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How Can I Light Myself On Fire To Get You To Listen? NIN Interviewed

Getting Nine Inch Nails’ signal to cut through the insane noise of the digital marketplace has been 1% inspiration and 99% immolation, says Trent Reznor to John Doran. But does latest album Bad Witch mark the start of a new phase in their career?

Félicia Atkinson

Space As An Instrument

From simple ingredients – spoke words, field recordings, a few notes from a piano – the French composer builds intense worlds of feeling

Technics Unveils New SL-1210G Turntable

The new player, aimed at audiophiles, will set you back £3,499 though

Jarvis Hints At Pulp Reunion For Next Year’s Glasto

"There'll be a band reunion" says Cocker...rather tongue in cheek

Listening To The Messages: Oumou Sangaré’s Favourite Albums

Malian musician Oumou Sangaré speaks to David McKenna about her favourite music, being discovered by Ali Farka Touré, and collaborating with Alicia Keys and Tony Allen

The Fall and Mark E Smith As A Narrative Lyric Writer

Violence Is Everyone: An Interview With Jordan Wolfson

Following his recent show at Sadie Coles' London HQ, artist Jordan Wolfson talks to Adam Lehrer about violence, audience, and courting controversy

In 1996 Stephen Jones Fucked A Horse: Babybird Interviewed

As Stephen 'Babybird' Jones prepares for his first UK tour in half a decade, Wyndham Wallace argues it's time the 'Gorgeous' audience which flew the nest came home to roost

Pop Ist Nicht Tot: Rammstein Flame It Live At The O2

Days after the Brits tediumathon at the O2, Rammstein set fire to the place not only with eyebrow singeing pyrotechnics, but also some killer tunes that even your Billy Joel fan would love, says Toby Cook. Photographs by Katja Ogrin

LISTEN: New Dirty Three LP

Toward The Low Sun streaming on the Quietus!

Octo Octa

Resonant Body

With chunky basslines and heart-tugging synthesizers, Octo Octa's Resonant Body is one of the best dance LPs of recent times, finds Noel Gardner

LISTEN: Gonjasufi – ‘Nikels & Dimes’

Listen to a song from MU.ZZ.LE, the upcoming mini-album from the Warp-signed Brainfeeder crew affiliate and lo-fi mystic

The First Of Faust: A Rock’s Backpages Archive Feature

Faust will open the Quietus Village Mentality Stage at lunchtime on Field Day: make sure you get there in time else Jean-Herve will have you with his chainsaw. Here, we delve into the Rock's Backpages archive for a 1973 NME piece by Ian MacDonald

LISTEN: New The Last Skeptik

The producer branches out on his first fully-solo single