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Seven Highlights From Skaņu Mežs 2025

Daryl Worthington heads to Riga in Latvia for the annual Skaņu Mežs festival, at which he's immersed in a bath of "deviant and defiant" music and art

From The Archives: The Boy Who Would Fly, Michael Jackson In 1983

To mark his recent death, we have reproduced Barney Hoskyns' 1983 NME piece on the King of Pop

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For October

Your guide to the best in brand new punk and hardcore returns, with Noel Gardner picking out ten top-tier ragers from the likes of Lathe Of Heaven, Abism, Stigmatism, Mock Execution, Gender Is The Bastard and more. Homepage photo: Stress Positions, photo by Ricardo Adame,

Jeff Mangum (Neutral Milk Hotel) To Curate Xmas ATP

Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Summer, by Patrick Clarke

In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases

The Best Albums Of 2017 Thus Far – And A Quietus Appeal For Help

In association with Norman Records we've turned our ears molten with listening and put together a list of the 100 best records released in the first six months of 2017. While we're at it, we've also got an appeal to you to help us continue doing what we do

The Strange World Of… Soulwax

Poised to release their first Soulwax album in seven years, Stephen and David Dewaele talk Gemma Samways through their tenure at the forefront of the rock dance crossover. Main portrait by Nadine Fraczkowski

Latitude Festival Review: The Quietus Gets Saucy In Southwold

The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival of the year. Photographs by Lucy Johnston.

A Pavement Interview: Terror Twilight, Radiohead, & Going Overground

As Pavement announce their reunion, Rock's Backpages and the Quietus revisit Barney Hoskyns' 1999 feature, written during the recording of final album _Terror Twilight_

EastEnders: The Death Of Pat, And The Decline Of The Soap Matriarch

The elder stateswomen of serial drama are an endangered species, says Terry Staunton

Hide And Seek: Pakistan’s Remarkable Joyland

The first Pakistani film to be shortlisted for an Oscar, Joyland is a defiant family portrait tackling gender expectations, finds Cici Peng

Classic Bruce Springsteen Interview: How Born To Run Saved The Boss

Bruce Springsteen may sell out a stadium tour in the blink of an eye nowadays, but as this 1975 interview by Dave Marsh from _Creem_ shows, it wasn't always so easy for The Boss...

Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space

As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community

Savages: Silence Yourself Track-By-Track Preview

James Ubaghs gets his ears around the much-anticipated debut album from Savages for a Quietus track-by-track preview