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Fela Kuti’s ‘Roforofo Fight’ To Be Reissued For 50th Anniversary

Alongside the full album, the reissue will include the singles 'Shenshema' and 'Ariya' on vinyl for the first time

April’s Best Music, Chosen By The Quietus

In the first of a new column, Quietus staff pick their favourite albums and EPs of the month not covered on the site and a handful of the best of what's already been reviewed. Comments are open (with cautious optimism), so let us know what you'd have chosen

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Big City Life

Norwegian anti-pop duo send voice notes from the abyss of the contemporary mediascape

Full Clip: May’s Hip Hop Reviewed By Tara Joshi

Does the old school disdain for Lil Yachty really matter? Tara Joshi considers the Atlanta teen king’s debut, alongside the last two months of releases

MUBI Hosts Free Preview Of Pablo Larraín’s New Film

Pablo Larraín's intoxicating dance drama Ema, scored by Nicolas Jaar, frames a dancer and her boyfriend as their worlds unravel in an adoption gone wrong. Indie streamers MUBI premiere the title free for 24 hours

Goodbye Girls, Hello Heaven? To Nicola Roberts By Aidan Moffat

Aidan Moffat went along to Girls Aloud's last-ever Glasgow gig and was so moved by the experience that he penned a letter to Nicola Roberts. The Quietus is his postman, and you can read his perfumed billet-doux below

Life On Earth Is Evil: Cinema And The Collective Longing For Annihilation

In an extract from his recently-released book, U.ESS.AY: Politics and Humanity in American Film, Stephen Lee Naish considers the relationship between our enduring love for apocalyptic cinema and humanity's innate, unstoppable drive toward destruction

Electro Chaabi In Cairo: Part III – In The Valley Of The Keyboard King

The third of John Doran's blogs from Cairo sees him meet Nile Delta Synth star Islam Chipsy and learn a salutary lesson in heeding his own warnings

Beauty From Trauma: Paul Mendez’ Favourite Music

Pop is all over Rainbow Milk, the Gordon Burn Prize-nominated debut novel by Paul Mendez. Here he tells Paul Flynn how a love of Marvin Gaye, Beyonce, Solange, Joy Division and Missy Elliott gave him a clearer understanding of his sexuality and racial identity

Fred Moten / Brandon López / Gerald Cleaver

Moten​/​López​/​Cleaver

From New York's Reading Group, a thrilling improvisation between Brandon López (double bass), and Gerald Cleaver (drums) with the voice of poet and cultural theorist Fred Moten, recorded in the immediate aftermath of the death of George Floyd

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

Again, Melancholy: Sarah Cracknell’s Favourite Albums

Off the back of releasing her second solo LP, Red Kite, the singer-songwriter and Saint Etienne member diligently jogged her memory, picked her 13 top records and made annotations. She talks Gary Kaill through her notes

Patterns In The Sand: Emma Anderson’s Favourite Albums

On the release of her debut solo album, former Lush member Emma Anderson takes Jude Rogers through her favourite albums, from a teenage years soundtracked by Simple Minds and The Durutti Column to her affinity with later 4AD labelmates

Broken Spines: Past & Future Tense (Literary Highlights Of 2013 & 2014)

Not one to be left out, the Quietus Literary Supplement offers up a (not-quite-so-comprehensive) list of its own - our favourite books of 2013, and possible gems of the year-to-come - compiled by friends, contributors and our very own editors

WATCH: New Blondie Video

Band share new video and announced pop-up store details

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