Sam Gregory

Bill Drummond Interviewed: Recorded Music Has Run Its Course

He is an Artist, Writer, Musician and, today, Cultural Theorist as well. Bill Drummond reveals that he is still a pertinent thorn in the side of the art and music establishment, when he chats to John Doran.

Melvins

Nude With Boots

The Necks & More Join Tusk 2019 Bill

The second announcement for this year's Tusk festival in Gateshead sees eight more acts join the line-up

INTERVIEW: kandodo

We talk to Simon Price about the second album, k2o, he's releasing under his experimental solo guise

Boy George

This Is What I Do

Gonzales

Soft Power

Metal Gaze – From My Bloody Valentine To Nadja via SunnO)))

Drawing on influences as wide as doom, ambient, electronica, shoegaze and black metal, Joe Stannard flings the curtains back and lets the SunnO))) pour in on this peculiar genre. SunnO))) portrait by Koen Jacobs

Ben UFO

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Cosmic Dance: Semibreve 2023 Reviewed

Braga’s Semibreve Festival returns stronger than ever, with a curation of acts including Emeralds, Pedro Cunha, Loraine James and Inês Malheiro, who push the boundaries, expectations and confines of some unexpected performance settings

Fat Out Fest Reveals Lineup For 2024 Edition

The well-established Salford leftfield festival returns this September

INTERVIEW: Fulu Miziki Talk Forthcoming Tremor Show

Ahead of their performance at Tremor Festival, Kinshasa electro-punk group Fulu Miziki speak with Alastair Shuttleworth about building instruments from trash, their use of masked costumes, and staying hydrated

The Quietus Subscribers’ Tracks Of The Year Playlist

For tQ subscribers, here are all the bangers from our tracks of the year chart, compiled in one hefty mega-playlist on your streaming platform of choice!

LISTEN: Matthew Shaw’s Among The Never Setting Stars

Dorset-based artist Matthew Shaw has filtered loss and the Cornish landscape into one of the ambient releases of the year. Brian Coney speaks to him about drone, sonic economy, recording in ancient sites, hallucinating Eno and more

Dog Soldiers: New Model Army Interviewed

At the weekend veteran alternative rock band NMA scored their first hit album in 20 years. Marc Burrows talks to Justin Sullivan, frontman of the perennial outsiders

5th Chamber—Creative Reorganisation: Will Ashon Enters The Wu

In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Chamber Music: About the Wu-Tang (in 36 Pieces)*, Will Ashon discusses re-referentiality, Wu-slang, and "one of the finest musical evocations ever recorded of the sensation of being baked"

Giorgio Moroder Working With Daft Punk

Rather appropriate hook up for the French duo's new album