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 ...

Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter Island Head, who speak to Patrick Clarke about ...

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 ...

Check out sets from Damo Suzuki & Mugstar, Future Of The Left and more at this year's WRONG Festival in Liverpool, as captured by IMPATV Liverpool's greatest new addition to the festival circuit is ...

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

When Einstürzende Neubauten formed in West Berlin 44 years ago, few would have predicted the speed-fuelled, metal-bashing industrial pioneers would be easing into their fifth decade by releasing their ...

The Cult will tour the UK next year and have released new material earlier this month. Our man John Robb spoke to singer Ian Astbury about the history of The Cult, working with Boris and how the ...

Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early ...

Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin ...

Different images of domestic interiority are explored at two London group shows: Room at Sadie Coles HQ and House Work at Victoria Miro ...

As the avant-garde legend unveils her epic new multimedia performance ARK: United States V, Alastair Shuttleworth picks out ten key tracks from her otherworldly discography ...