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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

Between Hard Rock & An Art Space: An Interview With Andrew Liles

Over the course of the two decades he's been operating, Andrew Liles' music has been a volatile, shapeshifting thing, both solo and in his work with Nurse With Wound and Current 93. Russell Cuzner speaks to him about his career so far and new album Schmetaling Monster Of Rock

Smashing Pumpkins

Siamese Dream (reissue)

Dancing About Architecture: Postmodernism At The V&A

Postmodernism has become a dirty word in recent times. The V&A's current exhibition shows it wasn't all bad, writes Lee Arizuno

Vladislav Delay

Vantaa

Hitler Would Have Loved You: Tonetta Interviewed

Earlier in the year Cian Traynor caught up with 63-year-old cross-dressing, YouTube star Tonetta for this illuminating talk on outsider art

New Jersey State Of Mind: An Interview with Real Estate

In advance of their show at London's Scala tonight, John Freeman talks to the New Jersey band about how their childhood memories and “lack of liberal guilt” inspired their new album, Days.