A Distant Radiating Orb: Barn Owl Interviewed

With new album V, Bay Area duo Barn Owl soar into more overtly electronic territories than ever before, infusing the gorgeous, glacial drones of their earlier work with a dub-inspired sense of shifting space. Ned Raggett catches up with them to discuss this gradual evolution

Ryuichi Sakamoto Issues ‘Disciple’ Warning

"If you meet or see someone claiming to be Ryuichi's disciple, please know this person is being untruthful"

New Weird Britain In Review For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner travels the highroads and byroads of these fair and foul isles in search of sonic sustenance for summer

Noel’s Straight Hedge VIII: Punk Straight From The Canon

Birthday boy Noel Gardner is back with his recommendations for all you who need some punk rock in your lives: this time around, Full Of Hell, Rough Kids, Concrete Cross, Sufferinfuck, Una Bèstia Incontrolable, Filthpact, Bad Noids, Perspex Flesh, Guilty Parents, The Boys and more

Rum Music For January Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Muscular guitars, bakery based sound poetry and percussive patterns from Indonesia feature in Jennifer Lucy Allan's first roundup of the new year

Vatican Shadow

September Cell / Operation Neptune Spear

LISTEN: Aussie Music Half-Year Round-Up

As we pass the half-way mark of 2015, Kate Hennessy takes stock of the year in music so far down under

The Ten Best Metal Guitarists In The World – The Director’s Cut

Gentleman of rock Joel McIver has written a book about the best metal fret manglers ever. Exclusively for The Quietus he engages his swollen hippocampus and picks out 10 of the best. Let the bloodshed commence! (Just don't call him ass hat.)

Music For The People? Why We Deserve Better Than The Enemy

Since Oasis, argues Luke Turner, a succession of lad rock bands have coined it in by patronising large swathes of British society.