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Black Sky Thinking
Why The BBC’s Radio Cuts Are A Disaster For Our Cultural Health
Last week the BBC announced swingeing cuts to its leftfield programming on Radio 3, with Late Junction, Jazz Now and Music Planet hit. Richard Foster argues this is a short-sighted decision with far-reaching consequences
A Quietus Interview
Kick Out The Jams: Kikagaku Moyo Interviewed
Their unique brand of acid-tinged folk and psychedelic rock has seen the Japanese quintet break free from the constraints of their hometown scene. Derek Robertson meets them in Amsterdam to talk jam sessions, running a label, and why DIY is not necessarily the future
Books
I Am Reality: Butthole Surfers In Coffee Table Book Shocker
A lavish coffee table book about the Butthole Surfers may seem like a strange idea, but, finds Richard Fontenoy, Aaron Tanner's What Does Regret Mean succeeds in painting a vivid and persisting picture of what was at one point probably the most outrageous band the world had seen
A Quietus Interview
Language Defines Who You Are: An Interview With Charlotte Adigéry
A week ahead of two gigs in London and an appearance at Out The Frame festival in Ghent, Adam Quarshie caught up with Charlotte Adigéry to discuss ASMR videos, singing in multiple languages and the politics of hair
Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Sublime Frequencies
Ahead of a night dedicated to the label as part of Berlin's Find The File festival, Alan Bishop, one of the founders of Sublime Frequencies, picks ten points of entry into the crucial label's extraordinary back catalogue of sounds from across the globe
A Quietus Interview
Melted & Reformed: Drew Daniel On A Quarter Century Of Matmos
With their new album Plastic Anniversary, the exploratory sonic duo marks 25 years of life and work via the use and abuse of petroleum products. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett called up Matmos member Drew Daniel to ask about it all
Books
Books At Bedtime: Quietus Writers & Friends Reading For Pleasure
In a new semi-regular series, Quietus writers and friends talk about the books they read for pleasure and the rituals and habits they keep to while reading, with Lara C. Cory, Frances Castle of Claypipe Music, and tQ Books Editor Robert Barry
Film
Border Con-Troll: Ali Abassi, Eva Milander & Eero Milonoff Interview
Border, the second feature by director Ali Abassi (Shelley) is based on a short story by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In) drawing on the Nordic mythology of trolls, about a woman with strange gifts who works in border control. Robert Barry joins the director and stars, Eva Milander and Eero Milonoff
Rum Music
Listening With Uncertainty: Rum Music With Russell Cuzner
In which, upon its re-opening, we find the Rum Music Library haunted by the playback of an unlocatable recording as staff try to round up 2019’s first batch of sounds from the un-genre-ground, including the latest releases from Black to Comm, Howlround, Annabelle Playe, Andrew Liles, Rudolf Eb.er, Gaël Segalen, Sion Orgon and Maja Ratkje
