For Beginners – The Soul Jazz Guides Reviewed

You’ve heard of Jamaica’s most inventive power house label, now read the book, watch the DVD and listen to the CD. John Doran gets to grips with a bumper crop of Studio One goodies courtesy of Soul Jazz, while awaiting the T-shirt, the mug and the board game

The Mission Celebrate Their Quarter Century: Wayne Hussey Interviewed

On the eve of a UK tour Wayne Hussey talks to Ben Graham about his career with The Mission, Sisters of Mercy and Dead or Alive

Basildon Bond: Depeche Mode & The Essex New Town

Three decades on from the release of their debut album, Sophia Deboick argues that it's time that Depeche Mode's home town of Basildon honoured its most famous sons. Basildon photographs thanks to Helen Gray

Bjork

Biophilia

Roots Manuva

4everevolution

Ben UFO

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