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Youth Gone Wild: The Early Films Of Paolo Sorrentino

As Paolo Sorrentino's new film, Youth, is released in the cinemas, James Ubaghs picks out three of the most interesting of the Italian director's early works

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park 

Keith Kahn-Harris argues that the Back To The Beginning show highlighted the pivotal role that the imperfections of the body play in metal. Live photographs courtesy of Ross Halfin. With thanks to Jasmine Hazel Shadrack

Classic Album Sundays: Boards Of Canada

Playback of Music Has The Right To Children this Sunday, October 5, hosted by tQ's Joe Clay; win a pair of tickets and the album on vinyl

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Roundup For June & July

Hot high-decibel oiks to keep you sweaty right through summer. Clammy vibes provided by Slumb Party, Regional Justice Center, Fetish and more

Dead Precedents: How Hip Hop Hacked The Future

In an exclusive extract from his new book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future, Roy Christopher explores rap and cybernetics

Our Band’s Not Electric: Edgar Froese From Tangerine Dream Interviewed

Tangerine Dream's Edgar Froese talks to The Quietus about Salvador Dali, the paucity of German music and his straight edged lifestyle. See below for a chance to win classic TD albums on heavyweight vinyl...

The Cost Of Living: Pyrrhon, Skepticism And The Abscess Of Capitalism

New York extreme metallers Pyrrhon have released a new album that eviscerates our current way of living. When the alternatives are insanity and death, perhaps the ancient philosopher the band is named after offers a way forward. Dan Franklin investigates, with a little help from Professor Richard Bett and Travis Bickle

Trapped In The Overground: The Sickness Of The Music Industrialist

Keith Kahn-Harris argues that Ian Winwood’s startling memoire *Bodies: Life and Death in Music* inadvertently makes the case for the superiority of underground music scenes

Sing It Like Foreigner: When Daft Punk Met Todd Edwards

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled, Ben Cardew explores the collaboration between the French dance duo and New Jersey garage kingpin behind the classic track ‘Face to Face’

Despacio’s The Place: James Murphy & Soulwax Discuss New Soundsystem

This week, James Murphy and the Dewale brothers bring their gigantic Despacio soundsystem to London for a three night residency. They tell Ian Wade all about their 50,000 watt disco Stonehenge

Patrick Wolf Live: Moving Out Of The Twilight

After witnessing Patrick Wolf's live show at Thekla, Nick Southall wonders why the singer still hasn't been able to escape the shadow of his persona. Photo by Rachel Lipsitz

Anois, Os Ard: July In Irish Underground Music Reviewed By Eoin Murray

In the tenth edition of our column on the sounds emanating from the Irish undergrowth, Eoin Murray finds arboreal sound art and speaks to Lankum’s Ian Lynch about his Fire Draw Near podcast

EP Of The Week: Aphex Twin’s Blackbox Life Recorder 21f

John Doran welcomes the complex emotional register and melodicism of Richard D. James' latest EP for Warp

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Killing It In America: An Interview With Uniform

With their second album of industrial noise punk metal fury out now, Noel Gardner talks downward spirals, overloaded drum machines and pulp fiction with NYC duo Uniform