A Quietus Interview

Panic Attacks And Pythagoras: Team Brick Interviewed

Bristol one-man band Matt Williams talks to Ash Dosanjh about hallucinations and the blood of the Greek Gods

The Odd Couple: Broken Bells Interviewed

Production wizard Danger Mouse and The Shins frontman James Mercer talk to Ben Hewitt about running away from bears, creative exhaustion and their new collaboration Broken Bells

Rhesus AB Positive: A Yeasayer Interview About Odd Blood

Thom A. Ward chows down with Yeasayer to talk about missing drummers, hanging with Beck and a lack of irony. Band portraits by Guy Aroch

Rejects From The Choir: Smoke Fairies Interviewed

Ailbhe Malone talks to Sussex duo Smoke Fairies about how they conjure their ethereal sound

Tomorrow’s World: Jaz And Youth Play Us The New Killing Joke Album

After meeting up at Paul Raven's funeral the original line-up of Killing Joke decided to record together for the first time since 82. John Doran got the invite round to Youth's house on Xmas Eve to hear the results

Hyperreal: Magnetic Fields Arch Duke Stephin Merritt Interviewed

With his hand on the tiller of _Realism_ – the most caustically satisfying Magnetic Fields album since _69 Love Songs_ – New York’s least excitable raconteur has a few (not exclusively self-chosen) words squeezed out of him by Charlie Ivens

A Call To Arms: Delphic Interviewed

Manchester's newest hopes talk unsold albums in HMV and Steve Martin's banjo prowess with Ben Hewitt

Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre

Helping create extreme metal as we know it today as well as naming Black Metal, Venom have always been the antidote to musical boredom, says John Doran after talking to frontman Cronos

And So I Watch You From Afar – Acronymically Confusing Noise Rock

Post rock, post metal and a dash of stadium sized bombast? Sign me up says Iain Moffat. Band photo by Graham Smith

Analogue Alienation: The Very Rare Sound Of Wierd Records

The Very Rare sounds of Cold Wave have proved influential on two Wierd Records acts, Xeno & Oaklander and Led Er Est. Louis Pattison investigates

Sonic Router 009: A Dubstep Column For January

New year, new low frequency provision. Oli Marlow speaks to London producer Blue Daisy. Free download . . .

Eddie Izzard On Music, Transvestitism, And Social Democracy

The New Romantics, pulling, make-up and his future as a Labour MP. All in a day's work for Eddie Izzard, Luke Turner discovers

Jenny And The Jets: The Musical Universe Of Rockettothesky

Rockettothesky’s Jenny Hval may have made little impact outside of Scandinavia, but that needs to change. According to Wyndham Wallace, she’s one of the most powerfully feminine voices at work in music today

Oh No Ono Talk Crazy Music And Psychiatric Hospitals

With their second album recorded in a disused German hospital, Oh No Ono have come on exponentially since their last album says Laura Snapes. Main picture taken by Simon Birk

The Northwestern Sam Herlihy Interview

Post rock/indie good egg Sam Herlihy talks to John Doran about The Northwestern, the end of Hope Of The States and his new Quietus food column

Staring At The Rudeboy: An Interview With Jamie T

85 Bears Versus The Bono Swine Flu Machine

Are Doppelgangers best left on desert islands? Are they Don Caballero’s natural heirs? Are U2 responsible for the swine flu outbreak? 85 Bears do their best to explain things to Toby Cook

Vaughan Oliver: A Portrait Of The Artist As A Jung Man

Vaughan Oliver has been responsible for creating the look and cementing the visual aesthetic of 4AD records since the early 80s. John Doran meets him to talk about producing sleeve art that endures

Vic Chesnutt RIP – A Recent Quietus Interview

It was with sadness that we learned that this time the rumours were true and that Vic Chesnutt had died on Xmas Day. Wyndham Wallace talked to him a few months ago, this feature was the result

The Mother Of Warm Invention – A Hope Sandoval Interview

Admiral Angry – Terrible Caustic

Admiral Angry's first (and maybe last) album Buster wasn't far from the Quietus stereo in 2009. Marc Waldburger plumbs its depths and charms

Throbbing Gristle Interview: Fill Your Stocking With Gristleism This Christmas

Throbbing Gristle's Chris Carter talks about the new Gristleism box, and how it could save the music industry

Fear Of Poetry: Josephine Foster Interviewed

Ben Hewitt talks to the American folk troubadour about poetry, reinvention and singing at funerals

Kid Congo Powers Interview: From Gun Play To Monkey Business

The Horror, The Horror: Tom Cowan Interviewed

_Primary Colours_ was a Quietus favourite this 2009, so Ben Hewitt sat down with Tom Cowan to talk misconceptions, style, future plans, and growing psychedelic drugs at one of England's poshest schools

Gay For Johnny Depp Interview: Making Mince Meat Out Of Hardcore

As Gay For Johnny Depp release a retrospective compilation, Ben Myers talks dirty with the subversive quartet

Escape To Nowhere: King Cannibal Interviewed

Frances Morgan talks to one of The Quietus's artists of the year, King Cannibal, about the dog-end of existence and being abused by sound

Mishaps & Molten Rock: French Rockets Interviewed

AP Childs talks to the Australian rockers about the stigma of psychedelia, the influence of William Burroughs, and lighting a fire under Matt Bellamy's arse...

Monoliths & Mysteriis: Sunn O))) Vokillist Attila Csihar Interviewed

Manish Agarwal talks to Attila Csihar about Sunn O))), a life in metal and some seriously massive slabs of rock

The Exotic Pylon: Jonny Talks Cindytalk And Much More…

jonny mugwump ignores the end-of list hoopla to exalt the records that have been lighting up the pylon for the last few weeks

Mad About Saffron: Thirty Years Of Yello

Yello’s Dieter Meier sits down with Wyndham Wallace to discuss the duo’s new album _Touch_ and three decades as an aristocratic prankster.

Luke Haines Interview: Middle Age Is No Time To Sing About Maddy

In a wide-ranging chat, Luke Haines spills the beans on The Libertines, staying smart, why being a middle aged parent means songs about disappearing children are out of the window, and the follow-up to _Bad Vibes_