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RM Hubbert

Breaks & Bone

Reeko W/ Architectural

The Blue Album

After A Healthy Interval: The Young Knives Interviewed

Nick Talbot of Gravenhurst offers a mea culpa, a unique insight and a robust appraisal of the newly invigorated and under-appreciated rock group, Young Knives

Anger Through Grace: Nicky Wire’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of their eleventh LP Rewind The Film, the Manic Street Preachers man scours his record collection for the list to end all lists

Moving On: Tom Waits’ Swordfishtrombones Revisited

Tristan Bath puts on Tom Waits' watershed album from 1983 and raises a Mickey's Big Mouth to the singer... and his wife, Kathleen Brennan

Bill Callahan

Dream River

UnicaZürn

Dark Earth Distillery

We’ve Soaked Into People’s DNA: Joe Elliott Of Def Leppard Speaks

Aug Stone chats to the Def Leppard frontman about revisiting Hysteria for the release of their concert film

The Dead C

Armed Courage

Are These The Drones You’re Looking For? Schneider TM Interviewed

Once known for pioneering 'indietronica', Schneider TM is now disappearing into a vortex of beautiful, irresistible noise. Wyndham Wallace talks to him about his new album, Guitar Sounds, working with Pan Sonic and Damo Suzuki, and why "whatever makes sound can be music"

Tape Adapter: September’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

Gary Suarez casts his eye over last month's most notable mixtapes... both good and bad

Oneohtrix Point Never

R Plus Seven

Ed Askew

For The World

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