Alex Walden

Music Of The Month: Albums & Tracks We’ve Loved This January

Nkisi to Sharon Van Etten, Fat White Family to Rian Treanor, Comet Is Coming to Deep Tan: some of the finest and juiciest new releases from the past month. It’s almost enough to make you forget about BREXIT

Auto-Invention: The Soft Boys’ Underwater Moonlight Revisited

Nobody wanted what The Soft Boys were selling in 1980, but as David Bennun recounts, their superb swan song, Underwater Moonlight, made them a Velvet Underground for new generations of jangle and psych bands

Unsound 2014: Various Artists On ‘Living The Dream’

This year's Unsound Festival theme is 'The Dream'... The Quietus asked artists including DJ Stingray, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Michael Gira, Perc and Kuba Ziolek what 'living the dream' means to them. Thanks to Chad Parkhill for interviewing Michael Gira and Katarzyna Stuczyńska for co-ordinating.

“If You’re Taking This Seriously You’re In The Wrong Theatre”: Paul Schrader Interviewed

Ian Schultz talks to Paul Schrader, director of Mishima and American Gigolo and writer of Taxi Driver and Raging Bull, about his latest film, the Nicolas Cage starring Dog Eat Dog

Daring Is Important: Gudrun Gut’s Favourite Albums

Leading light of the Berlin underground Gudrun Gut guides Jeremy Allen through 13 favourite records - she wanted them all to be Neu! but as there weren't enough, there's the Bad Seeds, Throbbing Gristle, Lana Del Rey and much more. Gudrun Gut portrait by Mv Kummer

Bill Callahan

Dream River

How Low Can You Go? An Extract From Dan Fox’s Limbo

What links the Biblical fear of purgatory with Sun Ra and Chubby Checker? Find out with Dan Fox in an edited extract from his new book, Limbo

Better Squat Than Rot: The Music Of The Housing Crisis

George F, anarchist, poet, author and farmer, has just published his squatting memoirs Total Shambles. Here he gives us a YouTube playlist by means of illustrating his experiences

Real Lies

Lad Ash

Real Lies' second album may be the first great London record of the year, finds Luke Turner

Hyperspecific: January And February’s Electronic Music

Our electronic music column Hyperspecific returns for 2019 featuring new releases from Anastasia Kristensen (pictured) on Warp sub-label Arcola, Substance on Ostgut Ton and Ossia on Blackest Ever Black, amongst others

All Of This Is Coming Your Way: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People

Twenty-five years after the release of REM’s Automatic For The People, Stewart Smith looks back on a masterpiece of nostalgia and loss that still retains its mysteries

Reissue of the Week: TV on the Radio’s Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

As it receives a 20th anniversary reissue, Zachary Lipez re-examines TV On The Radio's formative debut as the shape of indie yet to come

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For April Reviewed By Noel Gardner

From the speed metal scene of Helsinki to the Mexican HC underground, Noel Gardner's bringing you all the punk and hardcore you'll need for another month. Fuck You Pay Me photo by Kevin McCann

Ain’t it the Truth: Robert Lloyd of Nightingales’ Favourite Music

In the wake of Nightingales' new record The Awful Truth, the band's leader Robert Lloyd takes John Quin for a freewheeling ride through 13 significant tracks, from a boyhood love of Lulu and Lou Reed to later encounters with Faust and Freakwater

Animal Collective

Campfire Songs

Greece’s Subset Festival Unveiled

International and local artists including Lyra Pramuk and Arca meet in June