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Can you tell someone's life story in the album format? It was a question Mike Scott asked himself before making Life, Death And Dennis Hopper. Words: John Higgs. Cover portrait: Paul MacManus
In his latest deep dive into the music scenes of Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera explores how Serbia's artists are responding to a climate of increasing political tension, profiles the forward-thinking figures at the heart of the country's underground scene, and reviews a slew of key Serbian releases
Here's everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers
Ingram, fka WOEBOT, shares the things he has learned about improving the health of soil while researching his new book, The Garden. All portraits by Sam Ingram
In this exclusive extract from Ecoes #7 – a new magazine issue exploring ‘the art of listening and unveiling the unseen,’ published by Sonic Acts – editor and writer Hannah Pezzack ventures into Wales' post-industrial hinterlands
In his latest deep dive into the music scenes of Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera explores how Serbia's artists are responding to a climate of increasing political tension, profiles the forward-thinking figures at the heart of the country's underground scene, and reviews a slew of key Serbian releases
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Cian Traynor celebrates the 30th birthday of a unique and brilliant album and re-appraises a hip hop anomaly by speaking to some of those who knew its creator, Ol' Dirty Bastard, the best. This feature was originally published on 30 March 2015
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
Explore The PortalFollowing a wave of fevered speculation about the possible return of The KLF, AKA The JAMs, The K Foundation, K2 Plant Hire, the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu etc., Ben Graham explores the mythology of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, in order to explain why any "reunion" is likely to be far more interesting than just another musical comeback
In this exclusive extract from Ecoes #7 – a new magazine issue exploring ‘the art of listening and unveiling the unseen,’ published by Sonic Acts – editor and writer Hannah Pezzack ventures into Wales' post-industrial hinterlands
Serial collaborator and Propellor Orchestra leader Jack McNeill's long-awaited debut solo album is released today exclusively for tQ subscribers, a record that draws deep on his surroundings in Cumbria, but subverts our expectations of the clarinet as an instrument that hymns the pastoral
With the artist's first exhibition in London for thirty years, Selected Works, currently open at David Zwirner, Amah-Rose Abrams explores the legacy of photographer Roy DeCarava and speaks to his widow, the art historian Sherry Turner DeCarava
As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
"I'm gonna start a revolution from my bed," once sang Noel Gallagher. Tim Burrows, on the other hand, argues that those bedroom-dwelling music makers who were hyped to change the face of music in 2010 aren't as ground-breaking as many first thought...
Following the 30th anniversary reissue of Aztec Camera’s debut High Land Hard Rain, frontman Roddy Frame releases his latest album on Edwyn Collins’ AED label. He talks to Lucy O’Brien about songwriting, Mark Knopfler’s guitar strings and Scottish independence
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm Puja Nandi celebrates five pioneering artists, from Asian Dub Foundation (pictured) to Osmani Soundz, who enriched the soundtrack of the pre-millennial UK by mixing drum & bass and electronica with the sounds of the Bengali diaspora
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