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Iain Banks: The Culture And His Work Remembered

Following the acclaimed Scottish author's death last weekend, Sean Kitching reflects on a hugely prolific career

There Are Other Worlds: Stellar OM Source Interviewed

With new album Joy One Mile, Christelle Gualdi turns the crystalline harmonies of her early synthesiser music towards gauzy, immersive club tracks. She speaks with Rory Gibb about a chance encounter with a TB-303, a love of synthesis and working with Kassem Mosse

These New Puritans

Field Of Reeds

Beady Eye

BE

Mark Lanegan & Duke Garwood

Black Pudding

Dr Who As Cosmic Clochard: Why We Don’t Need Another Topman Dr

With Matt Smith soon stepping down from his role as Dr Who, Robert Barry argues that after a run of actors who look like they've stepped right out of Topman, it's time to find a Time Lord more in tune with the series' darker origins

Myth Congeniality: John Gray Interviewed

Nick Talbot (aka Gravenhurst) talks to contemporary thinker and Quietus hero John Gray about The Silence Of Animals, Straw Dogs and the failures of humanism

Love & Marbles: Gilbert Hernandez Interviewed

DJ and comics artist Sina Sparrow talks to Gilbert Hernandez about comics, sexuality, and his new book Marble Season

Astral Travel Agent: Not Waving Interviewed

For his new project, Alessio Natalizia of Walls draws inspiration from the theory of remote viewing to create "sound for places I have never been before". With his album Umwelt just released, he speaks with Joe Clay about pseudoscience and imaginary locations

Plastic Surgery Disasters: Behind The Candelabra Reviewed

Patrick Smith reviews Steven Soderbergh's biopic of ostentatious ivory-tickler, Liberace

Moonage Daydreamer: Johnny Dean Interviewed

On the eve of his first show for 15 years, ex-Menswear singer Johnny Dean talks Bowie, Britpop and living with Asperger’s

Disclosure

Settle

State Of The Union: An Interview With Irvine Welsh

The Trainspotting author talks Filth, Porno, post-UK politics, and how he should have cut Margaret Thatcher in on his royalties in an interview at the Stoke Newington Literary Festival

Mr Vast

Grievous Bodily Charm

Moritz Von Oswald & Juan Atkins

Borderland

30 Years On: New Order’s Power Corruption And Lies Revisited

Ned Raggett, our man in Orange County, CA, ponders the magnificence of New Orders second long player

Gold Dust Of Our Musical Worth: Ian Anderson’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of a one-off show at the Royal Albert Hall, the Jethro Tull man picks out his thirteen finest albums

William Tyler

The Impossible Truth

Less Laptop, More Reality: Jon Hopkins Interviewed

Brian Eno, King Creosote and Coldplay collaborator Jon Hopkins talks to Luke Turner about his latest solo album Immunity, bringing reality into his music, and the power of hypnosis

Queens Of The Stone Age

…Like Clockwork

Institutionalised: The Faith And Courage Of Sinéad O’Connor

Sinéad O'Connor is back on the road to promote her most recent release; she takes a break from gigging and recording with John Grant to chat with Wyndham Wallace

Sparrow And The Workshop

Murderopolis

30 Years On: The Scene Is Now’s Tonight We Ride Revisited

For Sean Kitching Napster was an occult encyclopaedia leading to an alternate universe of brilliant and bizarre sounds... and to The Scene Is Now

Forward, To Battle! An Interview with Conan

Self-proclaimed merchants of 'caveman battle doom' Conan catch up with Sean McGeady to discuss being nominated for awards and the value of persistence

French Montana

Excuse My French

No Myth: Why Game Of Thrones Is An Allegory For Our Times

David Stubbs was a Game Of Thrones cynic, but here he explains how he was converted by a sense that the programme was no mere fantastical myth, but entirely relevant to the present day (guaranteed spoiler free)

Deep Purple

Now What?!

Check His Track Records: We Determine The Best Running Music!

****Contains Mild Spoilers Of The Film Six Day Run****

In a completely scientific experiment, JR Moores undertakes six runs in six days with a different soundtrack each day to work out which is the most advantageous for the pursuit of the jog...

Blurred Lines: An Interview With Lou Doillon

Lou Doillon's debut album of enigmatic folk pop Places has been a surprise hit in her native France. In advance of a London show at Queen Elizabeth Hall this week, she speaks with Jeremy Allen about the pressures of growing up in a family of famous musicians

Lescop

Lescop

Things Learned At The 2013 Cannes Film Festival

Leigh Singer reports back to the Quietus with some observations about this year's Cannes Film Festival

Chance-Taking: Stephen McRobbie Of The Pastels’ Favourite Albums

With The Pastels releasing their first album in 16 years last week, original member Stephen McRobbie reveals the 13 albums that “defined his taste” and inspired his band