Steve Erickson

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For February By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back once again like a renegade master with this month's least classifiable music on magnetic tape, not to mention his most recent radio show

Beautiful & Sad: Ben Watt’s Favourite Albums

As he releases a new solo record, Ben Watt of Everything But The Girl guides Jude Rogers through his Baker's Dozen, from Frank Ocean to Paul Simon and Bobby Womack to why male music critics were afraid of Joni Mitchell

Pressure Cooker: Petbrick Interviewed

Wayne Adams, one half of extreme noise-pummellers Petbrick (with former Sepultura drummer Igor Cavalera) speaks to Kez Whelan about their behemoth of a new single recorded just for Quietus subscribers, and the joys of working with limited resources

Horns Up Ya Shitters! A Look Back At 2012 In Metal

It's a Columnus Metallicus special as Toby Cook not only reviews the best recent Metal albums, but picks his highlights from 350-odd days under the horns

Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

Reggie Chamberlain-King, Mat Colegate, and Aug Stone discuss the comics kicking off their New Year

Broken Spines: Literary Links

Vanity is cool when you're beautiful and the mirror is reciprocative of your adulation, but there is a world outside (which also often contains windows and even puddles so as not to go too long without catching a glimpse of those architecturally-brutalist cheekbones) which contains other people. In summary: good articles were written recently by other people — here are some of them

Pop, Disco, Krautrock And The Doom: ILL’s Alternative Guide To Manchester Music

With an unmissable show at The Royal Albert Hall later this month, Manchester's finest ILL give us an essential guide to the best of the city's network of astounding underground musicians

Sax Ruins

Yawiquo

Membranes

What Nature Gives... Nature Takes Away

The Membranes' latest, What Natures Gives… Nature Takes Away has everything from a 21st century take on the Beats to an alternative theme tune for Match of the Day, finds Richard Foster

First Names For Intonal 2019

Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi, Kate NV and more will play the fifth edition of Malmö's Intonal festival

Supernormal 2016 Announced

One of our favourite festival reveals its plans for 2016 including an appearance from The Ex

Getting To Grips With Roky Erickson: A Dr Rock Interview

All hail the mighty return of Dr Rock! And Roky Erikson! That's a whole lot of rock

Franz Ferdinand

Always Ascending

Tender, debonair, fun - whoop! The best thing Kapranos and the gang have come up with in over a decade.

WATCH: Mick Harvey Film

Don Letts shoots doc on Harvey's Gainsbourg enthusiasm

A Portal To Other Worlds: Laura Cannell On The Music Of The Dark Crystal

Musician Laura Cannell reveals how hearing as well as seeing The Dark Crystal film was responsible for a musical epiphany and talks us through the soundtrack to the recent Netflix Age Of Resistance prequel

Rum Music: Some Thoughts On Silence

In this edition of Rum Music, Michael Begg looks at the problems inherent in a recent compilation of 'silent' music, and Stephen Graham heads to King's Place for a selection of live explorations of silence