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One More Time Without Feeling: The Pet Shop Boys’ Hotspot

Madonna

Madame X

It Ain’t That Deep Either Way: Your February Pop Roundup

Madonna’s Rebel Heart: A Track By Track Review

Aidan Moffat Is Radge At Madge: Madonna’s Scottish Disappointment

Madonna

MDNA

Madonna

Celebration

Articles 17

Anniversary

There’s A Certain Satisfaction In A Little Bit Of Pain: Thirty Years of Madonna’s Erotica

30 years on, Matthew Barton explores how Erotica changed the game for mainstream pop stars, an album that traded Madonna’s imperial pop for deep bass, vinyl crackles, chilly house and spoken word
Books

Madonna At Sixty: Lucy O’Brien’s Ten Essential Tracks

Like An Icon, Lucy O’Brien’s newly revised, updated biography explores Madonna's inner turmoil and motivations. Here she picks the ten tracks that define the artist's career, with exclusive insights from the musicians and producers who helped her make them
Beyond The Hits

Rays Of Light: Madonna, Beyond The Hits

Here are fourteen killer deep cuts from across The Queen Of Pop's career that you might not have heard
Anniversary

To The Heart Of The Nightmare – Madonna’s Ray Of Light 20 Years On

Lucy O’Brien posits that, in the tradition of the 1970s-style concept album, Ray Of Light is Madonna’s Dark Side Of The Moon
A Quietus Interview

Independence & Influence: Seymour Stein Interviewed

Richard Foster meets the visionary entrepreneur who has been working near the heart of the music business since 1958
Black Sky Thinking

Piss Off! Mr Agreeable Makes A Deposit In Pop Stars’ Tidal Basin

As most of the world's (er America's) biggest pop stars gather together for a press conference announcing new streaming service Tidal, our old friend Mr Agreeable has choice words to say about their grab for cash
Black Sky Thinking

Jungle Clearing: Musicians Who Dream Of Excising Their Google Traces

Beige-yet-hip troupe Jungle have made an astounding effort to hide their identities. Is this to create an enigmatic non-presence, asks Robert Barry, or for the privately-educated duo to hide bracingly American Pyscho-esque comments about their grasping desire for fame?

Black Sky Thinking

Strike A Pose? Voguing, Ballroom & Cultural Appropriation

Niall Connolly explores some of the more thorny issues surrounding cultural appropriation of music and culture from strongly localised or marginalised communities - in this case, voguing and ballroom in the US
Anniversary

Lucky Star: Madonna’s Debut Album, 35 Years On

Matthew Lindsay studies the blonde's ambition to become one of the biggest stars of the 80s with her self-titled album of 1983
Books

David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Madonna & Asparagus: Kraftwerk In 1976

This extract from David Buckley's excellent new Kraftwerk biography Publikation (out now on Omnibus) looks at an album collaboration that didn't happen and an expedition to buy seasonal vegetables that did
Black Sky Thinking

Lady Gaga’s ‘Judas’ & The Betrayal Of Netocracy

Emily Bick looks at the similarities between Lady Gaga's 'Judas' shtick, subversive Swedish pop group Army Of Lovers and the affiliated Alexander Bard's Netocracy to argue that the star's glamourous facade is a "prophylactic barrier to two-way engagement"

A Quietus Interview

News Of The World: Kate Adie Interviewed On Music And War

Kate Adie is one of the most iconic British journalists of the last thirty years. Wyndham Wallace talks to her about war, peace, changes in the media and her role in the 1960s folk scene
Black Sky Thinking

Janelle Monáe: A New Pioneer Of Afrofuturism

Against a pop climate beset by fraudulent marketing plans on two shiny legs, John Calvert argues that Janelle Monáe brandishes the acetylene torch for radical Afrofuturism
Black Sky Thinking

Givin’ It To The Homegirl: The Trouble With Kelis

With Neil Kulkarni finding something rotten in the state of girl-pop, he turns up his nose at Kelis' curdled Milkshake and explains why Brit Envy has it right
A Quietus Interview

A Wild Nobility: An Adam Ant Exclusive By Simon Price

After a 15-year period away from the music business Adam Ant is back in the spotlight once again. Simon Price meets a musical maverick and iconic star of the 80s to talk inspiration, madness and coming back fighting
Film

Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes Reviewed

Robert Downey Jr is the saving grace of Guy Ritchie's Holmes adaptation, finds Jeremy Allen
A Quietus Interview

Beth Orton Tells The Untold Story Of The Birth Of Trailer Park

As she reissues her debut album _Trailer Park_, Beth Orton tells the Quietus how asking William Orbit for a cigarette changed her life. Interview by Luke Turner

Baker’s Dozen Appearances 7

Baker's Dozen

Finding Thrills: Georgia’s Favourite Albums

Georgia takes Jessica Wrigglesworth through the thirteen albums that shaped her life, from her love of Fever Ray, The Cure and Hudson Mohawke, to how Shuggie Otis inspired new album Euphoric
Baker's Dozen

Access All Areas: Barbara Charone’s Baker’s Dozen

The legendary music PR talks to Lucy O’Brien about the albums and the people who have most inspired her, from the Rolling Stones to Madonna, and why artists aren’t necessarily your friends
Baker's Dozen

Screaming The Street Down: Niven Govinden’s Favourite LPs

It's all bangers as writer Niven Govinden speaks to Paul Flynn about favourite records from Pet Shop Boys, Aretha, Solange, Madonna, Daft Punk and much more in this week's Baker's Dozen. Photo by Dan Lepard
Baker's Dozen

Time Portals: Sophie Ellis-Bextor’s Favourite Albums

After cheering up the nation with her lockdown kitchen discos, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes Fergal Kinney through her 13 favourite albums, from Blur to Madonna, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and musicals
Baker's Dozen

Musical Delicacies: Sébastien Tellier’s 13 Favourite Albums

In this week’s Baker’s Dozen the French producer and songwriter tells Rob Hakimian about 13 albums from his youth and early adulthood that left a lasting impression on the way he makes, listens to, and visualises music.
Baker's Dozen

Summer 13: Malcolm Middleton’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his sixth album, Summer Of '13, and before Arab Strap play their anniversary gigs later this year, the musician talks Nicola Meighan through the records that have had the biggest effect on him
Baker's Dozen

Taking Out The Thrash: Scott Ian Of Anthrax’s Top Albums From 1986

To mark 30 years since 1986, a pivotal moment for metal, Anthrax main man Scott Ian talks JR Moores through his 13 top albums from that year, moving from thrash classics through to landmark hip-hop and pop releases

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