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Kate Bush To Release Lyrics Book

A new book presenting the lyrics of Kate Bush will include an introduction written by David Mitchell

Why It’s Time To End The Myth Of Suffering & Creativity

Catherine Anne Davies reflects on writing a new record in the wake of a string of personal tragedies and health problems, and asks isn't it time we get past the dangerous trope of the tortured artist?

They Don’t Know: Jude Rogers On Kirsty MacColl

When asked to write the sleeve notes for a new box set covering the two decade-long career of Kirsty MacColl, Jude Rogers realised that most people tended to associate the singer with two things, yet the story told by See The Girl, is one of artistic richness and talent in the face of an industry that barely cared

Beer & Thank You: Bill Callahan Interviewed

The singer-songwriter talks to Chad Parkhill about the influence of dub music on his new album Dream River, the relationship between repose and death and how he now feels about his past life as Smog

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Sunn O))) Plan Reissue

2008's DØMKIRKE will be available on double-vinyl from next month

Hopeful Monsters: Cavalcade By Black Midi

Temporarily reduced to a three-piece, London's Black Midi are back with an audacious leap of a record

Otoboke Beaver

Super Champon

Chaos reigns on the new Otoboke Beaver record, finds Jared Dix

LISTEN: New Lawrence English

Producer lines up album on his own Room40 label; listen to a new track below

FESTIVAL REPORT: Reverence Festival

Jimmy Martin heads to Valada, Portugal to witness sets from the likes of Psychic TV, Electric Wizard, and Hawkwind, as well finding time to sit down with festival organiser Nick Allport. Photos by Jorge Pereira

Pete Shelley’s Homosapien Revisited

Much has been written in the days since Pete Shelley's passing about his deft touch when it came to human sexuality. Yet his most honest statement should feature predominantly in his legacy…

Brutalist Truths: Owen Hatherley Interviewed In Ten Songs

Architecture writer, Pulp essayist and ‘guilty nostalgist’ Owen Hatherley talks to Karen Shook about retro tat, George Orwell’s dreams, Wilfred Owen’s hair, Ken Loach’s Hovis-advert socialism and that bloody poster

Desmond Simmons Remembered By Colin Newman Of Wire

Every time the Quietus has interviewed Wire's Colin Newman he's talked with fondness about his friend Desmond Simmons, a teenage musical ally and inspiration. Sadly, Simmons passed away last month, and here Newman pays tribute to his late friend. Pictures courtesy Colin Newman, main shot was "Taken in a photo booth in London just after having bought Metallic KO by Iggy & The Stooges - must be 1976"

LISTEN: New HTRK

HTRK team up with Belgian project Sleeperhold Publications for vinyl-only mini-LP featuring tracks from the recording sessions for the then-trio's 2011 album Work (Work Work).

Mirage

Mirage

A one-off album by a duo from Tijuana leaves Robert Barry swooning

DOWNLOAD: New Giant Swan

Hulking bass behemoth from Bristol duo ahead of their new 12" launch party at Tropical Waste next week, where they'll be lining up alongside Hannah Sawtell, Jire and Iydes & Seb