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Baker's Dozen
I Blame The Music: Lias Saoudi’s Baker’s Dozen
Lead singer of Fat White Family, Lias Saoudi, self-pens a Baker’s Dozen of thirteen musical choices that map his early life to the present day, from Ireland to Scotland, Cambodia to Algeria, via dark country and the howling void. With thanks to Adelle Stripe
Punk
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For February
Noel Gardner, bringing you news of a band called THATCHER'S SNATCH, sprints back into the pit with all that is good, bad and ugly, or named THATCHER'S SNATCH, in international punk rock, hc, oi, D-beat and crust. And, did we mention THATCHER'S SNATCH?
Anniversary
A Roll Of The Dice: Guided By Voices’ Propeller Turns 30
Prolific? GBV’s Robert Pollard has more side-projects than most other long-running bands have releases. As Propeller turns 30, Sean Kitching talks to Pollard and past band member, Tobin Sprout, about the album where it all starting falling into place
Remember Them…
Remembering Betty Davis And Her Legacy
Betty Davis was a mover and a shaker in the Greenwich Village of the late-1960s, she was a great musician but was also politically, sexually and sonically progressive, an explosive mix that was too much for many people in her own day. Words by John Doran
A Quietus Interview
Armed To The Teeth: An Interview With Kill Alters
Kill Alters’ Bonnie Baxter and Nicos Kennedy discuss the their new album Armed To The Teeth, a record long in the making and plagued with setbacks, that processes deep personal trauma into blisteringly powerful music. CW: Contains mention of child sexual abuse
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Low Culture Essay
Low Culture 1: The Velvet Underground Live In 1969
Low Culture is a new series where tQ writers use lockdown time to pull some of their favourite music, films, games and books off the shelves in order to tackle an idea that's been bugging them for a long time. In the first instalment John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale
The Quietus International
Tape Adapter: April’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed
In the first of a new ongoing column covering each month's most interesting (for both positive and negative reasons) hip hop mixtapes, Gary Suarez takes you on a whistlestop tour from echo-chamber halfstep to baseless swagger blather
Black Sky Thinking
Junk Shop Classical On Anja Thauer: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP
After a gifted German cellist called Anja Thauer took her own life in 1973, her story all but disappeared. Why? While making a Radio 3 documentary, Phil Hebblethwaite discovered that it may have been intentionally kept from the history books
