Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
Eighties electro-pop heroes Duran Duran are back with new, Mark Ronson-produced album All You Need Is Now ready to drop. Simon Price tracks down Messrs Le Bon, Rhodes and the two Taylors at a television recording to discuss being eternally misunderstood, the homoerotic terrors of Jo-Si fan fiction and personalised dildos
Noel Gardner knows punk like no other - so when he says that Iceage's New Brigade album is one of the finest punk rock records of recent years, you should pay attention. He talks to them about the price of beer in Denmark and weird newspaper headlines
As she prepares to release her new EP with Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Turner sits down with Beth Ditto and finds that, a million record sales down the line from that song, Gossip's singer is still an unreformed Arkansas punk. Just with a better mattress
To mark the anniversary of Hunter S. Thompson's death - and with a film adaptation of his novel The Rum Diary due later this year - The Quietus is thrilled to bring you this previously unpublished interview, conducted in 1998. The great man discusses the Clinton scandal, fraught film adaptations and his own battles with the establishment