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Things I Have Learned
The Great British Fuck Off: Sleaford Mods On Baking
When once he would cane it like there was no tomorrow, Jason Williamson now prefers to bake banana bread in the kitchen and lift weights in his garden. Here, the Sleaford Mods man runs JR Moores through the kind of baking advice you don't get from Mary Berry
Anniversary
Feel The Crushing Steel: Grace Jones And The Compass Point Trilogy
Compass Point Studios, and its house band the Compass Point All Stars, were going to be Chris Blackwell and Island Records’ defining statement to the world. Instead, they provided Grace Jones’s. And that, says David Bennun, looking back at the three extraordinary records she made there between 1980 and 1982, is more than enough
Film
Signs Of Life: On The Transformative Power Of ‘Yi Yi’ 20 Years On
Edward Yang's domestic epic Yi Yi premiered at the Cannes Film Festival 20 years ago this week, where Yang won Best Director. Today, the film is a vital, tender resource on subverting midlife crises and saving lives through cinema, finds Ian Wang
A Quietus Interview
Green Shoots: Richard Dawson And Sally Pilkington On Lockdown Project Bulbils
From lockdown in Newcastle, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington have released over thirty new albums and counting under the new moniker Bulbils in an effort to cope with the coronavirus crisis. They tell Patrick Clarke the story of their beautiful new band.
Baker's Dozen
RIP Florian Schneider: A Kraftwerk Baker’s Dozen Special
Following sad news that Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died, we present a specially compiled Baker's Dozen of artists including Michael Rother, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marie Davidson and Mark Lanegan on their favourite music by the _kosmische musik_ masters
Black Sky Thinking
Ten Things You (Possibly) Don’t Know About Kraftwerk
While doing her research for a meaty Kraftwerk retrospective in The Observer, Jude Rogers found out a fair few things that were a bit too Geek Central for the general broadsheet reader. Here follows therefore, 10 things you might not have known about Kraftwerk. Photo by Lucy Johnston
A Quietus Interview
From Neu! To Kraftwerk: Football, Motorik And The Pulse Of Modernity
When we started The Quietus we made the fairly arbitrary decision that modern popular music started with Kraftwerk's 'Autobahn' in 1974. John Doran talks to Michael Rother, Hans-Joachim Roedelius and Karl Bartos about the build up to this flash point in musical history
A Quietus Interview
Laugh In The Face Of Dystopia: An Interview With tētēma’s Anthony Pateras
Australian avant garde mainstay Anthony Pateras and Faith No More's Mike Patton release extraordinary music together as tētēma. The former speaks to Patrick Clarke about their zealous, raging, multifaceted new album.
A Quietus Interview
Unsettling Horizon Lines: An Interview With Drew Daniel Of The Soft Pink Truth
Ahead of the release of his new record as The Soft Pink Truth, Drew Daniel talks to Kristen Gallerneaux about the influences behind Shall We Go On Sinning So That Grace May Increase? and rethinking ambient music
