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No Masks: An Interview With Meir Zarchi, Director Of I Spit On Your Grave

Robert Barry talks rape, revenge and morality with Meir Zarchi

Edwyn Collins

Losing Sleep

A Columnus Metallicus For The End Of Summer

Toby Cook now knows that you should never meet your heroes. He also knows the finest metal releases that you should currently be listening to...

KORT In The Act: Kurt Wagner & Cortney Tidwell Chart Their Work Together

Nashville’s Kurt Wagner and Cortney Tidwell have teamed up to record an album of country duets inspired by vintage label Chart Records. The Quietus has the exclusives on their new video and a mini documentary, and chats to the two about its evolution

Ninja Tune Week: Coldcut Wax Lyrical And An Exclusive Mix By Grasscut

Listen to an exclusive Ninja mix by Grasscut, while Coldcut tell John Doran about the rhythms they haven't used yet

Refusing To Play The Short Game: Kano Interviewed

Kano tells Ben Hewitt about broken promises, the pitfalls of chart rap and whether he really is a "foul mouthed rapper"

Manic Street Preachers

Postcards From A Young Man

Catching Trout & Minimalist Composition: S. Carey Interviewed

There's nothing The Quietus respects more than a man who's handy with a fishing rod, which is why we asked Daniel Ross to chat to S. Carey about catching trout - as well as his debut album _All We Grow_ and drumming with Bon Iver

Ken Livingstone Interviewed: Boris, The Other Boris, Music, Politics & London

As the polls close in the contest to become Labour's candidate for London Mayor, we publish an interview with Ken Livingstone on music, politics, the day Thatcher dies, and who would be better at running London: Boris or Boris?

Glasser

Ring

Branchage 2010: Skeletons – Bringing British Films Out of the Closet

_Skeletons_, showing this week at the Branchage Film Festival, is a quirky and surreal comedy with a strong, very British pedigree. Daniel Nixon wonders why it’s so hard for the mainstream British film press to promote more homegrown gems like this.

Ninja Tune Week: Roots Manuva Interviewed

It's Ninja Tune week here on The Quietus, so Robin Howells talks to the brilliant Roots Manuva about his new release _Duppy Writer_

Ninja Tune Week: An Extract From Stevie Chick’s 20 Years Of Beats & Pieces

Continuing Ninja Tune week here on The Quietus, we have an extract from Stevie Chick's excellent new tome _20 Years Of Beats And Pieces_, plus a Q & A with the author himself

Roots Manuva

Duppy Writer

At The End Of The Grosse Freiheit: The Beatles In Hamburg

Fifty years ago last month The Beatles first arrived in Hamburg, hungry, sleepless and unprepared (for what they found there, and what it led to), says Taylor Parkes

Your Window Shattering: Underworld And The City At Night

Mat Colegate goes to see Underworld live and talks to Karl Hyde about the joys of being a flâneur

The Black Angels

Phosphene Dream

Why Woebegone Wanderers Wild Beasts Fly The Flag Of True Folk

Leave your stick-on beard and flowering dress at home, for Wild Beasts' set at the Campfire Trails festival embodies the true spirit of the folk tradition, argues Luke Turner. Wild Beasts live shot by Lucy Johnston

Branchage Festival 2010: Scanner On His Magic Lantern Soundtrack

We kick off our coverage of this year's Branchage Festival with a chat with Robin Rimbaud, AKA Scanner, who'll be soundtracking a magic lantern show

Ninja Tune Week: XX Box Set Reviewed By Neil Kulkarni

Our man Neil Kulkarni gives his verdict on the Ninja Tunes box sets, and pays tribute to a label that is still irresistibly addictive

Interpol

Interpol

Seeland

How To Live

John Moore Prepares His CV & Meets A Famous Record Company

Our man John Moore is worried he's turning into a couch, but finds time to tell us why he isn't rich and doesn't have a very good CV

Pulling Hauntological Triggers: Gong & Space Ritual Live

Emily Bick heads to Gong and Space Ritual at the London Forum and the resulting cleanse of her Third Eye leads to a musing upon hauntological blogs and notions of memory

Hunted By A Freak Noise: Mogwai War Stories Feat. The Band, Mr A Moffat, Bloc Party & More

In the first of a new series we discuss the gigs that have impacted upon us most. This month celebrating the release of superb live album Special Moves, we look at Mogwai... **Listen to Mogwai! A selection made by The Quietus**

Grinderman

Grinderman 2

Black Mountain

Wilderness Heart

Supermassive Black Hole (In Your Wallet): The Trouble With Muse At Wembley

Although Jeremy Allen can't help but find Muse's Wembley megashow stirring, the Stadium experience leaves a sour taste

Crocodiles

Sleep Forever

Incubate 2010: Black Mountain Interview

Petra Davis catches up with Jeremy Schmidt - at the time braving the high seas on a ferry bound for the Isle Of Wight - for a joint meditation on mystery, democracy and arboreal structures

Supersonic 2010: Michael Gira Talks About Swans And Hair Shirts

Michael Gira says that being in Swans used to be like "trudging up a sand hill wearing a hair shirt, being sprayed with battery acid, with a midget taunting you". In which case, why has he resurrected the project, asks Frances Morgan

I Don’t Want To Be A Maverick: Matthew Dear Interviewed

The techno auteur talks to Angus Finlayson about getting lost in the urban megastructure and balancing the personal and faceless sides of his music