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‘It’s Just About The People’: An Interview With Tattie Toes

Stewart Smith speaks to Glasgow's geography and genre blurring ensemble Tattie Toes, about the influences behind their music and the importance of inclusiveness in music scenes

Inimitable: A Jean Claude Vannier Rockfort Interview

David McKenna talks to the legendary Jean-Claude Vannier about recording with Michel Houellebecq and why he's not interested in looking backwards

Hammers of Misfortune

17th Street

The Month in Electronic Music: Cooly G & Cosmic Funk

Rory Gibb takes a journey through some of this month's choice club cuts, including new material from Hyperdub's Cooly G and DVA, an excellent album from Space Dimension Controller and the usual crop of Bristolian goodies

Things I Have Learned: Pete Hamilton-Giles Of Pombagira On Voodoo

Pete Hamilton-Giles of husband-wife doom band Pombagira explains his interest in the Haitian religion of voodoo. Toby Cook takes notes

Come Out Beautiful Mushroom Boys: Dethscalator Interviewed

Dethscalator talk to John Doran about noise rock, experimental drugs in Toulouse and the importance of golf

Damn & Blast! Supersonic Festival 2011 Reviewed

The Quietus goes to Birmingham and only a bit of our brains come back, thankfully carrying these words on Turbonegro, Cut Hands, Barn Owl, Electric Wizard, Envy, Byetone, Scorn and more more more. Words by Manish Agarwal, John Doran, Rory Gibb, David Moats, Luke Turner & Adam Anonymous. Photos thanks to Shot2bits.net

The Whip

Wired Together

New Seasons Turn: An Interview With The Bent Moustache

Greg Neate speaks to Ajay Saggar, frontman of The Bent Moustache and veteran sound man, about his new album, live mixing for My Bloody Valentine and the genius of Mark E. Smith

Pork Life: Matthew Herbert Discusses One Pig

Matthew Herbert has been making bacon with One Pig, an album that explores our relationship with the meat industry

30 Years On: The Wipers’ Youth Of America Revisited

The Wipers' Youth of America is 30 years old. John Calvert explains why it means so much to him

Noel Gallagher

High Flying Birds

Future Islands

On The Water

A Hole In The Sky: Årabrot Interview And Mix

In Solar Anus, Årabrot have delivered one of the year's best albums. We met up with them to discuss the band’s history and to collect a brutal mix in advance of their Quietus Halloween gig on Monday

Protest And Occupation: Billy Bragg Interviewed On The Future Of The Left

In between the Occupy movement and the Left Field In Motion Tour, the Bard Of Barking is as busy as ever. He talks to Kevin E G Perry about a life of resistance

Coldplay

Mylo Xyloto

Finding Love In A Graveyard: An Interview With Veronica Falls

John Freeman talks to three Veronicas about their ‘difficult’ first album and the curse of misconceptions.

Counting Backwards: Throwing Muses Interviewed

As they prepare to tour Europe with their career-spanning release, the three Muses talk to John Freeman about the moments that defined one of America’s finest guitar bands and how they’ve come to a record a new 38-track album

Gauntlet Hair

Gauntlet Hair

We Need To Talk About Kevin Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan reviews Lynne Ramsey's adaptation of We Need To Talk About Kevin, and asks whether it's possible to provide insight into mass murder without explanation.

The Power And The Gory: The Walking Dead Bites Back

It may have lost a creative lynchpin and had its production budget slashed, but The Walking Dead is very much alive and kicking in its second season, says Terry Staunton

Make Your Transition: Future Shocked At Krakow’s Unsound Festival

Rory Gibb travels to Krakow for the Unsound Festival, and gets lost in a week's worth of forward-thinking music, art and discussion

Tom Waits

Bad As Me

Leyland Kirby

Eager To Tear Apart The Stars

#Occupying My Thoughts: A Personal Response To The Global Protest Movement

Their message is apparently incoherent, inarticulate and definitely in another language, but Wyndham Wallace finds Berlin’s #Occupy protests inspiring… All photographs by the author

Fix Up Look Sharp: Dickon Edwards Meets Turbonegro’s English Gent

The Quietus took Turbonegro's Tony Sylvester and legendary fop Dickon Edwards to the pub for an afternoon. Over gin, strong lager and red wine, this is what transpired. Photographs by Al Overdrive

Lou Reed & Metallica

Lulu

The Ladies Of The Norse: Iceland Airwaves Review

Stephen Dalton heads to storm-lashed Iceland for the Airwaves Festival, and finds an event where, refreshingly, it's the female artists who take take the prow. Yoko Ono shot by Alexander Matukhno, Bjork by Ari Magg

Daemons In Hoods: Cloaks Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at Supersonic this weekend, Luke Turner speaks to Cloaks about twisting dubstep into brutalist industrial forms

These You Have Loved: Part Chimp For Your Stereo

Stevie Chick is working on a massive history of London rock bastards Part Chimp for us. Ahead of this weekend's Supersonic he performs featurus interruptus to advise us on the purchase of their back catalogue with the help of Tim Cedar...

More Than The Mind Can Take: An Interview With Cut Hands

William Bennett's new project Cut Hands finds his music taking new, percussive and punishingly effective new routes post-Whitehouse. Ahead of this weekend's performance at Supersonic, Rory Gibb speaks to him about the development of Afro Noise

Rustie

Glass Swords