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A New Column: The Finest In May’s Electronic & Dance Releases

The Quietus is delighted to bring you the first instalment of Hyperspecific - the first in a monthly column from Rory Gibb on the finest dance, electronic and experimental music currently doing the rounds

Freddie Steady Go: Rhys Thomas’s Queen TV Special Previewed

From the least cool kid in school to trusted custodian of the Queen archives, comedian Rhys Thomas has turned his obsession with the band into a labour of love. Terry Staunton talks to him about his new documentary

Weather Becomes Music: Variable 4 At Faster Than Sound

This weekend, the Variable 4 weather-operated sound installation is at the Snape Maltings for the Faster Than Sound Festival. The Quietus finds out more

Stewart Lee Selects His Favourite 13 Albums

Comedian Stewart Lee talks to Simon Jablonski about his thirteen albums of all time, including The Fall (obviously), Ted Chippington, Guided By Voices, REM (who are a disappointment) and why Miles Davis and jazz are like stand-up

Efrin Manuel Menuck

Plays High Gospel

A Supreme Necrotic Audience: Anaal Nathrakh Interviewed

Nihilist German philosophers to the music of the tube tunnel: inside the terrifying sounds of Anaal Nathrakh

Death Grips

Exmilitary

13&God

Own Your Ghost

How The Music Industry Is Killing Music And Blaming The Fans

While the industry continues to blame illegal downloading for its financial woes, it’s musicians who are paying the price while being forced to work harder than ever. But label inertia means culture itself is at stake, and even democracy could suffer, argues Wyndham Wallace

The Strange & Frightening World Of: PULP

As Pulp prepare to take to the stage at the Primavera Festival, Luke Turner looks back at their long rise to mid-90s triumph, and selects some of the milestones along the way

Rudely Visionary: Planningtorock Interviewed

John Freeman talks to Planningtorock’s Janine Rostron about super-fan James Murphy, the quest to find her 'inner tranny' and new album W

The Musical Osteopath: An Interview With Woebot

In a wide-ranging chat, Daniel Baker talks to Matthew Ingram - aka Woebot - about his new album Chunks

Africa Hitech

93 Million Miles

Jonathan Donahue On The Troubled Birth Of Mercury Rev’s Deserter’s Songs

Mercury Rev are currently touring their 1998 classic album Deserter's Songs. Here, Jonathan Donahue narrates the bleak and troubled birth of an album that nearly wasn't. Interview by Luke Turner

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