Jerry Goldsmith, Leonard Rosenman and Tom Scott

MUBI Hosts Free Preview Of Pablo Larraín’s New Film

Pablo Larraín's intoxicating dance drama Ema, scored by Nicolas Jaar, frames a dancer and her boyfriend as their worlds unravel in an adoption gone wrong. Indie streamers MUBI premiere the title free for 24 hours

Goodbye Girls, Hello Heaven? To Nicola Roberts By Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat went along to Girls Aloud's last-ever Glasgow gig and was so moved by the experience that he penned a letter to Nicola Roberts. The Quietus is his postman, and you can read his perfumed billet-doux below

Life On Earth Is Evil: Cinema And The Collective Longing For Annihilation

In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part III – In The Valley Of The Keyboard King

The third of John Doran's blogs from Cairo sees him meet Nile Delta Synth star Islam Chipsy and learn a salutary lesson in heeding his own warnings

Beauty From Trauma: Paul Mendez’ Favourite Music

Pop is all over Rainbow Milk, the Gordon Burn Prize-nominated debut novel by Paul Mendez. Here he tells Paul Flynn how a love of Marvin Gaye, Beyonce, Solange, Joy Division and Missy Elliott gave him a clearer understanding of his sexuality and racial identity

Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver

Moten​/​López​/​Cleaver

From New York's Reading Group, a thrilling improvisation between Brandon López (double bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums) with the voice of poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten, recorded in the immediate aftermath of the death of George Floyd

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

Again, Melancholy: Sarah Cracknell’s Favourite Albums

Off the back of releasing her second solo LP, Red Kite, the singer-songwriter and Saint Etienne member diligently jogged her memory, picked her 13 top records and made annotations. She talks Gary Kaill through her notes

Patterns In The Sand: Emma Anderson’s Favourite Albums

On the release of her debut solo album, former Lush member Emma Anderson takes Jude Rogers through her favourite albums, from a teenage years soundtracked by Simple Minds and The Durutti Column to her affinity with later 4AD labelmates

Broken Spines: Past & Future Tense (Literary Highlights Of 2013 & 2014)

Not one to be left out, the Quietus Literary Supplement offers up a (not-quite-so-comprehensive) list of its own - our favourite books of 2013, and possible gems of the year-to-come - compiled by friends, contributors and our very own editors

WATCH: New Blondie Video

Band share new video and announced pop-up store details

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Shapednoise Announces New Album

Producer's new album follows on from recent collaborative projects alongside Mumdance & Logos, Black Rain and Demdike Stare's Miles Whittaker

FREE DOWNLOAD: Factory Floor Remix White Lies

Terrific polishing of turd by Quietus favourites

Shields Against The World: Mat Osman’s Baker’s Dozen

From growing up on The Carpenters to reconnecting with music in his "wilderness years" Suede bassist turned novelist Mat Osman takes Luke Turner through his Baker's Dozen of favourite recordings

A Presidential Suite: Chilly Gonzales’s Favourite Albums

The man they call Gonzales/Gonzo/Chilly Gonzales/Jason Charles Beck picks out his favourite 13 records