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Does Free Music Service Spotify Offer Hope For The Future?

Is record label-backed music streaming service Spotify the best response yet to the issue of illegal filesharing?

Telepathe

Dance Mother

Luke Haines Interviewed: “Britpop, My Part In Its Downfall”

As Luke Haines' Bad Vibes sours the nation's bookshelves, Jimmy Martin gives the affable writer a call to work out if there was anything worth celebrating about Britpop

Darren Hayman: Things I Learned While Writing Songs About New Towns

Darren Hayman tells The Quietus about the things he learned while writing his concept album about the concrete streets of Harlow

Factory Records

Communications 1978-92

The Best Of The BBC Radiophonic Workshop On One Side Of A C90

David McNamee compiles a Quietus mixtape of choice selections from the BBC Radiophonic Archive

Bon Iver

Blood Bank EP

The Computers

You Can’t Hide From The Computers

A Column About African Pop Music: First Up, Nigeria And Mali

The Quietus starts a new regular column on the music of Africa with a look at the sounds coming out of Nigeria and Mali

Jeremy Allen Recalls How Drinking With Saxon Put Him On A Putney Grave

Jeremy Allen remembers a night outdrinking Lemmy from Motorhead with Brit metal loons Saxon. He nearly reformed Genesis, but soon realised he needed to reform himself.

Animal Collective

Merriweather Post Pavilion

Mickey Rourke Interviewed: Plus Hollywood’s Greatest Comebacks

Chris Roberts gets personal with Mickey Rourke and The Quietus remembers more of cinema's greatest comeback stories

Q: Are We not Men? A: We Are Women! Canadian Noise Gents Interviewed

The Quietus loves Women, so we thought we'd take them on a date to a noodle bar to talk their new album, snow, and white noise.

Lady GaGa

The Fame

Death Cab For Cutie Discuss Obama On The Eve Of The Inauguration

"I never thought I’d see anything like it in my life. I have to be honest that I was that jaded and sceptical," Nick Harmer of Death Cab tells Tom Milway

KTL

IV

Animal Collective Interview: Merriweather Post Pavillion, Baltimore and “Dirty Hippies”

David Portner (Avey Tare) and Brian Weitz (Geologist) talk to John Doran on the eve of their most anticipated release

Hazel Winter Of The Blue Aeroplanes On Finding Shamen In Siberia

Hazel Winter from Quietus favourites Blue Aeroplanes recalls the stunning views in Siberia and the fact that shamen don't fly.

Rusholme ROFLOL? Morrissey’s New Album Years Of Refusal Reviewed

Morrissey may have fallen out of love as quickly as he found it during Ringleader Of The Tormentors, but when the feelings fled did his mojo as well, asks John Doran?

Eagles Of Death Metal

Heart On

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat Returns To Mend Your Wounded Hearts & Privates

New Year is traditionally a time for relationship strife and itches in the nethers from unfortunate encounters after December's office party season. Thank goodness Aidan Moffat is back to sort you all out

Florence And The Machine And The Desperation Of The Annual Tipster Orgy

Florence And The Machine? A tip for 2009? Luke Turner has a tip for the A&R department: don't get off a moving bus.

Setting The Standard: Role Models Reviewed

It might look like just another American comedy but don't be fooled. David Bax applauds this skillfully executed mainstream outing from from the crack comedy team responsible for cult classic _Wet Hot American Summer_.

Moon Wiring Club

Shoes Off And Chairs Away

Introducing Teeth Of The Sea, The Band Gnawing Noise A New Hole

John Robb Salutes The Memory Of Stooges Guitarist Ron Asheton

Stooges guitarist Ron Asheton passed away on Monday night. John Robb recalls meeting the unassuming Stooge, and hails him as the pioneer of punk and so much more

Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

Dave Gibbons On The Origins Of The Watchmen

Is there anything that he would do differently now? What is the future of the comic book? And, does a certain deity actually reside in Alan Moore's beard? Matt Kaufman talks to Dave Gibbons.

White Lies

To Lose My Life

Kelman

I Felt My Sad Heart Soar

Pavement: Selecting The Best For One Side Of A C90

David McNamee trawls his dusty racks for gems by American indie overlords Pavement to make up a compilation for one side of a cassette.

Tanlines: Ex Don Caballero And Professor Murder Boys Make Music For Web 3.0

Global mutant pop versus postmodern culture and its attendant dogs of unreality. Ruff!