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Same As It Ever Was: Bell Witch Interviewed

Kez Whelan talks to the Pacific Northwestern doom duo about existence as a loop and really taking their time with things, such as a new triptych of albums, the first part of which is released this week

White Boys (Can Control It): Boy George Interviewed

Simon Price meets George O'Dowd – the man who changed his life – and hears how he took the decision to get clean and get happy

Radical Speculation: Science Fiction As Revolution

Joe Banks speaks to Iain McIntyre, co-editor of illustrated essay collection *Dangerous Visions And New Worlds – Radical Science Fiction, 1950-1985*

15 Years Strong: Supersonic Festival Reviewed

JR Moores heads to Digbeth's hotbed of degenerate art where Sly & The Family Drone will nearly have your eye out and minds are blown by The Bug

Tape Adapter: July’s Hip-Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

The Quietus' resident hip-hop columnist gets to grips with Lil Wayne's The Free Weezy Album and the best (and worst) of this month's mixtapes, with offerings from the likes of Boogie and Mane Mane

Blast Or Bless? The Ongoing Enigma Of Black Country, New Road

Richard Foster invokes the 'hot or not' spirit of Wyndham Lewis, continental poultry and outsider cat art when he speaks to BC,NR, about their ongoing evolution. Band portrait by Rosie Foster

How Vic & Bob’s Mulligan & O’Hare Got Me Into Experimental Music, By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan explains how a childhood love of Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer's avant-folk duo Mulligan & O'Hare opened her ears to the avant-garde, and realising that the most 'serious' music can often be a total hoot

A Certain Ratio

It All Comes Down To This

The Manchester post-punks thirteenth album might just be their best work in forty years, finds Leo Lawton

Human Voices: Carola Dibbell Interviewed

Eric Obenauf, publisher and editor at the excellent Two Dollar Radio, talks to rightly-celebrated rock critic, writer and — as of this month — novelist, Carola Dibbell about being an out "women's libber" in the male-dominated 70s music-writing scene, the potential for stream-crossing in music criticism and fiction and, of course, her debut novel The Only Ones. (Artwork by Greg Skrtic)

Robin Thicke

Blurred Lines

WATCH: New Black Midi Video

'Ducter' features on the band's debut album which is out today

Public Enemy Return To Def Jam For Next LP

They're back on the imprint on which they made their debut for 'What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?'

“We’re Taking Control” – Former The Fall Members On New Release ‘Slates (Live)’

Marc Riley, Craig Scanlon, Paul Hanley and Steve Hanley speak to Daniel Dylan Wray about a new release of archive recordings capturing Slates performed live in its entirety, how it’s helping them regain agency in a world awash with ropey Fall bootlegs, and what Mark E. Smith might have made of their plans

A One-Man Malfunctioning Orchestra: Alexander Tucker Interviewed

As he releases his most electronic solo album to date, Alexander Tucker discusses sci-fi and horror influences, hating the guitar, and never being "folk" in the first place. Words by JR Moores. Portraits by Dom Garwood

FESTIVAL REPORT: OFF

Julian Marszalek reports from Katowice, Poland. Featuring sets from Sunn O))), Young Fathers, Songhoy Blues, Ride and more.

Autopsy Turvy: Oozing Wound Interviewed

With their second full-length, Earth Suck, out now, Nick Hutchings talks to the Chicago thrash trio possessed of "the desire to slay"