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Spools Out’s Out: Tristan Bath’s Top Tapes Of 2014

Tristan Bath rewinds 2014 to look at the the increasing popularity and creativity of the cassette release, and picks his favourite label and a selection of essential releases. Plus a mix!

The Maim Event – Johnny Ryan On The Prison Pit Animation

Mat Colegate talks to Johnny Ryan about the animated adaptation of his ultra-violent comic book Prison Pit

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

tQ staff and writers scour this year's singles, EPs, 12"s, one-off releases, reissues and albums to pick their top tracks. Peruse and buy below, courtesy of our friends at Norman Records

Rowland S. Howard

Six Strings That Drew Blood

Maston

Opal Collection

Rhyton

Kykeon

Shifted

Arrangements In Monochrome 1&2

Beyond Dapper Laughs: Comedic Realism & The Failure Of Liberalism

In the latest Quietus Wreath Lecture looking back at 2014, Joe Kennedy looks at how comedy is failing to deliver a decent response to the current British malaise

Sound In Space: Paul Smith & Peter Brewis Interviewed

An arts festival commission has become a new album with a bit of Maxïmo Park, a bit of Field Music and a lot of string quartet. Before they play three dates this week, Nick Hutchings investigates

Various Artists

A Fine Selection Of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-82

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?