The recent announcement that the OED had made "GIF" its word of the year prompts Ryan Diduck to consider the similarities of that tiny looping file format to culture in 2012, and why, like Bill Murray in Groundhog Day, being doomed to repeat ourselves might not be entirely a bad thing
The great Simon Reynolds talks to Colin McKean about his new tome Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, and explains why conditions for musicians and consumers today are unprecedented - even if the art itself isn't
Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment
There's nothing The Quietus respects more than a man who's handy with a fishing rod, which is why we asked Daniel Ross to chat to S. Carey about catching trout - as well as his debut album _All We Grow_ and drumming with Bon Iver
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe's work ranges from hypnotic solo modular synth and voice explorations as Lichens, to acting, composition for film and playing in Om. As part of our week of features curated by Kevin 'The Bug' Martin, Tristan Bath meets Lowe to discuss the underlying impulses that unite these varied projects