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Corrupting Sonic DNA: Moby’s Favourite Albums

Moby talks Luke Turner through his formative musical influences, from Nick Drake and OMD to the sound of New York via Suicide, Silver Apples, Eric B & Rakim and Public Enemy

White Boys (Can Control It): Boy George Interviewed

Simon Price meets George O'Dowd – the man who changed his life – and hears how he took the decision to get clean and get happy

The Beast Inside: The Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen, 20 Years On

Pondering Mad Men and and the writing of Angela Carter, David McKenna goes back to the release of The Afghan Whigs' Gentlemen in 1993

The Julie Ruin

Run Fast

An Accidental Comeback: Reassembling Kitchens Of Distinction

The return of Kitchens Of Distinction was unexpected, even for the band. Wyndham Wallace joins them for their first face-to-face interview together in almost two decades

BOOK REVIEW: From The Slopes Of Olympus…

A year on from London's Olympic Games, Joe Kennedy considers a new book from the capital's own Smoke magazine detailing the attitudes and reactions of its citizens before, during and after the event

Wild Horses, William Burroughs And White Cake With Danny Fox

The multi-talented Danny Fox speaks to Christiana Spens about his recent painting, poetry and stories explaining how they overlap - and how they don’t

Two Poems By: Alex MacDonald

Back across the Atlantic, on home turf, this week's new writing comes from London-based poet Alex MacDonald

By Any Other Name: A Norman Spinrad Retrospective

Sean Kitching delves in to the life and work of Norman Spinrad, who having turned 73 last week arguably remains one of science-fiction's greatest authors and enduring characters

Mark Lanegan

Imitations

Dustin Wong

Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy

Mutazione

Italian Electronic & New Wave Underground 1980 - 1988

This Is Going To Hurt: The Mad World Of Tears For Fears’ Debut LP

In his 100th piece for the Quietus, Wyndham Wallace speaks to five key players about Tears For Fears' debut album in order to present this epic oral history of The Hurting

Morrissey’s Autobiography: The Lost Tome Found

David Stubbs finds the 21st-century's greatest work of "non-fiction" in a skip. We can unveil it exclusively here

John Wizards

John Wizards

The Month’s Electronic Music: A Sub-Zero Romance

Rory Gibb's September electronic music column trips into frosty outer reaches, via alien colonisation, virtuosic voice vivisection and a long-distance grime romance

Rebel Basement: David Yow Interviewed

Daniel Dylan Wray speaks to Jesus Lizard front man, actor and Scratch Acid punk about the long gestation of his first solo album

MGMT

MGMT

The Lost Cavalry

Three Cheers For The Undertaker

Coming Twice: Why Do Artists Feel Compelled To Reenact Past Events?

Jeremy Allen investigates the current vogue for artistic reenactments of concerts and tours, from Genesis' The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway to The Cramps and Einsturzende Neubauten making a racket at the ICA. Featuring interviews with Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard, Jo Mitchell, Vivienne Gaskin, Jeremy Deller Mike Rutherford impersonator Sébastien Lamothe

Younghusband

Dromes

Bl’ast From The Past: Grohl & More Talk Hardcore Innovators

This month, cult California hardcore pioneers Bl'ast release an album of long-lost recordings, remastered with the help of Dave Grohl. The band, Grohl and Sunn O)))'s Greg Anderson tell Jamie Thomson about the band's history and how a chance discovery led to their resurrection

David Yow

Tonight You Look Like A Spider

I Fought The Nazis – And Now We’ve Voted Them In

Twenty years ago this month, the BNP won its first ever seat, in an East London by-election. In an exclusive extract from his book Bloody Nasty People: The Rise of Britain's Far Right, Daniel Trilling speaks to the people who were there at the time

Belle & Sebastian

The Third Eye Centre

Croydonian Dada: Basically Johnny Moped Reviewed

Bryony Beynon checks out a new documentary on heroic punk outsiders Johnny Moped

Joanna Gruesome

Weird Sister

20 Years On: KRS-One’s Return Of The Boom Bap Revisited

Angus Batey claims that KRS-ONE is hip hop's "spirit guide and conscience"... and we're in agreement. Here he revisits his first official solo album two decades after its release

Jumping The Shark: An Interview With Hjaltalín

With the release of their third album, Enter 4, Hjaltalín frontman Högni Egilsson talks to John Freeman about dead sharks and recording demos in a psychiatric hospital

Choice Of An Angel: Charlotte Church’s Favourite Albums

Charlotte Church, former world-conquering child soprano turned alt-rock auteur, picks 13 albums that may entirely change your view of her. But, as the Quietus finds out, challenging preconceptions is something she's used to

Complete Communion: A New Quietus Column Devoted To Jazz

It's a new Quietus column! On jazz! Jamie Skey brings us birthday wishes and fond remembrances for jazz legends departed, along with great new albums by Magnus Ostrom, Joachim Kuhn, Blue Touch Paper, Sons of Kemet (pictured) plus a live review of Kentyah Presents: M1, Brian Jackson and The New Midnight Band

Mulatu Astatke

Sketches Of Ethiopia