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Provoking An Emotional Response: Michael Mayer Interviewed

Kompakt co-owner and Cologne lynch-pin Michael Mayer has released a new album, Mantasy. John Doran catches up with him to talk lions in clubs and why he's not goth. Picture courtesy of Carlitos Trujillo

A Raging Peace: The Strange World Of… Hans-Joachim Roedelius

About to turn 84 and still going strong, Hans-Joachim Roedelius has led a long and extraordinary life, which has taken in Nazi Germany, postwar turmoil, the birth of Krautrock and working with Michael Rother and Brian Eno among others. His mind, however, is fixed on the present and the future, he tells David Stubbs

Bad Seed Warren Ellis On Smartening Up

As the Bad Seeds take to Latitude, violinist and guitarist Warren Ellis talks shoes, socks and beards. You don't want to be a mod, he tells the Quietus. Warren Ellis pic courtesy Warren Ellis.

Born To Rune: Enslaved On The History Of Enslaved

Enslaved founder Ivar Bjørnson speaks to Dan Franklin about the story of Enslaved, the information they take from ancient Norse culture, and what he thinks, two decades on, of Varg Vikernes and the violence that engulfed the black metal scene. Photos by Peter Beste, Ole Kristian Olsen, Mirjam Vikingstad

“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

Child Star To Jarman & Everest: The Strange World Of… Simon Fisher Turner

Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about his long and bizarre career, from child actor, to Jonathan King-signed pop singer, to house-sitting for David Bowie, collaborating with Derek Jarman and his new soundtrack to 1924 film Epic Of Everest

Ire And Fury: An Interview With Field Music

David Brewis talks to John Freeman about Field Music’s sixth album – the brilliant Open Here - and how a post-Brexit, post-Trump world fueled some of the Brewis brother’s angriest songs to date

A Sense For Contrast: The Strange World Of Russell Haswell

Multi-disciplinary artist and renowned noise musician Russell Haswell has just released an excellent beat-driven record on Diagonal. So we dispatched the Quietus' own Russell to meet him to discuss his career to date, from the YBAs and ATP to sushi and Whitney Houston

A Personal Exorcism: An Exclusive Heartworms Interview on Debut LP, Glutton For Punishment

As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be anti-war

Tom Tom Club’s Chris Frantz On David Byrne, Brian Eno And Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry

Julian Marszalek speaks to the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads mainstay Chris Frantz

There Is No Neutral: The Strange World Of… Mark Stewart

Wherein the towering frontman of The Pop Group and The Maffia takes occasional breaks from busting writer Dustin Krcatovich's chops to look back on four decades of fire theft, including the recently reissued 1983 album Learning To Cope With Cowardice

The Voice Of Minimalism: An Interview With To Rococo Rot

Robert Lippok of German post-rock stalwarts To Rococo Rot talks to John Freeman about unlocking the band's voice on their eighth album, Instrument

Science Fiction/Science Fact: The Strange World Of… Jeff Mills

Jeff Mills may well be primarily known as one of the key figures in the development of Detroit techno and a founding member of UR but here he talks to Ed Power about his recent history working across the spectrum of the arts and his obsession with both space travel and science fiction

John M. Bennett

A Flattened Face Fogs Through

Sartorial dis-ease, veiled poetics, and Burroughsian tape manipulation abound on this collection from sound poet John M. Bennett

Six Organs Of Admittance

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