As one of your many, many perks for becoming a Quietus subscriber, we’re compiling a specially-curated, playlist for our readers every month. Given that last month’s playlist was handed over to the ...

Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter ...

Was there ever a style of music as dripping with sentimentality as doo-wop? Originating among Black communities in major US cities in the late 1940s, doo-wop was, right from the very beginning, the ...

At the final of the 2024 PDC World Darts Championship, 16-year-old rank outsider Luke ‘The Nuke’ Littler came within a whisker of a historic victory. Any disappointment had to be dealt with quickly – ...

The glossy idealism of consumer electronics is given a sinister twist in the latest from the English electronic artist aka The Advisory Circle Cate Brooks, known for her exploration of the anxious ...

I was disappointed (and simultaneously glad to notice we share similar sentiments) to see the latest First Floor newsletter discuss the idea of the return of sincerity in dance music, as now you’ll ...

Anarcho-Animist Frontline Weapons sees UKAEA come out swinging on behalf of the badgers. “Fuck the cull, fuck anti-science, fuck the Countryside Alliance, fuck the baiters, fuck you,” is a robust ...

It’s the end of the year pod, with John Doran and Luke Turner having a chat about weird sightings in Dungeness, and highlights of this year’s albums We are 90% funded by subscribers and there’s always ...

There will probably never be another year in punk music where its last two digits end up serving as stylistic shorthand, in the way that 1977 and 1982 are. (Thinking about it, this seems to have been ...

Making music and receiving publicity at a young age can put you in a box. Breaking that cage, pushing your new image and sound to the forefront, can be tough. Björk knows it best, as she underwent ...