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All That Glitters Is Not Gold: The Worst Oscar Winning Films

David Bax takes a trip down memory lane and looks at the worst films which took home Oscar gongs

Shearwater

The Golden Archipelago

Why Closing BBC 6 Music Is A Disaster For Independence

Luke Turner says that today's announcement will be a disaster for independent record labels and, given the current reach of digital radio, bizarrely timed.

Liars On Los Angeles: The City That Shaped Sisterworld

It was in response to the violence and alienation of Los Angeles that Liars created their new album Sisterworld. Here, they tell talk to Ben Hewitt about the underbelly of the City of Angels

Morrissey: Maudlin Treats From Beyond The Hits

While there's nothing wrong with a Morrissey solo hits comp, that is never going to give you the whole story. Jeremy Allen, Jude Rogers, Alex Ogg, Will Parkhouse, Ben Graham, Tom Milway, Joseph Stannard and Petra Davis explain their non-hit single choices...

John Robb Remembers Section 25’s Larry Cassidy

Section 25 are on of the great forgotten post-punk groups. John Robb pays tribute to frontman Larry Cassidy

The Woodentops Live: Back On The Love Train At Last

"You’ve always been at the back of my mind…" Wyndham Wallace welcomes The Woodentops to Berlin’s Lido Club.

Jaga Jazzist

One-Armed Bandit

Sonic Router 010: Turning The Spotlight On Florent Aupetit

As we near the end of February but Winter is still in full force Oli Marlow looks to French dubstep producer Florent Aupetit and our free download mix to warm the cockles of his heart

The Best From Berlin: Berlinale Film Festival Report

Our man in Germany Stephen Dalton takes a look at the best the Berlinale film festival had to offer this year and reports back to The Quietus

Gavin Friday Of The Virgin Prunes On The Fall & Sending Postcards To MES

Thanks to Odhran Smith as your man in Ireland, for this exclusive interview with Gavin Friday of the Virgin Prunes about his time with The Fall and his friend Mark E. Smith

Errors

Come Down With Me

No Commercial Value: Al Overdrive’s Photography And Spotify Playlist

Photographer Al Overdrive compiles us a Spotify Playlist of his favourite songs and talks about his passion for picturing tattooed rockers

Like A Wound That Won’t Heal: The Danish Art Metal Of Kellermensch

Jack Mills unpicks the Gordian knot of the music of Kellermensch

I Do Not Believe In Love: Viv Albertine On Life Post The Slits

Viv Albertine talks candidly to Will Parkhouse about her musical reawakening and the release of her excellent new EP Flesh, on Ecstatic Peace

Efterklang

Magic Chairs

Like Tears In The Rain: Death Scenes On The Big Screen

David Bax takes a look at some of the best - and longest - death scenes in movie history

Why Whitey Needs To Get Off Lou Reed’s Dick And Onto Lady Gaga

"Grand" Mof Gimmers gives it to us straight - whitey is just too damn afraid of Lady Gaga... and would rather take refuge in fucked old codgers Reed, Osterberg Jr and Jones... but isn't that missing the fucking point?!

Nitzer Ebb

Industrial Complex

Dragnet #9: Protect-U, d’Eon, Family Time

Finding things in the idiot bin

The Great Ecstasy Of The Sculptor Popol Vuh: A Profile Of Florian Fricke

Robert Barry looks at the work of the late German composer Florian Fricke, the long-time Werner Herzog collaborator who recorded under the name Popol Vuh

Glo-Fidelity All Stars: Toro Y Moi Interviewed

23-year-old Chaz Bundick (aka Toro Y Moi) is a man of few words but much reverb, Ross Pounds discovers

Zac Pennington Of The Parenthetical Girls On Being Buried Alive

Written by Zac Pennington

Arch Garrison

King Of The Down

A Dispatch From The Outer Reaches: Ramleh, Fursaxa & More

In her second Rum Music column, Frances Morgan discusses new music from Ramleh, Fursaxa, Mamuthones, Jonas Reinhardt, Yannis Kyriakides and Part Wild Horses Mane On Both Sides

Lone Lady

Nerve Up

Field Music

Measure

Unearthing The Lovely Bones: Peter Jackson’s Most Mature Work To Date?

Peter Jackon's latest film _The Lovely Bones_ may seem a far cry from the blood-soaked days of _Braindead_ and _Bad Taste_ but, as Josh Saco argues, there's more to the Kiwi director than lo-fi horror and Hollywood pandering

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern Says Eat Yr Words

Photograph by Barney Britton _www.photoinsensitive.com_

Shining

Blackjazz

Xiu Xiu

Dear God I Hate Myself

Smashed Up Mandolins & Anarcho-Primitivism: Wooden Veil Interviewed

Berlin based art group Wooden Veil discuss terror, chaos and using a giant dog food container for percussion with Sophie Barnett