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Columnus Metallicus – Spend Spring Loaded With Toby’s Metal Reviews

This month, Toby gets angry with a volcano, blasts back some LSD-screwed weed when he should have been writing about tanks, and brings you the best and worst in metal and beyond

Secret Diary Of A Rock & Roll Star, Aged 45 ½: Part Three. By John Moore

After slicing his hand open and whiling away the hours turning his hand into a newsagent's top shelf, our man Moore falls off the wagon...

Hot Dayte: Sex, Friends & Keeping It 69 Smooth – A Gayngs Interview

Al Denney slips on something more comfortable to talk to Ryan Olson about why his Gayngs project is far from ironically smooth, and why getting the likes of Bon Iver to contribute to an album of the music they all jerk off to was no sweat

Foals

Total Life Forever

Disco Discharge: Alan Jones On The Gayest Of Disco & Free Boogie Mix

After his brilliant piece on the first in the Disco Discharge series Alan Jones gives the Quietus another essay about coming out and the non-stop party that was the 70s

Optimo Prime: JD Twitch Speaks About Fabric Mix

On the eve of the release of their much anticipated Fabric mix and an appearance at the London club, Keith McIvor (aka JD Twitch) chats to John Doran about the ongoing Optimo (Espacio) project now that their revered Glasgow night is no more...

Disintegration: A Classic 1989 Interview with Robert Smith of The Cure

More from those heroic folk at the Rock's Backpages archive. This time, Robert Sandall interviews Robert Smith of The Cure in 1989 about their landmark album, Disintegration. Live shots by Maria Jefferis/Shot2bits.net

The Hold Steady

Heaven is Whenever

Hang Cool Teddy Bear: A Meat Loaf Interview

Dr Rock interviews the original Bat Out Of Hell, Mr Meat Loaf about his new album

Olafur Arnalds

...And They Have Escaped The Weight Of Darkness

New Labour, New Genre: Political Drama In The Blair And Brown Years

The General Election that could end the New Labour era nears a conclusion – here, Adrian Lobb looks at the new wave of political biopics in the last 13 years

Hear It In The Electricity: Pantha Du Prince Interviewed

Charles Ubaghs talks to Hendrick Weber about his new album _Black Noise_, his friendship with Animal Collective and his grandmother's musical taste

A Deathly Plague: Mike Patton Talks About Mondo Cane And Avant Metal

Mike Patton talks to Robert Barry about his days in Mr Bungle and his new operatic project Mondo Cane

Thee Oh Sees

Warm Slime

I Told A Lie: Mathew Sawyer Doesn’t Talk About His New Album

Matthew Sawyer meets Kev Kharas for beer and they circumnavigate around his excellent new album, How Snakes Eat... All art by the artist...

Why A Heart Attack Must Not Arrest The Cardiacs

With friends like Napalm Death, Israel and Eastender’s Phil Mitchell, who really cares what your enemies think of you. Graham Bendel explores the appeal of a band that many love to hate.

Trans Am

Thing

Disappears

Lux

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern: Memories Of A Closet Fat Kid

In this month's column, Sam Herlihy explains why it's the rumblings of his gut that bring back the memories. Photograph by Barney Britton _www.photoinsensitive.com_

Can The BBC’s Luther Challenge The American Crime Hegemony?

As The Wire's Idris Elba stars in BBC1's Luther, can his new show compete with the US box set brigade?

Big Audio Dynamite

This Is Big Audio Dynamite

“It’s More Like Washing Up Music”: Hot Chip Interviewed

Al Doyle speaks to The Quietus about Hot Chip's new album _One Life Stand_, looking like geeks and the reading material in Peter Gabriel's lavatory

Does Right, Always Works: Richard H Kirk And The Future Of Cabaret Voltaire

Musical visionary Richard H Kirk explains to John Doran why he has resurrected the Cabaret Voltaire name to create new music but warns that nostalgia is the last thing on his mind

Harlem

Hippies

Why Mad Men Is More Than A Drama: The Correct Use Of Soap

As season three of smash hit _Mad Men_ gets its off the telly release, Terry Staunton argues that it's much a soap as a drama series

“If Goth Is Trendy I’m Buying Fucking Polo Shirts”: Zola Jesus Interviewed

Louis Pattison talks to 21 year-old student Nika Roza Danilova about trendy goths, lazy love songs and taboo topics

The Fall

Your Future, Our Clutter

Trash Kit

Trash Kit

Waving Not Drowning: Walls Are Explorers Of The Sublime

John Doran sits down with Walls to discuss the Shroud Of Turin, Ready Brek and the horrors of Stockport

A Wild Nobility: An Adam Ant Exclusive By Simon Price

After a 15-year period away from the music business Adam Ant is back in the spotlight once again. Simon Price meets a musical maverick and iconic star of the 80s to talk inspiration, madness and coming back fighting

65daysofstatic

We Were Exploding Anyway

She Owns The Night: Vanessa Daou Interviewed

jonny mugwump talks to the New York based songstress about speakeasies, rave culture and the poem/song divide