Shit And Shine

Leipzig’s TransCentury Update Returns For Second Edition

TransCentury Update 2, taking place in Leipzig, will feature sets from Midori Takada, John Maus, Roy Montgomery and more

Extreme Exposure: Nedry Reveal Light Behind The Darkness

London-based trio Nedry talk depression, experience and their plans for "phase two" with Simon Jay Catling

The Dome Of Hercules: Carlton Melton Interviewed

Barnaby Smith talks to Rich Millman - guitarist with Calrton Melton - about San Francisco, improvisation and juggling fatherhood with making music

INTERVIEW: Silent Servant

As Sandwell District co-founder Silent Servant prepares to call time on his Jealous God label with a series of final releases, Maria Perevedentseva speaks to him about why now is the time to end the project

And It’s Goodbye From Them: British Murder Boys Interviewed

British Murder Boys, the twosome of Regis and Surgeon, are sadly now defunct. Before they both play on the same bill at Bloc this weekend, they talk to Luke Turner about Gene Vincent, the influence of pantomime and channelling the errant daydreams of winos into pummelling techno

Interiority Complex: Exploring Manchester’s Hinterlands With Lonelady

Wandering star Julie Campbell takes John Doran for a walk around the canal towpaths, vacant lots, Victorian mills and red light districts of Greater Manchester in order to explain the genesis of her new album, Hinterland

Lost At Sea: An Interview With Dead Rat Orchestra

Colchester's premiere avant-folk trio meet up with Charlie Frame to discuss curiosity, the hazards of chopping wood in the middle of a busy audience, and making music using pigeons and pieces of an old Chris de Burgh record

A Place Outside Of Normal Life: An Interview With Keeley Forsyth

The actor and musician is soon to release new material, sounding, in the words of The Eccentronic Research Council, like it came out of "a 17th-century Lancastrian pagan folk cult". Daniel Dylan Wray talks to her before she supports tQ's John Doran on his book tour in Sheffield this Friday

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Mutiny

No Hidden Agenda: The Return Of Interpol

This September, Interpol release their new album El Pintor. It's both their first in four years and their first without founding bassist Carlos Dengler. In an exclusive interview, Matt Foster meets Paul Banks, Daniel Kessler and Sam Fogarino to find out how they dealt with losing a band member and to talk about a record that fully encases both sides of their personality

You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits

And Desire Will Come By Itself: Songhoy Blues Interviewed

The Malian four-piece formed after fleeing from the north of the country when it was taken over by Islamist militants in 2012. Three years on, they tell Richie Troughton about combining blues with their native Songhai music on debut album, Music In Exile

Container And Dalhous For Glasgow Event

Nashville producer to make UK debut alongside Blackest Ever Black duo

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Skin Turns To Glass

LISTEN: Fantôme – Scream

Hanin Elias fills us in on her new band; stream track from forthcoming debut LP It All Makes Sense below