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Barney Greenway of Napalm Death Raises The Horns To Soft Rock

Napalm Death’s Barney Greenway tells Toby Cook about the pleasures of soft rock, why it won’t be playing at his funeral and what pisses him off about the genre's modern pretenders

Women

Women

Beastie Boys: Selecting The Best For One Side Of A C90

In honour of the reissue of Paul's Boutique Toby Cook creates a C90 mix tape of Beasties tracks that ignores the organic funk, the hardcore punk and the singles in favour of hip hop jams

Franz Ferdinand

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand

Action Beat

The Noise Band From Bletchley

Inside The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari: A Classic Of Expressionist Cinema

The Quietus' horror expert Josh Saco talks about this Expressionist classic and examines how this once unasuming horror flick took on a life of its own.

Mr Agreeable: Drinking Outside The Box

Why Slumdog Millionaire Is The Obama Of Oscar Politics

The nominations are in and there are no real surprises. Dave Moats compares this year's race to the American election and hopes that _Slumdog Millionaire_ is this year's Obama.

Valkyrie: Riding Roughshod Over History?

We've come to expect Hollywood to rewrite history, says Luke Turner. But in the case of Von Stauffenberg, the mono-armed, cycloptic plotter who tried to blow up Hitler, is there even space to do this?

Teeth Of The Sea

Orphaned By The Ocean

Micachu And The Shapes: Lo-Fi Pop Hoover Groovers Interviewed

Antony & The Johnsons

The Crying Light

The Ten Best Metal Guitarists In The World – The Director’s Cut

Gentleman of rock Joel McIver has written a book about the best metal fret manglers ever. Exclusively for The Quietus he engages his swollen hippocampus and picks out 10 of the best. Let the bloodshed commence! (Just don't call him ass hat.)

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?