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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

Seekae

+Dome

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'