Mark Dicker

Animal Collective

Campfire Songs

Noise Is The Beauty: The Jesus & Mary Chain Live, By Simon Price

As The Jesus And Mary Chain bring their Psychocandy full­ album show to the UK, Simon Price sees their Troxy show, salutes the power of myth and ponders: is it about pop versus noise, or noise versus pop?

Albums Of The Month: Music We’ve Loved This April

Sunn O))), Fat White Family, Sly & The Family Drone, Khotin and Abdu Ali make up just some of our favourite releases of the last month

Vital Gateway: Hyperdub 10 At Corsica Studios Reviewed

Christian Eede takes stock of the multi-faceted London label as they mark a decade of operations with a line-up matching Dean Blunt and Jessy Lanza's songs to quaking-bass DJ sets from Kode9, Scratcha DVA and more

Death Grips

The Money Store

Super Sonics: Lisa Meyer’s Bakers Dozen

From bar room brawls at SXSW to seeing giant legs of ham being smashed onstage in Barcelona, artistic director of Capsule and founder of Britain's best underground music festival Supersonic, Lisa Meyer, takes Stephanie Phillips through the records that have shaped her

Kettled In: Sound Art & Deep Listening At Glasgow’s Sonica Festival

With work by Yuri Suzuki, Navid Navab ,Michael Montanaro, Yulia Kovanova, Demelza Kooij, and others, Glasgow's Sonica festival was an interdisciplinary treat, finds Colm McAuliffe

Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks

It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning

Make Your Transition: Future Shocked At Krakow’s Unsound Festival

Rory Gibb travels to Krakow for the Unsound Festival, and gets lost in a week's worth of forward-thinking music, art and discussion

Turning The Wurm: How I Became A Sculpture (For One Minute)

Craft/Work heads to the Tate Modern to become, just for a moment, a One Minute Sculpture by Austrian artist Erwin Wurm

A Thumbs-Up To The People We Liked: How We Used Saint Etienne To Live

In an exclusive extract from his new book How We Used Saint Etienne To Live, Ramzy Alwakeel looks back to the early tape experiments behind 'So Tough' and Foxbase Alpha

The Right To Fail: Remembering Glasgow Venue The Arches

Authors of a new book about the history of the notable venue, David Bratchpiece and Kirstin Innes talk to Becca Inglis about club culture and arts funding

Young Limbs And Numb Hymns: The History Of The Batcave Club

Val Siebert speaks to members of Alien Sex Fiend, Bauhaus, Specimen and Foetus about Soho's original gothic haunt

Deformed! Regis On Some Bizzare

*Conform to Deform: the Weird and Wonderful World of Some Bizzare* is an in-depth oral history of the legendary record label and its founder, Stevo Pearce. Techno pioneer Karl ‘Regis’ O’Connor – a huge fan of the label – met the book’s author Wesley Doyle to discuss how Some Bizzare impacted popular culture in the 80s

Nurse Jackie: Pills, Thrills And Belly Laughs

Edie Falco's troubled hospital heroine faces further complications in her second season. Terry Staunton welcomes the repeat prescription.

U2 Live Under A Slate Grey Claw: Chris Roberts Reports From Wembley

Giant contraption fails to divert attention away from the fact that Irish megastars aren't quite as good as they used to be. Gallery of band close-ups, Jim Dyson