Rob St John

Pulling Son House From A Burning Building: Mark Lanegan Interviewed

Rob Hughes talks to Mark Lanegan about not being able to say no to collaborations and unlikely disco songs

Big Wheel Keeps On Turning: Elvis Costello Interviewed

Terry Staunton spins the wheel with Elvis Costello and takes him back through the years, and discusses Thatcher's death, Britain today, and protest songs

From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, Motorik And The Pulse Of Modernity

When we started The Quietus we made the fairly arbitrary decision that modern popular music started with Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' in 1974. John Doran talks to Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Karl Bartos about the build up to this flash point in musical history

Remembering Betty Davis And Her Legacy

Betty Davis was a mover and a shaker in the Greenwich Village of the late-1960s, she was a great musician but was also politically, sexually and sonically progressive, an explosive mix that was too much for many people in her own day. Words by John Doran

Grace Under Fire: Jeff Buckley Fans Should Stop Mithering About Leonard Cohen Cover

Outraged fans of the late California troubador are hatching a plot to scupper the _X Factor_ winner's bid for #1 - but maybe they should stop mewling like their hero, says Alex Denney

Baker’s Dozen: UNKLE’S James Lavelle On His 13 Favourite Records

UNKLE’s James Lavelle steps up to the Baker’s Dozen plate to illuminate us on the records that have shaped him and his band’s sound.

Lightning Ahead: Underworld’s Dubnobass- withmyheadman At 30

Modern life is fast-paced, endlessly fluctuating and subject to chance; how in that case, asks Darran Anderson, did Underworld become such persuasive laureates of the modern

Behold! August’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Mat Colegate, Aug Stone, and Reggie Chamberlain-King present the best comics they've read this summer

‘Different Atmospheres, New Locations’: Jeff Mills Interviewed

Detroit techno pioneer Jeff Mills celebrates 20 years of his Axis label this autumn with a book of artwork, photos and essays about its history. While in London, he sat down with David Stubbs to envisage possible futures

David Byrne & Brian Eno

Everything That Happens Today Will Happen Today

Destruction Unit

Deep Trip

Chris Carter Interview: Finding The Spaces Between

Scott McKeating talks to Chris Carter about _The Spaces Between_, sound fidelity, and wiring your way beyond the grasp of bootleggers

Purple Mountains

Purple Mountains

Silver Jews' David Berman is back with his first new music for over a decade. Purple Mountains' eponymous debut is a fine and moving addition to his oeuvre, finds Noel Gardner

“This Is My Metal Machine Music” – Lindstrøm Interviewed

Hans-Peter Lindstrøm talks to John Doran about obsessive recording, Jethro Tull and why he may have gone too far this time

The Weight Of All This Melody: An Interview With Dan Bejar Of Destroyer

As Destroyer release Kaputt in the UK, Dave Peschek talks to Dan Bejar about the making of the record, and his lifelong love affair with British music, Momus and why "I can no longer afford to be held under Dylan or Lou Reed's sway."

Massif Attack: Kali Malone interviewed

Miloš Hroch talks to composer and pipe organist Kali Malone about her astounding new album All Life Long, her relationship with mountaineering, creativity as athleticism and profanity. Home page portrait by Stephen O'Malley