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The Royal Bangs

Let It Beep

Oneohtrix Point Never

Rifts

Teenage Kicks: I Was A King Interviewed

The Quietus Self-Indulgent Reissues, Comps & Mixes 2009 40 – 21

The Quietus looks back over the past year to pick our favourite reissues, mix CDs and compilations of 2009. Guaranteed ten year vintage nu metal free

A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age

As Lord Mandelson's anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry's most troubled decade yet and says 'stop whining, it's only a scratch'.

Celebrating Warp At 20 With Clark And Bibio In Conversation

Happy Birthday makers of musical weird-spoons Warp, says the Quietus as we publish a conversation discussing their love of the label

Classic Interview With Freddie Mercury From Rock’s Backpages

The Quietus has unequivocal love for Queen, but it's an affection which hasn't always been shared by the rock press. Just witness this spat between the _NME_ and Freddie Mercury from 1977

Outside Royalty

All Nights Out

Them Crooked Vultures

Them Crooked Vultures

Rings of Fire: Zoroaster Interviewed

Joseph Stannard gives Zoroaster singer Will Fiore a lecture on the merits of Blue Oyster Cult and Ozzy Osbourne - as well as talking about new album _Voice of Saturn_

Sisters Of Transistors

At the Ferranti Institute

Battling Nostalgia: Phenomenal Handclap Band Interviewed

Mark Wall talks to the New York hipsters about famous friends, soundtracking zombie movies and Jon Spencer's theremin

A Decade In Review: David Stubbs Asks Whatever Happened To Pop?

The Quietus kicks off a series of essays looking back at the past decade with David Stubbs' look at the evolution of what we call pop

The Quietus Reductive & Subjective Albums Of The Year List: 40 To 21

Another best of '09 list? Well at least ours was compiled with the rapidity and contempt that these things deserve. And yes, it's still better than Q's. Guaranteed 100% Dylan and Big Pink free

Cate Le Bon

Me Oh My

Space Is The Place: Spiritualized’s Jason Pierce Interviewed

With the forthcoming re-issue of _Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space_, Ben Hewitt caught up with Jason Spaceman to discuss ruined friendships, broken hearts, birds and baguettes...

The Units – High Pressure Days In San Francisco

After recently becoming obsessed with awesome 70s/80s situationist synth group The Units, John Doran tracked down founding member Scott Ryser to San Francisco and struck up an email conversation with him. Here are the results . . .

Dylan Moran Interview: On Music Loved & Loathed

Comedian Dylan Moran sits down with Luke Turner for a spot of wine and a chat about the music he loves... and hates. Poor old Oasis. And Metallica. And Muse...

OOIOO

Armonico Hewa

Queen: The Gems Beyond The Gilded Headgear Of The Greatest Hits

With yet another Queen Greatest Hits flying off the shelves, the Quietus sat down to come up with a list and Spotify playlist of their lesser known brilliance

Volcano Choir Interview: Wanderers Are Not Always Lost

Sonic Router 008 – Your Dubstep Column Profiles Slugabed

Oli Marlow is here to make sure you get your monthly fill of bass in a Sonic Router special interview with, and exclusive mix from, Slugabed

Columnus Metallicus – November Is The Cruelest Month

Toby Cook really hates November - but luckily for us, he still loves his metal. He overcomes his calendar blues to tell us what he's been bursting his eardrums with this month.

A Clash In The Pan? London Calling Reappraised

As we near the 30th anniversary of The Clash's most famous record, Thom Ward asks if the record has a contemporary resonance beyond being the source of inspiration to Doherty's skiffle merchants

Lightning Bolt Interview: Earthly Delights & The Quest For The Mask

John Doran sat down with Lightning Bolt's Brian Chippendale to talk a life of noise and how he retrieved his stolen mask

Githead Interview: Colin Newman & Malka Spigel On Making A Perfect Landing

Don't-call-them-a-supergroup-group Githead's new album is a Quietus favourite of 2009. Luke Turner sat down with Colin Newman and Malka Spigel for an animated discussion on its whys and wherefores

Mark Shaw Of Then Jerico: Things I Have Learned About Pain

In a frank and bizarre interview with Kat Duke, Mark Shaw of 80s pop group Then Jerico reveals he is a magnet for pain and accident. Pictures courtesy of James Mason and Mrs Cheeky

Dr Samuel JOHNSON’S Dictionary of the new Musick: The Letter B

Wherein popular Minstrels & divers Forms of Song are subjeckt to withering Definition & justly lampoon’d for the common LISTENER

Death To Trad Rock By John Robb – An Extract

John Robb celebrates the UK mid-80s alternative indie scene that spawned The Wedding Present, Prolapse and A Witness in his new book Death To Trad Rock. Here he argues why this music was so important . . .

The Hidden Cameras

Origin: Orphan

Bill Drummond Interview – No Music Day Has Been And Gone

In an irony that hasn't gone unnoticed, an over-zealous spam filter stopped us from receiving Ben Graham's feature until after No Music Day on Saturday. For Bill Drummond, thorn in the side of the art community and the music industry, we have all the time in the world however, so here it is . . .

Sectioned Cinema: Wojciech Has and The Hour-Glass Sanatorium

Fans of the stranger side of cinema will love _The Hour-Glass Sanatorium_, Wojciech Has' surreal procession of mindblowing imagery and ideas. Lee Arizuno looks back on this under-watched classic of far-out film as a season of Has' work comes to a cinema near you.