Extract

The Bug

Acid Ragga 7"

The Map and the Territory: Rockfort Interviews Gaspar Claus

David McKenna interviews innovative, itinerant cellist Gaspar Claus and presents a brand new mix for July

Speech Debelle’s Mercury Win – A Blessing, A Curse Or Just A Wad Of Cash?

Speech Debelle has just won this year's Cillit Bang Mercury Prize — so her troubles are just beginning, right? Hmmm, says John Tatlock. Live Pictures by Alyson Blanchard

All Structures Align

Distance and Departure

A second release for the brother Ineson on Joe Thompson's Wrong Speed Records proves knottier and more mysterious than it first seems, for Jared Dix

The Fall’s Perverted By Language Revisited 40 Years On

On its 40th anniversary, Eden Tizard explores The Fall’s Perverted By Language, an album where Mark E. Smith turns his focus to the suburbs and its inhabitants. A key record in The Fall saga, featuring a group at a crossroads, on the hunt for a new mode of attack

Ariel Pink

Before Today

Olafur Arnalds, Jonny Greenwood & Stravinsky For Manchester Event

Musicians (except Stravinsky of course. He was a composer. And is dead) unite in July

Chewed Corners: Mike Paradinas’ Favourite Records

The pioneering electronic musician familiarly known as μ-Ziq, Planet Mu label founder and one half of Heterotic - who have just released their second album, Weird Drift - gives Joe Clay his potted biography in 13 top records

Nkisi, Karen Gwyer & More Feature On New Tape Series

Berlin's Climate Of Fear presents 12 set recordings from parties put on over the last couple of years

Men Say Go! Martin L Gore & Vince Clarke In A VCMG Interview

Martin L Gore and Vince Clarke have reunited after three decades on new techno project VCMG. Luke Turner speaks to them both about rediscovering their collaborative creative energy for one of the best albums of 2012 so far

Breathless with Anticipation: 50 Years of Godard’s Classic Film

David Moats laments not having seen the end of new wave classic _Breathless_ which is being restored and re-released in cinemas on June 25. Join The Quietus and Branchage for a 50th anniversary party tonight in Central London. Click here for details.

Jersey Shore: Branchage Film Festival 2011

The Quietus once again ventures to the secluded island of Jersey for a weekend of films, live soundtracks, installations, parties and amphibious vehicles.

Why “Hotly Tipped” Brother Exemplify Perennial Tipster Idiocy

Agnes Ball calls for a violent and immediate end to the media's rekindled bromance with laddy Britpop, incarnated in the execrable Brother

Pink Floyd Reunite For New Song In Support Of Ukraine

'Hey, Hey, Rise Up!' includes vocals from Andriy Khlyvnyuk of Ukrainian band Boombox

The Strange & Frightening World Of… Dennis Hopper RIP

James Holloway mourns Actor, Director and some-time Artist Dennis Hopper, a man who always seemed to be in the right place at the right time to be a part of numerous era defining cultural moments and who wrote the book for on-screen insanity

Behold! August’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Mat Colegate, Aug Stone, and Reggie Chamberlain-King present the best comics they've read this summer