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Within These Walls: On L.Pierre’s The Island Come True By A Piss Artist

This is not a record review. This is (no longer) a speech that John Doran intends to give at some distant point in the future either. As the AA yellow card says: "Who you see... what you hear... leave it here."

I Was Attacked By A Grammarian, By Eugene S. Robinson

Oxbow front man Eugene S. Robinson is one of our favourite authors cum rock stars, not to mention an accomplished fucker, fighter and fine diner, so we invited him to write about his time in the UK for us. Chic picture by Kasia Meow, head shot by Tom Millea

The Smashing Pumpkins

Mellon Collie & The Infinite Sadness (reissue)

Strap, Crackle & Pop: L. Pierre’s Aidan Moffat Interviewed

The decaying sample collages of Aidan Moffat's L. Pierre project are beautiful and unsettling in equal measure. He tells Luke Turner that marvelous new album The Island Come True is like a Choose Your Own Adventure story

“Nasty Idiotic Tripe”: Stand Against Julie Burchill’s Years Of Transphobia

Why are we surprised at Burchill's bigotry, asks John Tatlock, after all, she's been venting poison about trans people for well over a decade

Quietus Writers Choose Their Best TV Of 2012

Adey Lobb has polled the Quietus TV writters to find out what our favourite shows of last year were. Thanks to April Welsh, Austin Collings, Julian Marszalek, Joe Clay, Terry Staunton, Neil Kulkarni and Alex Niven

Villagers

{Awayland}

HTRK / Tropic Of Cancer

Part Time Punks Radio Sessions

Nico: Facing the Wind – The Marble Index Trilogy

The Marble Index, Desertshore and The End are three of the most uncompromising records of the 60s and 70s, and arguably surpass Nico's work with the Velvet Underground. Matthew Lindsay takes an in-depth look at their history and significance

Feminist Porn And The Impossible Subject

Hannah Gregory analyses the wealth of ideas and issues in two recent Zero Books publications, on sex, porn and the nature of femininity

Ghost Town Music: Stalking Bobby Parker

Richard Scott speaks with the enigmatic, talented but seldom-discussed poet about his life, his work and his Facebook addiction and we present two new, previously unpublished poems

Dirty Body Music: Èlg Interviewed

In the first Rockfort French Music column of 2013, David McKenna delves deep with the extreme physicality of Èlg

Fishy Business: Jiro Dreams Of Sushi Reviewed

Patrick Smith enjoys David Gelb's profile of Tokyo sushi master Jiro Ono, which goes on limited theatrical release across the UK today

Kendrick Lamar

good kid, m.A.A.d city

A Second Face: Notes On The Cover Of David Bowie’s The Next Day

Ryan Alexander Diduck explores absence and Bowie's identity with reference to the artwork to forthcoming album, The Next Day

John Foxx & Friends On Identity Amidst The Machines

Foxxy, Benge, Gazelle Twin and Scanner discuss music and identity in a digital age

Douglas J. McCarthy

Kill Your Friends

We’re Only Gonna Die: Bad Religion And The End Of The World

Who better to spend the 21/12/12 Mayan Apocalypse with than Bad Religion frontman and evolutionary biologist Dr. Greg Graffin, PhD? Alex Burrows takes notes at the end of days

L.I.E.S

American Noise

Not So Golden Boy: What Richard Did Reviewed

Colm McAuliffe watches Lenny Abrahamson's drama about an affluent Irish teenager gone wrong, which opens in UK cinemas this Friday

Big Boi

Vicious Lies And Dangerous Rumors

Forbidden Games And Beyond: René Clément On DVD

Anthony Nield delves into the eclectic filmography of unfashionable French director René Clément, the subject of four new home entertainment releases. Still from And Hope To Die

Ulterior

The Bleach Room

Axis Of Empathy: Philip K Dick’s The Man In The High Castle Revisited

Fifty (one) years on, Eli Lee analyses the realities and unrealities behind one of the seminal science fiction writer's densest novels

Don Cameraro: McCullin Reviewed

David Bennun watches Jacqui and David Morris's documentary about war photographer Don McCullin, which is currently on theatrical release

Deneuve-Shredding: Repulsion Revisited

Basia Lewandowska Cummings explores Roman Polanski's 1965 psychodrama, which returns to selected UK cinemas this weekend

James

The Gathering Sound (Box Set)

“I Have A Certain Kind Of Perspective” – Jonas Mekas Interviewed

Val Phoenix chats to avant-garde cinema veteran Jonas Mekas, whose work is showcased at BFI Southbank and the Serpentine Gallery this month. Photograph by Liz Wendelbo, courtesy of the BFI

Apollo’s Bounteous Harvest: The Quietus Albums Of The Year 2012

Don't let the naysayers drag you down - we are currently living in a great age for music in myriad, fractured forms. Many of them can be found here, in our reductive and subjective list of the Quietus' favourite albums of 2012

From Warehouse To Web: Electronic/Dance Tracks Of 2012 & Mix

Rory Gibb takes you on a detailed trip through some of the year's defining tracks in electronic and dance music - from reductionist garage and construction-site ambient to junglist collage and quicklime grime - plus listen to a mix containing all 25 tracks

“Instinct Not Intellect”: Johnny Green Remembers Joe Strummer

Today marks ten years since The Clash frontman passed away; Rod Kitson met up with Johnny Green, the band's road manager, to remember the punk figurehead

Fifty Shades Of Rage: Charlie Brooker Interviewed

Adrian Lobb talks with the critic, writer and comedian about his new book, creating rather than critiquing television, and his future on TV and in print