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Bodies That Matter: Stina Nyberg At Block Universe Performance Festival

At this year's Block Universe festival of performance art, Stina Nyberg's Shapes of States stood out for its nuanced look at the conjoined histories of Taylorism, Biomechanics, and Swedish public health programmes

Box Fresh: A 2017 General Election Special

We forced our TV critic in residence John Tatlock to live-tweet last night's General Election, in this special edition of Box Fresh he reports back from the most extraordinary of nights in.

Over The Rainbow: Ritchie Blackmore Interviewed By Michael Hann

Ritchie Blackmore speaks to Michael Hann about the inspirational nature of Tommy Steele, playing badly on purpose and why he prefers the sackbut, the crumhorn, the shawm, the hurdy gurdy & mandola to the lute

Patrick Clarke On Hey Colossus’ The Guillotine

In The Guillotine Hey Colossus have hit a new peak just when it felt like there was no higher for them to climb. Patrick Clarke explores a ferocious call to arms and a militant articulation of turbulent times.

Ulrika Spacek

Modern English Decoration

Institute

Subordination

Georges Grünblatt

K-Priss (Reissue)

Oxbow

Thin Black Duke

Give A Million Percent: Jlin’s Baker’s Dozen

As rumours build of a collaboration between Jlin and Aphex Twin, the Indiana producer & writer of our 2015 Album Of The Year caught up with tQ to talk through 13 of her favourite songs and records

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For June By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner probes the boundary areas of punk and finds much to report back on

Whatever It Is, We Can Get Through It: An Interview With JD Samson

Disco will save us, heaven is other people, and we will survive. Ahead of her appearance at MIA's Meltdown, queer hero and renaissance woman JD Samson talks to Anna Wood

Chance Meetings: The Visual Art Of Nurse With Wound’s Steven Stapleton

Conor McGrady heads to Burren College of Art, currently hosting the first major solo exhibition of visual art by Steven Stapleton of Nurse With Wound

The Quietus’ Readers On Their General Election Fears & Hopes

Ahead of next week's General Election, we asked you our readers to tell us your hopes and fears for the state of the country after seven years of Tory government. Here's the bleak assessment

Spiritual Intensity: Idris Ackamoor Interviewed

Ahead of his appearance at Amsterdam's Dekmantel Festival in August, we speak to Idris Ackamoor about studying under Cecil Taylor, the history of The Pyramids and the group's legacy

What Kind Of Party Doesn’t Have A DJ? On Politics & Grime

Grime's enthusiasm for Jeremy Corbyn has been one of the oddest moments of an already strange general election campaign. But, argues Jeffrey Boakye, perhaps the two worlds of politics and the music of London's streets aren't so different after all

Three Decades On: One Thousand Years Of Trouble By Age Of Chance

Angus Batey revisits an unfairly overlooked album in the history of cut and paste music

House Of Cards Season 5 Reviewed By John Tatlock

House Of Cards Season 5, presents an oddly comforting vision of a White House with no bigger problems than a complete lack of morality, says John Tatlock. CONTAINS MILD SPOILERS

The Gallows Pole By Benjamin Myers: A Playlist

With his alternative history of the North out in shops now, author Ben Myers puts together a sonic accompaniment for the dark and sprawling wilderness he has conjured and reflected in The Gallows Pole

We Can Build You: The Handyman Aesthetic of Keef Winter

The Handyman aesthetic of Keef Winter marries sculpture to performance, environmental psychology to urbanism, architecture, and fine art

Here Time Becomes Space: From Jeremiah Day To John Latham

Jeremiah Day's performances draw on Hannar Arendt and the events of Taksim Square and Gezi Park. Arcade Gallery's show Even Dust Can Burst Into Flames puts Day alongside Anna Barham, Kit Craig, and John Latham

Mud And Flame: Penda’s Fen re-examined

In an piece exclusive to The Quietus, and continuing our series of articles examining the works of director Alan Clarke, Matthew Harle and James Machin examine one of Clarke's most eccentric works, the psychogeographical fantasia, Penda's Fen

Gravetemple

Impassable Fears

From Richard Dawson To Alice Coltrane: May’s Best New Music

As a year replete with glorious new LPs hurtles forth, here's the best music you may have missed in the last month

Turtle-y Tropical: The Red Turtle Reviewed

Matthew Conn reviews the first ever non-Japanese Studio Ghibli production, Michael Dudok De Witt's The Red Turtle

Saint Etienne

Home Counties

Danny Riley On Richard Dawson’s Peasant

In Peasant, the notoriously difficult eight album from Richard Dawson, Danny Riley finds a work reclaiming meaning of words like "folk" and "community," a complex parable and a force for unification in divisive times

Old Soul: XamVolo Interviewed

Patrick Clarke catches up with the formidable rising master of neo-soul to talk ambition, legitimacy and his mammoth new conceptual project - his debut LP.

It Was Fifty Years Ago Today… Pete Paphides On David Bowie’s Debut LP

Fifty years ago today, David Bowie released his debut album on the same day The Beatles gave the world Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Pete Paphides reflects on their shared cultural history and canny grasp of the times

Perfume Genius

No Shape

The Strange World Of… Momus

Taboo-shattering pop introvert Momus takes Ed Power on a guided tour of his unique and unpredictable adventures in music

Soul Soothers: Suzanne Ciani’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of her appearance at the environmentally sustainable electronic music festival Terraforma, Suzanne Ciani talks Jude Rogers through her favourite 13 albums, from Roxy Music to Pavarotti via Terry Riley and Eva Cassidy, Carole King and Penderecki

Why A Punk Fest Celebrating People Of Colour Is Needed In 2017

The history of punk is filled with genre-defying people of colour who have created new ways of approaching music, but they rarely get their fair due. This must change, argues Stephanie Phillips. Photo by Elise Rose