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Between Signal And Noise: The Feminist Soundscapes Of Aura Satz

With a newly commissioned work at the Science Gallery's Dark Matter exhibition, Aura Satz speaks to the Quietus about notation, embodiment, and rewriting history

Art

Is That All There Is To A Fire? Sophie Jung At Block Universe

At this year's Block Universe festival of performance art, Charlie Hardie takes in two performances by Sophie Jung

Books

The News As A Novel: Lee Brackstone Remembers Gordon Burn

Ten years after his death, writer Gordon Burn remains a powerful influence and a significant voice in British letters. Lee Brackstone recalls working with him at Faber and the genesis of Born Yesterday

Film

4 Years Ahead Of His Time: Stewart Lee & Michael Cumming On The Nightingales

Stewart Lee and Michael Cumming are making a film about Robert Lloyd and the Nightingales. Neil Fox caught up with them at this year's Sea Change Festival to see how they're getting along

Reviews

Various
Pure Sounds Of Michigan

Pure Sounds Of Michigan paints a beautiful but incomplete picture says Bernie Brooks

Reviews

Madonna
Madame X

For her fourteenth album, Madame X, Madonna hooks up with French producer Mirwais to produce a swirling fusion of trap, fado, dub, and disco, but the results end up sounding shallow and contrived, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Reviews

Radiohead
MINIDISCS [HACKED]

When hackers stole a cache of OK Computer demos, Radiohead responded by sticking the lot on Bandcamp. Darran Anderson dives deep into the trove

Album of the Week

Prince In A Camisole: Undressing The ‘Originals’ Album

Prince's newly released Originals album is a window into the artist's relationship with his female avatars

Live Reviews

Doubts Evaporate: Black Midi Live At EartH Hackney

Feted four piece play large London show in run up to release of debut album but how are they faring on the big stage, asks Sean Kitching

Black Sky Thinking

Modern Nature: On Derek Jarman’s Queer Landscape Writing

As Derek Jarman's Modern Nature is broadcast as Radio 4's Book of the Week, adaptor and radio producer Simon Richardson hymns the influence of this pioneering and inspirational work of queer nature writing.

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Madlib

Eden Tizard takes a look behind the bewildering array of aliases and the huge back catalogue in order to ask, who is Madlib?

Reviews

His Name Is Alive
All The Mirrors in the House

A collection of purported juvenalia that's better than it has any right to be. So much so, in fact, that Dustin Krcatovich isn't sure that he buys the story

Reviews

Heavy Bleeding
Heavy Bleeding

A collaboration between Heavy Lifting and the now-defunct Blood Sport, Heavy Bleeding’s posthumous debut is both deeply familiar and extraordinarily alien, says Bernie Brooks

A Quietus Interview

Horror Is Not Finely Shaded: An Interview with HARRGA

Pairing searing avant-garde electronics with multilingual meditations on the refugee crisis, HARRGA constitute a new, urgent kind of political project. In their first ever interview, Alastair Shuttleworth speaks to the duo about the roles of language, disorientation and terror in their debut album

Reviews

Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra
Plasma Splice Trifle

Plasma Splice Trifle brings together the talents of Astral Social Club and Grumbling Fur with sublime results, finds Tom Bolton

Reviews

Cate Le Bon
Reward

Reward, the new record by Cate Le Bon, finds the Welsh musician moving into ever stranger territory while summing up the best of all her previous records, finds Hayley Scott

Reviews

Stephen Shiell
Sonance

Vibrating with electrical and mythic energies, Stephen Shiell's Sonance is a widescreen treat for the ears, finds Robert Barry

Reviews

Sonic Youth
Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008

Three years before splitting up, Sonic Youth played Battery Park, New York. The recording originally came as a bonus disc with the first copies of their last album The Eternal. Now it receives a proper release. Brian Coney dives in

Black Sky Thinking

Wolves In The Sheep Pen: Fascism & The Czech Underground

Miloš Hroch investigates the ideological confusion which is rampant in the Czech extreme music underground and asks, how do we separate ideology from provocation?

Art

This Loud White Noise: Larry Achiampong’s Dividednation

At artist Larry Achiampong's most comprehensive show to date, Allan Gardner finds himself checking his own privilege

Books

A Person Of Interest: Kevin Breathnach’s Tunnel Vision

John Quin finds serious ambition in the new collection by Kevin Breathnach

Art

Artist-Run: Modern Finance At Thames-Side Studios

Modern Finance is a large group show at Thames-Side Studios Gallery featuring work by Alice Wilson, David Dipré, Mari Reijnders, Tash Kahn, and many others. Hannah Luxton talks to curators, Howard Dyke and Mike Gittings

Film

The Utopia Of Rules: 14 Paragraphs About John Wick

With the third chapter currently at UK cinemas, tQ attempts to unpick the untimely, negative triumph of the John Wick franchise

Books

Popular Front 2.0: An Interview With Paul Mason

With the publication of his new book, Clear Bright Future, Paul Mason talks to Michael Brooks about Brexit, fanaticism, and why Jason Bourne is basically an incel

Reviews

Zurkas Tepla
Occasion Smell

Time spent in the company of Russian electro-prankster Zurkas Tepla is never boring, finds Richard Foster

Reviews

Bruce Springsteen
Western Stars

Western Stars offers a rewarding hour in the company of the Boss, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey

Baker's Dozen

Unknown Pleasures At 40: Our Favourite Artists On Joy Division’s Debut

As Joy Division's still-staggering debut album turns 40, we present a Baker's Dozen of Baker's Dozens featuring artists and writers who picked Unknown Pleasures among their favourites of all time

Reviews

Skepta
Ignorance Is Bliss

Skepta returns with a new album, but this one's less of a trailblazer, more of a consolidation, finds James Ball

Album of the Week

Lonesome Valley High: Bill Callahan’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

It's been a while, but the artist formerly known as Smog is back with a new double album of peculiarly American romanticism, finds David Hering

Anniversary

Running Free: Looking Back 40 Years To The Birth Of NWOBHM

Michael Hann talks to Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Cronos of Venom, Biff Byford of Saxon and more about the grassroots movement termed the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal which revitalised the genre and laid the foundations for extreme metal as we know it today

Reviews

Plaid
Polymer

IDM duo Plaid are back, with their best album in a decade, finds Bob Cluness

Reviews

Harrga
Héroïques Animaux De La Misère

Harrga's uncompromising debut is harrowing liberation music, says Bernie Brooks

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Between Signal And Noise: The Feminist Soundscapes Of Aura Satz

Is That All There Is To A Fire? Sophie Jung At Block Universe

The News As A Novel: Lee Brackstone Remembers Gordon Burn

4 Years Ahead Of His Time: Stewart Lee & Michael Cumming On The Nightingales

Various Pure Sounds Of Michigan

Madonna Madame X

Radiohead MINIDISCS [HACKED]

Prince In A Camisole: Undressing The ‘Originals’ Album

Doubts Evaporate: Black Midi Live At EartH Hackney

Modern Nature: On Derek Jarman’s Queer Landscape Writing

The Strange World Of… Madlib

His Name Is Alive All The Mirrors in the House

Heavy Bleeding Heavy Bleeding

Horror Is Not Finely Shaded: An Interview with HARRGA

Astral Social Club & Grumbling Fur Time Machine Orchestra Plasma Splice Trifle

Cate Le Bon Reward

Stephen Shiell Sonance

Sonic Youth Battery Park, NYC: July 4, 2008

Wolves In The Sheep Pen: Fascism & The Czech Underground

This Loud White Noise: Larry Achiampong’s Dividednation

A Person Of Interest: Kevin Breathnach’s Tunnel Vision

Artist-Run: Modern Finance At Thames-Side Studios

The Utopia Of Rules: 14 Paragraphs About John Wick

Popular Front 2.0: An Interview With Paul Mason

Zurkas Tepla Occasion Smell

Bruce Springsteen Western Stars

Unknown Pleasures At 40: Our Favourite Artists On Joy Division’s Debut

Skepta Ignorance Is Bliss

Lonesome Valley High: Bill Callahan’s Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest

Running Free: Looking Back 40 Years To The Birth Of NWOBHM

Plaid Polymer

Harrga Héroïques Animaux De La Misère

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