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How Music Works: David Byrne Interviewed

The former Talking Heads frontman talks to Quietus Editor John Doran about the ideas in his new book, How Music Works and we offer you the chance to win a copy of your own, signed by the man himself

Capital Gains! London: The Modern Babylon Explored

Jenny Horwell weighs the pros and cons of Julien Temple's cine-portrait of London, which is released on DVD by the British Film Institute next week

Midnight

Complete & Total Hell

You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits

Bat For Lashes

The Haunted Man

The Shock Of The End: Krakow’s Unsound Festival Deconstructed

Unsound Krakow this year lived up to its theme of The End, says Rory Gibb, via collapsing old buildings, digital asphyxiation, predatory techno and pop star grotesques

GoldenLondonEye: Skyfall Reviewed

Stuart Wright enjoys the 23rd James Bond flick, which opens in UK cinemas today and finds our hero largely back on home soil

Mount Eerie

Clear Moon

Playlounge

Thrash Magic

Life On Mars: East India Youth Interviewed

East India Youth's self-released, bedroom-crafted TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER was one of our surprise discoveries of this year, and swiftly graduated to regular Quietus office listening. A karaoke session later, he tells Laurie Tuffrey how the record came together

Limitless Joy: Kylie Minogue Interviewed

On the eve of her new album, The Abbey Road Sessions, pop goddess Kylie Minogue talks to Simon Price about Nick Cave, the Manics, Lady Gaga, age prejudice and lesbian love scenes

A Strange Love: Depeche Mode’s Music For The Masses Revisited

Twenty-five years after its release, John Freeman looks back at the career-defining, America-conquering album that saw the Essex quartet perfect their brand of "electronic metal"

Metz

Metz

The Power’s Doubt: Liars Live, By John Calvert

After a few months touring WIXIW, Liars are turning into a magnificent, at times malignant, psyops weapon, discovers John Calvert. Live photo by Valerio Berdini

Don’t Weave Me This Way: The Basket Case Trilogy Revisited

Andrew Stimpson unravels Frank Henenlotter's low-budget Siamese twins saga, which is released as a triple-disc Blu-ray and DVD this week

Mud, Glorious Mud: An Interview With Andy Stott

Across a pair of EPs last year and now a new album, Luxury Problems, Manchester's Andy Stott has gradually been sinking techno and house deep into a quagmire of mud and dust. He speaks to Ryan Diduck about the desire to create "something really beautiful"

Beautiful, Beautiful Music: Beth Orton’s Favourite Albums

The singer-songwriter undergoes the "horrible" process of deciding on her top albums

DJ Shadow’s Reconstructed: An Oral History

Ahead of his Rough Trade East in-store tonight and his slot at Relentless Freeze Festival on Friday, we asked DJ Shadow to give us a personal rundown of Reconstructed: The Best Of DJ Shadow

Into Wreck & Ruin: An Interview & Mix From Old Apparatus

Shadowy London unit Old Apparatus create strange, dark and beguiling electronic music for a new age of societal ruin. They speak to Charlie Fox about the pleasures of decay, and have recorded us an excellent mix which you can listen to below

Sylvain Chauveau & Stephan Mathieu

Palimpsest

London Film Festival: Two Evenings With Don Coscarelli

Don Coscarelli brought his trippy new picture John Dies At The End to the 56th London Film Festival recently. Sean Kitching went to see it twice

Voices From The Heathen North: Hexvessel Interviewed

Joseph Burnett discusses magick, ritual and new forms of experimentalism with Hexvessel's Mathew McNerney, whose new album No Holier Temple is a bewitching listen that touches on folk, black metal and jazz

Mama Rosin

Bye Bye Bayou

Horns Up Ya Shitters! Last Month’s Best Metal Reviewed

Tony Cook has been stuck in some kind of vortex of loo roll and beans, so the Columnus is a little late this month. No matter, for metal endures for eternity, and these are some of the best albums in the genre from last month

Vindicated Prada-Meinhof: Seumas Milne Interviewed

Joe Kennedy speaks to the divisive political journalist - seemingly hailed and derided in equal measure - about the pressures and lessons of history and the ever-looming future

We Need To Talk About Griffin: Daniel Trilling On The Far Right

In the wake of the EDL's disastrous Walthamstow march and Nick Griffin's well-earned Twitter suspension the author and journalist puts in to context the rise of far right politics, fascism and outright racism in a supposedly multicultural modern-day Britain

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me Reassessed

The third Twin Peaks UK Festival takes place at Riverside Studios in Hammersmith today. Events include an anniversary screening of the iconic TV series' big screen prequel, which Petra Davis analyses in-depth here

The Power & The Glory: Vatican Shadow Live

At the Blackest Ever Black label's Corsica Studio showcase, John Calvert is confronted with Vatican Shadow's war of attrition. Pic thanks to Oliver Clasper

A Mother’s Love: An Interview with Martha Wainwright

Martha Wainwright talks to John Freeman about the birth of her son and the death of her mother, Kate McGarrigle, and how the two events inspired her astonishing new album, Come Home To Mama

Karriem Riggins

Alone Together

30 Years On: The Thing Revisited

Steve Earles rewinds to 1982's chilliest motion picture, which screens at London's Prince Charles Cinema tomorrow in a John Carpenter marathon

Martha Wainwright

Come Home To Mama