The Quietus
Launched in 2008, The Quietus is a British online rock music and pop culture magazine, focusing on arts news, reviews, and features. The site is an editorially independent publication led by John Doran and a group of freelance journalists and critics.
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Fuck Buttons: Street Horrrsing (ATPR)
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 20 March 2008
NOISE, LIKE anything else, needs practise, needs talent and needs inspiration. As odd as it sounds, bands like Wolf Eyes didn't get where they are ...
Joy Division: The Joy Division Industry
Comment by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 10 April 2008
More offcuts from the Factory ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 16 May 2008
SPIRITUALIZED reached their commercial zenith a decade ago, when a nation wearying of Britpop and knocked sideways by the insane reaction to the death of ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 3 June 2008
TO CELEBRATE 20 years producing left field heavy rock music, Sub Pop this month release bookended albums of a sort. ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 13 June 2008
SO BY NOW you are aware of the Smell, the Los Angeles art space/studio/gig venue from which emanate the evil sounds of bands such as ...
Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 23 June 2008
DONNA SUMMER'S FIRST ALBUM of new material for seventeen years doesn't so much announce that she's still got it as knock the door down, stride ...
Report by John Doran, The Quietus, 24 June 2008
Quietus Editor John Doran gets drunk, falls over, destroys phone, makes noise like "broken panther" and has Proustian recall of two run ins with rap ...
Penguin Cafe Orchestra: Catalogue Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, The Quietus, 22 July 2008
PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA, a large, shifting coalition of classical and acoustic musicians led by the late Simon Jeffes, are often regarded with either confusion or ...
Suicide: Live 1977 - 1978 Box Set
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 6 August 2008
IT'S RARE to find live albums from canonical acts that don’t come swathed in mythology or creaking under the weight of their own self importance. ...
Slipknot's All Hope Is Gone Not Just A Clever Name…
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 13 August 2008
John Doran slowly peels back the masks of so-called extreme metal behemoths Slipknot and looks at the jaundiced and withered flesh underneath. It isn't, he ...
The KLF: Getting Arrested With Bill & Jimmy
Retrospective by David Stubbs, The Quietus, 15 August 2008
SO, IT'S LIKE THIS. It's February 1991. A couple of years after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, which supposedly heralded the End of History, ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 20 August 2008
BLOC PARTY have always made themselves a frustratingly difficult band to like. Alright, so if you're a 17 year old kid from Haywards Heath with ...
Bill Drummond: Recorded Music Has Run Its Course
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 August 2008
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The Streets: Everything Is Borrowed
Review by Ian Gittins, The Quietus, 18 September 2008
MIKE SKINNER'S artistic forte has always been his quicksilver, meticulous eye for detail. He has chronicled his life like a roguish, Ecstasy-generation Pepys. ...
Cliff Richard: Why Cliff Richard Is The Epitome And Saviour Of Rock & Roll
Comment by John Doran, The Quietus, 20 September 2008
Forget Liam Gallagher, Richard Ashcroft or Paul Weller — Sir Cliff is the best rock star we have, says John 'We Don't Talk Any More' ...
Seasick Steve: I Started Out With Nothing And I Still Got Most Of It Left
Review by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 6 October 2008
ORGANIC TO the foot of every blue soaked note. Here we meet the real deal. 40 years in a hobo hell (well, mostly) this 60-something ...
Lydia Lunch: My Life As A Work In Progress
Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 7 October 2008
Alex Ogg sets the tape running and stands back in awed silence as New York no wave shit-kicker Lydia Lunch reflects on life as a ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 7 November 2008
IN THE YEARS SINCE Grace Jones' last foray into recorded music, female artistes have increasingly been forced into major label-defined sonic and aesthetic roles, be ...
John Foxx, Ultravox: John Foxx: The Quiet Man Speaks
Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 7 November 2008
John Foxx is perhaps one of the UK's most undersung musicians. Here he talks to Alex Ogg about Ultravox!, synth pop and nearly being in ...
Beyoncé: I Am… Sasha Fierce (Music World/Columbia)
Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 20 November 2008
BEYONCÉ'S third album doesn't start well. Or end well. Or do much well in between. ...
The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die first listen
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 November 2008
Long time Prodigy fan and self-confessed knackered old cheesy quaver, John Doran gets invited to the first listen of the new Prodge album Invaders Must ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 10 December 2008
The Quietus got an early listen to the new Franz Ferdinand album Tonight: Franz Ferdinand, and pegged it back to the office to give you ...
Cabaret Voltaire, Kora: Kora: Kora! Kora! Kora! Cabaret Voltaire Mixes
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 19 December 2008
THIS IS not to diminish the achievements of New Zealand/Maori dub band Kora, but I'm guessing for a lot of people the interesting name on ...
Kelman: I Felt My Sad Heart Soar
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 5 January 2009
I CAN’T remember any of the platitudes that I was offered, the first time I ever got my heart broken. ...
Lily Allen: It's Not Me, It's You (Regal Recordings)
Review by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 30 January 2009
LILY COPS A LOT OF STICK, doesn't she? A lot of people really don't like her. Especially rock hacks, I gather. ...
Profile and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, February 2009
CANDI STATON is, to put it simply, one of the most consistently underrated female vocalists ever. This is not to say that she hasn't had ...
Judas Priest: Pastor of Puppets: Rob Halford
Retrospective and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 11 February 2009
YOU ONLY HAVE TO open a style mag, left-field music publication or a broadsheet at the moment to see that heavy metal is enjoying one ...
The Prodigy: Invaders Must Die (Cooking Vinyl)
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 12 February 2009
A CRITICISM often levelled at Cooking Vinyl is that it resembles a second division football team with enough money to buy once gloriously talented players ...
Do It Yourself: The Story of Rough Trade (dir. Chris Wilson)
Film/DVD/TV Review by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 10 March 2009
Quietus scribe Alex Ogg, who's currently writing a book on the history of the independent label, makes a brew and settles down in front of ...
Pete Doherty: Peter Doherty: Grace/Wastelands (EMI)
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 17 March 2009
IN A PARALLEL UNIVERSE, someone has taken Pete Doherty's cultural obsessions and musical touchpoints and made beguiling music that explores Englishness in a subtle, intelligent ...
Pet Shop Boys: Our Back Catalogue Is 25 Years Of Social Commentary
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 March 2009
Julian Marszalek meets pop renaissance man Neil Tennant to talk Potemkin, production and pop ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 26 March 2009
• Fever Ray is Karin Dreijer Andersson, who found fame as one half of Swedish electronic duo the Knife alongside her brother Olof Dreijer. ...
Review by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 6 April 2009
IF KATE BUSH was the most frequent comparison cited in reviews of Natasha Khan's 2006 debut album Fur And Gold, the debt is equally palpable ...
Sunn O))): Doom With A View: Sunn O))) Discuss Monoliths And Dimensions
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 20 May 2009
THE QUIETUS has already stopped taking bets on our album of 2009. It's hard to imagine any other group coming up with a record as ...
Jarvis Cocker Interview: Talking Further Complications
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 May 2009
Luke Turner talks to Jarvis Cocker about Albini, the male psyche, Sunn O))), living in the moment, and how it feels to be accused of ...
All Tomorrow's Parties: Breeders And Fans Strike Back II
Live Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 26 May 2009
I'M MORE appreciative of ATP than usual at the moment (and I'm usually damn appreciative of its quasi-utopian spread of music, guilt-free loafing and social ...
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 3 June 2009
Julian Marszalek speaks to the Tom Tom Club and Talking Heads mainstay Chris Frantz ...
Steven Wells 1960-2009: A Tribute
Memoir by John Doran, Andrew Mueller, John Robb, Terry Staunton, David Stubbs, The Quietus, 29 June 2009
David Stubbs ...
Bill Laswell: Bass. How Low Can You Go?
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, July 2009
Prior to his appearance at Montreux Jazz Festival, John Doran caught up with Bill Laswell in New York and uncovered some surprising information about Def ...
Joy Division: The Right Way To Remember Joy Division
Essay by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 9 July 2009
As Unknown Pleasures reaches its 30th anniversary, Jude Rogers looks behind the commercialisation and Paul Morley's jowls at Joy Division's eternal truth ...
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 24 July 2009
The Quietus bored by Yorke but tentage to Grace Jones, Pet Shop Boys and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds at the driest wet festival ...
Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 31 July 2009
FOUR DECADES after its release, the Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth remains one of the independent/post-punk boom's most wondrous creations; lean, uncluttered yet emotionally stirring. ...
Elbow, U2: U2: Wembley Stadium, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 17 August 2009
U2 Live Under A Slate Grey Claw. Chris Roberts reports from Wembley ...
Jello Biafra Of The Dead Kennedys Interview
Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 20 August 2009
Biafra's back — and this time he's packing a "real" band. The former Dead Kennedys frontman is re-energised by fronting a new group, The Guantanamo ...
The xx: Between Les Paul's Pick-Up and the Akai MPC2000
Comment by John Doran, The Quietus, 27 August 2009
It is quite timely that the XX's debut came out during the same month that Les Paul died. They are the perfect band for a ...
World Domination Enterprises: A World Of Noise: World Domination Enterprises
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 1 September 2009
"We were the most exciting band in the world, but the world never quite realised it," claims mainman Keith Dobson of the gargantuan World Domination ...
The Cribs, Johnny Marr, The Smiths: The Cribs
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 September 2009
In a revealing interview, Johnny Marr and The Cribs discuss what went wrong with indie, why LA destroys creative thought, the curse of the lad, ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 28 September 2009
IT'S AN ACCIDENT of history that Moose are said to have inspired the term 'shoegazing'. ...
Vic Chesnutt's back with three new albums in as many months…
Report and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 October 2009
He calls himself "the biggest fuck up in the music business" but, according to Wyndham Wallace, Vic Chesnutt is turning into one of its greatest ...
Yello: Mad About Saffron: Thirty Years of Yello
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 4 December 2009
Yello's Dieter Meier sits down with Wyndham Wallace to discuss the duo's new album Touch and three decades as an aristocratic prankster. ...
Jenny Hval, rockettothesky: Jenny & the Jets: The Musical Universe of Rockettothesky
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 12 January 2010
Rockettothesky's Jenny Hval may have made little impact outside of Scandinavia, but that needs to change. According to Wyndham Wallace, she's one of the most ...
Venom: Forging Black Metal: Cronos Of Venom Talks About The Genesis Of A Genre
Retrospective and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 14 January 2010
Helping create extreme metal as we know it today, as well as naming Black Metal, Venom have always been the antidote to musical boredom, says ...
OK Go: Of the Blue Colour of the Sky
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 18 January 2010
SO, YOU got the email. Treadmill ballet = instant viral penetration. Grammy award, Simpsons parody, legions of advertising 'creatives' ripping off the idea — the ...
Rammstein: Industrial Immolation Live In Manchester
Live Review by John Robb, The Quietus, 6 February 2010
Flamethrowers, exploding babies and a sonic apocalypse: John Robb proclaims Rammstein's current tour the greatest show you will see this year. ...
Review by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 15 February 2010
IN PRE Bill Hicks days, Scott-Heron's wit and fearless polemic powered his poetic leanings. He seemed alone, in every sense, for thinking of comparable artists ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 19 February 2010
THE BROTHERS BREWIS are natural Situationists, far too clever to take life overly seriously. This is no doubt what made Field Music's first two albums ...
Review by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 22 February 2010
IT'S TIME we forgot about the myth of Manchester. ...
Nitzer Ebb: Industrial Complex
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 24 February 2010
WITH A quick turn on Nitzer Ebb's YouTube channel, a scroll down the comments section yields a profile of the zealots who comprise the industrial ...
Aidonia, Mavado: This Month In... Dancehall: Why Only Jamaicans Should Use Autotune
Overview by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 3 March 2010
Neil Kulkarni delivers a swingeing blow to the whingers. Imagine a glitter and blood encrusted Doc Marten stamping on the face of autotune for all ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 26 March 2010
HAVING SPENT over a decade pottering on the periphery with an air of janitorial resignation, Frank Black has finally turned in the greatest number of ...
Shakespears Sister: Songs From The Red Room
Review by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 30 March 2010
WHY IS POP history always rewritten blandly, its quirkier corners streamlined into slick, glossy smoothness? ...
Tom Jones: Why Applause Is The Greatest Drug Of All
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 13 May 2010
Living legend and Wales' finest son talks exclusively to Julian Marszalek about his life, work and loves... and why a round of applause and a ...
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Dirty Shirt Rock'n'Roll
Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 19 May 2010
THE JON SPENCER Blues Explosion? Well, it's all kinda … ...
Black Box Recorder: Uncovering the Ballardian Universe of Black Box Recorder
Retrospective by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 1 June 2010
Danger, death and British humour: it's all in a day's work for Black Box Recorder, says Jude Rogers, as she sifts through their back catalogue ...
Envy, Kelis: Givin' It To The Homegirl: The Trouble With Kelis
Comment by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 10 June 2010
With Neil Kulkarni finding something rotten in the state of girl-pop, he turns up his nose at Kelis' curdled Milkshake and explains why Brit Envy ...
Jane Weaver — Bring Down The Stepford Wives!
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 10 June 2010
MY FAVOURITE ALBUM of this summer so far is an intoxicating, peculiar, heady, balmy thing. Full of eerie vocals, woozy synthesisers, urgent rhythms and drones, ...
James Chance: Bow To The Devilish Prince: James Chance Interviewed
Interview by Zoë Street Howe, The Quietus, 7 July 2010
Zoë Street Howe talks to James Chance about his new retrospective collection Twist Your Soul and his relationships with James Brown and Lydia Lunch. ...
Propaganda: Your Wish Is My Command: Propaganda's A Secret Wish
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 5 August 2010
Celebrating 25 years since its release, Propaganda's A Secret Wish has just been reissued with a bonus disc of rarities. Wyndham Wallace confronts their Sturm ...
Report by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 20 August 2010
IF YOU GO for a cigarette on the fourth floor balcony of the hotel, you see cruise-ships and boats flanking a floating stage, upon which ...
Janelle Monáe: A New Pioneer Of Afrofuturism
Comment by John Calvert, The Quietus, 2 September 2010
Against a pop climate beset by fraudulent marketing plans on two shiny legs, John Calvert argues that Janelle Monáe brandishes the acetylene torch for radical ...
The Klaxons: Klaxons: Surfing The Void (Polydor)
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 3 September 2010
WE AREN'T going to bore you with revelations that Myths Of The Near Future wasn't rave. There was such a thing as a nu rave ...
Miles Davis: John Lydon, Nick Cave, Wayne Coyne, Iggy & More: My Favourite Miles Davis Album
Guide by John Doran, The Quietus, 5 October 2010
To celebrate the recent reissue of Bitches Brew, John Doran asked Iggy Pop, Jim Sclavunos, Jason Pierce, Mike Patton, Paul Weller and many other musicians ...
The Psychedelic Furs: All Of This And Nothing: The Psychedelic Furs On Talk Talk Talk
Retrospective and Interview by Alex Ogg, The Quietus, 20 October 2010
The Psychedelic Furs return to the UK in late October to play their second album, Talk Talk Talk, in its entirety. Alex Ogg spoke to ...
The Libertines: Confessions Of A Blagger: Carl Barat's Threepenny Memoir Reviewed
Book Review by Ben Myers, The Quietus, 20 October 2010
Carl Barat's new tome doesn't shrink away from embracing ugly self-truth — and according to Ben Myers, is subsequently far worthier of praise than the ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 26 October 2010
ONCE UPON A TIME Blonde Redhead were beautiful. It took a decade of suspiciously designer no wave, but with 2004's Misery Is a Butterfly they ...
Simply Red: Let The Red Flag Fly: In Defence of Picture Book
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 27 October 2010
The Quietus battens down the hatches and prepares for a storm as Wyndham Wallace risks all to defend Simply Red's debut album, Picture Book, on ...
Swans: My Father Will Guide Me Up A Rope To The Sky
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 29 October 2010
SWANS WILL ALWAYS be a draw for life's spiritual derelicts, a certain constituency in peaceful agreement that the world is cruel, human nature is animal, ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 18 November 2010
The legendary Bryan Ferry has just released Olympia, his best album in two decades, and continues the Roxy Music revival tour in the new year. ...
Janelle Monáe: Postbahnhof, Berlin — Not The Archandroid We're Looking For
Live Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 17 December 2010
Janelle Monáe's got it all, so why do we need any more? Wyndham Wallace reports from her recent Berlin show… ...
The Streets: Computers and Blues
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 9 February 2011
YOU'LL HAVE TO meet us halfway on this, but Mike Skinner's swansong plays like a cracking old wake – Skinner's of course. ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 11 February 2011
THE SPANISH PAINTER Francisco Goya was in an ideal position to comment on The Peninsula War of 1804-1808. ...
Beth Ditto: Winning The Fame Game With No Regrets
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 1 March 2011
As she prepares to release her new EP with Simian Mobile Disco, Luke Turner sits down with Beth Ditto and finds that, a million record ...
Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All: Odd Future: Youth and Young Manhood
Guide by John Calvert, The Quietus, 8 March 2011
After Tyler The Creator signed to XL recently, John Calvert decided to sift through hundreds and hundreds of tracks to bring you the best — ...
Review by Ben Myers, The Quietus, 23 March 2011
FOLK MUSIC GETS A HARD RAP in the UK. In the US it's different. Far from being the subject of derision, the long standing American ...
John Foxx and the Maths: Interplay
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 4 April 2011
AFTER A RUN of relatively oblique collaborations, Interplay sees John Foxx's return to the role of pop architect, ably assisted by The Maths (aka Ben ...
Chris & Cosey, Nico, Throbbing Gristle: Chris & Cosey Talk Plans To Finish TG's Desertshore
Report and Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 19 April 2011
LATE LAST WEEK, observant souls on the internet had a look at Chris & Cosey's website and noticed that their Event Horizon page of planned ...
The Waterboys: There's Something In The Water: The Waterboys' This Is The Sea at 25
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 27 April 2011
Wyndham Wallace talks to Mike Scott of The Waterboys about his classic album This Is The Sea, 25 years on from its release… ...
Tyler, The Creator: Goblin (XL)
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 10 May 2011
OUR FRIEND and writer for The Stool Pigeon and this organ Kev Kharas recently went to interview Tyler The Creator. The mewling twit (Mr Creator ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 24 May 2011
"And every proton and neutron in every atom . . . swollen and throbbing, off-color, sick, with just no chance of throwing up to relieve ...
How The Music Industry Is Killing Music And Blaming The Fans
Comment by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 24 May 2011
While the industry continues to blame illegal downloading for its financial woes, it's musicians who are paying the price while being forced to work harder ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 7 June 2011
FOUR YEARS or so ago, the oft-repeated story goes, Justin Vernon was holed up in a cabin in the rural wilderness of Wisconsin, recovering from ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 7 June 2011
MUCH OF THE PASSIONATE RHETORIC surrounding The Antlers' affecting Hospice featured the keyword "bleeding", not only referring to the crackling artery of distortion that flowed ...
East River Pipe: "A Songwriter Who Works at Home Depot": F.M. Cornog of East River Pipe interviewed
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 15 June 2011
Cult singer songwriter Fred Cornog of East River Pipe talks to Wyndham Wallace about "scratching out a living, and trying to survive with a little ...
Wu Lyf: Go Tell Fire to the Mountain
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 27 June 2011
THERE’S NO DOUBT that "blind faith" is the metier of the emphatically idealistic Wu Lyf. If as a fan you're to join them in remaining ...
John Maus: We Must Become the Pitiless Censors of Ourselves
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 1 July 2011
IN ACADEMIA, pop enigma John Maus comes up in discussion about where hauntology meets 'utopian theory', an area of scholarly pursuit wherein blog intelligentsia will ...
Frankie Goes to Hollywood: Beyond the Pleasuredome: Frankie Goes to Hollywood's Liverpool
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 4 July 2011
Wyndham Wallace follows last year's celebration of Frankie Goes to Hollywood's landmark album, Welcome to the Pleasuredome, with a look at its neglected follow-up, Liverpool, ...
Damon Albarn: Dr Dee live, Manchester International Festival
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, The Quietus, 5 July 2011
Stephen Dalton at the Manchester International Festival finds Damon "the Martin Amis of Britpop" Albarn's musical about the life of Dr John Dee to be ...
Live Review by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 6 July 2011
Neil Kulkarni breaks his no-festival rule and braves the corporate overkill of Wireless to see his Pulp. His verdict? They "now stand mighty amidst the ...
Death Grips: Relentless Raw Movement: Death Grips Interviewed
Interview by John Calvert, The Quietus, 14 July 2011
Death Grips are the single most exciting new thing we have heard in 2011. John Calvert asks Flatlander about their methodology, hip hop, Odd Future, ...
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 July 2011
Wyndham Wallace takes a road trip from London to Essen, Germany, with a truckload of CDs, LPs, and the unlikely company of the Charlatans' Tim ...
Washed Out: Within and Without
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 22 July 2011
AS THE chillwaver least inclined to confection, on his introductory EP — complete with genre-iconic artwork — Ernest Greene's one dimensional wares trod a precarious ...
TV On The Radio As Soundtrack To Bush & Obama's America
Essay by John Calvert, The Quietus, 3 August 2011
Don't Let The Devil In: John Calvert takes a look at the work of TV On The Radio through the prism of a turbulent decade ...
Dolly Parton: The Liberty Belle: Dolly Parton Speaks
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 30 August 2011
Ever the showbiz professional, Dolly Parton leads Jude Rogers a merry dance during her allotted 20 minutes of chat about partners, Gaga, sexuality, The Lord ...
The Waterboys: An Appointment With Mr Yeats
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, September 2011
THOUGH MIKE SCOTT'S attempt to marry the poetry of William Butler Yeats to his own music has been promised for two decades, it offers neither ...
Talk Talk: Laugh? I Nearly Died: The Story of Talk Talk's Laughing Stock
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 12 September 2011
A triumph of art over commerce or ruthless, selfish exploitation? On the 20th anniversary of its release, Wyndham Wallace looks at the complex story behind ...
Peter Gabriel: An Invasion Of Privacy
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 19 September 2011
Peter Gabriel tells John Doran about reworking his back catalogue, almost playing in space, being mistaken for a terrorist and how life might be four ...
Interview by John Calvert, The Quietus, 4 October 2011
Even though her song 'Video Games' emerged a couple of months back, Lana Del Rey has already experienced equal parts adulation and suspicion. Here, John ...
Noel Gallagher: High Flying Birds, Musical Kettles And Exploded Psych
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 8 October 2011
John Doran is caught napping by Noel Gallagher, who is finally getting to indulge his creative impulses with the High Flying Birds and Amorphous Androgynous! ...
A Tribe Called Quest: 20 Years On: A Tribe Called Quest's The Low End Theory Revisited
Retrospective by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 10 October 2011
20 years after it was released and a month before the UK premiere of the Tribe Called Quest documentary Beats, Rhymes & Life, Angus Batey ...
Metallica, Lou Reed: Lou Reed & Metallica: Lulu
Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 20 October 2011
LET'S BE HONEST: ever since Lou Reed brought out his Tai Chi master for some muscle flexing as part of his live act, alarm bells ...
Review by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 25 October 2011
It's the music you can enjoy between meals without spoiling your appetite, made by the world's favourite band and hand-built by robots. Lipsmackin', thirstquenchin', acetastin', ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 26 October 2011
THE SOUNDS of a lonely dock, St Elizabeth, North Carolina. It's the sound of lapping saltwater and mooring cables knocking steadily against wet wood. Slowly, ...
Retrospective and Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 8 November 2011
Jim Reid and Douglas Hart give Julian Marszalek the low down on the making of one of the best rock albums of the 1980s, Psychocandy. ...
Kate Bush: A Demon In The Drift: Kate Bush Interviewed
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 10 November 2011
KANGCHENJUNGA was, for a long time, thought to be the highest mountain in the world. It wasn't until the Great Trigonometric Survey of 1849 that ...
R.E.M.: Michael Stipe's Last Stand — An R.E.M. Exit Interview
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 12 November 2011
Michael Stipe wants to retire. Trouble is, Jude Rogers won't let him until he's been suitably debriefed… ...
Summer Camp: Welcome to Condale
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 14 November 2011
GRANTED, the memory will play its tricks, but wasn't being a kid in the 80s a simple affair? ...
Loney, Dear: "I Love Crying": Loney Dear's Lovely, Lonely World
Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 17 November 2011
Emil Svanängen's sixth album has just been released to quiet but universal acclaim, yet still he's not happy. Wyndham Wallace explores the intimate, ingenuous universe ...
Kylie Minogue: The Abbey Road Sessions
Review by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 30 November 2011
IN 2006, while in recovery from cancer, Kylie Minogue talked to Another Magazine about her love of Grey Gardens. ...
Smashing Pumpkins: Siamese Dream (Reissue)
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 6 December 2011
FOR ALL its resonance amongst the youth of the day, the voice of grunge was old before its time and world-weary. Although their chagrin and ...
Amy Winehouse: Lioness – Hidden Treasures
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 14 December 2011
LIONESS: Hidden Treasures is an appropriately muted set, with Mark Ronson and Salaam Remi producing an honourable and moving tribute to the Amy Winehouse. In ...
Gorillaz: The Singles Collection 2001-2011
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 23 December 2011
WHAT THE HELL were Gorillaz? A pop curio, maybe? Hindsight suggests they were crucial in determining the shape of British pop in the millennium. Gorillaz ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 5 January 2012
"WE'RE ALL made of gold!" Yay! We actually are! I can feel it. The gold, that is, IN ME! Wait, what? Are we gold? I'm ...
The Minutemen: An Econo History Of The Minutemen
Retrospective by John Calvert, The Quietus, 11 January 2012
John Calvert throws open the doors onto the strange and frightening world of the Minutemen. ...
The Maccabees: Given To The Wild
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 17 January 2012
EVER SINCE THE bottom fell out of reedy-post-punk mid-last decade, fundamentally lightweight indie acts have taken to making grand statements. The efforts of say, Foals, ...
The Jimmy Castor Bunch: Remembering The Everything Man: A Jimmy Castor Interview
Retrospective and Interview by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 20 January 2012
Angus Batey pays tribute to the late Jimmy Castor, and we publish an extract from an extensive interview the journalist conducted with Castor over a ...
Sunn O))): Black Gold Of The Sunn O))): Earth's Loudest Band
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 January 2012
Wyndham Wallace talks to Stephen O'Malley about volume, improvisation, the reissue of Sunn O)))'s debut album ØØ Void and Sunn O))) action figures… ...
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 26 January 2012
In one of our best Baker's Dozens yet, Mark Lanegan talks Julian Marszalek through the most-played discs in his collection. ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 30 January 2012
ALL THAT FUSS over one song? You'd think there'd been a murder at the White House. ...
Emeli Sandé: Her Version Of Events: Emeli Sandé Interviewed
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 8 February 2012
Emeli Sandé discusses human brains, Virginia Woolf and Cher Lloyd with John Doran ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 16 February 2012
COMEDY RAP act or conceptual art project? Whatever your opinion on rave-rappers Die Antwoord, their new album is a rare treat — South African pop ...
Jack, Anthony Reynolds: Anthony Reynolds
Retrospective by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 23 February 2012
THE SONG 'Cinematic' name-checks Cocteau, Picasso and Warhol in the first lines before confessing that "I was never there, I only read the book, I ...
Adele: Why Adele Is The Pop Star We Need
Comment by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 23 February 2012
Adele is a one woman cash vache! Get off her back losers, says Jude Rogers ...
No Checked Tablecloths: Rockfort & The Meaning of 'Frenchness' in Pop
Comment by David McKenna, The Quietus, 5 March 2012
Pondering on the recent Jonathan Meades series On France, our French music correspondent David 'Rockfort' McKenna looks at definitions of Gallic pop ...
David Sylvian: Laughter & Forgetting: The Strange & Frightening World Of David Sylvian
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 19 March 2012
A new compilation, A Victim Of Stars 1982-2012, celebrates thirty years of solo work by David Sylvian, who guides Wyndham Wallace through some of its ...
The Pop Group, Mark Stewart: Bristol Fashion: Mark Stewart of the Pop Group's 13 Favourite Albums
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 22 March 2012
Julian Marszalek talks to post-punk agitator Mark Stewart about his 13 favourite albums. ...
Damon Albarn, Blur, Bobby Womack: Damon Albarn: "I'm Sort Of English Melancholy"
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Quietus, 27 March 2012
With an upcoming Blur show and a number of albums set for release in the coming months, Damon Albarn's 2012 looks set to be as ...
Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday – Roman Reloaded
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 2 April 2012
WHO NEEDS stylistic, conceptual unity, when you have seven producers and Lil Wayne for a financier? ...
Denim, Felt, Go-Kart Mozart: "I Want Lou Reed To Kick Me Down The Stairs" — Lawrence Interviewed
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 6 April 2012
Indie-pop outsider extraordinaire Lawrence — the Felt/Denim/Go-Kart-Mozart frontman who turned 51 last month — talks to Jude Rogers about sounding like Nicki Minaj and his ...
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 26 April 2012
THERE’S HIGH comedy afoot on the old web-machine these days. Press attempts to answer the question "What are Death Grips?" have taken a turn for ...
The Birthday Party: 30 Years On: We Return to the Birthday Party's Junkyard
Retrospective and Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 30 April 2012
Julian Marszalek talks to Mick Harvey about Australian post-punks' high watermark statement. ...
Levitation: "Don't Question Everything": Levitation's Need For Not Revisited
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 15 May 2012
"They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more." Wyndham Wallace celebrates a forgotten classic 20 years ...
Review by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 17 May 2012
THE NEW Enemy album is finally here. There it sits, being shite, in the noonday sun, attracting flies. Cross over the road my friend, ask ...
Levitation: Whirled Around: The Rise & Fall Of Levitation
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 May 2012
20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 30 May 2012
OF ALL THE ARTISTS navigating the potentials of the great fracture that has occurred in musical culture over the past decade, it's arguably Liars who ...
Guide by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 29 June 2012
Mick Middles speaks to Rush bassist and singer Geddy Lee about his favourite albums of all times... and finds surprises amidst the classic of the ...
Frank Ocean: The Future's Bright: Frank Ocean's Channel Orange Track-by-Track
Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 3 July 2012
John Calvert heads along to a London studio for a first listen to the forthcoming album (much anticipated round these parts) from Frank Ocean ...
Pussy Riot Sentenced To Two Year Jail Term
Report by John Doran, The Quietus, 17 August 2012
RUSSIAN PUNK BAND Pussy Riot have been sentenced to two years in jail each after being found guilty of hooliganism earlier in the day. ...
The xx: Earthy & Complicated: The xx's Coexist Track By Track
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 August 2012
Next month, London trio The xx release their much-anticipated second album Coexist. Luke Turner takes you on a track-by-track guide through its eleven "far more ...
Herbert Grönemeyer: Herbert Goes 'Banana': Germany's Biggest Star Takes On England
Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 22 August 2012
Virtually unknown in Britain, Herbert Grönemeyer is a huge star in his native Germany, having sold 18 million albums. Now his sights are set on ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 22 August 2012
THROUGHOUT THE 17th century, witch-hunt fever was spreading virulently through the UK. Remote communities, once infected, turned in upon themselves and burned up. ...
Skrillex: 100% Shock & Awe: Skrillex Blasts Tiny Venue
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 29 August 2012
THE SCENE IN the Shacklewell Arms is fairly typical of any gentrified boozer in the Hackney precinct, come Sunday night. ...
Codeine: A New '90s US Edition Part Three: Codeine, A New Kind Of Stillness
Retrospective and Interview by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 30 August 2012
Neil Kulkarni continues his secret history of US cult groups of the 1990s, this time speaking to Steven Immerwahr and Chris Brokaw of Codeine. ...
Lady Gaga: This Megalith Reality: Lady Gaga Live
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 11 September 2012
I KNOW IT'S COMING, but when it finally does it's different to how I expected. It's far worse. Less than real. ...
Lana Del Rey: An American Nightmare: Lana Del Rey Live
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 27 September 2012
I MET HER last year. She talked about loneliness and how she never had any time for religion, until she got into some trouble in ...
AR Kane: A.R. Kane: The Future Came and Went
Retrospective and Interview by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 11 October 2012
Neil Kulkarni speaks to Rudy Tambala, one half of A. R. Kane. ...
Angel Haze: Hoxton Bar & Kitchen, London
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 11 October 2012
In the latest Calvert Report, our man John Calvert starts to feel unusual as he sees Angel Haze live at Hoxton Bar & Kitchen. ...
Leslie Winer: "If I Hit You, You'd Feel It": Leslie Winer, Trip Hop's Forgotten Pioneer?
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 29 October 2012
Some argue that Leslie Winer aka © invented trip hop in 1990 with her ill-fated album, Witch. Now she's back with &c, a retrospective compilation ...
Death Grips: Pleasure in suffering? The problem with Death Grips live
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 13 November 2012
A scholar of Death Grips, John Calvert expected to prostrate himself before the menace of MC Ride and Zach Hill. But is this the punk ...
Rihanna: A Sorry State — Pop Marketing & Rihanna's Unapologetic
Comment by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 20 November 2012
Provocation for Profit? Assault as a Marketing Accessory? Why the Rihanna PR Machine show sad signs of our times ...
Royal Trux: Veterans Of Disorder: Royal Trux Interviewed
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 22 November 2012
With their formative album Accelerator recently reissued, Neil Kulkarni asks Jennifer Herrema to look back over the noise-rock duo's career, taking in junkiedom, spectrum analysers ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 23 November 2012
AT THE LIVE PREVIEW of some of Desertshore at Newcastle's AV Festival in March this year, there was in the room a sense of remembrance ...
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 11 December 2012
John Calvert gets hot under the collar at an intimate gig at the Lexington from Wild Beasts, as they play their great album Smother and ...
Come: Chris Brokaw and Thalia Zadek: Come On My Shirt, Come In My Ear
Interview by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 17 January 2013
I'LL NEVER FORGET. 1994. A cold Wednesday morning in March. The Embassy Hotel, Bayswater. I'm sat down, inside, smoking 'cos you could back then, and ...
Kendrick Lamar: Bottled Lightning: Kendrick Lamar: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 23 January 2013
John Calvert heads to a cold Hammersmith to be blown away by Kendrick Lamar — "A private epiphany, the rest is history" ...
My Bloody Valentine: The Echo Of Youth: My Bloody Valentine live
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 30 January 2013
John Calvert takes his teenage dreams down to the Brixton Electric for a rare intimate gig by My Bloody Valentine. ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Push The Sky Away
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 February 2013
RECENT YEARS have seen messageboards, pop gossip sites and magazines alike indulging in the pursuit of Brighton-based Nick Cave spotting. Nick Cave spotted waving a ...
Can, Conny Plank, Kraftwerk, Neu!: Conny Plank: The Soundtrack Of Our Youth
Profile by David Stubbs, The Quietus, 13 February 2013
As Gronland release a four-disc box set of the music of Conny Plank, David Stubbs remembers the "midwife of Krautrock"... ...
Savages: Electric Ballroom, London
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 22 February 2013
SO JUST A YEAR after their first gig down in a manky former theatre in Brighton, Savages are here in the Electric Ballroom for an NME awards ...
Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 26 February 2013
Chris Roberts is inspired out of his clothes and on to the dancefloor by David Bowie's glorious return. ...
Suede: Cheating The "Living Death": Suede Interviewed
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, March 2013
They triumphed with their live return, and now they're about to release killer new album Bloodsports. Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman ...
Ed Harcourt: Death Before Silence: Ed Harcourt's Baker's Dozen
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 4 March 2013
Singer, songwriter, pianist and all round bon viveur Ed Harcourt talks to Wyndham Wallace about his favourite records. ...
Preview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 7 March 2013
DEPECHE MODE are back with their 13th album, and Luke Turner sits down with it for an instant, track-by-track appraisal ...
My Bloody Valentine: Hammersmith Apollo, London
Live Review by Chris Roberts, The Quietus, 14 March 2013
Chris Roberts heads to MBV's final night of their UK tour and finds himself pondering linguistics and culture while stood in their volume wind-tunnel ...
Primal Scream: Vitamin Gee: Primal Scream's Bobby Gillespie Sees The Light
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 30 April 2013
Julian Marszalek talks to the Primal Scream frontman about their new album More Light, the state of rock music in 2013 and living in post-Thatcher ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 3 May 2013
INSPIRATION, NOT innovation, is what I look for in Savages. One Quietus reader insists, every time we write about them, on commenting "post punk karaoke", ...
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 13 May 2013
Caught up within the two-hour long human/machine synergy of Beyoncé's London performance, John Calvert reflects on its peculiar mix of sincerity and cynicism and the ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 13 May 2013
PRIMAL SCREAM have always been a hard band to really love. Their lurching from jangling dreamers (Sonic Flower Groove) to drug-touched genre benders (Screamadelica) to ...
Travis: How We Learned to Hate Travis and Why We May Be Wrong
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 28 May 2013
With Where You Stand, their seventh album – and first for five years – due out this summer, frontman Fran Healy joins Wyndham Wallace to ...
Sinéad O'Connor: Institutionalised: The Faith and Courage of Sinead O'Connor
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 5 June 2013
Though her personal life has often overshadowed her career, Sinead O'Connor remains a treasured musical force. Belatedly back on the road to promote her most ...
These New Puritans: Field Of Reeds
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 June 2013
FIELD OF REEDS. It's that title that holds the key to These New Puritans' third album. Fields are terra firma, wilderness tamed, human use of ...
Prince: 25 Years On: Lovesexy Revisited
Retrospective by David Bennun, The Quietus, 10 July 2013
NOW I THINK OF IT, I'm struck by how seldom I have gone out and bought an album on the day it was released. In ...
Northern Uproar: All That Was Has Gone
Retrospective by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 30 July 2013
ONE MIGHT HAVE reasonably expected Northern Uproar to hail from some grisly and iconic mill town wedged into a Pennine Valley. Perhaps they would be ...
Review by Stevie Chick, The Quietus, 1 August 2013
I'VE LEARNED, over two decades and change of really quite serious record listening, that few are the artists who have even one masterpiece inside of ...
Nine Inch Nails: Scala, London — Still Dirty On The Inside
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 21 August 2013
On the evidence of last night's Scala show, Nine Inch Nails have recharged their batteries in spectacular style, writes Luke Turner, highlighting the subtle undercurrents ...
Zola Jesus: A Zola Jesus Baker's Dozen: 13 LPs By Women Who Inspired Me To Sing
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 27 August 2013
Zola Jesus (Nika Rosa Danilova) gives us a special Baker's Dozen — 13 albums by female singers who inspired her to find her own voice ...
Tears For Fears: This Is Going To Hurt: The Mad World Of Tears For Fears’ Debut LP
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 20 September 2013
In his 100th piece for The Quietus, Wyndham Wallace talks to five key figures behind Tears for Fears to present an epic oral history of ...
Kitchens of Distinction: An Accidental Comeback: Reassembling Kitchens of Distinction
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 23 September 2013
The return of Kitchens of Distinction was unexpected, even for the band. Wyndham Wallace joins them for their first face-to-face interview together in almost two ...
Vatican Shadow: Remember Your Black Day
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 October 2013
IT WAS INEVITABLE that an event as grand, terrible, momentous and world-changing as the September 11th 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and Washington would ...
Morcheeba: Specs & Drugs & Rock 'N' Roll: True Stories Of Morcheeba
Profile and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 18 October 2013
Morcheeba may no longer be flavour of the month, or even the decade, but they've lived it large and survived to tell great tales. As ...
Lou Reed: A Walk On The Mild Side: Lou Reed and Mick Rock Interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 28 October 2013
Julian Marszalek is pleasantly surprised to find that Lou Reed and Mick Rock are a great double act… He talks to them about their enduring ...
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 28 October 2013
Throwing Muses are releasing Purgatory/Paradise, their first album in a decade, so Kristin Hersh met up with John Doran to discuss her favourite records (not ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds: Brighton Dome
Live Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 28 October 2013
Nick Cave gets behind the piano for some slower songs from the Bad Seeds back catalogue at the Brighton Dome, but even that can't stop ...
Let's Take A Walk: Clara Hill Interviewed
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 29 October 2013
With her fourth album, former Jazzanova protégé Clara Hill has reinvented herself as a singer of experimental indie-electronic torch songs. Wyndham Wallace asks her how ...
Tom Moulton: Zing Went The Strings: Tom Moulton's Disco Remixes Reviewed
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 5 November 2013
"You wait forty years for a boxset of Tom Moulton Philly disco remixes on heavyweight vinyl, and then two turn up at once." John Doran ...
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 13 November 2013
Note: Contains Spoilers for the HBO TV show Treme ...
Various Artists: Choubi Choubi! Vol. 2 — Folk & Pop Sounds from Iraq
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 29 November 2013
THIS EXCELLENT LP is a follow up to the original Choubi Choubi album that Mark Gergis put together in 2005 for Sublime Frequencies. ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Justified Fascination: Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire Interviewed
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 9 December 2013
Did Cabaret Voltaire lose their way when they lost Chris Watson? Far from it, they entered their imperial period... John Doran talks to Richard H ...
Retrospective by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 10 December 2013
Band Aid raised awareness of a disastrous famine, as well as huge sums of money to try ease it. But, one year ahead of its ...
(British) Sea Power: British Sea Power: From The Sea To The Land Beyond
Film/DVD/TV Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 December 2013
BRITISH SEA POWER'S rather schizophrenic identity has arguably been their commercial undoing. On one hand there's the indie group capable of writing songs with rousing ...
Wreath Lecture: Braying Crowds & The Accidental Death of Quiet Music
Comment by David Bennun, The Quietus, 12 December 2013
2013 was the year when crowds talking loudly at gigs became a universal aggravation, writes David Bennun. He asks why this is the case, and ...
Microdisney: An Improbable History: Microdisney Interviewed
Interview by David McKenna, The Quietus, 20 February 2014
David McKenna talks to Cathal Coughlan and Sean O'Hagan about the Rough Trade years. ...
Jean-Jacques Burnel, The Stranglers: Mr Dojo Rising: JJ Burnel of The Stranglers interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 4 March 2014
Julian Marszalek looks beyond the ugliness, violence and "intellectual thuggery" to find punk's genuine outsiders. ...
Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor: Trent Reznor on the NIN Tour
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 5 March 2014
"I feel some responsibility to the audience, I want them to leave feeling that they've had some kind of experience that was satisfying. But at ...
Elbow: The Take Off and Landing of Everything
Review by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 17 March 2014
THREE YEARS BEYOND the nostalgic somnolence of Build A Rocket Boys and things have changed. Guy Garvey is now beyond an amicable split from his partner of ...
Blur, Elastica, Oasis, Pulp, Suede: Modern Life Isn't Rubbish: The Trouble With Britpop Nostalgia
Comment by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 10 April 2014
The mainstream media are currently engaged in a collective misty-eyed throwback to the 'glory days' of the mid 90s. Luke Turner, who was a teenager ...
Review by Lucy O'Brien, The Quietus, 29 April 2014
"WHEN THE SMOKE clears I'm the last bandit," Iggy Azalea raps optimistically on 'Walk The Line', a stand-out track on her long-awaited debut album. ...
Sleaford Mods: Divide And Exit
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 2 May 2014
SLEAFORD MODS snap at you, lumber at you, insult you, your friends, probably some of your family too. They're a force of nature, of testosterone ...
Coldplay: Ghost Stories (Parlophone)
Review by Mr. Agreeable, The Quietus, 16 May 2014
TWO YEARS in the making, alternative rock band Coldplay's new album, essentially a concept piece about Chris Martin's break-up with Gwyneth Paltrow, has certainly garnered ...
Annette Peacock: She's The One: Annette Peacock Interviewed
Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 3 June 2014
Annette Peacock is a stone cold original — an innovator, an outlier, authentically sui generis. John Doran talks to her about the timely reissue of ...
Chrissie Hynde: Talker Of The Town: Chrissie Hynde
Interview by Simon Price, The Quietus, 10 June 2014
Chrissie Hynde is releasing her first-ever solo album. But never mind that. Just let her talk. Because the legendary Pretenders leader can talk for London, ...
Black Sky Thinking: White Power And Black Pop: The Real Problem With 1Xtra's Power List
Comment by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 16 July 2014
Neil Kulkarni dissects the recent BBC 1Xtra Power List which featured three white acts in the top four... ...
Daniel Patrick Quinn: Acting The Rubber Pig
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 25 July 2014
WHERE HAVE ALL the awkward bastards gone, the square pegs in round holes, those who wilfully follow difficult paths, to their own detriment, in a ...
Bark Psychosis: I Put A Spell On You: The Story of Bark Psychosis' Hex
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 14 August 2014
Twenty years after their debut album, Hex, Bark Psychosis' legacy may not be widely celebrated, but their influence is pervasive. Wyndham Wallace tells the complex, ...
Retrospective by Neil Kulkarni, The Quietus, 26 August 2014
Commissioned by Kevin Martin as part of our Bug Week, Neil Kulkarni writes about the power, potency and legacy of the UK's premier dancehall sound ...
U2: Songs Of Innocence: On U2, Tax & Hypocrisy
Comment by John Doran, The Quietus, 10 September 2014
John Doran is singularly unimpressed by U2's invocation of William Blake's Songs Of Innocence. Shouldn't they stop cosying up to morally bankrupt corporations, banks, philosophers, ...
Semibreve festival: Braga, Portugal
Report by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 3 November 2014
Wyndham Wallace reports from Braga on a weekend of eye-opening, ear-bending, mind-broadening performances at Portugal's premier digital arts festival. ...
Robert Plant: "Embrace It Or Fuck Off": Robert Plant interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 20 November 2014
Julian Marszalek talks to Percy about the influence of North and West African music, not succumbing to the cabaret disease and why he'll never cut ...
Guppy Conquerors: The Joy Of Cod Reggae
Guide by Bill Brewster, The Quietus, 30 January 2015
We set crate digger extraordinaire Bill Brewster an unenviable task – prepare us a set culled just from cod reggae. Check out the YouTube playlist ...
Idlewild: Everything Ever Written
Review by Mike Diver, The Quietus, 9 February 2015
IDLEWILD HAVE been a band for twenty years now, and doesn't it show. The blood-rush riots that passed as early gigs have slipped beneath tangible ...
Noel Gallagher: The Apolitical Party: Noel Gallagher Interviewed
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 16 February 2015
The always quotable High Flying Birds frontman on politics in music, Sleaford Mods and getting pissed with Morrissey. ...
Radiohead: World Class: How Radiohead Gave Us The Bends
Memoir by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 3 March 2015
Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 25 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins ...
Cannibal Ox: Blade Of The Ronin
Review by Mike Diver, The Quietus, 20 March 2015
CANNIBAL OX'S 2001 debut album The Cold Vein was New York hip hop given the bumps by a clutch of skin-peeled T-800s, shaken by ice-core ...
Curtis Mayfield: Revisiting Curtis Mayfield's There's No Place Like America Today
Retrospective by David Bennun, The Quietus, 16 April 2015
NOTE: This article was adapted by its author from a piece in the 1995 Melody Maker book Unknown Pleasures. ...
Blur: Who On Earth Are Blur? An Interview
Interview by Jude Rogers, The Quietus, 27 April 2015
Will the real Blur please step forward, asks Jude Rogers after speaking to them (individually) recently. ...
Black Sabbath: Never Say Die: Bill Ward Interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 7 July 2015
Julian Marszalek talks to Bill Ward about his achievements in and out of Black Sabbath. ...
Suicide: Requiem For A Scream: Suicide's 'Punk Mass'
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 16 July 2015
IN HIS PRE-SHOW ADDRESS, frothy punk minotaur Henry Rollins is telling a story, which of course he's pretty good at. A formidable, not to mention ...
Lizzy Mercier Descloux: Rockfort: Remembering Lizzy Mercier Descloux
Retrospective by David McKenna, The Quietus, 10 September 2015
David McKenna looks back at the life of Parisian poet, painter and post punk musician, Lizzy Mercier Descloux. ...
Keith Richards, The Rolling Stones: Black and Blue: Keith Richards interviewed
Interview by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 September 2015
Julian Marszalek meets the Rolling Stones guitarist and living legend to talk race, drugs and persistence. ...
A-ha: Their Valuable Hunting Life: The Rocky Road to A-Ha's Hunting High & Low
Retrospective and Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 22 September 2015
Thirty years after a-Ha unveiled their debut, Hunting High & Low – and as they release a new album, Cast In Steel – Wyndham Wallace ...
The Weeknd: Overview Of A Vampire: A Closer Look At The Weeknd's Lyrics
Essay by John Calvert, The Quietus, 12 October 2015
John Calvert is a "guilt-ridden ultra-fan" of "misogynist" Canadian R&B star The Weeknd and here, instead of brushing the themes of his music under the ...
Iggy Pop: Royal Albert Hall, London
Live Review by Julian Marszalek, The Quietus, 16 May 2016
Iggy Pop is bloodied but unbowed when he leaves the stage of the RAH says Julian Marszalek. ...
DM Stith: Interview: DM Stith on his new album Pigeonheart
Interview by Wyndham Wallace, The Quietus, 6 June 2016
After touring with Sufjan Stevens, and working on the Revival Hour's debut album with the Earlies' JM Lapham, DM Stith discusses the difficult genesis of ...
The Vinyl Staircase: Transmissions, Margate
Profile and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 6 June 2016
John Doran goes to Margate to visit the newly-opened Transmission. ...
Suicide, Alan Vega: A King Has Passed: Alan Vega Remembered
Retrospective by Tim Cooper, The Quietus, 18 July 2016
BY THE SUMMER of 1978, punk rock had lost the power to shock. The revolution that had shot an amphetamine rush into a moribund music ...
Eric Clapton, Morrissey: Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since '76
Essay by David Stubbs, The Quietus, 9 August 2016
During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 12 January 2017
In The xx's third full-length effort, Luke Turner finds an album seemingly more geared toward the televisions syncs that catapulted their once affecting minimalism to ...
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 7 February 2017
In the wake of a blistering debut LP and a trio of incendiary live shows, Patrick Clarke speaks to Newcastle's Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs ...
Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus: Mirror
Review by Tim Cooper, The Quietus, 9 May 2017
LISTENING TODAY to Mirror, the second album by Revolutionary Army of the Infant Jesus that's about to receive its first vinyl release from Occultation Recordings ...
Public Service Broadcasting: Every Valley
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 6 July 2017
The nostalgia merchants remember the miners with turgid, insipid, bizarrely misjudged pap. Luke Turner is righteously appalled. ...
John Murry: A Short History Of Decay
Review by Tim Cooper, The Quietus, 19 July 2017
EVERYTHING ABOUT John Murry is blurred. From the Southern Gothic backstory to the near-death drug overdose to the recurring cycle of tragedy and redemption, right ...
The Clientele: Music For The Age Of Miracles
Review by David Bennun, The Quietus, 22 September 2017
Exotic and eerie tales from Hampshire, and the Clientele's first LP proper since 2009's Bonfires On The Heath ...
Manic Street Preachers: Melancholy Optimism: Manic Street Preachers
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 19 February 2018
The Manic Street Preachers thought they might never make another album again, then along came Resistance Is Futile. Patrick Clarke meets Nicky Wire to discuss ...
Go-Kart Mozart: Mozart's Mini-Mart
Review by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 21 February 2018
It's Lawrence, with the most effervescent and creative album of his extraordinary career. ...
Retrospective and Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 10 April 2018
Through a series of interviews, Patrick Clarke charts the history of Liverpool's brilliant, bitter and burgeoning music scene of 1976-1988, from Eric's and Probe to ...
No, Streaming Services Are Not "Saving The Music Industry"
Comment by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 26 April 2018
Recent reports that streaming is now the "biggest money-maker" for the music biz have prompted hyperbolic claims that Spotify and co. have "saved the music ...
Arctic Monkeys: Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 May 2018
Do not adjust your sets: our Luke Turner is a big fan of the new LP by Alex Turner & co. Here's why. ...
Half Man Half Biscuit : No-one Cares About Your Creative Hub So Get Your Fuckin' Hedge Cut
Review by Mick Middles, The Quietus, 1 June 2018
CONTEMPORARY CULTURE has obligingly stepped right into the sardonic sights of Blackwell and Crossley. On this new album, they lock target and do not miss. ...
Aphex Twin's Collapse EP Reviewed From The Gwennap Pit
Review by John Doran, The Quietus, 3 September 2018
John Doran was on his way to the Gwennap Pit in Cornwall when he received the new Aphex Twin EP by email. But is the ...
Michael Rother: "I Enjoy Silence!": Michael Rother's 13 Favourite Albums
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 27 February 2019
With a show at London's Under The Bridge on 5 April, Michael Rother of Neu!, Harmonia, and a newly-boxsetted solo career takes Patrick Clarke through ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 27 February 2019
Sleaford Mods new album is a huge leap forward and a welcome exploration of the nuances of masculine identity, says Luke Turner ...
Billie Eilish: When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?
Review by Lucy O'Brien, The Quietus, 29 March 2019
The debut album from 17 year-old singer-songwriter Billie Eilish links Lana Del Ray dreaminess with a savvy, hip hop-inspired sound, finds Lucy O'Brien. ...
Data, Driven: Spotify Under Surveillance
Book Review by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 30 March 2019
An academic team's look under the hood of the music-streaming giant arrives as worries over Silicon Valley snooping go mainstream. Angus Batey surveys the bookshop ...
Fat White Family: Too Much Love: An Interview With Fat White Family
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 9 April 2019
Ahead of the release of third album Serfs Up!, Patrick Clarke meets Alex White and brothers Lias and Nathan Saoudi of Fat White Family. ...
Theon Cross: Cross Currents: Jazz Re:Fest 2019
Live Review by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 30 July 2019
The Jazz Re:Freshed crew celebrate another year of progress for their movement and their music with their seventh one-day festival in Brighton. Angus Batey goes ...
These New Puritans: "We're the last cult band"
Interview by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 11 February 2020
As These New Puritans prepare for a major Barbican concert, twin brothers Jack and George Barnett speak to Luke Turner about their grand plans and ...
These New Puritans: Barbican, London
Live Review by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 24 February 2020
These New Puritans' special Barbican performance The Blue Door delivers beauty, brutality and everything in-between. ...
Morrissey, The Smiths: The Cult Of Steve: Morrissey Live At Wembley Arena
Live Review by John Calvert, The Quietus, 17 March 2020
John Calvert is dragged by his lifelong Smiths fan girlfriend to Wembley — but will he finally see what all the fuss is about? ...
Richard Russell: Better Music Through Listening: XL's Richard Russell Interviewed
Interview by Angus Batey, The Quietus, 11 April 2020
The XL Records boss on his first book, new LP, and how not to be a dickhead. ...
Celtic Frost: Bring Out Your Dead
Retrospective and Interview by John Doran, The Quietus, 1 June 2020
He may be a prophet without honour at home, but elsewhere Swiss musician Tom Gabriel Fischer is widely recognised to have shifted the course of ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 15 July 2020
Not your bog standard lockdown project, Heather Leigh's Glory Days feels like a new lease of life, finds Luke Turner ...
Review by Luke Turner, The Quietus, 29 January 2021
A recorded live performance by Karl 'Regis' O'Connor makes for a unique and delightfully daft visual album, finds Luke Turner ...
Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: An Oral History Of Soft Cell's Debut Album
Retrospective and Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 26 November 2021
As Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret turns 40, Patrick Clarke speaks to Marc Almond, Dave Ball, and a number of the other key players who crafted Soft ...
Kendrick Lamar: Glastonbury Festival
Live Review by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 28 June 2022
Kendrick Lamar might not be our saviour, but his headline slot at Glastonbury 2022 is a staggering demonstration of how an embrace of complexity and ...
Belle and Sebastian: Late Developers
Review by Irina Shtreis, The Quietus, 10 January 2023
The twelfth album by Glasgow's perennial indie-poppers radiates confidence ...
Lankum: The Sea, The Sea: An Interview With Lankum
Interview by Patrick Clarke, The Quietus, 8 February 2023
In their first interview about their fourth album False Lankum, Ian and Daragh Lynch, Radie Peat and Cormac Mac Diarmada speak to Patrick Clarke about ...
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