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Lydia Lunch: My Life As A Work In Progress

Alex Ogg sets the tape running and stands back in awed silence as New York no wave shit-kicker Lydia Lunch reflects on life as a work in progress.

A Cellarfull Of Noise: A Racket Of A Blog With Footnotes, By Stevie Chick

Seasick Steve

I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left

Mercury Rev Interview: The Intriguing Birth Of Snowflake Midnight

Mercury Rev tell the Quietus that new album _Snowflake Midnight_ was influenced as much by the building of their new bar as their Catskill Mountain home.

The British Invasion: How to Break Hollywood as a British Actor

With _How to Lose Friends and Alienate People_ Simon Pegg is the latest in a string of British actors to take Hollywood without losing their accent. But at what cost?

808 State

Album reissues

The First Quietus New Band Ulterior Talk Noise, Sex & Hot Leather

The Quietus begins our foray into the world of new music with Ulterior, the missing link between S&M, the Mary Chain, and Underworld

Kasai Allstars

In The 7th Moon, The Chief Turned Into A Swimming Fish And Ate The Head Of His Enemy By Magic

Wham!

The Final

The Quietus Digs Out Our Walkman For A Faith No More Mixtape

In the first of a new Quietus series, David McNamee creates the ultimate Faith No More mix - to fit on one side of a C90 cassette

Kaiser Chiefs

Off With Their Heads

Kings of Leon

Only By The Night

Fripp & Eno

Evening Star

Mr Agreeable: Like Ten Thousand Spoons When All He Needs Is A Gun

Over a breakfast of lightly grilled kippers Mr Agreeable casts his sparkling eye over news concerning Razorlight, Oasis and My Bloody Valentine.

ATP Nightmare Before Christmas: The Melvins Interview

The co-curators of the winterval rock-apocalypse, The Melvins give Ned Raggett the low down on their choices for the ATP festival at Minehead.

OMD

Messages - Greatest Hits

Mogwai’s Barry Burns On Teaching: How Failing At School Brought The Rock

Mogwai multi-instrumentalist Barry Burns was a teacher before he joined the band. He tells The Quietus what he learned during his short, and failed, career.

The Quietus Looks Back at Alex Cox’s Moviedrome

_Moviedrome_ was a cult movie showcase hosted by one of Britain's best cult directors. Austin Collings remembers many a Sunday night curled up with Alex Cox, whose new book _X-films: True Confessions of a Radical Filmmaker_ is out now.

The New Scientists: TV On The Radio Interviewed

Lovvers

Think

Bringing Home Francis Bacon: The Tate Britain Retrospective and The Colony Room

Oasis’ New Album ‘Dig Out Your Soul’ Reviewed Track-By-Track

Noel Gallagher has made his usual protestations that the new Oasis album a) is good and b) is not Britpop. Luke Turner's got his cynical hat on, but will he be forced to eat it?

Absentee

Victory Shorts

The Wire: How A Flop Cop Show Became The Greatest TV Series Of All Time

The Byzantinely plotted drug enforcement procedural that tore the cop show genre a new one, runs its course. With the release of Season Five on DVD box set and the final episode broadcast on TV last night, Rebecca Nicholson mourns the passing of a good po-lice show but points out it nearly sank without a trace.

Why Cliff Richard Is The Epitome And Saviour Of Rock & Roll

Forget Liam Gallagher, Richard Ashcroft or Paul Weller - Sir Cliff is the best rock star we have, says John 'We Don't Talk Any More' Doran

Rolo Tomassi

Hysterics

The Undertones

An Anthology

Metallica’s ‘Intimate’ O2 Gig Reviewed With Reference To Roger Scruton

The Streets

Everything Is Borrowed

The Quietus Goes Down To Dorset: End Of The Road Festival Reviewed

The Quietus gets to grip with the Dorset mud for a brilliant End of the Road festival, where revelry is to be had as much from the sideshows as superb sets from the likes of Mercury Rev and The Dirty Three.

David Holmes

The Holy Pictures

A Guy Called Gerald

Black Secret Technology Reissue