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Classic Bruce Springsteen Interview: How Born To Run Saved The Boss

Bruce Springsteen may sell out a stadium tour in the blink of an eye nowadays, but as this 1975 interview by Dave Marsh from _Creem_ shows, it wasn't always so easy for The Boss...

Loose Wool And Hot Tar: The National Interviewed

Laura Snapes met Matt Berninger and Aaron Dessner to talk in-studio strife, making a scrappier record than Boxer, and “summer lovin’ torture parties” in decrepit Grey Gardens-style mansions.

All That Useless Beauty: 25th Anniversary Of Lush’s Mad Love

Graham Bendel writes a love letter to 90s shoegazers Lush, and in the process wonders if they were better, in fact, than My Bloody Valentine…

A Certain Ratio

Force

Wooden Shjips

Vol. 2

Burzum Unbound: Varg Vikernes Speaks To The Quietus

Black metal's most notorious son refused to talk murder, racism and arson, but did give us a track-by-track rundown of the influences behind his new album

Alcest

Écaille De Lune

Kick Ass Film Review: Faint Hearted, Turn Tail

Reformed Libertines Drop A Bomb On The Boogaloo

"What was it about the £1.5million fee that made you reform The Libertines", Lewis G Parker asks Pete & Carl. But will his cynicism hold when he hears them performing? All pictures courtesy of Alice Wagstaffe

We’re Really Not That Positive: Cathedral Interviewed

Toby Cook sups beer with Cathedral singer Lee Dorrian and discusses anarchism, jolliness and what could have been for Napalm Death...

Bill Callahan

Rough Travel For A Rare Thing

Time To Change The Dancefloor: Ikonika Interviewed

Petra Davis finds out what makes Hyperdub label sensation Ikonika tick

Laura Marling

I Speak Because I Can

Gonjasufi

A Sufi And A Killer

A Practically Spoiler-Free Preview Of The Revelatory Return Of Doctor Who

There's been some trepidation about the post-Tennant & Davies incarnation of Doctor Who. But, as Adrian Lobb finds when he sits down to a preview screening, we could be looking at a classic series

Sonic Router 011: A Dubstep Column For April – Land Of The Skweee And Boss Kite

In this month's Sonic Router column, Oli Marlow explores the emerging form of Skwee with Brighton producer Boss Kite. Snag a free Skweee mix while you're at it

Shakespears Sister

Songs From The Red Room

Autechre

Oversteps

Various Artists

Cold Waves & Minimal Electronics Vol. 1

Up Axe! Polish Helmet! March’s Metal Reviews Column Is A Saxon Special

Toby Cook finds the latest set of a Saxon Reissues unsatisfying in a column that also features Neurosis, The Breathing Process, The Smoking Hearts, Nihill, XodiacK, Achilles and High On Fire

All The Vulgar Dudes: A Conversation With Spoon

Charles Ubaghs asks US critical darlings Spoon if they read their own press cuttings and if they're too American for British audiences

The Human Condition: Exodus Interviewed

Mark Eglinton speaks to Gary Holt, founder of thrash legends Exodus, about the selfishness of mankind and a devotion to metal

Secret Diary Of A Rock & Roll Star, Aged 45 ½: Part One. By John Moore

Former thirsty absinthe importer, Mary Chain drummer, Black Box Recorder guitarist and debonair man of letters Mr John Moore starts a new diary for the Quietus. In Part One, an altercation with a shredder leaves him rueing the fact that, all too often, the first cut is the deepest

MGMT

Congratulations

Black Francis

NonStopErotik

The Last Top: Duke Fakir Of The Four Tops Interviewed

Hazel Sheffield talks to the last original member of Motown sensations The Four Tops about growing up in Detroit and the genius of Michael Jackson

LCD Soundsystem This Is Happening track by track

Flashboys Killing It: Suede Slay Their Demons With An Emphatic Return

At their trio of gigs in aid of the Teenage Cancer Trust, Suede lay to rest the ghosts of Britpop and _that_ guitarist, says Luke Turner

Detached Intimacy & Basic Space: LoneLady Interviewed

Mick Middles talks to Julie Campbell, aka LoneLady, about Manchester post-punks Ludus and her reluctance to be pigeon-holed as a 'female' artist

Nigeria Special Volume 2 & Afrobeat Compilation Reviewed

South By South West Festival: Music on Film Roundup

Stephen Dalton reports on the music-related films on offer at this years SXSW festival.

North Atlantic Oscillation

Grappling Hooks