John Doran

Pussy Riot Sentenced To Two Year Jail Term

Garry Kasparov Arrested At Pussy Riot Trial

Pussy Riot Found Guilty

Sentencing expected later

Billy Bragg Writes In Support Of Pussy Riot

For Those About To Mope: How Rock Learned To Love The Smiths & Morrissey

The battle lines were clear in the 1980s: you either loved Iron Maiden or you loved The Smiths, you couldn’t love both. So how did it come to pass that Morrissey would release a pop punk album and become one of the most dropped names in metal and heavy rock? John Doran investigates

LISTEN & WATCH: Frank Turner’s New Band, Mongol Horde

Turner returns to heavy roots - watch below

LIVE REPORT: PiL & The Wedding Present

Bonkers & British, Lydon and co. play in a 12th century castle in Kent

2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony: Why Subversive Gestures Are Not Enough

The author would like to thank Rory Gibb, Petra Davis, John Tatlock, Kris Stewart, Purves Grundy and Tom Davies for moral and technical support

Fuck Buttons Played In Olympic Opening Ceremony

Blancmange

The Very Best Of

Napalm Death For Incubate!

Midlands Metal Madness For Dutch Festival

WIN: Tickets To See PiL & Weddoes In A Castle

Lydon and Co. headline all day outdoor fest in Rochester Castle, Kent

The Lost Tapes By Can: An Oral History

Can and Jono Podmore talk us through their excellent anthology of previously unreleased material, The Lost Tapes which topped the Quietus' recent mid year chart. As told to John Doran

WATCH: New Tenebrous Liar Video

The Favourite Albums Of Cornershop’s Tjinder Singh

Celebrate Cornershop's appearance in our mid-year compilations chart with Tjinder Singh's Baker's Dozen

Quietus Reissues, Compilations & Mixes Of 2012 So Far

Our favourite mixes, comps, archival releases, live albums, best-ofs and WTF anthologies from the first half of 2012

Quietus Albums Of The Year So Far 2012

It's only half way through the year and already it's shaping up to be a classic for albums. Here's our halfway mark chart

The House Of The Lord: Eric Wahlforss Interviewed

Sample-based artist Eric Wahlforss recently tried to tackle a thorny problem - how to combine electronica and church music without losing the core of either. The result was Ecclesia

Black Sun Rising: The Congos Interviewed

Heart Of The Congos is a classic album by anyone's standards, so why isn't its name lauded next to Police And Thieves, Natty Dread and The Harder They Come? John Doran talks to Ashanti Roy and Cedric Myton to find out

ATP Moves Back To Camber Sands

The National event this December heads back to the Dunes

LISTEN: New Power Ambient LP By Chord

El-P Cancels European Dates

LISTEN: IBYM Slayer Day Spotify Playlist

WITCH

We Intend To Cause Havoc

WATCH: Knifeworld Video With Steve Davis

WATCH: Session Victim – ‘Dark Sienna’

Watch video for German duo's track from new LP

Accrington Stanley (The Band) Press On

Keep Those Dreams Burning Forever: Neneh Cherry Interviewed

Neneh Cherry speaks to John Doran about literally unplugged performance, the spirit of the Bristol scene and her father Don

Gravenhurst

The Ghost In Daylight

“I Can Fend For Myself”: The Inimitable Mr Tony Allen Interviewed

To many people who make music, including Brian Eno and Blur’s Damon Albarn, Tony Allen, Afrobeat innovator, is simply the greatest drummer alive. After talking to the Nigerian living legend, John Doran finds it hard to disagree

Swans Live Album On General Release

From Gallows Mountain To Traitor’s Villa: Necessary Interviewed

John Doran talks to Tony Wilson of Necessary about music that is (necessarily) a chaotic mess, the recent horrific events in Utøya and Oslo and My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts. Photograph courtesy of Steffen Oftedal