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Pete Shelley discusses the spirit of punk, the quirks of fate and the legacy of the Buzzcocks with David Gavan. Photograph by Ian Rook. (this feature was republished on 7th December 2018 to mark the sad passing of Pete Shelley)
Nathalie Olah speaks to one of contemporary literature's most impressive polymaths - novelist, non-fiction writer, photographer, cultural commentator and art historian Teju Cole - about the pros and cons of cultural appropriation, being a writer in the social media age and the otherworldliness of birds. (Photograph by Teju Cole)
Stephanie Boland gets into the myriad complexities of The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle's world-within-a-world, game-within-a-book debut novel, Wolf in White Van, finding a not unfamiliar cast of characters and references, teen angst made something more potent and a powerful treatise on memory
Richard Fontenoy examines this exploration, neither biography nor hagiography, memoir nor biography, of the life of John Balance and of Coil, finding a collection of remembrances - of poetry, of photography and of personal reminiscences - free from mawkishness, which serve not only to recall but to add to an extraordinary legacy
In a piece originally commissioned by The Bug's Kevin Martin, Justin Broadrick follows the release of Godflesh's new album A World Lit Only By Fire by taking a new spin on the Baker's Dozen format and talking Kate Hennessy through his current listening favourites
Candi Staton, the legendary Queen Of Southern Soul, is back with an Americana-influenced, Muscle Shoals-made new album - she tells Simon Price about Elvis Presley, Bobby Womack, how America's gun culture has killed childhood, how to escape a hellish marriage and, most importantly, how to pronounce her surname
The effects of Hurricane Sandy are imprinted deeply on the New York hardcore band's debut album All Barren, comprising songs written both before and after the storm struck their native Long Island. Their singer Chris Tzompanakis gives Dean Brown the backstory
As The Apprentice returns to our television screens, Phil Harrison looks at how the programme, and 'business TV' in general, reflects the grim reality of the work market and wider culture in capitalist realist Britain
This year's Unsound Festival theme is 'The Dream'... The Quietus asked artists including DJ Stingray, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Michael Gira, Perc and Kuba Ziolek what 'living the dream' means to them. Thanks to Chad Parkhill for interviewing Michael Gira and Katarzyna Stuczyńska for co-ordinating.