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Prefab Sprout

Let's Change The World With Music

The Strange And Frightening World Of . . . Basic Channel

Angus Finlayson is here to take the newcomer gently by the hand and to introduce them to the sublime techno frequencies of Basic Channel . . .

Tao Lin’s Shoplifting From American Apparel Reviewed

Huw Nesbitt finds Tao Lin's new novel as slick and vapid as a pair of shiny leggings from the young girl-loving fashion retailer

Sleeping States

In The Gardens Of The North

Dizzee Rascal Tongue N Cheek Reviewed Track By Track

More potential singles than Thriller? Signs of a new reggae direction? A revitalization of Big Beat? Massive Euro Trance? Dizzee Rascal has a lot to offer on his fourth album

George Pringle: New Adventures In Lo-Fi

Georgina Pringle is exactly the antidote we need to dumbed down, mockney, stage school chancerism. Darren Lee revels in her electro-vignettes

Jay-Z

The Blueprint 3

Branchage Festival Preview – School’s Out: What Shaped Lindsay Anderson’s If….

As part of our preview of Branchage, we look at the background to Lindsay Anderson's If...., which will be screened in a local public school during the Jersey film festival

Mungolian Jet Set

We Gave It All Away, Now We Are Taking It Back

Dragnet #7: New Music From Blondes, Ghost Hunter And Tangles

Loitering in virtual hallways looking for teachers to fuck

Muse

The Resistance

Nudge

As Good As Gone

Part Chimp: South London Noise Mongers Are Off The Wall

"Unruly amplifier worship with feedback gushing like claret from a decapitation victim", says Noel Gardner. Where do we sign up?

Theoretical Girl On Mental Health And Music

Theoretical Girl is musician by night, nurse by day. Here, she looks at the connection between the mind and song

Pastels / Tenniscoats

Two Sunsets

Pentatonik

A Thousand Paper Cranes

Disco Discharge: An Essay By Alan Jones & Horse Meat Disco Download

Harmless are gearing up to releasing four of the best compilations we've heard for ages: the Disco Discharge series. In anticipation look, listen and read. **Pictures are not work safe** . . .

Slayer’s World Painted Blood Track By Track Review

Stern jawed metal youth Toby Cook appraises the first mix of Slayer's new album _World Painted Blood_

Branchage Film Festival: An Introduction To The Cinema Event Of The Year

Film screenings in forts, barns and fields: The Quietus is chuffed to be linking up with Jersey's Branchage International Film Festival 2009. Here's why we've got involved

Todd Rundgren Interview: Talking With The Wizard & True Star

The Big Pink

A Brief History Of Love

Rufus Wainwright

Milwaukee at Last!!!

The Cribs

Ignore The Ignorant

Johnny Marr & The Jarmans: The Cribs, The Smiths And The Trouble With Indie

In a revealing interview, Johnny Marr and The Cribs discuss what went wrong with indie, why LA destroys creative thought, the curse of the lad, and how The Smiths never had an afrobeat influence

Andrew WK

55 Cadillac

It’s Grim Up North: Michael Winterbottom’s Butterfly Kiss

Michael Winterbottom's first film, remastered and released on DVD this week, makes an exquisite corpse out of clichés and comparisons.

An Extract From John Robb’s Manchester Music City 1976-1996

An excerpt from John Robb's latest book, charting Manchester's musical history through interviews with the people that made it

Columnus Metallicus – Metal Up Your Ass In September

Summer’s nearly over, not that Toby Cook would have noticed – metalheads don’t care for sunlight, don’t you know. So, here’s what’s been scaring his neighbours this month.

Saint Etienne

So Tough & Sound Of Water reissues

Thomas Truax

Songs From The Films Of David Lynch

Tori Amos Interview: Song, Slayer & Staying True To Her Vision

Hibernian salmon wrangler Mark Eglinton spoke to Tori Amos recently. Here are the results . . .

Os Mutantes

Haih Or Amortecedor