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The Four-Dimensional Human: In Conversation With Laurence Scott

Michael John sits down to talk with Laurence Scott — author of The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of living in the digital world — about the erosion and universality of celebrity culture, economic claustrophobia, the nature of an ever-present digital past and the prophetic powers of The Simpsons. (Photograph: Jean Baudrillard — Saint Clement, 1987)

A Black Atmosphere: Blixa Bargeld & Teho Teardo Interviewed

Daniel Dylan Wray meets the Italian composer and the Neubauten/Bad Seeds man to talk about their new collaborative album, Nerissimo

On Feminism & The Female Body In Kim Kardashian’s Selfish

Aimee Cliff considers the valuable and radical nature of Kim Kardashian's Selfish, the reclaiming of herself (and her Self) from the media, what it means to be a perfect feminist and whether that matters

LCD To Record Again

James Murphy tells The Quietus LCD will still release 12"s - and may even make another album

Autechre Share Unheard Live Recordings

The duo's latest collection of set recordings comprises shows from 2016 and 2018

LISTEN: New Power Ambient LP By Chord

Simon Reynolds Reveals First Book In Eight Years

'Futuromania: Electronic Dreams, Desiring Machines And Tomorrow's Music Today' spotlights futuristic music

The Faith Healers: Rival Sons Speak About Religion

Rachel Mann talks to the all-American classic rockers about reconciling their respective religious beliefs with today's post-moral music industry

LIVE REPORT: Chrome

"A black hole in the noise": Joe Banks reports from Electrowerkz in London for Chrome's first show there in 25 years. Photo by Grimm S Brinkmann

From The Underground Up: An Interview With Sly & The Family Drone

As Sly & The Family Drone release a new 20-minute behemoth exclusively for Quietus subscribers, their leader Matt Cargill speaks to JR Moores about the extreme highs and lows of life in the UK underground

Tempel

The Moon Lit Our Path

Van Halen Sue Nike

Rockers claim comapany's new shoe is copyright infringement

Buttholes And Bandanas: An Interview With Bruxa Maria


Gill Dread's latest project makes an unruly, ferocious racket that some have branded "noise punk". It's inspired by her Butthole Surfers upbringing, the 2011 riots, uncaring hipsters, intolerant atheists and working as a van driver for other bands, she tells JR Moores. Photo thanks to Jose Ramon Caamaño

Love Letter To A Vanishing City: Willy Vlautin On The Night Always Comes

Set in a changing Portland, Willy Vlautin’s new novel tells the story of its desperate residents chasing after normalcy. The author of Lean On Pete and singer of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines talks to Adam Zamecnik about gentrification, trauma, and Portland, Oregon

Rockfort! French Music For August Reviewed By David McKenna

David McKenna rounds up the cream of the latest electronic, jazz and indie rock releases from France, taking in Maghrebi sounds from Lyon, farty drum machines and oceanic musique concrete. Homepage image of TripleGo

Dr Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: The Letter B

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon’d for the common LISTENER