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Parquet Courts

Wide Awake

Dance, dance and be angry

Columnfortably Numb: Your Psych Roundup For June

JR Moores rifles through the latest psychedelic releases, from those that are freestyle to those in the style of Free

Elevate Your Mind: Seun Anikulapo Kuti’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of Black Times, his fourth album with Egypt '80, Seun Anikulapo Kuti guides Richie Troughton through a selection of 13 revolutionary, spiritual and mystical albums that have inspired him.

Remembering Stewart Lupton: An Archive Interview

The death of Stewart Lupton, former singer with New York pioneers Jonathan Fire*Eater, was announced earlier today. In this archive interview, first published in The Stool Pigeon in 2007, Phil Hebblethwaite discussed his comeback project Childballads, rivalry with The Walkmen, and his battle with drugs. Portrait by Phil Knott

Soccer96

Rewind

An album of cosmic vision and killer execution

Closer To Here: Sparks at London’s Kentish Town Forum

After five decades, Ron and Russell continue to be marvellous, ludicrous and resplendent, without a whiff of vintage or the slightest smudge of nostalgia

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain for May

Our powerful bi-monthly antidote to pop music, a round-up of the real stuff, music available primarily on cassette tape and three-inch CD, songs that will glow from the boot of your car like in Repo Man. Includes Aja, Yeah You, Vanishing Twin and the great Nick Blinko of Rudimentary Peni

The World With Love: Tallinn Music Week

There’s freshness, global engagement, dynamism and plenty of love at Estonia’s beautiful cultural behemoth

Enjoy Your Symptom: Unpicking The Happiness Fantasy

A new book by Carl Cederström traces our contemporary vision of happiness from the chaise-longues of inter-war Vienna to the intentional communities of Southern California and the corporate boardrooms of today's captains of industry

Wet Ware: 11 Fountains In Leeuwarden-Friesland, Capital Of Culture

As part of its tenure as one of this year’s European Capitals of Culture, Leeuwarden-Friesland, in the Netherlands, has commission eleven artists to build eleven Fountains

A Novel Of The Glance: Flights By Olga Tokarczuk

Matthew Turner reviews Olga Tokarczuk's Flights, winner of this year's Man Booker Prize

Cannes 2018: New Voices Breathe Life Into Fresh Love Stories

At this year's Cannes Film Festival, Ella Kemp finds an old guard peddling the same old gimmicks and shock tactics while a raft of young directors offer a ray of hope in the shape of a reinvigorated faith in love

The Final Curtain: Thomas Struth’s Inanimate Menagerie

John Quin finds a memento mori at Thomas Struth’s show for Max Hetzler, Berlin

Albums Of The Month: Music We’ve Loved This May

Some of May’s finest noises, sunniest releases and most pleasing melodies. Chosen for you in the tQ office by Luke Turner, John Doran, Patrick Clarke, Anna Wood and Christian Eede

Filmworker: The Story Of Kubrick’s Right Hand Man

Tony Zierra’s documentary about Leon Vitali, factotum to Stanley Kubrick, is a fitting tribute to a man who gave everything in the service of another’s art

Systems Align: Joy Orbison & Ben Vince Interviewed

Following the release of their first collaborative record on Hessle Audio earlier this month, Joy Orbison and Ben Vince discuss the process behind pairing live saxophone and club music and the changing dynamics of London's clubs

Nuts and Bolts #3 – Danishta Rivero

Bigger Than Reality: The Last Poets’ Understand What Black Is

They formed exactly 50 years ago, during a hot summer of resistance, became part of the Black Power movement and created the DNA for hip hop. Now they’re back, as relevant and righteous as ever

These Vibrated Me: Josh T. Pearson’s Favourite Music

Josh T. Pearson guides Nick Hutchings through the personally sacred songs of his Baker's Dozen, from the Bad Seeds to Gorecki, Spiritualized to MBV and why Texas ranchers were no fan of Morrissey's work ethic

Junk Shop Classical On Peter Warlock: Music Stories Told £1 Record By £1 Record

Peter Warlock, occultist and wild man of early-20th century British classical music, took his own life in 1930, aged 36. He died a fringe concern, but his cult and music continue to grow, says Phil Hebblethwaite. We see now how far ahead of his time he was

ILL

We Are ILL

On their majestic raging debut of banshee-punk-funk with extra gobshite gravy, ILL take ’You go, girl!’ and turn it into ‘FUCK YOU’, ‘FUCK THE PATRIARCHY’ and ‘FUCK THE FUCKING TORIES’

Spools’s Out: Your Tape Releases For May

New electronic sounds from AJA, EQ Why, and Honnda sit alongside drone rock and outsider bedroom pop in Tristan Bath’s typically atypical summary of the month’s best tape releases

Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing

Pop has always dealt in artifice and contrivance, but new AI and virtual stars are pushing the unreal to new extremes. Are these artists of the digital age actually more real than the real thing, asks Annie Lord

Aidan Moffat & RM Hubbert

Here Lies The Body

Getting old, getting the horn: carnal lullabies from two of Glasgow’s finest

HMOT

Permanent Imbalance

From Russia, with modular synths and field recordings

LISTEN: Carla Bozulich’s Quieter With Track-By-Track Guide

American musician Carla Bozulich guides us through the inspiration and creation of her new album for Constellation, Quieter

Musical Fluidity: Locean Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at Raw Power this weekend, Cal Cashin talks Paradox, poetry and the pleasures of improvisation with Lauren Bolger and David McLean of Locean

Ah-haa! ABBA, Beyond The Hits

In the wake of the righteous return of ABBA, Quietus contributors pick sixteen splendid album tracks that prove the superlative Swedes were much, much more than a singles band

The Strange World Of… Idris Ackamoor

The director of spiritual jazz group The Pyramids, Idris Ackamoor, talks to Sean Kitching and provides ten points of entry into his formidable body of work

Pharaoh Overlord

Zero

Experimental Finnish stoner rock from Circle’s sister band

The Question Of The Wrapper Design: Edward Bawden’s Book Jackets

With a landmark retrospective opening this week at Dulwich Picture Gallery, The Quietus presents an abridged extract from Peyton Skipwith’s introduction to ‘Are You Sitting Comfortably? The Book Jackets of Edward Bawden’

“I’ve Got To Get Out Of This Place”: That Summer Reviewed

In a return to the Grey Gardens made famous by the Maysles brothers' classic 1975 documentary, Göran Hugo Olsson's new documentary takes us back to That Summer