Ned Raggett
Film
Before The Empire Struck Back: Tie-Ins & The Making Of Star Wars
Over in California, Ned Raggett is still as interested in Star Wars as he was forty years back. But forty years back meant grappling with the fact that cooking shows for Wookies and brutal lightsaber attacks on young princesses coexisted fully. Here is his exploration into the original Star Wars expanded universe
Film
Before The Empire Struck Back: Tie-Ins & The Making Of Star Wars
Over in California, Ned Raggett is still as interested in Star Wars as he was forty years back. But forty years back meant grappling with the fact that cooking shows for Wookies and brutal lightsaber attacks on young princesses coexisted fully. Here is his exploration into the original Star Wars expanded universe
Album of the Week
The Lead Review: Ned Raggett On Marissa Nadler’s Strangers
Against all parental advice, Ned Raggett finds communing with Marissa Nadler's Strangers to be an acutely rewarding experience, nodding to the canon of Americana, but stepping out alone into the spotlight of a much broader and conflicted contemporary music landscape
Album of the Week
The Lead Review: Ned Raggett On Marissa Nadler’s Strangers
Against all parental advice, Ned Raggett finds communing with Marissa Nadler's Strangers to be an acutely rewarding experience, nodding to the canon of Americana, but stepping out alone into the spotlight of a much broader and conflicted contemporary music landscape
A Quietus Interview
From The Archives: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield Interviewed
In 1994, the Manics released their career-defining third album, The Holy Bible - and Ned Raggett interviewed a young James Dean Bradfield. Here we look back across two decades of burning rage and cold fury, and publish that interview in full for the first time. Photographs courtesy of Mitch Ikeda
A Quietus Interview
From The Archives: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield Interviewed
In 1994, the Manics released their career-defining third album, The Holy Bible - and Ned Raggett interviewed a young James Dean Bradfield. Here we look back across two decades of burning rage and cold fury, and publish that interview in full for the first time. Photographs courtesy of Mitch Ikeda
News
INTERVIEW: Beauty In The Bleak
From London, tQ favourite Kemper Norton and Thomas Bloch will be linking up with a disused silo-turned-musical instrument in a Californian dry lake for an intercontinental collaboration as part of the SAISONSCAPE series tomorrow. Intriguing, eh? Ned Raggett talks to LA visual artist Lauren Bon and Art Assembly director Julia Dempsey about the project
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INTERVIEW: Beauty In The Bleak
From London, tQ favourite Kemper Norton and Thomas Bloch will be linking up with a disused silo-turned-musical instrument in a Californian dry lake for an intercontinental collaboration as part of the SAISONSCAPE series tomorrow. Intriguing, eh? Ned Raggett talks to LA visual artist Lauren Bon and Art Assembly director Julia Dempsey about the project
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Black Sky Thinking
Green Issues: Music, Cannabis And You
Music and intoxication have gone hand in hand since prehistory, but the relationship of music and cannabis is particularly strong and complex, says Jono Podmore, a former habitual smoker, as he investigates a groundbreaking new study which may get us closer to understanding these links
The Quietus International
New Weird Ukraine Part One: Bringing Home The Bacon
In the first of our reports from the Ukrainian underground, journalist Yaryna Denysyuk reports on punk and post-industrial scenes while drawing attention to feminist and LGTBQI issues as well as drawing some links between smoky bacon and gabber
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Carrie & Lowell (10th Anniversary Edition)
On its tenth anniversary, the Midwestern singer-songwriter returns to his classic autobiographical album with a new release featuring previously unreleased demos and outtakes. Listening to now double-disced record anew, Kat Lister finds a profound meditation on the nature of grief
Books
Psychedelic Brilliance: The Marvelous Origin Of The Teardrop Explodes
Seldom has a band name been quite so evocative as that of Liverpool's The Teardrop Explodes. Here, band members and associates recall how that name's "psychedelic brilliance" was first unearthed from the pages of an old Marvel comic book
A Quietus Interview
Bark Psychosis: Gazelle Twin Speaks About New Album Black Dog
Elizabeth Bernholz talks to Emma Garland about facing fundamental fears, her childhood experiences with spectral visitors and what ghosts really represent. Her brand new video for 'Fear Keeps Us Alive' is below. All portraits by Teri Varhol
