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Machine & Voice: An Interview With Muscles Of Joy

Stuart Huggett meets Glasgow's Muscles Of Joy, a seven-strong band who use vocals and self-built instruments to create songs that are beguiling and jarring in equal measure

Rob Miller Of Amebix: Things I Have Learned About Being A Swordsmith

Rob Miller of punk metal pioneers Amebix tells Sam Spokony about why he moved to the Isle Of Skye and became a swordsmith over two decades ago

Futuremania: Retro Goes Cold Turkey In 2011

In today's Wreath Lecture Charlie Frame argues that retro is soon to be a thing of the past

Mink Freud

Gelatinous

‘I Like The Music Skrillex Makes’: An Interview With Skream

As dubstep originator Skream's most successful year yet comes to a close, Angus Finlayson speaks to him about touring the world, the changing face of dubstep and why Skrillex shouldn't be seen as a death knell for the genre

Big Society, Little Hope: False Folk Culture In 2011

From the broom-wielding legions of Clapham to Alex James' cheese and Mumford & Sons, Joe Kennedy examines the current vogue for nu-folk whimsy and its links to Big Society rhetoric

Cathedral

Anniversary

2011: Celebrating The Continued Shattering Of Our Culture

Kicking off 2011's Wreath Lectures, Luke Turner argues that the continuing fragmentation of our culture and consumption is to be welcomed, and will bring forth new joys

The Sound And Vision Of Young Scotland: What Presence! Exhibition

Neil Cooper takes a trip to Glasgow's Street Level Gallery to look at photography of post punk Scotland

Dead Skeletons

Dead Magick

Drum’s Not Dead: Ali ‘Perc’ Wells Interviewed

Perc's Wicker & Steel is a Quietus LP of 2011. Luke Turner talks to Ali Wells about the album, the rise of his Perc Trax label, the Home Counties and an antidote to wishy washy electronica

Adventures On The Far Side: An Interview With James Ferraro

Rory Gibb speaks to the former member of The Skaters about the drastic sonic shift of his new record Far Side Virtual, and how it links to his hugely influential (and highly prolific) earlier work

Wreath Lectures 2011: The Gamification Of Music

From Bjork to Brian Eno and Sting, 2011 has seen a startling new developments in music technology. Robert Barry looks at the increasing "gamification" of our lives, and music

Amy Winehouse

Lioness: Hidden Treasures

Wreath Lectures 2011: Club Beats From The Digital Ether

This year, as artists have turned up the heat on the murky, semi-structured stew of post-noise pop, argues Rory Gibb, dancefloor shapes have started to emerge from beneath the clearing vapours

“This Ain’t Acting” – On The Set Of This Is England ’88

Adrian Lobb visits the set of This Is England '88 to talk to the cast, who are in extremely high spirits

City Fever: An Interview With Jasmina Maschina

Val Phoenix gets on the couch with globetrotting electronica soundsmith Jasmina Maschina, to talk travels and word association

20 Years On: Public Enemy’s Apocalypse 91 The Enemy Strikes Black Revisited

PE's fourth album is often overlooked but it's a true killer, says Angus Batey

Sincerely Ambient: An Interview With The War On Drugs

Charles Ubaghs speaks to The War On Drugs' Adam Granduciel about his band's latest album Slave Ambient, musical lineages and why the new record might or might not be a 'drugs record'

The Men

Leave Home

Further Than We’ve Gone: Breaking The Soundwaves At The Madeiradig Festival

Wyndham "indie Wyndy" Wallace was afraid of the enjoyable extremes of music. A fluffy bathrobe, infinity pool, some top nosh and music from KTL, Nadja and Tim Hecker in Madeira provokes a Damascene conversion. All photographs also by Wyndham Wallace.

“It’s so Beautiful, the World These Days”: An Interview With David Lynch

David Lynch released his debut album, Crazy Clown Time this year. Frances Morgan speaks to the legendary film director about the album, and how it's connected to his films' careful and powerful use of sound

Matters Of The Utmost Concern: Prince Charles Letters

Following the recent publication of his compiled Prince Charles Letters, David Stubbs assembles a number of the Prince Of Wales' letters on "matters of the utmost concern"...

Whaur The Pig Gaed On The Spree

Alan Lomax's Scottish Recordings 1951–-57

Road Of The King! Trekking The Annapurna Sanctuary, Part 2

In the second half of his account of trekking Nepal's Annapurna Sanctuary (in one pair of trousers), Daniel Ross heads for Annapurna Base Camp, via cloud forest and treacherous, snow-coated plain

If You Only Knew: ‘Little’ Jimmy Scott Interviewed

Nicholas Abrahams talks to "Little" Jimmy Scott about his music, his muse and singing for David Lynch

Milyoo

Archaeology

Before Cease To Exist: Throbbing Gristle’s Reissues Examined

John Doran looks at the recent five Throbbing Gristle reissues on CD and vinyl and wonders who the joke's on...

Fear & Mythologies: An Interview With Total Control

Ahead of their appearance at ATP's Nightmare Before Christmas this weekend, Steph Kretowicz speaks to Total Control's Daniel Stewart about punk and the impending apocalypse

Here Comes The Rennes Again: Trans Musicales Festival Reviewed

The Quietus heads to the boozy streets of Rennes for the annual Trans Musicales music festival. Colin Stetson live pic by Dave Kerr

A Face In The Crowd: Carol Morley Discusses Dreams Of A Life

Val Phoenix speaks to filmmaker Carol Morley about Dreams of a Life, which seeks to piece together the life of Joyce Carol Vincent, found dead in her bedsit in 2006 after seemingly disappearing from society