As a child, Katie Goh was obsessed with the end of the world. In their new book, The End, Goh explores this fascination through the disaster genre to ask: why do we turn to fictional crises in books, TV and films to make sense of our real life social, economic and political disasters?
In this week's Baker's Dozen, Santigold takes Tara Joshi through 13 favourite albums from Salt-N-Pepa to the Cocteau Twins, Fela Kuti, Nina Simone and Bad Brains, and points out that while Morrissey might have gone wrong, you can't take away what his songs once gave her
Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism
It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning