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Anniversary
Dub Stab In Duck Housing: The Residents ‘Break Through’ In 78
Sean Kitching argues that 1978s two most idiosyncratic releases, the Residents’ Duck Stab/Buster & Glen and Pere Ubu’s Dub Housing, both released on November 30 of that year, represent a pinnacle of individualism at the outer periphery of American art rock
Art
Long And Short Modernities: An Interview With Liam Gillick
In conjunction with his solo show of new work, just opened at the Kerlin Gallery in Dublin, Allan Gardner interviews Liam Gillick touching on his work and practice, the progression of contemporary art in the 21st century and the need for rethinking Modernism
Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical on Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor was the first musician of colour to become a superstar in 20th century Britain, says Phil Hebblethwaite, and then he all but disappeared from view. Who was he and why is it taking so long for us to recognise what he achieved, against impossible odds?
Black Sky Thinking
Beyond The Iron Gates: How Nazi-Satanists Infiltrated the UK Underground
In the second in our series exploring the connections between far right politics and music, Dylan Miller investigates the satanic-fascist Order Of Nine Angles and how, via musician and artist Richard Moult and the experimental folk scene, they have connected with the UK underground. Please note - this article contains imagery that some readers might find disturbing.
Black Sky Thinking
Why We’re Investigating Extreme Politics in Underground Music
With the far right in ascendence across the globe, there's never been a more necessary time to investigate fascist and racist infiltration, current and historical, into the underground culture we love. In an introductory essay to a new Quietus series, Dylan Miller explains why we're doing it
Black Sky Thinking
It’s Art, Darling: Kate Bush, Duckie & Loyalty In The Wilderness Years
Fame and favour are fickle, but some artists are forever in your heart and your record box, even if they have made an album with Lenny Henry. Here Mark Wood, aka The Blonde One of Duckie resident DJs The Readers Wifes, explains how a love for Kate Bush is what launched their two decades of dancefloor drama and mayhem
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Your Cassette Tape Release Roundup For November
For your tapedeck (and bandcamp) delectation, the finest new cassette releases, including the best Japanese producer you never heard of, the modern sound of the trombone, the early work of Rangers, and some postindustrial Northern primitive guitar
Anniversary
The Trouble With Ralph Bakshi’s The Lord Of The Rings & Other Tolkien Misadventures
American animating legend Ralph Bakshi attempted to bring J. R. R. Tolkien’s novel to the big screen over two decades before Peter Jackson. On its fortieth anniversary, our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett, takes a closer look at both the film as well as the numerous other attempts to present Tolkien, onscreen and off, in those years
