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An Exclusive Extract From The Bad Seeds’ Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!! Book

Nick Cave has collaborated with artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble to produce Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!, a superb little book of sketches, photographs, and sundry scribbles. In an extract from the book, they explain how it all came together.

Micah P. Hinson

Micah P. Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra

The Hold Steady

Stay Positive

The 20 Most Controversial and Ill Thought Out Album Sleeves Of All Time

John Doran casts a baleful eye over some of the least well thought out album sleeves to grace record store shelves.

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik

Eine Kleine Nacht Musik

Nas

Untitled

Ringo P. Stacey is stopped in his tracks by Nas' attempts to alienate his audience.

Primal Scream

Beautiful Future

Withnail & I Comes Of Age This Year – If Only The Fans Would Too

Withnail & I celebrates its 21st year this summer. Yet, argues Luke Turner, its fans ought to come of age too, and realise that there's more to the film than a drinking game.

Beck

Modern Guilt

Portishead on Camper Vans: Hitting the road with Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley

The Quietus hooked up with Portishead's Geoff Barrow and Adrian Utley to talk about record collecting, only to find they'd much rather discuss travelling the highways and biways of the land, snug in a camper van.

Biffy Clyro

Singles 2001 - 2005

Funky House: A Profile Of The Scene

As the budget flights take the nation's youth off for the summer season in Ayia Napa, Melissa Bradshaw gives The Quietus the lowdown on what's happening in the funky house scene.

We meet Bjork in Iceland to talk nature and hear her Johnny Cash impersonation

Wire

Object 47

Tricky

Knowle West Boy

Patti Smith & Kevin Shields

The Coral Sea

Dylan vs. Cohen

With Leonard Cohen's current unexpected tour astounding audiences across the world, Luke Turner asks if it is time to see him, rather than the "doggerel"-spouting Bob Dylan, as the finest poet of his generation?

The Bug

London Zoo

The Orb

Back catalogue reissues

Jarvis Cocker on Sheffield’s post-punk legends Artery

Artery are one of the great unsung bands of the post punk era, but found a champion in Jarvis Cocker, who invited them to close last year's Meltdown Festival. In this article for The Quietus, Cocker explains how Artery changed his life.

John Robb on Dirty Harry, American outsider

David Bowie

Live at Santa Monica '72

The Beep Seals

Things That Roar

Dead Horse Flogging With Sid Vicious at the Camden Stables Market

Brighton based lensman Greg Neate casts his eye over two North London photo exhibitions: Sid Vicious: No-One is Innocent and Snap! - Mencap's 2008 photo competition winners at Proud Gallery, Camden

RATATAT

LP3

Swells on Topshop playlisting The Rotted

Topshop, popular outfitter to the nation's youth, have recently added malignant grindcore types The Rotted to their instore playlist. Swells explains why this means he should have been an A&R man, rather than working in Morrisons, back in '77

Windsor For The Derby

How We Lost

Cutting the Beef: Rappers unite as 50’s marketing ploy fails

As 50 Cent vainly attempts to flog another album on his label with a tired round of beefing, Adam Narkiewicz looks at how a new generation of rappers are re-introducing a spirit of community and collaboration to the genre.

Hall & Oates

The Singles

Dirty Pretty Things

Romance at Short Notice

Part VI

Is The BBC The Enemy Of Hip Hop?

Last week amongst the detritus thrown at UK rapper Lethal Bizzle by the audience at Download was a banana skin. Forget about this though - a bigger problem facing UK hip hop stars, argues rapper/writer Adam Narkiewicz is the media itself