Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
With their second EP just released through ATP Recordings, Manish Agarwal sits down with SQÜRL - the trio of filmmaker Jim Jarmusch, Shane Stoneback and Carter Logan - to discuss their fuzzed-out rock explorations, covering Elvis and dreaming about 'Dead Naked Hippies'
Brisbane's Sky Needle are the sound of fever dreams and dehydrated desert hallucinations given physical form, churning out sickly improvisations on ramshackle home-built instruments. Sanjay Fernandes talks to the band's Joel Stern about new LP Debased Shapes and the art of self-sabotage
Ricardo Tobar has just released his debut album of melody-soaked, atmospheric techno, Treillis. He speaks to Joe Clay about a love of shoegaze and growing up in Chile, plus has recorded us an exclusive Quietus mix which you can listen to below
With his great new album Zemsta Plutona just released, the unique German sci-fi synth-pop explorer and sound artist speaks to David Stubbs about musical deconstruction, radio art, and reconnecting Germany with the culture of Eastern Europe
Nate Young has had a busy year, presiding over the return of Wolf Eyes on ferocious form and guiding his Regression solo electronic project into hypnotic zones. He speaks to Ian Maleney about improvisation, manual labour, and how Wolf Eyes are becoming even more unhinged with age
With The Orb's new retrospective box set recently released, Exotic Pylon lizard lord Jonny Mugwump speaks to Alex Patterson about industrial ambient dub, the social conditions that fed into the 90s rave explosion, and working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry
The richly textured pop of Larry Gus' latest album Years Not Living, released through DFA, emerges from a process of sound recombination inspired equally by literature and mathematics. He speaks to Ned Raggett about Borges, Ballard and a love of density in sound
Legendary Latin-jazz percussionist SHEILA E gives Simon Price a ticking-off for asking too many Prince questions. And tells him about her new album, her autobiography, her charity work, and her relationship the Almighty. Oh, and also about Prince. (A bit)
The Metal Machine Trio tour of the UK and Europe starts this Sunday. Their leader Lou Reed has always trod the fine line between 'rock & roll star' and 'serious artist', and never more so than on his 1975 album, _Metal Machine Music_. John Doran asks him about this period . . . and waits a painfully long time for the answers
London's Shabaka Hutchings and Tom Skinner sit down with Tristan Bath to discuss the free-flowing and vibrant grooves of their new quartet Sons Of Kemet, and how they emerge from a desire to explore the hidden currents linking the world's musics together
Mark Gergis introduced Omar Souleyman to the West and has released an entrancing double CD of his own recordings for humanitarian charities in Syria. He tells John Doran about the importance of looking beyond the news bulletins when it comes to the Middle East
The exquisite, atmospheric and subtly lysergic house music of Brooklyn's Galcher Lustwerk tells stories with few words and fewer sonic gestures. Ahead of his set at White Material's label showcase at Unsound, he speaks to Josh Hall about storytelling, noise and the New York electronic scene