Thomas Struth

Worker’s Playtime: Billy Bragg’s Favourite Albums

To celebrate the release of his notably personal new album Tooth & Nail today, the outspoken, political singer-songwriter talks Colm McAuliffe through his top records

The Language Of Flowers: Dorothea Tanning At Alison Jacques

The Flower Paintings of Dorothea Tanning bring to mind one of the greatest mysteries in the history of the book trade

WATCH: UFOmammut ORO Trailer

Watch a trailer for the second of Italian band's mighty ORO albums

The Demon Advocates: Gene Simmons’ Favourite Albums

The Kiss man picks a giants-of-rock top 13 albums for Val Siebert (and finally gives drum machines the talking to they deserve)

It’s All Expression: Matt Berry’s Favourite Albums

The actor, comedian and musician takes Patrick Clarke through an eclectic list of his favourite records, from a teenage obsession with Tubular Bells to the London pub where Danger Mouse worked behind the bar

13 Reasons Why I Can’t Pick My 13 Favourite Records, By Drew Daniel

When we asked Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth for his Baker's Dozen, he refused - and with good reasons. Thirteen of them, to be precise. Here Daniel presents them in an essay titled A Rant Against The Quantification Of Aesthetics. All photographs courtesy of Drew Daniel

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

The Best From Berlin: Berlinale Film Festival Report

Our man in Germany Stephen Dalton takes a look at the best the Berlinale film festival had to offer this year and reports back to The Quietus

Saint Etienne

Words And Music By Saint Etienne

It Burns! It Burns!: 20 Greatest Turkish Psych Tracks

With his new book, The Turkish Psychedelic Music Explosion: Anadolu Psych (1965-1980), out this week from Repeater Books, Daniel Spicer curates an exclusive playlist of the very finest Turkish psychedelic rock

Savage Pencil Comic Strips Collection Due

The Wire cartoonist's strips to be collected in new book

Summer of (Interspecies) Love: Artist Hanna Tuulikki’s Bat Radar Rave

Hanna Tuulikki’s Echo in the Dark project uses the sounds of bat detectors to transport a room full of silent dancers back to the acid house era. Greg Thomas investigates

Glasvegas to Release Christmas Album

Quietus favourites to release six track Christmas album

Neil Young

The Monsanto Years

Roskilde Confirms Sharon Van Etten, More

Sharon Van Etten and Chance The Rapper are amongst the latest acts to join the bill for this year's Roskilde

The Homesick

Youth Hunt