Richmond Fontaine

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Richmond Fontaine
We Used to Think the Freeway Sounded Like a River

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Love Letter To A Vanishing City: Willy Vlautin On The Night Always Comes

Set in a changing Portland, Willy Vlautin’s new novel tells the story of its desperate residents chasing after normalcy. The author of Lean On Pete and singer of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines talks to Adam Zamecnik about gentrification, trauma, and Portland, Oregon

Baker's Dozen

Escape To The Country: Willy Vlautin Of Richmond Fontaine’s Favourite LPs

Following the release of Richmond Fontaine's tenth and final album, You Can't Go Back If There Is Nothing To Go Back To, the singer and author talks to John Freeman about his favourite albums of storytelling escapism

A Quietus Interview

A Sliver Of Hope: An Interview With Willy Vlautin

Richmond Fontaine frontman Willy Vlautin talks to John Freeman about his new music project, The Delines, and why latest new novel The Free almost put him "in a sanitarium". We also have an exclusive stream of Colfax, the new Delines album

Previously Read

A Quietus Interview

Cosmic Artefacts: Wino Of Spirit Caravan Interviewed

With the reunited Spirit Caravan playing at this year's Desertfest later this month, we dispatched Toby Cook to catch up with their riff-lord leader Scott 'Wino' Weinrich to talk reformation, doom and altered states

Strange World Of...

Don’t You Be Afraid To Lie By Me: The Strange World Of… Bert Jansch

Folk at its rawest is often bloody, uncompromising stuff, and Bert Jansch was one of its magical practitioners. Add fiery guitar-playing, a voice hewn from Edinburgh stone, original songs full of lyrics fabout the darkest sides of life, and you get one of music's most fascinating characters, argues Jude Rogers

A Quietus Interview

Ustad Saami The Master Of The Forty Nine Notes, A Profile

Ahead of a rare European performance at Le Guess Who? festival, Dirk Baart looks at the significance of Ustad Saami and speaks to his producer Ian Brennan. All photographs courtesy of Marilena Delli

News

Neil Kulkarni Has Died, Aged 51

The much-loved music journalist – whose work appeared in Melody Maker, The Wire and here on The Quietus – passed away following a suspected heart attack

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Richmond Fontaine

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