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A Policy of Expansionism: Transcendent Metallers Ghold Interviewed

Ghold speak to Kez Whelan about the Singularity track 'EXACT REPULSE SUFFER', given to tQ subscribers in 2022

Short Fiction: From Lucy K Shaw’s ‘The Motion’

Published earlier this week by 421 Atlanta, this week's new writing is delivered in the shape of a short story from Lucy K Shaw's The Motion

Getting Hypnotised: John Robb Finds The Funk In Unusual Places

How did it take us nearly a decade to ask Brother John Robb for his Baker's Dozen choices? The Membranes frontman sits down with Julian Marszalek to discuss 13 favourite records where over the years he's dug out the most funk

Beware Of Rainer Werner: The Bitter Tears Of Fassbinder’s Fans

Rainer Werner Fassbinder made some of the most vivid portrayals of women and LGBTQ+ lives in cinema history. He was also, as a new biopic makes clear, an abusive bully. Fassbinder fan Rachel Pronger unpicks a complicated legacy

Dedications: An Interview With Jeff Parker

Riding high in our top 100 albums of 2020 so far, Jeff Parker's Suite For Max Brown is a delight. He speaks to Patrick Clarke about the making of an extraordinary record, which was dedicated to his mother

The Gold Standard: Imperial Triumphant Interviewed

Imperial Triumphant’s sixth album sharpens up their avant metal sound and polishes it to a burnished sheen. Cooking up a storm that mixes Stanley Kubrick, Art Deco and jazz, with a huge dollop of New York City, Dan Franklin speaks to Zachary Ezrin about how self-imposed restrictions expanded their modernist vision. All portraits by Shannon Void

Everything But The Girl

The Language Of Life, Worldwide, Amplified Heart

Grace Jones-Curated Meltdown Festival Postponed To 2022

The likes of Solange and Peaches remain on the bill for the rescheduled event

Voracious Stylistic Promiscuity: Frank Zappa Reissues 1966 – 1972

Everyone at the Quietus is either Frank Zappa sceptic or phobic. Ringo P Stacey tells us why we are wrong in his review of the first 12 reissues

This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

Two decades later Brian Coney looks at how the Radiohead album takes the temperature of 21st century anxiety, while examining our relationship with technology and the murkiness of modern politics

PREVIEW: Raw Power Festival!

Toby 'Columnus Metallicus' Cook picks his top tips for this weekend's Raw Power Festival in London. Circle! Pharoah Overload! SEX SWING OMG WE LOVE SEX SWING AIEEEEEEE LUBE US UP NOW!

Saint Etienne

I’ve Been Trying To Tell You

Saint Etienne's first sample-driven record since 1993 finds the group looking backwards to the future, finds Zara Hedderman

The Strange World Of… Circle

Jussi Lehtisalo, founding member of Circle, guides Kevin Mccaighy through highlights of their bewilderingly large back catalogue

Art Into Pop: Leeds Punk & Post-Punk, 1974-–81

No Machos Or Pop Stars: When The Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk by Gavin Butt examines how bands used their art school education to push the boundaries of pop music

Rockfort! French Music For February Reviewed By David McKenna

David McKenna visits the birthplace of Rimbaud - and the vape store named after him - in order to bring you this month's Rockfort! column - the best of French pop, rock and hip hop

Songs Of Incexprence: Kemper Norton’s Brunton Calciner

Kemper Norton’s latest LP, brunton calciner, is a transfixing ode to transformative processes told through local history, customs, and folklore, says Bernie Brooks