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Loving The Rope: Lars Von Trier’s Advance Party Project

Do obstructions help or hinder film-making? Arch provocateur Lars von Trier certainly thinks the former, but does his Dogme theory work within the UK film industry?

Austra

Feel It Break

Ohhh! Vienna: Writer Lewis Crofts On Egon Schiele

This spring, a new exhibition of rare drawings and watercolours by Austrian artist Egon Schiele will open at Richard Nagy in Mayfair. In anticipation of that unveiling, Christiana Spens interviews Lewis Crofts, the author of The Pornographer of Vienna, a novel based on the tumultuous life of the artist.

How Not To Run A Record Label: Bertrand Burgalat On 15 Years Of Tricatel

David McKenna talks to Bertrand Burgalat about the trials and tribulations of French record label Tricatel

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Album Reissues

Psychedelic Horseshit

Laced

A Lot Of Opportunities: Pet Shop Boys’ Please Revisited

John Freeman looks back at the album which provided Pet Shop Boys with the perfect launch-pad for 35 years of creative adventure.

Metaphysical Headphones & Dead Sounds: Lone Pigeon Interviewed

Natasha Soobramanien talks to Lone Pigeon - also known as Gordon Anderson - about his new boxset Time Capsule

No Popularity Contest: Extra Life’s Charlie Looker Interviewed

Noel Gardner talks to Charlie Looker about masculinity, baring the soul and why he won't slag off Dirty Projectors

Lady Gaga

Born This Way

Electric Kool-Aid Catharsis: Sufjan Stevens Live

Sufjan Stevens brings his grandiose live show to the UK stage, and Ben Gilbert goes along to witness the spectacular and unhinged evolution of one of America's finest artists. Photograph by Burak Cingi

Aidan Moffat & Bill Wells

Everything Is Getting Older

Get In The Back Of The Van! Parts & Labor vs Teeth Of The Sea

As Teeth Of The Sea prepare to support Parts & Labor on their UK tour, the two bands discuss the myths, perils, and joys of life on the road

Electricity Is Love: Mute & Raster-Noton’s Short Circuit Triumph

This weekend Mute and Raster-Noton joined forces for Short Circuit at the London Roundhouse. Luke Turner was on hand to witness a very special Festival

Friendly Fires

Pala

When In Rome: Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi Interviewed

Stuart Kirkham talks to Danger Mouse and Daniele Luppi about their new project Rome, working with Jack White and Norah Jones, and why Ennio Morricone will always be the Maestro

Hallock Hill

The Union

Stag & Dagger Preview: An Interview With Rayographs

Rayographs warm up for their Stag and Dagger show with The Quietus by discussing the musical and visual influences on their rather excellent self-titled debut

Hessle Audio

116 & Rising (compilation)

Amon Tobin And Tessa Farmer: Control Over Nature

Amon Tobin and Tessa Farmer talk to John Doran about the battle between fairies and insects, the "ingenious savagery" of nature and getting inside sound

Joe Cornish Discusses Attack The Block

We spoke to Adam Buxton about his Bug celebration last Friday, now it's the turn of his telly chum Joe Cornish as Simon Jablonski asks him about social realism and alien escapades in new film Attack The Block

An Oasis In ‘The Desert Of The Real’: Wild Beasts Live

Ben Myers goes to see Wild Beasts play Leeds Brudenell Social Club, and exults in their breaking from catastrophically moribund indie norms. Photo by Sarah Dorman

Adam & Joe’s Adam Buxton On His Favourite Music Videos

Adam Buxton talks to The Quietus about his music video project BUG and selects some of his favourite music videos from Hot Chip, Major Lazer, Ladyscraper, Peter, Bjorn and John, Chemical Brothers, Blur and Radiohead.

Quietus Mix 28: Interview With & Music From Daniel Miller Of Mute

Our series of previews of the Mute Short Circuit Festival ends with an interview with label founder Daniel Miller on his philosophy, becoming indie again after splitting with EMI... and why Kraftwerk weren't on the fiddle when they sold him a broken synth. PLUS! Daniel's Quietus Mix featuring NON, Plastikman, Steve Reich and... twinkle

Hallucinating Superstars In The Coachella Valley: Ariel Pink Live

As Ariel Pink hits the UK, Tim Burrows recalls his recent Coachella Festival performance and reveals that, while California went "meh", for the writer it was a revelation

Danger Mouse & Daniele Luppi

Rome

Nurse Jackie: Pills, Thrills And Belly Laughs

Edie Falco's troubled hospital heroine faces further complications in her second season. Terry Staunton welcomes the repeat prescription.

Fused: Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto Interviewed

Dale Berning caught up with Alva Noto and Ryuichi Sakamoto in anticipation of their London performance to talk about what makes a collaboration of this calibre possible, and necessary, and the sounds they treasure most.

Canadian House Power: Azari & III Interviewed

Azari & III drop their debut album this June, and Lev Harris recently caught up with them to talk channeling the darker side of house and disco for subversive ends

Okkervil River

I Am Very Far

“The Residents Do Not Live In The Past”: A Profile & ‘Interview’

Ahead of their appearance at this weekend's Mute Short Circuit Festival, Robert Barry profiles the elusive Californian group/art project/political statement that is The Residents, with help from their "spokesperson" Hardy Fox

EMA

Past Life Martyred Saints