Michael Waters

Mr Agreeable: Up yer Ronson and bombs to Leeds

Hyperspecific: 2018’s Best Electronic Music

Christian Eede's final Hyperspecific column of 2018 sees him offer up an unordered, non-exhaustive round up some of the year's best electronic music, featuring rave music from Eris Drew (pictured), kick drum-less techno from Barker and dancehall mutations from Simo Cell and Low Jack

The Quietus Stage At Desertfest 2018

tQ will once again be hosting a stage at this the magnificent Desertfest, with White Hills, Snapped Ankles, Ghold and more!

Beyonce

I Am Sasha Fierce

Spool’s Out: The Best Tapes Of 2020

Daryl Worthington brings the year in cassettes to a close, with 2020’s best tapes, and the year’s best tape label

Morrissey’s NME Libel Case Given Go Ahead

Former Smith frontman's label case against NME to be heard before a jury next year

Aron and the Jeri Jeri Band

Dama Bëgga Ñibi (I Want To Go Home)

From Senegal via Berlin, Aron and the Jeri Jeri Band fuse griot storytelling with jazz, reggae, afrobeats and electronics to spectacular effect, finds Ian Opolot

Black Sabbath – The Unholy Trinity And The Birth Of Heavy Metal

As Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Master Of Reality get the reissue treatment, John Doran revisits them and the birth of heavy metal

News Of The World: Kate Adie Interviewed On Music And War

Kate Adie is one of the most iconic British journalists of the last thirty years. Wyndham Wallace talks to her about war, peace, changes in the media and her role in the 1960s folk scene

Keane Take A Swipe At Blur At T In The Park

"Who the fucking hell are Blur?"

As Wide As The Universe: Dead Can Dance Interviewed

We were offered a very brief phone conversation with Lisa Gerrard of Dead Can Dance recently. There was nothing for it but to activate our many teeted, lizard agent from Interzone, Jonny Mugwump, whose feverish brain and forked tongue work in double time...

Guy Garvey Of Elbow On New Album Build A Rocket Boys

The Elbow frontman explains the inspiration behind their latest album

Cherry Ghost

Beneath This Burning Shoreline

Simon Fisher Turner On Derek Jarman’s Blue

As the BFI launches a major season Derek Jarman's live and work, longtime musical collaborator Simon Fisher Turner talks The Quietus through 'Blue's genesis, creation and release, and his subsequent part in keeping Jarman's memory alive.

Total Control

Laughing At The System

A wonderful album of rage, laughter, hysteria, all kinds of eclectic noise.

A Fold In Space: Jean Ray’s Malpertuis

Robert Davidson looks back at the strange career of the writer dubbed "the Belgian Edgar Allan Poe"