David Bax

Herbert Goes ‘Banana’: Germany’s Biggest Star Takes On England

Virtually unknown in Britain, Herbert Grönemeyer is a huge star in his native Germany, having sold 18 million albums. Now his sights are set on the country he called home for over a decade. Wyndham Wallace meets him at Berlin’s Hansa Studios…

Lionel Marchetti & Vanessa Rossetto

The Tower (The City)

Networks of sound objects collide and interact across a seventy-minute span in a new album from Erstwhile Records

Bark Psychosis

Hex

The original post-rock album from the original post-rock band, remastered and reissued.

Loop

Sonancy

It's been thirty-two years since the last Loop record. The new one may well be their best yet, finds Julian Marszalek

Join In The Chant: Liars Interviewed

John Calvert meets Liars in an ugly hotel lobby to talk about beautiful music

Spools Out 3: A Cassette Reviews Column For March

The Master Of The Tapes, Tristan Bath is back with a selection of the best releases from February and March

Systems Align: Joy Orbison & Ben Vince Interviewed

Following the release of their first collaborative record on Hessle Audio earlier this month, Joy Orbison and Ben Vince discuss the process behind pairing live saxophone and club music and the changing dynamics of London's clubs

Monumental Achievement: East India Youth Interviewed

Culture Of Volume hasn't been off the Quietus stereo since we first heard it months ago. William Doyle explains the genesis of this astounding album to John Doran

Sonic Onslaughts: Sunday At Field Day Reviewed

Bryan Brussee, Ben Graham, Julian Marszalek and Luke Turner round up some of the highlights from the sun-baked and rock-leaning second half of this year's festival. Photographs by Valerio Berdini

The Magickal Mysteriis Tour: Matt Pike Of High On Fire Interviewed

Toby Cook talks to one of the Quietus' favourite rock stars, Matt Pike, about the new High On Fire album and a new reissue of Sleep's mighty Dopesmoker

Freddie Steady Go: Rhys Thomas’s Queen TV Special Previewed

From the least cool kid in school to trusted custodian of the Queen archives, comedian Rhys Thomas has turned his obsession with the band into a labour of love. Terry Staunton talks to him about his new documentary

Short Circuit Preview: LIARS Play Tribute To Mute

As they prepare to play next weekend's Mute Short Circuit Festival, Liars pay tribute to the label, its artists, and founder Daniel Miller

Death Grips

The Money Store

Super Sonics: Lisa Meyer’s Bakers Dozen

From bar room brawls at SXSW to seeing giant legs of ham being smashed onstage in Barcelona, artistic director of Capsule and founder of Britain's best underground music festival Supersonic, Lisa Meyer, takes Stephanie Phillips through the records that have shaped her

Kettled In: Sound Art & Deep Listening At Glasgow’s Sonica Festival

With work by Yuri Suzuki, Navid Navab ,Michael Montanaro, Yulia Kovanova, Demelza Kooij, and others, Glasgow's Sonica festival was an interdisciplinary treat, finds Colm McAuliffe

Quietus Writers’ Top 40 Noise Rock Tracks

It's noise rock week on the Quietus. Here is a primer for those that don't know and a reminder for those that do with contributions from John Calvert, Kate Hennessy, John Doran, Sharon O'Connell, Daniel Dylan Wray, Matt Ridout, Noel Gardner, Kevin McCaighy, Rory Gibb, Dustin Krcatovich, Jeremy Allen, Sean Kitching, Joe Banks, JR Moores, Matt Evans, Kiran Acharya, Nick Hutchings, Julian Marszalek, Tony F Wilson and Dale Sawa Berning