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Try Harder: A Good Day To Die Hard Reviewed

Gary Green regrets the addition of the latest instalment to the action franchise

Vox Von Braun

Rich & On Wheels

Eels

Wonderful, Glorious

Babybird

Outtakes

The Month’s Electronic Music: Frayed Nerves & Fried Circuits

In this month's electronic music column, Rory Gibb delves into fathomless darkness, paranoid sub-bass and circuitry gone haywire, from Cold War techno and alien mandibles to abstract grime and new forms of dark UK sound system music

Digital Indigestion: Serving A Shoe Pie To Instagramming Food

Pavel Godfrey righteously slams the new decadents who Instagram their meals: "Unless you are a restaurant critic, the contents of your plate are as interesting as the contents of your chamber pot." Cheese photographing editors John and Luke hang their heads in shame

Rhyme Assassin: Mykki Blanco Discusses Her “Glam Hip Hop”

Mykki Blanco's Cosmic Angel was one of last year's most remarkable rap mixtapes. Following an incendiary London show last month, she speaks to Laurie Tuffrey about dropping out of art school, performing in drag, and why having no limits in art is important

Julian Cope

Saint Julian

The Soundtrack Of Our Youth: Conny Plank Remembered

As Gronland release a four-disc box set of the music of Conny Plank, David Stubbs remembers the "midwife of Krautrock"

The Asphodells

Ruled By Passion Destroyed By Lust

Don't Be Scared Of Music: An Interview With Dobie

Dobie is one of London's best-kept secrets, a musician, producer and photographer who has worked with Tricky, London Posse, Soul II Soul and more. Now he's back with a second solo album, and speaks to Joe Clay about why his career has been all about pursuing enjoyment

Desmond Simmons Remembered By Colin Newman Of Wire

Every time the Quietus has interviewed Wire's Colin Newman he's talked with fondness about his friend Desmond Simmons, a teenage musical ally and inspiration. Sadly, Simmons passed away last month, and here Newman pays tribute to his late friend. Pictures courtesy Colin Newman, main shot was "Taken in a photo booth in London just after having bought Metallic KO by Iggy & The Stooges - must be 1976"

Dawn Richard

GoldenHeart

Fleetwood Mac: Searching For Gems Beyond The Hits

Following a flurry of Fleetwood Mac activity this year, Quietus writers Colm McAuliffe, Jonny Mugwump, Joseph Burnett, Chad Parkhill, Taylor Parkes, Matthew Lindsay and Craig Terlino seek out their finest tracks that were never hit singles

Grit In One’s Third Eye: Robyn Hitchcock’s Baker’s Dozen

English songwriter and frontman of The Soft Boys, The Venus Three and The Egyptians, Robyn Hitchcock leads Julian Marszalek through his most played LPs

Hoody Who! January's Best Rap Videos & Mixtapes

Jodi B returns after a short hiatus with another round-up of a few of the best rap videos and mixtapes of recent times, from Master P and DaM-Funk to Le1f (pictured) and Czarface

A Great Many Plathitudes: The Doom Myth Of Sylvia Plath

Fifty years after her life abruptly ended, and as fresh furore erupts over a newly-designed cover of her seminal novel The Bell Jar, Melissa Bradshaw responds to the pervading myth of Sylvia Plath as the poet who was doomed to end her life

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

Push The Sky Away

Blown Horizonz: The Birth & Death Of Auto-Tune

In an extract from his new book, Blown Horizonz, David Z Morris connects the dots between economics, Auto-Tune and the Enlightenment

Foals

Holy Fire

Target Practice: David Thomas Of Pere Ubu Interviewed



Thirty-five years on from The Modern Dance, Pere Ubu’s David Thomas talks to Stuart Huggett about new album Lady from Shanghai and how Ubu have always been a pop band

Toro Y Moi

Anything In Return

Silver Screen Shower Scene: Hitchcock Reviewed

Gary Green casts an eye over Sacha Gervasi's biopic of the great director

Marianne Faithfull

Broken English (reissue)

Scott & Charlene’s Wedding

Para Vista Social Club

It's No More Fun To Compute! Kraftwerk Live Review By Wolfgang Flür

In January the former robot went to the band's home town show in a power station in Dusseldorf and sent us this report, a longer version of a piece originally published in Germany earlier this year. Translation assistance by Melody Kometen

Of Flowers & Fruity Englishmen: The Asphodells' Andrew Weatherall

With his new duo The Asphodells, Andrew Weatherall has created an album that's equal parts pastoral electronic pop and naughty indoor pursuits. He speaks to Luke Turner about fruity Englishmen and the importance of setting yourself high standards

Two Reasons Why Frisk Frugt Is Flipping Brilliant

There are two albums by Anders Lauge Meldgaard up in this feature. John Doran is imploring you to buy both of them

Pusha T

Wrath Of Caine mixtape

Folke Rabe

What??

Noel's Straight Hedge VII: Punk Around The World

In the first 2013 edition of his Straight Hedge column, Noel Gardner takes a sojourn around the globe to uncover some quality chunks of punk for your willing ears

A Darkness In The West: Hacker Farm Interviewed

Hacker Farm repurpose old farming equipment, shortwave radios and busted electronics to transmit decrepit electronica for a country crumbling under ConDem rule. They speak to Ben Graham about self-sufficiency, the joys of circuit-bending and guerilla gigs outside cattle markets