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A Quietus Interview
No Affectation Of Misery: An Interview With Matthew Loveridge AKA MXLX
Inhabiting myriad identities to build an enormous catalogue of experimental music, Matthew Loveridge’s fascinating career was briefly paralysed by personal hardship. As he returns, Alastair Shuttleworth speaks to the enigmatic composer about anhedonia, abrasiveness, and the difficult birth of his new masterpiece
Baker's Dozen
Creating A Songwriter: The 13 Albums That Made Thundercat
The virtuoso bassist takes Rob Hakimian through his musical life story with a baker's dozen that traces his trajectory from kid messing with his parents' records to the in-demand player that he is today. Photographs by The1Point8.
Art
Time After Time: Athanasios Argianas’ Hollowed Water Playlist
Drawing together sculpture and sound, the ancient and modern, Athanasios Argianas's show Hollowed Water inhabited Camden Arts Centre before the lockdown and is now available to view online. Here the artist shares some of the images and sounds that inspired the exhibition
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture 2: Master Of Puppets Versus Reign In Blood
Low Culture is a new series where tQ writers use lockdown time to pull some of their favourite music, films, games and books off the shelves in order to tackle an idea that's been bugging them for a long time. In the second instalment Joel McIver grasps the mother of all nettles: who wrote the greatest thrash metal album - which essentially means who wrote the greatest heavy metal album - Metallica or Slayer?
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Rowland S Howard
Julian Marszalek spoke with colleagues and fans of the pioneering musician Rowland S Howard, including Mick Harvey, Lydia Lunch, Harry Howard, Genevieve McGuckin, Jonnine Standish, Daniel Miller and Henry Rollins, in order to get to grips with his work
A Quietus Interview
Animal Instinct: A Pet Shop Boys Interview
As Pet Shop Boys prepare to release a new single and release reissues of Chris Heath's classic books on the band, we delve back into the archive of our friends at The Stool Pigeon for an interview with Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe on why PSB are a post-punk group, the homogenisation of British culture, and why you should never trust West London hippies
Black Sky Thinking
How The Music Industry Took On Napster And (Not Everyone) Lost
Two decades on from Metallica's infamous decision to sue Napster, Eamonn Forde looks back and explores how the rock troupe's co-belligerent Dr Dre ended up outsmarting Ulrich & co, changing tack, and laughing all the way to the bank
Books
Swinging For The Fences: Sarah Elaine Smith’s Marilou Is Everywhere Playlist
Sarah Elaine Smith's new novel Marilou is Everywhere is a vividly brought to life tale of youthful misdeeds and a very peculiar kind of friendship told in sparking, vivacious prose. Here, the author guides us through the soundtrack to the book's writing
