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Metal
Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal for May Reviewed by Kez Whelan
In his latest guide to the best in metal, Kez Whelan celebrates a return to form from Deafhaven, a career-highlight from Conan, the nebulous world of heavy metal supergroups, and reviews a host of essential new releases
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast: Doctor Who – The Daemons
In this month’s episode of the pod, John takes Luke to a Wiltshire village for his first introduction to the time-defying Doctor
News
INTERVIEW: a Lesser Version on Liverpool’s New Outer Waves Festival
Ahead of their appearance at an essential new festival of left field music at Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory, tQ catches up with one of the city’s rising stars, a Lesser Version, who feature on this year’s bill
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Last Few Acid Horse Weekend & Day Tickets Remaining
Three day party featuring Matmos, Scotch Rolex, Rattle, Regis, MPTL Microplastics, Milkweed, William Doyle, The Utopia Strong & Karl D'Silva starts on Friday. Day splits below
Books
The Sound of Young Queer Scotland: An Interview with Carrie Marshall
With the release of her new book Small Town Joy: From glam rock to hyperpop: how queer music changed the sound of Scotland, author Carrie Marshall talks to Claire Sawers about growing up in 1970s Lanark, clubbing at Edinburgh's Fire Island and the "seismic" influence of Jimmy Somerville
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Electronic
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.
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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Anniversary
35 Years On: X-Clan’s To The East Blackwards Revisited
Angus Batey looks back at an album which has as much resonance today as it did when it came out. Article originally published 17/05/2015
The Portal
Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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A Quietus Interview
Nuclear Family Folk: MPTL Microplastics Interviewed
Ahead of an appearance at next month's Acid Horse festival, the industrial folk ensemble speak to Claire Biddles about power plant tourism, Home Counties gothic and why they embrace artistic violence (as long as it doesn't occur near the cellist). All photographs by Spela Cedilnik
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Books
The Sound of Young Queer Scotland: An Interview with Carrie Marshall
With the release of her new book Small Town Joy: From glam rock to hyperpop: how queer music changed the sound of Scotland, author Carrie Marshall talks to Claire Sawers about growing up in 1970s Lanark, clubbing at Edinburgh's Fire Island and the "seismic" influence of Jimmy Somerville
Art
Borderlands: Alex Niven on Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western
At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East
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