Matthew Simms

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Continuous Miracles: An Interview With Better Corners

Three of leftfield music’s most pioneering musicians, Valentina Magaletti, Sarah Register and Matthew Simms, speak to Patrick Clarke about their new band together Better Corners, whose debut album is released today exclusively for Quietus subscribers

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News

LIVE REPORT: Liars In Paris

Angus Andrew and the Bateh twins bring a magnificent, pulverising Liars’ greatest hits set to the Maroquinerie in Paris.

Film

Mapping Obsession: A Personal Vertigo Pilgrimage

Siobhan McKeown visits the San Francisco locations and explores the multiplicity of meanings in Hitchcock's iconic 1958 picture, which is screening all this month at BFI Southbank. Photos by Darren Ambrose

Film

Things Learned At: Nowe Horyzonty Film Festival 2013

Mat Colegate shares some insights into the 2013 Nowe Horyzonte film festival in Wroclaw, Poland

News

WIRE Unveil New Guitarist, Head To Spain

New line-up to play Primavera this weekend

News

Angel Olsen Unveils New EP, ‘Forever Means’

It features songs written and recorded amid the same sessions as last year's 'Big Time' LP

Books

Anti Nostalgia: Zoe Howe’s ‘Barbed Wire Kisses’ Reviewed

With help from Zoe Howe's newly published history of the band - bunking the biographical trend, pleasingly filled more with anecdotes than footnotes - Hayley Scott unfurls the mystique of the Mary Chain from inception to present day

Baker's Dozen

Playing The (Baker’s) Dozens: George Clinton’s Favourite Albums

With the funk kingpin and founder of Parliament and Funkadelic taking his bands on a festival tour this summer, Suzie McCracken caught up with him to find out about the 13 records that have stuck with him through his lifetime

News

WATCH: Kate Bush Under The Ivy Video

Watch special performance of 'Under The Ivy' - the only time the song was ever performed on TV. Photo courtesy of John Carder

News

Tim Burgess Details New Album, ‘Typical Music’

The 22-track double album was made alongside Thighpaulsandra and Daniel O'Sullivan

Baker's Dozen

Stolen Pleasures: Simon Fisher Turner’s Baker’s Dozen

Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about 13 records that accompanied his life and career of sonic explorations, from making soundtracks with Derek Jarman to jamming with Bowie and Iggy Pop

Black Sky Thinking

Wolves In The Sheep Pen: Fascism & The Czech Underground

Miloš Hroch investigates the ideological confusion which is rampant in the Czech extreme music underground and asks, how do we separate ideology from provocation?

Music of the Month

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We’ve Loved This January

Nkisi to Sharon Van Etten, Fat White Family to Rian Treanor, Comet Is Coming to Deep Tan: some of the finest and juiciest new releases from the past month. It’s almost enough to make you forget about BREXIT

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Continuous Miracles: An Interview With Better Corners

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