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Big Riffs At Close Quarters: And So I Watch You From Afar

 Interviewed

The Northern Irish quartet arrived on a wave of confidence and unity, but after a year peppered with international acclaim and broken bones they lost their founding guitarist. Kiran Acharya spoke to the band about the recording of second album Gangs

Over The Edge: An Interview With Dead Fader

Dead Fader construct savagely abrasive dance tracks from molten blocks of noise and distortion. Angus Finlayson speaks to the duo's John Cohen about making synthesizers bellow

An Econo History Of The Minutemen

John Calvert throws open the doors onto the strange and frightening world of the Minutemen

The Lemonheads

Hotel Sessions

Own Brand Mysticism: An Interview With Peaking Lights

Not Not Fun/Weird World signed duo Peaking Lights released one of the most talked-about underground albums of last year in their dubby pop record 936. Huw Nesbitt speaks to them about the origins of the band, numerology and the internet

Trencher

All Suffering Soon To End

Here About The Reaping: Teeth Of The Sea’s Brutal Alchemy

Teeth Of The Sea's live performance Reaper - a reimagining of Neil Marshall's trashy epic Doomsday - must be seen to be believed. David Moats talks to the band about cult films, 2000 AD and sensory overload

From The Archives: Joy Division In Their Own Words

In another classic interview courtesy of Rock's Backpages we see that rarest of things Joy Division being discussed by themselves. Interview by Paul Rambali, NME, 11 August 1979

Mystery Music: Investigating Utrecht At Le Guess Who Festival

The Utrecht music scene was born in the city's squats. But, finds Evan Harris, this counter culture is under threat

What Does Modernism Have To Do With Music In 2012?

Adam Harper's new book for Zer0 is called Infinite Music. In this extract he sets out his aims

The Problems Of Joint Occupancy: Reporting From The Bank Of Ideas

Over the festive period, our man Sam Spokony spent several days in the UBS 'Bank Of Ideas'. His experiences have coloured his views of the Occupy movement, as he explains here

The Big Pink

Future This

Bright Notes & Electrical Impulses: An Interview With Dean McPhee

Following the recent release of his debut full-length Son Of The Black Peace, Frances Morgan speaks to solo guitarist Dean McPhee about the development of his playing style, and the way he writes his beautiful, freeflowing instrumentals

That Was The Year That Was: The Best TV Of 2011

The Quietus' telly correspondents put together a list of the best programmes from the year just gone

2011 In Punk & Hardcore: A Review

Noel Gardner takes a tour through last year's trends in punk and hardcore, via Iceage, NASA Space Universe, Inservibles, Weekend Nachos and more

ATP Nightmare Before Christmas 2011 In Review

Adam Workman reviews Les Savy Fav Friday. John Doran takes the reins for Battles Saturday and Caribou Sunday. All photos by Shot2Bits

A New Nineties: Epilogue, Or Another Bleeding List

Neil Kulkarni rounds off his excellent series of features with a list of recommendations and a promise that he'll be back next year

‘A Primal Bang & A Shout’: An Interview With S.C.U.M

With London band S.C.U.M's new single 'Faith Unfolds' released on 2nd January, Nix Lowrey spoke to keyboard player Sam Kilcoyne about signing to Mute and the gradual process of refinement that led to their debut album Again Into Eyes

A Century Of Violence: The Mekons Interviewed

Jim Keoghan talks to post punk internationalists, The Mekons. Pictures courtesy of Derrick Santini

Spiritual Revenge Music: Amen Dunes Interviewed

Cian Traynor rates Amen Dunes as unsung heroes. Find out why courtesy of this mixtape and interview

Lost Season Eight: The Isle Of Wight Is Dying

"Don't tell me I'm still on that feckin' island!?" Our food guru Sam Herlihy dishes out more culinary wisdom.

Thirty Years On: Nice & Smooth’s Ain’t A Damn Thing Changed Revisited

Angus Batey celebrates the anniversary of Nice & Smooth's Ain't A Damn Thing Changed

Here Be Monsters: Quietus Albums Of The Year 2011

And here we are, with the Quietus choices of 50 of our favourite albums to come out this year

Pigged Out: Xmas Greed & Matthew Herbert’s One Pig Live

Tim Burrows goes to see (and eat) Matthew Herbert's One Pig project at Cafe Oto. In this season of over-consumption, he argues, it's a timely performance

Gorillaz

The Singles Collection 2001-2011

Lunar Rover: An Interview With Steve Moore And Extract From Somnium

Aug Stone talks to writer, researcher and occultist, Steve Moore about his debut novel Somnium. Portrait courtesy of Stan Blyth

Part Four: Why Pram Wrote The Best Album Of The Nineties

In the penultimate chapter of A New Nineties, Neil Kulkarni makes a good case for The Stars Are So Big, The Earth Is So Small... Stay As You Are as best album of the 90s

Reflection And Reinvention: Mastodon Interviewed

Friend of the Quietus and prince among men Tom Cheshire, called on his Atlanta, GA neighbour, the dude-like riff master Bill Kelliher of Mastodon to discuss one of our favourite albums of '11 - The Hunter

Tin Man

Vienna Blue

Hyperspecific’s Electronic/Dance 12″s Of 2011 In Words & A Mix

For the final edition of Hyperspecific in 2011, Rory Gibb lists and mixes twenty of the best dance/electronic tracks of the year

Twenty Years On: Teenage Fanclub’s Bandwagonesque Revisited

Jim Keoghan says forget Nirvana, the Fannies were the real heroes of 1991...

A Year In Digital: The Great Content Wars Of 2011

High Priest Of Smoothness Charles Ubaghs tells us where the battle lines have been drawn in the content wars. It may help to imagine that Barry White is reading this feature to you