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Into The Ryanverse: Tom Clancy’s Tom Clancy

Author Tom Clancy gained fame and broad recognition for his creation of the character Jack Ryan. But perhaps his greatest creation was Tom Clancy himself, argues Chris Fite-Wassilak

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain Hits For January

This month, we celebrate the nefarious goings-on of Paper Dollhouse, the wobbly non-linear Chow Mwng and the throbbing drone of NoCorner

Rockfort! French Music For July Reviewed By David McKenna

In his latest French music column, David McKenna gets reacquainted with nouvelle nouvelle chanson singer Mathieu Boogaerts, visits producer NSDOS’s Micro Club and finds energy in the young French jazz scene to rival that in the UK. Home page photograph: Edredon Sensible

Sweet Thirteen: Jennifer Herrema’s Favourite Albums

Following their interview about Black Bananas' new LP Electric Brick Wall, Jennifer Herrema talks Nick Hutchings through her Baker's Dozen of seminal records

Music Of The Month: Albums On Bandcamp We’ve Loved In June 2020

On Bandcamp's fourth fee-waive day, tQ staff select some of their favourite music from the last four weeks that is available on Bandcamp, including Nihiloxica, upsammy and Owen Pallett

Time After Time: Athanasios Argianas’ Hollowed Water Playlist

Drawing together sculpture and sound, the ancient and modern, Athanasios Argianas's show Hollowed Water inhabited Camden Arts Centre before the lockdown and is now available to view online. Here the artist shares some of the images and sounds that inspired the exhibition

The Essence And The Purity: Rob Halford Of Judas Priest’s Favourite LPs

With their Redeemer Of Souls tour bound for Scandinavia after wrapping up the UK leg at Brixton Academy last night, the heavy metal veterans' singer takes Alex Macrow through his top 13 "game changers" of rock & roll

The City In Sound: Wacław Zimpel Interviewed

Recorded exclusively for Quietus subscribers’ Autumn Equinox release, Wacław Zimpel’s new Train Spotter sees the Polish composer translate the sounds of Warsaw into a sprawling and intense album. He speaks to Julian Marszalek about the record’s creation

Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

As Peter Murphy releases a new solo album – his first for a decade – the erstwhile Bauhaus frontman looks back at the music that has excited and inspired him, from glam to punk, classical to devotional, jazz to trip hop

The Magnetic North

Orkney Symphony Of The Magnetic North

Tom Meighan & Why Music Fans Have To Take Violence Against Women Seriously

Last week, former Kasabian singer Tom Meighan was handed a risibly light sentence for domestic violence. We explain why this matters

Control Slips Away: My Bloody Valentine’s Isn’t Anything Revisited

My Bloody Valentine's debut album Isn't Anything was always overshadowed by the expensive Loveless. Now, a quarter of a century after its release, Ned Raggett explores the sound of a band in flux

Columnfortably Numb: September In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

Read, listen and learn about liner notes, lizard discotheques and lysergic evangelicals with JR Moores

Sines Of Awakening: Pierre Henry & Bergen’s EKKO Festival

Quietus cynic of the avant-garde Wyndham 'Indie Wyndy' Wallace goes to Bergen's EKKO Festival to have his circuits reprogrammed

El Kontessa

Nos Habet Caramel

The latest from Cairo’s El Kontessa fizzes with mahraganat deconstructions and Egyptian bass, finds Jaša Bužinel

A Work Of A Work: Sturtevant’s Warhol Marilyn

When is a Warhol not a Warhol? When it’s a Sturtevant. With a new book dedicated to her Warhol Marilyn from Afterall’s One Work series, Craft/Work looks at the work of Elaine Sturtevant