Sandra Song

Former Members Of The Fall Curate Live LP, ‘Grotesque Live!’

The Hanley brothers, Marc Riley and Craig Scanlon have pieced together the record from hundreds of hours of bootleg set recordings

Gallon Drunk

The Soul Of The Hour

Previously Unreleased Throbbing Gristle Music to be Released in New Box Set

TG Berlin features material captured around a special series of live events that the group played in 2005 and 2006

Rum Music for January Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan

Your Rum Music roundup returns for 2026, where Jennifer Lucy Allan presents early AOTY contenders from Silvia Tarozzi, Tashi Dorij and more

Mr Agreeable: Not Just Coldplay Abscond With His Goat

After knocking over the internet with his upset at Coldplay's new album, Mr Agreeable is back and casts his subtle eye over Death Grips' split, Dylan's 'new' stuff, Ed Sheeran's memoir and Jake Bugg's sexist video shoot

Conductor of Magic and Chaos: The Roscoe Mitchell Solo Saxophone Concerts at 50

Stewart Smith salutes the emotional power of Roscoe Mitchell’s live recordings from 1973 and 74, a portal to one of the most significant musical minds of our time

Nadeem Din-Gabisi

Offshore

Big choruses and big energy elevate approaching themes of themes of Black identity, cultural displacement, and spiritual resilience with a refined sense of composition and arrangement, finds Mary Chiney

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain for July

Bristolian screwjobs, rattling bootlegs retooled in Sheffield and London's most extreme outliers - our bi-monthly round-up of the real stuff returns

Heinali & Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko

Гільдеґарда (Hildergard)

Recorded in a Cistercian abbey, electronic producer Oleh Shkudeiko joins forces with Ukrainian vocalist Andriana-yaroslava Saienko to pay tribute to the 12th-century German mystic

The Strange World Of… Einstürzende Neubauten’s Alexander Hacke

Jeremy Allen talks to the Einstürzende Neubauten mainstay about early forays into electronic and industrial as well as drunken country and western plus an album inspired by the joys of Blackpool. All photographs courtesy Alexander Hacke

Mark Lanegan’s ‘Bubblegum’ Set for 20th Anniversary Reissue

'Bubblegum XX' will take in a remastered re-release of the late artist's album across several formats

Columnus Metallicus: May’s Heavy Metal By Louise Brown

Louise Brown once again bestrides the world of metal like a damn colossus. This month she points her laser eyes at Grand Magus, Katatonia and Ghold among others...

Witchcraft Liberation: An Interview with DJ K

DJ K, pioneer of a new brand of hectic, visceral and politically charged electronic music called bruxaria funk, speaks to André Forte about soundtracking Brazil’s favelas, and how his new album Rádio Libertadora has added polish to his sonic warfare

Thriller in England: Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout at 40

Fergal Kinney traces Steve McQueen's two very different masterminds, its influence on Arthur Russell and Caroline Polachek, and the path not taken to a British indie both sensual and modern

Behold! December’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

With best-of lists and new releases, it’s December’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & the Quietus comics team

The Strange World Of… HTRK

As they release a special edition of their Marry Me Tonight album, Jonnine Standish and Nigel Yang of HTRK sit down to guide Luke Turner through selections from their 21 years of seductive gloom pop