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Reviews 4

Them Crooked Vultures Live In Berlin: Carrion Rocking

Articles 25

The Road from Seattle to Ireland: Lori Goldston Interviewed

Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Will Burns On 90s Skate VHS Soundtracks

In this month’s subscriber-exclusive essay, poet and novelist Will Burns argues that skateboarding is close to dancing as he reflects on how the soundtracks of grainy DIY VHS films opened his musical mind

Books

Opening The Show: When The Television Personalities Met Nirvana

In an exclusive extract from his new book *Dreamworld, Or: the fabulous life of Dan Treacy and his band The Television Personalities*, Benjamin Berton records the meeting between Dan Treacy and Kurt Cobain

Anniversary

Food For Thought: An A To Z Guide To Melvins’ Stag

To celebrate the 25th birthday of Melvins' bonkers eighth album, JR Moores presents a users' manual to what the hell was going on 

A Quietus Interview

Scratch Acidic: Mark Lanegan Interviewed

Mark Lanegan has written one of the rawest, most talked about memoirs in years, and he has an album out that’s pretty great too. Jeremy Allen calls him in L.A. to find Silicon Valley and the machines conspiring against him in lockdown

Anniversary

Magnificent Cheat: Revisiting Nirvana’s MTV Unplugged In New York

Rather than simply play acoustic versions of their hits, Nirvana treated MTV’s Unplugged show as an opportunity to turn their own music on its head, to connect it to American roots and European glam. 25 years on, the resulting album, MTV Unplugged In New York, stands as their finest work, says David Bennun

Anniversary

Bitter Sweet: The Blue Album By Weezer Revisted

Rock & roll and pop punk fan Michael Hann looks back to Weezer's debut album and asks, 'What went wrong?'

Anniversary

25 Years On: Nirvana’s Incesticide Revisited

Incesticide is often seen as an afterthought of an odds and sods compilation. Wrong, says Brian Coney: it's the true essence of what Nirvana are

Anniversary

Around The Bend: Pearl Jam’s No Code Turns 20

JR Moores looks back two decades and finds it was No Code that provided Grunge's Kid A moment, not In Utero

A Quietus Interview

Watch: Lemmy Interview – Hawkwind To Punk Via Human Crabs

The Quietus hooks up with Loud Pixels to present a revealing interview with Motorhead's Lemmy (first published December 2010)

Anniversary

An Exceedingly Female Space: Hole’s Live Through This Revisited

25 years since its release, Amy Pettifer examines a classic album, in part driven by the conflicts between its riot grrl roots and its mainstream feminist agenda, and in part (unwittingly) driven by tragedy

Anniversary

A Nail In The Coffin: Soundgarden’s Superunknown Revisited

Val Siebert looks back 20 years to a band's attempts to shrug off the grunge tag

Anniversary

Nirvana’s Howl At The Moon: In Utero Revisited, 20 Years On

Daniel Ross doesn't care which mix of this extraordinary album he's listening to...

A Quietus Interview

Supersonic 2012: Dylan Carlson Interviewed – Faerie Liquid

Jessica Charlotte Crowe catches up with Dylan Carlson to talk big ideas and little people...

Books

READ: Nirvana – The Recording Sessions

The Quietus presents a short extract, from the book by Rob Jovanovic, released this year for the first time in the UK

Anniversary

Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

Jimmy Martin examines the perfect storm of raunch, repulsiveness and riffs that went into "the greatest hard rock record of the 80s"

Anniversary

Copper Blue 20 Years On: Sugar’s Bob Mould Interviewed

Bob Mould gives a full and frank account of the making of the album that established his post-Hüsker Dü career to Julian Marszalek

A Quietus Interview

Your Attention Please… Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs Interviewed

Greg Dulli is coming out swinging... fighting for his rep as always. Simon Price takes notes

Anniversary

30 Years On: The Wipers’ Youth Of America Revisited

The Wipers' Youth of America is 30 years old. John Calvert explains why it means so much to him

Anniversary

My Own Private Nirvana: Revisiting Nevermind 30 Years On

Three decades on from Nevermind, John Calvert explores Nirvana's smash record in comparison to Gus Van Sant's My Own Private Idaho

Black Sky Thinking

Why Courtney Love Was Kurt Cobain’s Lyrical Equal

Black Sky Thinking

Fuck You ’92: Why We Don’t Need An Early 90s Revival

DMs, Neds Atomic Dustbin, John Major . . . why oh why is 1992 being classed a glory year, asks Charles Ubaghs

Things I Have Learned

Bat For Lashes’ Natasha Khan On Finding Her Style

Natasha Khan tells Luke Turner her fashion dictact, what gentlemen should be sporting this season, and how divine intervention can help a shopping trip

A Quietus Interview

Foo For Thought: Dave Grohl On The Song He Wrote For Kurt Cobain

This week sees the release of a Foo Fighters DVD _Live At Wembley Stadium_. John Doran takes the opportunity to talk to Dave Grohl about music and his life.