Will Snelling

The Week That Was

The Week That Was

O Genesis Record Store Day Details!

R Stevie Moore & The Vaccines team up

Les Savy Fav’s Tim Harrington on playing live

From thumping the disabled to intimidating bouncers and props that go terribly wrong, Les Savy Fav's Tim Harrington tells Niall O'Keeffe the ten things he has learned about playing live.

Renegade: The Life and Tales of Mark E Smith reviewed

John Doran reviews the long-awaited self portrait from Mark E Smith, and finds as much belly laughter as bile

Mega Bog

Life, and Another

Erin Birgy's fifth Mega Bog album opens up worlds within worlds of wry songwriting and rich soundscapes, finds Zara Hedderman

Black Sky Thinking: Metallica Take Internet, Give It A Big Kiss

Luke Turner wonders why mildly bonkers, vaguely hysterical and ever so slightly control freakish Q Prime are up in arms about a tiny blog site describing Metallica's new album as good. Is it because they're launching their own UK website Emission Metallica? Not so much breaking a butterfly on a wheel as dropping an SUV on a termite, perhaps?

All You Old Bastards Should LEARN Something From This – The Cult Of Chris Needham

Taylor Parkes gets to grips with Chris Needham of Manslorter (né Manslaughter)

Heavenly 17: Bill Drummond Hears Too Much Music

Recently Quietus writer and musician Jimmy Martin was asked to be part of a new experiment looking at the our culture’s saturation in music. Here is his account of the strange and booze fuelled evening.

Crap Horror Enters The 3rd Dimension: Scar 3D Reviewed

The Quietus test drives the latest 3D filmic experience - Real D and reviews _Scar 3D_ the lamentable torture-porn flick attached to it. Andrew Stimpson wonders how long we'll have to wait until someone puts 3D to good use?

Brian Coney On The Moonlandingz’ Interplanetary Class Classics

In The Moonlandingz first full-length offering as a non-fictional outfit, Brian Coney finds a record that refuses to wear only one mask – futurist without revivalism, acerbic but with swagger – and throws off with gusto any accusations of the term side-project

Of Montreal

Paralytic Stalks

Black Sky Thinking: Sleep Deprivation

Unsound To Return To New York Next Month

Caterina Barbieri, Tim Hecker and more will play the two-day event

Gwenifer Raymond

Last Night I Heard The Dog Star Bark

With her finger-picked acoustic guitar, the Welsh-born artist plays hymns to dusty landscapes and oddball outsiders

A Profile Of Uwe Boll

Our extreme cinema correspondent Andrew Stimpson salutes Uwe Boll, the straight to DVD director who beats up his critics and realises that all Lord of the Rings was missing was Ninjas.

Black Sky Thinking: Death to Corduroy

Dull American music mags are dying in droves, and Steven Wells cares not one jot. Hark as he dances around the bonfire in joy...