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A Classic Aphex Twin Interview. Simon Reynolds Talks To Richard D. James

"Schizophrenia is fuckin' excellent", said electronica's most gifted son in 1993. Come on you slags, let's have some Rock's Backpages Acid!

A Friendly Dickensian Uncle: A Classic Interview With Captain Beefheart

In honour of Captain Beefheart, we've republished an interview with the great man from _ZigZag_ magazine from 1969 by Miles. Thanks, as always to Rock's Backpages

New Weird Britain in Review for April by Noel Gardner

From mangled folk music to ever-evolving electroacoustic techno jams inspired by Hackney Marshes, Noel Gardner delivers his latest guide to the sounds of New Weird Britain

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For May Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back with the good, the bad and the ugly in heavy metal for May, featuring new cuts from Panopticon, Grave Miasma and Nadja

Rum Music For August Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Woodwind multiples, early Indian electronic music, caustic Brazilian reworks and John Fahey as you've never heard him before reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan in this month's trip into the lesser travelled interior

The Turn To Language: At Borealis Festival 2019

What is the place of language and of the voice in experimental music? This was the question addressed, whether explicitly or implicitly, by several artists at this year's Borealis Festival

Ready Yourself To Say Yes: David Mitchell’s Utopia Avenue

The new book by Cloud Atlas author David Mitchell is a journey into the music of the 60s that somehow manages to avoid excessses of nostalgia or sentiment, finds Mathew Lyons

Kwes

Kinds

A suite of delicately coloured ambient electronics offering an almost child-like sense of wonder

Prince: Revolutionary Transmissions From Beyond The Greatest Hits

While there's nothing wrong with a Prince hits anthology or two, this doesn't even begin to tell the story. Petra Davis, Joe Stannard, Al Denney, Wyndham Wallace, David Moats and John Tatlock choose their favourite non-single tracks... (republished 21st April 2016 - RIP Prince)

The Quietus’ Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 14 to One

The Quietus finishes our countdown of the very best albums of 2008. Who will make the top?

Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) To Curate Xmas ATP

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases

The Best Albums Of 2017 Thus Far – And A Quietus Appeal For Help

In association with Norman Records we've turned our ears molten with listening and put together a list of the 100 best records released in the first six months of 2017. While we're at it, we've also got an appeal to you to help us continue doing what we do

The Strange World Of… Soulwax

Poised to release their first Soulwax album in seven years, Stephen and David Dewaele talk Gemma Samways through their tenure at the forefront of the rock dance crossover. Main portrait by Nadine Fraczkowski

Latitude Festival Review: The Quietus Gets Saucy In Southwold

The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival of the year. Photographs by Lucy Johnston.

A Pavement Interview: Terror Twilight, Radiohead, & Going Overground

As Pavement announce their reunion, Rock's Backpages and the Quietus revisit Barney Hoskyns' 1999 feature, written during the recording of final album _Terror Twilight_