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Camus, Coke & Hookers: Meursault Interviewed

Thomas A. Ward talks to Meursault's Neil Pennycook about recording in living rooms, major labels and the exaggerated demise of the local music scene

Dead Confederate

Sugar

The Sword

Warp Riders

A Game Of Chess: Akira The Don Takes On Gonzales & Talks Ivory Tower

Fennesz Daniell Buck

Knoxville

Brandon Flowers

Flamingo

Klaxons

Surfing The Void

Out Of My Cave: Wyndham Wallace On Ut Av Vår Hule Festival In Norway

Wyndham Wallace stumbles upon a lovely Norwegian festival. Join him as takes in the sights and sounds of Ut Av Vår Hule

Smut At The Bus Stop & Career Revivals: The Vaselines Interviewed

Ash Dosanjh talks to Eugene Kelly about _Sex With An X_, the first album from Scottish cult heroes The Vaselines in 20 years. Plus: bus stop romances, smutty songs and Kurt Cobain

Phantom

Smoke And Mirrors

Janelle Monáe: A New Pioneer Of Afrofuturism

Against a pop climate beset by fraudulent marketing plans on two shiny legs, John Calvert argues that Janelle Monáe brandishes the acetylene torch for radical Afrofuturism

Little Pips Starting To Grow: Al Tourettes Interviewed

Angus Finlayson talks to the jack of all trades - electro, dubstep and techno - about his moniker, musical ambitions and growing up in Norfolk

The Rockin’ Vicar: Rev Mann Speaks About Stryper, Slayer And Satan

Son of metal Joel McIver meets Lady Of The Cloth Rachel Mann who has decreed: listen to metal! Amen, say we... Photographs of Rev. Mann by KatyBPhotography.co.uk

Women

Public Strain

Awaiting The Resurrection Of The Pedal Steel Guitar: Susan Alcorn Interviewed

Spencer Grady talks to pioneering composer and free improviser Susan Alcorn about Muddy Waters, Messiaen and the art of “deep listening”. Photo by Andy Newcombe

The Last Grouch On The Left: Josh Saco On The End Of FrightFest

Our tattoed man of horror throws himself into another weekend of guts and gore at the Film4 FrightFest

Chilly Gonzales

Ivory Tower

Building From The Ground Up: Lorn Interviewed

Angus Finlayson talks to the man born Marcos Ortega about his relationship with Flying Lotus and being a natural performer

Antony and the Johnsons: Swanlights Track-By-Track Review

Frances Morgan gives the track-by-track treatment to _Swanlights_, the latest offering from Antony and the Johnsons

Jimmy Edgar

XXX

The Men Who Would Be Kings: The Myth Of The Libertines At The Forum

The Libertines reunion: the last chapter in a great romantic rock & roll tale, or a cynical cash-making ploy? Lewis G. Parker finds it impossible to separate myth from reality after taking in their set at The Forum. Picture courtesy of Alice Wagstaffe

PVT

Church With No Magic

S Carey

All We Grow

One More Song: James Murphy Of LCD Soundsystem Interviewed

"We might even make another album," says James Murphy, as The Quietus rejoices. Plus - studio nightmares, death threats and working with Arcade Fire. Murphy image by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits

Everything Everything

Man Alive

Harvard Commissions & Refuting Pretension: Clogs Interviewed

Laura Snapes talks to modern composer Padma Newsome about _The Creatures In The Garden Of Lady Walton_, horticulture and pretension

iPad Therefore I Am: Why John Robb’s New Device Is The Apple Of His Eye

John Robb explains why you can be a punk _and_ like Apple's latest shiny gadget - indeed, they actually go hand-in-hand...

Venetian Snares

My-So-Called-Life

Misfits & Mongrels: Smudge’s Tom Morgan Interviewed

Ben Hewitt and Smudge singer Tom Morgan discuss Evan Dando, dangerous career arcs and keeping testosterone in check

A Rave Institution: James St Acid Of Bang Face Interviewed

Angus Finlayson - The Quietus's very own slave to the rave - talks to James St Acid about the legacy and lineage of Bang Face

My Left Shin: Kristin Hersh On Art, Inspiration & Vic Chestnutt

Petra Davis talks to Kristin Hersh about her solo record _Crooked_, a new Throwing Muses album and the death of the music industry. All photographs by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

Skream

Outside The Box