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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

The Vaselines

Sex With An X

The Groundhogs

Thank Christ for the Groundhogs: the Liberty Years 1968-1972

Brian Eno & Collaborators On Small Craft On A Milk Sea

In a statement, Brian Eno, Leo Abrahams and Jon Hopkins discuss the sound and feel of their new collaborative LP

Sonic Router 015: Driving Drum Beats With Iceland’s Hypno

Our man Oli Marlow interviews Kári Guðmundsson, aka Hypno, for this month's Sonic Router

Robert Plant

Band Of Joy

The Jim Jones Revue

Burning Your House Down

An Extract From Dr Johnson’s Dictionary Wherein He Defines Hip Hop

Noted Twitterer @DrSamuelJohnson recently published his first new dictionary in 250 years. To celebrate this remarkable feat, we today present the section where he passes definition upon the genre of hip hop

Classified X: Race & Kings Of Leon’s ‘Radioactive’ Video

"Woah-ho! This cross is on fire" Kings Of Leon's new video for 'Radioactive' flirts with dangerous aspects of racial stereotyping, argues John Tatlock

What’s Wrong With Being Sexy? Nick Cave and Jim Sclavunos of Grinderman Interviewed

Big Jim and Old Nick talk to John Doran about JFK’s spine, Steve McQueen’s cock and why women love Grinderman

Robyn

Body Talk Pt 2

The Dome Of Hercules: Carlton Melton Interviewed

Barnaby Smith talks to Rich Millman - guitarist with Calrton Melton - about San Francisco, improvisation and juggling fatherhood with making music