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Rob Booth Chats Electronic Explorations Comp

"The UK produces the finest in electronic music, we have a conveyor belt of talent coming through every day": Rob Booth discusses his recent compilation, plus we select a few of our favourites from its 61 tracks

Morrissey & Marr: 25 Years Since The Alliance Was Severed

This year sees the 25th anniversary of the split of The Smiths. Johnny Rogan's masterful book The Severed Alliance has itself just had a 20th anniversary reprint by Omnibus. Here, reprinted in full, is the chapter that deals with the band's last few weeks

Elbow Announce UK Arena Tour

Manchester band play arena dates in November and December

Plan B Apology For Skrewdriver T Shirt Misunderstanding

Plan B Photographed In Skrewdriver T Shirt

Has Ill Manors rapper had an attack of the Morrisseys?

WATCH: Darren Hayman Lido Video

"Essays on memory and lost, bold, civic dreams" explored on new LP

WATCH: Factory Floor Boiler Room

Set recorded at Dollop Detroit Series

Cinema Shooting In Colorado

Fourteen people killed and up to 50 injured after gunman opens fire at a screening of The Dark Night Rises in Colorado

Original Sugababes Reform

Now re-christened Mutya Keisha Siobhan

Wysing Space-Time Festival: Line-Up

Festival to feature names including Alexander Tucker, Emptyset and Damo Suzuki

WATCH: LV – ‘Sebenza’

London trio team up with a trio of South African MCs for new album on Hyperdub; watch the video for first single below

OM Announce London Show

Band return to London to support new album Advaitic Songs

The Quietus Most Read In: June 2012

Here's the Baker's Dozen of what you all read most of last month, as decreed by our Google Analytics

Colony Announce August Raves

A pair of heavyweight looking parties from some of our favourite promoters

Man Forever To Tour UK

Ready the axe! Kid Millions to bring his deadly drumrolls to the UK later this month

Unsound: Theo Parrish, Mala & More Added

A heavyweight raft of new names added to the Krakow festival

LISTEN: Maria Minerva – ‘The Sound’

Listen to a track from her upcoming third album

Robin Fox To Play Cafe Oto

Audiovisual explorer to bring his stunning sound/light crossover to Cafe Oto

Flying Lotus: More Album Details

Full details of Steven Ellison's new full-length, plus artwork and tour dates

Ólafur Arnalds To Play Stavanger Cathedral

Prestigious gig for Numusic Festival

LISTEN: How To Dress Well – ‘Cold Nites’

Listen to the new single taken from Tom Krell's follow-up to last year's Love Remains

Health & Safety Love Bruce!

Springsteen exec brands Live Nation "disingenuous"

Pulp For Coachella Cruise!

Jamaica and the Bahamas this year

Thom Yorke’s New Band To Release 12″

Atoms For Peace to release 12" through Modeselektor's label

Kitty Wells Queen Of Country RIP

Tim Coooper salutes the true queen of country music who was also the genre's first woman to score a number one

VCMG Remixed By LFO & Alva Noto

Third EP taken from Vince Clarke and Martin L Gore's SSSS album to feature heavyweight remixing names

LISTEN: Holy Other – ‘Held’

Listen to a new song taken from Holy Other's upcoming debut album

LOCOG Sinister: The Olympic Impact On Local Government Arts

A Quietus reader who works in local government in London got in touch to tell us about what he perceives the impact of the 2012 Olympic Games to be on grassroots work in the capital

TOMORROW: Nite Jewel In London

Ramona Gonzalez to finish UK tour at XOYO tomorrow night, 18th July

LISTEN: The xx – ‘Angels’

Listen to the first track to appear from London trio's second album, plus album details

Nick Höppner Talks GEMA Row

Manager of Berghain/Panoramabar's Ostgut Ton label discusses the potential threat to Berlin's nightlife posed by changing GEMA regulations

Flying Lotus: New Album Details

Until The Quiet Comes due in October