Drinks

A Gorgeous Haunting: Tom Ravenscroft’s Favourite Records

From 90s grunge and hip hop to contemporary ambient electronica, DJ Tom Ravenscroft tells Ben Graham about the 13 albums that give him the most listening pleasure, and developing his own musical interest away from the influence of his dad, the late John Peel. Tom Ravenscroft image courtesy of the BBC.

Estates & Agency: Daniel Worden’s Neoliberal Nonfictions

Daniel Worden charts the rise of the "documentary aesthetic" via Joan Didion and Kendrick Lamar

Triplet Rhythms & Occultist Hardcore: Lila Tirando A Violeta’s Limerencia Reviewed

Veering towards abrasive discord, Lila Tirando a Violeta inflects electronic futurism with the folk rhythms of traditional Latin music.

Staying With The Trouble: The Collective by Kim Gordon

The hip hop-adjacent second solo album from the ex-Sonic Youth linchpin perfectly captures modernity’s constant buzz of anxiety, finds Arusa Qureshi

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WATCH: Pulp On Jimmy Fallon

Band play 'Common People' on US telly show. Pulp live shot by Hayley Hatton

Saturated Energy: Mbongwana Star Interviewed

From Kinshasa, the debut album by the Central African band, is one of the year's finest. Richie Troughton finds out about capturing the sound of the Congolese capital on record through two generations of street musicians

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Tim Burgess Shares New Single, ‘Here Comes The Weekend’

It's the first taste of a new album which will be released by Bella Union later this year

Safe When Handled As Directed: Philip K Dick’s Ubik Turns 50

As Philip K Dick’s Ubik turns 50, Sean Kitching assesses the legacy of science-fiction’s greatest seer, a man who looked for God in the ephemeral detritus of American pop culture

LIVE REPORT: Liturgy

Bryan Brussee heads to Electrowerkz to watch the ever-divisive Liturgy perform chin-ups and a set of near-transcendent metal

Behold! June’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With dark tales for sunny times, it’s June’s round up of comics from Pete Redrup & co

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Between Signal And Noise: The Feminist Soundscapes Of Aura Satz

With a newly commissioned work at the Science Gallery's Dark Matter exhibition, Aura Satz speaks to the Quietus about notation, embodiment, and rewriting history

Nitzer Ebb’s Douglas McCarthy has Died

The vocalist of the pioneering EBM outfit was 58

No Obligatory Excuse: Is ‘The Classical’ By The Fall Racist?

Coming just a year after Mark E Smith's death, Cherry Red's wonderful reissue of Hex Enduction Hour and Paul Hanley's engrossing book, Have A Bleedin Guess, forced John Doran to reassess the most notorious lyric in The Fall's four decade long career