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Rollin’ Down The Lonely Highway: DJ Rashad Interviewed

As the dizzying syncopations of Chicago footwork have spread across the globe over the last couple of years, DJ Rashad has become one of its primary ambassadors. With a new EP recently released through Hyperdub, he speaks with Charlie Frame about sample slicing and versatility. This article was originally published May 2013, republished following the sad passing of DJ Rashad in April 2014

Karl Smith On Siavash Amini’s TAR

Having taken the slightest of left turns, adding bleak and sheering noise to familiar ambient fields, Siavash Amini's latest record is a timely exploration of our self-inflicted wounds as a species – and their failure to heal

Of Montreal Announce New Album

lousy with sylvianbriar due in October; listen to opening track fugitive air below

Desperately Seeking Awesomeness: Kanye West Live At Wireless

Kanye West's onstage wafflings at this weekend's Wireless Festival have attracted the ire of press and festival crowd alike. But, argues Kyle Ellison, it's just more evidence that he wants to be loved...

Spiritualized For Liverpool Psych Fest

Liverpool two-dayer returns in September with a line-up topped by Spiritualized and an exclusive collaborative curation by Sacred Bones Records and Bym Records

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Album Reissues

Jeremy Allen On Justice’s Woman

In the French electronic duo's third album, Jeremy Allen finds not only a a work that sets right any misstep that may have occurred between 2007's † and the present day, but also a potent commingling of their anachronistic mechanical workings with a touch of the human hand, reaching out

A Town Called Walker: Point Blank Reappraised

To coincide with the BFI's John Boorman season - and in advance of its screening at the BFI tonight, Friday 29th March - David Bennun casts his steely gaze over the director's Point Blank, starring the unstoppable Lee Marvin

LISTEN: New Death Grips Album

Scorching electronic hip-hop/noise crew surprise release their new LP, entitled No Love - Deep Web

Autechre Reveal Surprise Album, ‘PLUS’

It's out now via the duo's Bleep store

Death From Above 1979

The Physical World

The Horrors

Primary Colours

LISTEN: Todd Terje & Bryan Ferry Collab

Cover of Robert Palmer's Johnny And Mary from debut LP It's Album Time

Things Learned At The 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Leigh Singer reports back to the Quietus with some observations about this year's Cannes Film Festival

Mr Agreeable: His Piss Is The Vinegar On Morrissey’s Chips

Once again the Quietus editors have had to don rubber gloves to open another sour envelope from Mr Agreeable. He's much to say on NME's apology to Morrissey, new Mumford & Sons, Usher and The Stone Roses...

Lead Review: Tara Joshi On Frank Ocean’s Blond[e]

In Frank Ocean's long (long) awaited third album, Tara Joshi finds the artist asking questions about the positive and negative effects of the immediacy of our age and is left with her own about expectation and lasting change in the face of its subversion