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The Smashing Pumpkins

Monuments To An Elegy

The Skull Defekts

Street Metal

Cassegrain

Centres Of Distraction

A Radical Century: Mahmoud Refat Of 100 Copies Cairo Interviewed

Yousif Nur takes a trip to Cairo's only dub plate cutting facility - the open platform and experimental recording studio, 100 Copies, to talk to owner and facilitator, Mahmoud Refat. Photographs by John Doran

D’Angelo

Black Messsiah

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Metal Albums Of 2014 With Toby Cook

Toby Cook threw a party for his celebrity mates recently. The price of admission? They had to help him write about the best heavy metal albums released this year

Remember Them: The Accrington Pals & 2014’s WW1 Centenary

Richard Foster looks at his old home town, Accrington, in an attempt to piece together an understanding of how Britain currently remembers the First World War.

Brian Eno

Nerve Net/The Shutov Assembly/Neroli/The Drop (Reissues)

Various Artists

Science Fiction Park Bundesrepublik

Kelis

Live In London

Robert Hood

M-Print: 20 Years Of M-Plant Music

Githead

Waiting For A Sign

Back In The Air You Breathe: Neil Kulkarni On T.Rex

Neil Kulkarni goes deep on T Rex's new vinyl collection

Crash & Carry? The Supermarket In Pop Culture In 2014

It's been a rum old year for Tesco and Sainsbury's, but supermarkets have once again been a source of inspiration for pop culture. Jazz Monroe is on the checkout

We Major: Counting Down The Best Hip Hop Of 2014 With Gary Suarez

Our US hip hop correspondent Gary Suarez - the Rib Eye King - gives us his top 25 rap albums and mixtapes

L.A. Unbound: James Ellroy Interviewed

Ian Johnston sits down with James Ellroy, veteran and pioneer of contemporary crime fiction, non-fiction and the blurring of those lines — the Demon Dog of American literature — to talk about the glossed-over injustice of Japanese-American internment in World War II, expanding Los Angeles across an entire world and his new novel, Perfidia

Two Poems By: Amy McCauley

This week's new writing comes in the form of two new poems from Aberystwyth-based writer Amy McCauley's reimagining of the Oedipus Myth — Auto-Oedipa

There’s Something About Stanley: Kubrick’s Strange Science Of Obsession

Jasun Horsley examines the impulses that drive Kubrick's formidable oeuvre and asks what it all means to his legion of obsessive fans

Nazoranai

The Most Painful Time Happens Only Once Has It Arrived Already..?

Tarwater

Adrift

Nick Talbot: A Personal And Musical Remembrance

Our friend and colleague Nick Talbot - who recorded under the name of Gravenhurst - died unexpectedly last week. These reflections, both musical and personal, are written by Pavel Godfrey and John Doran. Portrait by Lucy Johnston, live picture by Maria Jefferis

Breakin’ The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Five Armies Reviewed

It's time to rejoin Gloin, and not Bifur time. But will the audience be Balin their eyes out? Or is this latest instalment Radagast-ly?

The Resurrection Show: The Stone Roses’ Second Coming Revisited

Angus Batey reps hard for the Stone Roses' much maligned second album

Threshold People: An Interview With Elektro Guzzi

Following this year's Observatory LP, Tristan Bath caught with the Vienna trio at Austria's Elevate festival to discuss their kinetic, pounding techno, shaped out of guitar, bass and drums

Theo Parrish

American Intelligence

Papernut Cambridge

There's No Underground

The Advisory Circle

From Out Here

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2014 (In Association With Norman Records)

Here is the Quietus' main albums of the year list for 2014, in association with our pals at Norman Records for all your record buying needs

Finding The Essence: Kangding Ray Interviewed

With his contribution to Stroboscopic Artefacts' new EP helping celebrate the label's fifth birthday just out, Theo Darton-Moore talks to the producer about his evolving aesthetic and taking a meticulous approach to track construction

Quietus Reissues & Mixes Of The Year 2014 In Association With Norman Records

Here are the top 100 reissues, DJ mixes, anthologies, live albums and soundtracks, as voted for in the Quietus office this year. Feature introduced and built by John Doran

Wu-Tang Clan

A Better Tomorrow

Foo Fighters

Sonic Highways

With apologies to Brett Easton Ellis