Grinderman

Simon Fisher Turner On Derek Jarman’s Blue

As the BFI launches a major season Derek Jarman's live and work, longtime musical collaborator Simon Fisher Turner talks The Quietus through 'Blue's genesis, creation and release, and his subsequent part in keeping Jarman's memory alive.

Total Control

Laughing At The System

A wonderful album of rage, laughter, hysteria, all kinds of eclectic noise.

A Fold In Space: Jean Ray’s Malpertuis

Robert Davidson looks back at the strange career of the writer dubbed "the Belgian Edgar Allan Poe"

WRONG Festival Adds Gnod, Conan, Spectres And More!

Gnod! Conan! Spectres! Damo Suzuki! Future Of The Left! Hey Colossus! Mugstar! WRONG Festival's full line-up is a glory to behold

New Group Factory Floor Talk New EP And Shop Floor Practices

The Quietus introduces Factory Floor, the second in our tips for the best new bands of 2008

Pere Ubu

Architecture Of Language 1979-1982

Hardcore Trust Fall: Iceboy Violet Interviewed

Skye Butchard talks to Iceboy Violet about interdependence, The Armed and their disarming debut mixtape The Vanity Project

Gorillaz

The Singles Collection 2001-2011

Cate Le Bon

Reward

Reward, the new record by Cate Le Bon, finds the Welsh musician moving into ever stranger territory while summing up the best of all her previous records, finds Hayley Scott

Back to the Future: Bobby Gillespie and Mani of Primal Scream Interviewed

Now in their third decade Primal Scream are still one of the country's most credible rock bands. Bobby G and Mani discuss their enduring appeal.

Leaving Leicestershire On A Tide Of Song: The Wave Pictures Interviewed

Our man Lewis G Parker hails from the same benighted corner of the Midlands as David Tatersall. Here, they talk about how leaving these flat lands shaped the Wave Pictures' sound

LISTEN: Slows

Wire guitarist Matt Simms releases debut EP as Slows

Tuareg To A Bull: Politics & Mali Music With Tamikrest

In an article originally published in _The Stool Pigeon_, Luke Turner speaks with Tamikrest band leader Ousmane Ag Mossa about their debut album _Adagh_, and the struggle of his people, the nomadic Tuareg

Down By La Jetée: Lee Rourke Interviewed

Tim Burrows heads down to the coast to meet with author Lee Rourke and discuss his latest novel, Vulgar Things, the ways in which we filter the world and the strange allure and twin personalities of Southend and Canvey Island.

Surgeon

From Farthest Known Objects

Made In The Dark Room: Roy DeCarava Captures Mid-Century New York

With the artist's first exhibition in London for thirty years, Selected Works, currently open at David Zwirner, Amah-Rose Abrams explores the legacy of photographer Roy DeCarava and speaks to his widow, the art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava