Elvis Costello And The Attractions

Blissful Resonance: Brian DeGraw Of Gang Gang Dance’s Favourite Albums

With Brian DeGraw's debut solo album as bEEdEEgEE released last month, the Gang Gang Dance founder member speaks to Tristan Bath about thirteen of his favourite albums, from Scott Walker and Pharaoh Sanders to Burial and Public Enemy

LIVE REPORT: Neutral Milk Hotel

Elizabeth Murphy heads to Memphis, Tennessee to kneel at the altar of the US indie luminaries

The Big Eyes Family Players & Friends

Folk Songs II

New Poetry By: Harrison Christian

This week's new writing on The Quietus comes to you cross-continentally from New Zealand in the guise of a poems by Harrison Christian

Goodbye Girls, Hello Heaven? To Nicola Roberts By Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat went along to Girls Aloud's last-ever Glasgow gig and was so moved by the experience that he penned a letter to Nicola Roberts. The Quietus is his postman, and you can read his perfumed billet-doux below

13 (Acts Of Love): Mick Harvey’s Favourite Albums

Fresh off the back of his Ministry Of Wolves work and with Serge Gainsbourg albums and live shows on the way, the former Bad Seed and prolific singer-songwriter gives Julian Marszalek the rundown of his top 13 records

LostProphets “Scrapped New Album”

Difficulties encountered on _The Betrayed_

Fennesz Announces Stripped-Back New LP

Fennesz' new album, due in March, sees him go back to basics

The Resistible Demise Of Michael Jackson Review & Exclusive Extract

A satisfying surfeit of intelligent observation, warm, funny and provocative writing, and lack of prurience in this new Zer0 Books tome. 'Shamone' says Jonny Mugwump, our many teeted lizard overlord

Junk Shop Classical on Vivaldi: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Unheard for 200 years, Vivaldi became a star for the second time when an Italian group had a hit album with The Four Seasons in 1955 – the same year that rock & roll exploded. But it was a brilliant 1970 recording by Britain’s Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields that, for better or worse, made it truly omnipresent

A New England: Gareth Southgate, Cultural Revolutionary

"30 years of hurt" has often felt like it applied to the bombastic jingoism related to England, but all that is changing with Gareth Southgate's diverse, intelligent team and their rise to the finals of the Euros, argues Tim Burrows. Image: Catherine Ivill/Getty

Tailor Made For Worship: Dave Wyndorf Of Monster Magnet’s Favourite Albums

The Monster Magnet frontman turns the clock back 40 years to tell Val Siebert about 13 formative favourite records

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

As she moves up to co-lead vocal and songwriting duties for Black Country, New Road, Tyler Hyde selects 13 records that influence her craft, from Randy Newman to The Fall via Frank Ocean, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and more

People Power: Rouyn-Noranda’s FME Festival Reviewed

In the depths of Quebec, Patrick Clarke finds a unique festival bursting with civic pride, and an 'industry showcase' done right

Culture Wars On The Cobbles: Corrie At 10,000 Episodes

As Coronation Street reaches its landmark 10,000th episode, former soap obsessive Fergal Kinney reflects on what it says about a changing Britain

Young Hearts, Run Free: On Camp & Australia’s Eurovision Entry

For a country forever stuck in the shadow of Crocodile Dundee but with an abiding love of ABBA, Australia's entry into the Eurovision spectacle allows it to lay bare its camp beating heart, says Alan Weedon