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End Of The Road Reveals Second Wave Of Acts For 2024 Event

Richard Hawley, Altin Gün and billy woods are among the latest names to join the lineup

Off To Never Land: The Sisters Of Mercy Interviewed

Ben Graham speaks to Andrew Eldritch, who says "Yes to everything that makes us hard."

Tropical Storm: An Interview With Machinedrum

On his new album Vapor City, Travis Stewart stirs rhythmic tics from drum & bass and footwork into intensely humid and immersive urban collages. He speaks to Rory Gibb about throwing out the blueprints and the enduring appeal of jungle

Team Ghost

You Never Did Anything Wrong To Me

Bakers Dozen: Joy Division & New Order’s Stephen Morris On His Top 13 Albums

Today, Stephen Morris steps up to The Quietus's Bakers Dozen challenge as he tells us all about his favourite 13 albums

Deathprod

Compositions

The latest from Oslo's Helge Sten adds a distinctly personal touch to his great surges of sound, finds Jon Buckland

“I Want Lou Reed To Kick Me Down The Stairs” – Lawrence Interviewed

Indie-pop outsider extraordinaire Lawrence – the Felt/Denim/Go-Kart-Mozart frontman who turned 51 last month – talks to Jude Rogers about sounding like Nicki Minaj and his ex-girlfriend from Saint Etienne...

Fukked In The Head: The Skull Defekts Interviewed

_Peer Amid_ is the first heavy rock record we loved this year so John Doran spoke to The Skull Defekts about repetition, repetition and repetition

Unsound 2012: More Acts Announced

Krakow's festival of out-there music and art, running from 14th-21st October, warms up with Hieroglyphic Being, Traxman, Vatican Shadow, Voices From The Lake and Shackleton, among others

The Hold Steady

Stay Positive

Remembering Malcolm Owen: The Ruts 30 Years On

30 years after his death, John Robb explains why Malcolm Owen, frontman of The Ruts, is one of punk-rock's great forgotten figures

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Supermassive Black Hole (In Your Wallet): The Trouble With Muse At Wembley

Although Jeremy Allen can't help but find Muse's Wembley megashow stirring, the Stadium experience leaves a sour taste

What Keith Flint Taught Me About Being An Essex Boy, By Manu Ekanayake

As a young Asian man growing up in Essex, Manu Ekanayake looked to Keith Flint as a figurehead who helped him explore his identity. He pays tribute to the Prodigy mainman, who died yesterday

Lee Dorrian Discusses The End Of Cathedral

The end of doom legends is nigh! Lee Dorrian tells all, including information about final album The Last Spire

The Body Is A Lever: An Interview With Sam Byers

Houman Barekat speaks to Sam Byers about his debut novel, Idiopathy, the perils of pop psychology and the link between boredom and narcissism