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Jon Savage Interview & An Extract From The England’s Dreaming Tapes

Following the publication of his book _The England's Dreaming Tapes_, author and journalist Jon Savage talks punk with The Quietus, and kindly donates an interview that just couldn't fit into his thousand-odd page bustling tome.

Sonic Youth And Sunn o))) For Primavera

Jarvis, Jesus Lizard and Aphex also head to the, er, sun

Rum Music For October Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan fills her plate with shrimp, brutalised stringed instruments and sounds from broken voices

The Quietus’ Albums Of The Year 2022 Playlist

Exclusively for tQ subscribers, here are our top 100 albums of the year, compiled for your listening pleasure as Spotify, Apply Music and TIDAL playlists

Silence! Why John Cage’s 4’33” Is No Laughing Matter

The Quietus is always happy to see the excellent charities CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably), the British Tinnitus Foundation and the Nordoff Robbins Trust given publicity. But, says David Stubbs, stop treating John Cage's 4'33" like a joke...

Are We There Yet? Abstract Concrete Interviewed

Charles Hayward and Agathe Max, two-fifths of experimental supergroup Abstract Concrete, talk to Ben Graham about creative evolution, learning to work with melody and structure, and saying goodbye to rock & roll. All portraits by Lewis Hayward

Chrome Hoof Talk Cluster Collaboration

Meeting of minds to take place this weekend

Wrigglies Extra: Unite The Worms by Golden Toad

Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins off the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in an album of slithery bedroom electro-psych well-suited to the late, winter months

Joey Anderson

After Forever

Ennio Morricone’s Legacy Is Focus Of New Documentary

'Ennio Morricone: The Secrets Behind His Genius' brings together stories from five of his past collaborators

MacGillivray Releases Two New Albums

Scottish poet, writer and folklorist MacGillivray has released two new album and also announced a further non-fiction book

U.S Girls

Half Free

Two Way Alchemy: Nine Inch Nails’ The Downward Spiral Revisited

Val Siebert revisits an album that sounds even more like the future 20 years later. Audio and video NSFW

Sinéad O’Connor Has Died, Aged 56

The Irish singer and songwriter rose to fame in 1990 with her hit cover of Prince's 'Nothing Compares 2 U'

Whirled Around: An Oral History Of Levitation

20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites those involved to share their cautionary tale…

Oren Ambarchi & Jim O’Rourke

Behold