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A Quietus Interview
Direct Action Gets the Goods: An Interview with Leather.head
Off the back of an incendiary debut record that was one of 2025’s best rock albums, Leather.head speak to Cal Cashin about the importance of keeping things political, uncompromising collaborations with poet Zia Ahmed, the reclamation of emo and more
Anniversary
How men are? The Preposterously Testosterone-fuelled Taxi Driver turns 50
John Quin presents a hormonally loaded take on Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader’s classic of male alienation. For top tier subscribers to this site, click below for a 'Quietus Essentials Playlist' guide to the cinematic music of Bernard Herrmann
Books
What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture, author Keith Jopling looks at the curious phenomenon of the 'vanishing LP' – as well as the ones that didn't
Folk
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Winter, by Patrick Clarke
In the return of his quarterly column exploring bold new takes on traditional music and sounds, Patrick Clarke speaks to the figures behind the new Black British Folk Collective about their story so far, and reviews eleven new records including harsh noise bodhran, an extraordinary Occitan freakout, Armenian duduk, Polish oberek and more
Album of the Week
Justice for All or Justice for None: Urgh by Mandy, Indiana
Manchester’s Mandy, Indiana haver never sounded so direct, so fierce, so angry as on this, their second album, a record which forcefully calls out rape culture and toxic masculinity amidst racing polyrhythms and a barrage of noise
Baker's Dozen
Doctor’s Orders: Peter Capaldi’s Favourite Albums
As he prepares to embark on his first ever headline music tour, Peter Capaldi takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, from the parallels between Talking Heads and Doctor Who, to the time he found himself in a room with Kate Bush
Books
Ain’t Hip To Be Labelled A Hippie: The Suburban Origins of De La Soul
The origins of hip hop may be indelibly associated with New York's Five Boroughs – and the South Bronx, in particular. But in the 1980s, Long Island's De La Soul – and near contemporaries like Biz Markie, Public Enemy and Rakim – brought a new suburban sensibility to the genre. In an exclusive extract from his new book, Living in a D.A.I.S.Y Age, West Virginia University Professor Austin McCoy recounts the group's early years
The Quietus International
DIY Against the Oligarchy: Underground Music in Tbilisi, by Nick Hudson
Nick Hudson reports from Georgia with his guide to the gripping, eclectic and unpredictable music currently being produced in the Tbilisi underground, and how the city's musical communities are stepping up in the face of significant repression
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