Complete Communion: A New Quietus Column Devoted To Jazz

It's a new Quietus column! On jazz! Jamie Skey brings us birthday wishes and fond remembrances for jazz legends departed, along with great new albums by Magnus Ostrom, Joachim Kuhn, Blue Touch Paper, Sons of Kemet (pictured) plus a live review of Kentyah Presents: M1, Brian Jackson and The New Midnight Band

The Uncanny In The Everyday: Kemper Norton Interviewed

Sussex resident Kemper Norton's music tells tales of community conflict and tensions between urban and rural worldviews. He tells Russell Cuzner about prank calls to J.G. Ballard, burial chambers and water poisonings

Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer

Re:ECM

“Every Dream Comes To An End”: Gatekeeper Interviewed

New York/Chicago duo Gatekeeper's debut album Exo is an acid-flecked horror-vision of a virulent virtual metropolis. Charlie Fox caught up with them to discuss techno-addiction, nineties computing and obsolete technologies

Up The Pub! An Interview With Primitive Parts

The London trio tell Joe Clay about their no-frills post-punk, influenced by both Dr Feelgood and doomed video rental chains, and take in lyrical obscuring and plans for a new automotive playback format in the process

Points Of Transition: An Interview With Squid

Squid, the amorphous frontrunners of guitar music's new breed, sit down with Patrick Clarke to talk cultural bombardment, anxiety and joy. All photos by Holly Whitaker

The Durutti Column

The Return Of The Durutti Column

LIVE REPORT: Loop & Godflesh

"Like the gates of hell repeatedly slamming": Joe Banks gets nostalgic as Loop and Godflesh co-headline London's Heaven. Photo by Dave Pettit

Underwater Intensity: Klein Interviewed

Ahead of the release of her first EP with Hyperdub this Friday, Klein speaks to Zahra Dalilah about finding herself in the alternative music scene, the intensity of her music and R&B boy band B2K