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Technology At The Bleeding Edge: Reflections On F.C. Judd

Public Information recently invited a host of contemporary artists to reinterpret the work of electronics pioneer F.C. Judd. With the resulting compilation just released, Maya Kalev speaks with Holly Herndon, Perc, Ekoplekz, Karen Gwyer and more to discuss their visions of his approach and the enduring appeal of his work

No Fear, No Trouble, No Bliss: Andrei Tarkovsky – Films, Stills, Polaroids, Writings

As Sotheby's prepares to sell the Russian filmmaker's archives this week, The Quietus previews ten film stills and an extract of Andrei Tarkovsky's writing from a newly published collection

Reverse Engineering: Danny Hyde On Coil, Backwards & NIN

Two decades after Coil finally finished tinkering with tracks, Backwards has finally been release. Russell Cuzner talks to Danny Hyde, the band’s engineer, co-producer, co-writer and programmer about this 'lost' album and the Nine Inch Nails’ material, released last year as Recoiled. Contains NSFW video imagery

Things I Have Learned: Billy Childish On Chatham Dockyard

Easter Monday is Billy Holiday! Here the great man tells Phil Hebblethwaite about the history and legacy of the Chatham Dockyard (and why he thinks the Quietus is witless)

The Icarus Line

Slave Vows

Counting Down To Infinity: John Heckle Interviewed

With his raw and decidedly cosmic takes on house, Liverpool's John Heckle blasts off into deep space with only a cockpit's worth of hardware to keep him company. He speaks to Harry Sword about underage raving, missing records and his excellent new The Last Magic Maker mini-LP

PREMIERE: Algiers’ Franklin Fisher Discusses Latest Album

The group's frontman discusses the writing of his epic poem 'Misophonia' with friend and author Blake Butler

Myth America: Primal Scream’s Vanishing Point 25 Years On

Darran Anderson looks back a quarter of a century to the undersung album that might just have been the band's best

Prepare For The Worst: Facing The Apocalypse With The Body

The Body's And All The Waters Of The Earth Shall Turn To Blood an outrock highlight of 2010. Here they tell Luke Turner that their guns were bought for hunting men as much as critters

PREMIERE: Soccer96 Share New EP, ‘Tactics’

Soccer96, the modular synth and drums duo of The Comet Is Coming's Danalogue and Betamax, have enlisted Total Refreshment Centre cohort Alabaster DePlume for their new EP 'Tactics'. It's premiering exclusively with tQ, along with a Q+A with Danalogue

Disintegration: A Classic 1989 Interview with Robert Smith of The Cure

More from those heroic folk at the Rock's Backpages archive. This time, Robert Sandall interviews Robert Smith of The Cure in 1989 about their landmark album, Disintegration. Live shots by Maria Jefferis/Shot2bits.net

The Macca Lad: Paul McCartney On Being A Punk And Avoiding The Credit Crunch

Speaking to our friends at the Stool Pigeon newspaper this week, Paul McCartney revealed that he is a fan of the Sex Pistols and that even he worried about the credit crunch. Interview Phil Hebblethwaite. Cover Photography: Steve Gullick

Limits, Borders, Edges: Lucrecia Dalt Interviewed

Sound artist and former geotechnical engineer Lucrecia Dalt talks to Alex Weston-Noond about comets, the unhuman and her new album on RVNG Intl. - Anticlines

Orchestra Of Constant Distress

Concerns

Sweden's Orchestra Of Constant Distress return with their fourth album of pitch black noise rock

Yeah Yeah Yeahs Announce New Material

Peter Hook Interview: Freebass, New Order and Joy Division Cruet Sets

Ben Hewitt talks to the Northern bass monkey about his involvement in getting some of the North's most historic music sites blue plaques