John Grindrod

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes Reviewed

Robert Downey Jr is the saving grace of Guy Ritchie's Holmes adaptation, finds Jeremy Allen

The Strange World Of… Bill Laswell

From making groundbreaking electro to working with Whitney Houston via boozy sessions with Motörhead, plus avant explorations of thrash, drum & bass, grindcore, gnawa and disco, Bill Laswell has been on more great records than you've had hot dinners. Zachary Lipez offers ten points of entry to his bewilderingly vast back catalogue

Under My Skin: Matt Johnson Discusses Soul Mining With John Doran

Ahead of the release of the 30th Anniversary Deluxe Boxset of Soul Mining Matt Johnson talks to John Doran in a very rare interview about short wave radio, Some Bizzare and the moped that changed his life

Shouting Louder Than Words: Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade

Ned Raggett turns the clock back thirty-five years and looks at American masculinity in terms of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade

A Dime In The Hot Slot: Heaven 17 Interviewed

Later this year Heaven 17 are taking their classic Penthouse And Pavement album out on the road for its 30th birthday. John Doran chats to Martyn Ware and Glenn Gregory

V&A Launch David Bowie Is Exhibition

Self-confessed Bowie obsessive Simon Price heads down to the Victoria & Albert museum for the official launch of a mouth watering new exhibition. All images courtesy of the David Bowie archive

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For January

Noel Gardner opens the first instalment of this column for 2021 by taking a look at current punk acts "whose lyrics and outlook are for and about the Black community". Home page photograph of Twisted Thing

The Embers Of Decades: Ashtray Navigations Interviewed

Adam Lehrer talks to Phil Todd and Mel Ó Dubhshláine about the release of an expansive anthology charting almost 30 years' work by cult psychedelic band, Ashtray Navigations

Field Day 2014

Ahead of this year's festival, the Quietus collect all their features with the artists and bands appearing at Victoria Park, London on June 7-8

British Summer Time 2016

Stevie Wonder, Massive Attack, Kendrick Lamar and more play Hyde Park

Expansive Gigography: Graham Duff’s Foreground Music

Aug Stone reviews TV writer Graham Duff’s Foreground Music: A Life in 15 Gigs, followed by an exclusive extract from the book, recalling the start of Duff’s friendship with The Fall's Mark E. Smith

Bob Mould

Beauty & Ruin

Owen Pallett

Island

Owen Pallett's new album may be his best yet, finds Nick Roseblade

Ritual Music For The Accumulation Of Energy: Anji Cheung Interviewed

The transportive, ritualistic drones of London's Anji Cheung conjure up portals to uncanny other worlds, heavy with the thrill of the unknown. Ahead of her performance at Supernormal this weekend, she meets Jimmy Martin to discuss a fascination with the occult, and how Throbbing Gristle and Coil have inspired her music's trips into inner space

All For The Songs: Edwyn Collins’ Favourite Music

On the verge of a new album and his final ever tour, Edwyn Collins takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, from indie, soul and country classics to his encounters with Sparks and The Cribs

Yvette

Process