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Wire: Back To The Ratinger Hof

As we look to Wire's future with their Quietus gig at the Lexington tonight and tomorrow, we look at a new book about Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof venue, where Wire played in the late 1970s, and publish an extract where Colin Newman recalls how, in Düsseldorf, Wire felt at home. Wire live at the Ratinger Hof pic by Carmen Knoebe

Cleckhuddersfax

Spen Beck

Tamaryn

The Waves

A Whaling And A Brushing Of The Teeth

John Doran travels to the roof of the world but finds substituting life long vegetarianism for a diet of pure whale meat to be more problematic than he envisaged. Photographs by Gentleman Dan Dennison

Elton John & Leon Russell

The Union

Darren Hayman & The Secondary Modern

Essex Arms

Suede

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Bakers Dozen: Alex Paterson Of The Orb Chooses His Favourite 13 Albums

Dr Alex Paterson of The Orb has fine taste in music indeed. Here he talks us through his favourite 13 albums...

The Phantom Band

The Wants

Family Fodder

Classical Music

Wire’s Graham Lewis On Cupol & The Master Musicians Of Joujouka

In an Afro Sonic-with-a-twist feature, Richie Troughton speaks to Wire's Graham Lewis about the impact the Master Musicians Of Joujouka had on the music of his post-Wire project, Cupol

40 Years On: The Dead Kennedys’ Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

Jack Davies looks back at the Dead Kennedys first proto hardcore statement...

Stories From The City Of Sadness: Millimetre Interviewed

John Freeman talks to Terence McGaughey about his new album, a difficult upbringing and the loneliness of Londoners.

Teebs

Ardour

Steve Ignorant On Crass & The Angry Young Men Of 1950’s British Literature

In the first of two features on anarchist punks Crass, Alex Burrows talks to Steve Ignorant about how the 'Angry Young Men' of British literature influenced his philosophy and work. Next week: an interview with Crass's Penny Rimbaud

D.D. Denham

Electronic Music In The Classroom

Keep It Moving: A Quietus Interview With Howe Gelb

Stewart Smith sits down with Howe Gelb to discuss Giant Sand, a distaste for lyricism and the new album _Blurry Blue Mountain_

What’s All The Fuss About? Ruben Östlund’s Involuntary Reviewed

_Involuntary_ may be disjointed, says Eftihia Stefanidi, but it will haunt you long after it's finished

No Chips Alone: The Soft Boys Saga By Robyn Hitchcock

The Soft Boys will reissue their cult albums _A Can Of Bees_ and _Underwater Moonlight_ on November 15 on Yep Roc. Here, Robyn Hitchcock pens us some words on the band's formation and demise...

Small Black

New Chain

Wild Nothing

Golden Haze

Swans

My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky

Supersonic 2010 In Review: Digbeth For Victory With Swans And Godflesh

Last weekend Toby Cook, Roby Haynes, James Holloway, Matt Evans, Luke Turner and John Doran lolloped over to Birmingham to round up the best of the mayhem from Supersonic. All pictures thanks to Maria Jefferis/Stu Green/Shot2Bits.net

Laetitia Sadier

The Trip

Praise Be! It’s A Charlotte Church Interview

Luke Turner meets up with Charlotte Church to talk about Green Man, Tatu death threats, covering Iron & Wine and going it alone in love and music

Dan Michaelson & the Coastguards

Shakes

Wiley Does It: Ruling The Internet & Bringing In Gold

Tom Howard chats to Wiley about ruling the internet, mediating between Liam and Noel Gallagher, and music industry woes

Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere: A Rare Interview With The Heads

Jimmy Martin talks to reclusive Bristolian psychedelic warriors The Heads about being the UK's best cult rock group. Essential moral and technical guidance from their "whipping boy, dogsbody and chief enthusiast" Mr Simon Keeler

“A Godzilla Version Of Being A Woman”: All About Evil With Peaches Christ

Simon Jablonski talks to director, writer, actress and drag-queen Peaches Christ about horror, homage, Julia Roberts and Freddy Krueger

I Like Trains

He Who Saw The Deep

Moulettes

Moulettes

Let The Red Rag Fly: In Defence Of Simply Red’s Picture Book

The Quietus battens down the hatches and prepares for a storm as Wyndham Wallace risks all to defend Simply Red’s debut album, _Picture Book_, on its 25th anniversary…