Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter ...

As one of your many, many perks for becoming a Quietus subscriber, we’re compiling a specially-curated, playlist for our readers every month. Given that last month’s playlist was handed over to the ...

Was there ever a style of music as dripping with sentimentality as doo-wop? Originating among Black communities in major US cities in the late 1940s, doo-wop was, right from the very beginning, the ...

Darran Anderson looks back a quarter of a century to the undersung album that might just have been the band's best Two themes are routinely described as transformative for Primal Scream’s celebrated ...

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev ...

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Sandwell District were the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of austere techno, appearing and disappearing in a haze of bad vibes, Berlin drugs, and imperious, hard-to-find releases. Kiran Sande offers a ...

Over the past few months, Facebook has been heaving under panic postings from bands and so on claiming that their posts were being hidden in a Zuckerberg quest for cash. Not so, says Charles Ubaghs, ...

Between sunken chants and electronic rhythms, the Parisian duo crack open the future with a blunt industrial wedge ...