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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2025

Here's a playlist of everything we've covered at The Quietus this month, compiled for the listening pleasure of tQ's subscribers

LIVE REPORT: Badbadnotgood & Ghostface Killah

Yousif Nur reports from Electric Ballroom

The Strange World Of… Deerhoof

As they release their fifteenth album Future Teenage Cave Artists, Deerhoof take Patrick Clarke on a freewheeling ride through ten highlights from their career, from doing laundry halfway through a gig to the remote island school that set a ballet to their music

A Decade In Music: Myths Of The Digital, Post-Napster Age

As Lord Mandelson's anti-piracy Digital Economy Bill begins its uncertain journey through parliament, John Tatlock investigates the music industry's most troubled decade yet and says 'stop whining, it's only a scratch'.

Reel To Reel Cacophony: Jim Kerr Of Simple Minds’ Favourite Albums

With their sixteenth LP Big Music just out, the Glaswegian new wave veterans' frontman gives Mark Eglinton a Baker's Dozen of his top 13 formative influences

Inauthentic Scenarios: Oneohtrix Point Never On His Henri Rousseau Record

Angus Finlayson talks to sometime Brooklynite Oneohtrix Point Never about _Returnal_ - one of The Quietus' albums of the year so far - and finds him on characteristically articulate form

That Creeping Feeling: R. Crumb’s Art & Beauty

At David Zwirner's gallery in London, Suzie McCracken finds issue with the work of R. Crumb

LISTEN: Mogwai (Justin Broadrick Remix)

Get the Godflesh man's 'Reshape' of 'George Square Thatcher Death Party' from forthcoming Mogwai remix album

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Johnny Marr Comments On Morrissey’s Brexit Support

Morrissey's pro-Farage stance puts a dampener on any chance of a reunion of The Smiths, says Marr

The Month in Electronic Music: Cooly G & Cosmic Funk

Rory Gibb takes a journey through some of this month's choice club cuts, including new material from Hyperdub's Cooly G and DVA, an excellent album from Space Dimension Controller and the usual crop of Bristolian goodies