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Fox Heads On Sticks: Michael Cumming On The Continuing Legacy Of Brass Eye

2022 marks 25 years since the arrival of Brass Eye, and director Michael Cumming is heading out on the road to celebrate. He tells Neil Fox about the show, the tour, and all his memories

Dekmantel Reveals Lineup For 2022 Edition

The Amsterdam festival's first edition since 2019 is scheduled for August

New Track From Anthoney Hart, New Essay From Paul Gilroy

The first album from East Man, the new project from Anthoney Hart aka Basic Rhythm, is out next February. Listen to the first track, ‘Look & Listen’ with grime MC Darkos Strife, below, and read the essay written to introduce the album by great British academic and author Paul Gilroy.

The Sun Also Rises: Marshall Allen And James Harrar Interviewed

Sean Kitching talks to Arkestra veteran Marshall Allen and left field film maker James Harrar about the Cinema Soloriens project. Photographs courtesy of Ka

Reissue of the Week: Galaxie 500’s CBGB 12.13.88

A lean and raw live recording of Galaxie 500 captures the band just as they were on their ascent. A new mix of this previously bootleg-only performance makes a vital addition to their slender back catalogue, says W.B. Gooderham

The Last Of Us: Post-War Anxiety In The Birds At 60

Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds turns 60 this year, but its post-WWII anxieties are more prescient than ever, finds Sam Moore

Warped Bliss: The Quietus At Field Day 2017

Heralding the start of the UK's 2017 festival season - and what a promising start it was too with the sun shining for most of the day - Thomas Hobbs, Patrick Clarke, Aurora Mitchell, Tara Joshi, Anna Wood and Christian Eede report back on what this year's edition of the festival had to offer. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini unless stated)

An Act Of Self-Defence: How To Blow Up A Pipeline Interview

Cici Peng speaks to director Daniel Goldhaber about his explosive green heist movie

A Nomad’s Life: An Interview With Elvin Brandhi

Ahead of Donaufestival, experimental noise artist Elvin Brandhi speaks to Stephanie Phillips about letting go on stage, travelling to Uganda with the Nyege Nyege collective, and listening to a Rihanna sample for five hours

Away With The Fairies: A Conversation With Mark Leckey

A former Turner Prize winner, Mark Leckey is one of Britain's foremost contemporary artists. Earlier this year, he spoke to Stephanie Gavan about class, magic, and sampling as method

Ryuichi Sakamoto & Laurie Anderson Team Up For Project

The pair are responsible for the latest instalment of the Japanese artist's 'incomplete' series

Mysteries Of Desire: Kate Bush, Beyond The Hits

As Kate Bush's live return fires eight of her albums back into the charts, Quietus writers take a look at their favourite deep cuts

Merzbow / Keiji Haino / Balazs Pandi

An Untroublesome Defencelessness

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Heavy Metal Of 2022

tQ's metal specialist Kez Whelan selects his top twenty albums of 2022, and reflects on the last 12 months in heavy music

Krautrock? Sauer Sot Mr Agreeable Unhappy With Future Days

Mr Agreeable once took a holiday in Southern Bavaria and for reasons that remain unclear has been furious at our Teutonic cousins ever since. Therefore tidings of a new book about German experimental music from the 60s and 70s broke his poached egg...

Mutual Emotional Respect: Björk Live In London

Live in London, at a show made necessary purely by an outpouring of love, Karl Smith finds Björk delivering both a manifesto for ferocious empathy and proof that respect and mutual reciprocation is powerfully transformative. (Photographs by Santiago Felipe)