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From the esoteric to the sonic, tQ’s bookshelf revealed
The great Simon Reynolds talks to Colin McKean about his new tome Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction To Its Own Past, and explains why conditions for musicians and consumers today are unprecedented - even if the art itself isn't
This spring, a new exhibition of rare drawings and watercolours by Austrian artist Egon Schiele will open at Richard Nagy in Mayfair. In anticipation of that unveiling, Christiana Spens interviews Lewis Crofts, the author of The Pornographer of Vienna, a novel based on the tumultuous life of the artist.
As we look to Wire's future with their Quietus gig at the Lexington tonight and tomorrow, we look at a new book about Düsseldorf's Ratinger Hof venue, where Wire played in the late 1970s, and publish an extract where Colin Newman recalls how, in Düsseldorf, Wire felt at home. Wire live at the Ratinger Hof pic by Carmen Knoebe
"Her real transgression against the unwritten rock-hack rulebook was far more serious: she did not have a penis," says Stephen Dalton, as he reviews _Different For Girls: My True-Life Adventures In Pop_ by Sleeper singer Louise Wener
Tariq Goddard was recently given the International Independent Publishers Award for Horror. The Quietus brings you an extract from his new tome _The Picture Of Contented Wealth_ - the cover of which was designed by Suede's Matt Osman! Plus, an interview with the author himself
The third part of a story about alcoholism, terror, stupidity and a failure in the field of mountain climbing by John Doran. Photos courtesy of Holly Barringer, Helen Forster, Stuart Green and Maria Jefferis. (The last three I owe a massive debt of gratitude to and Holly a nice bottle of wine.)
The second part of a story about alcoholism, terror, stupidity and a failure in the field of mountain climbing by John Doran. Photos courtesy of Holly Barringer, Michael Gray and Maria Jefferis. Essential moral and technical help: Natasha Soobramanien
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