Essays, investigation and opinion on today’s cultural landscape
The success of Record Store Day has come at the price of manufacturing backlogs at the US and Europe's few remaining pressing plants. Lauren Martin visits GZ Media in the Czech Republic and speaks to UK company Keyproduction to look at the manufacturing process of vinyl and find out how they work to meet increasing demand
Sub Pop recently issued a deluxe version of Father John Misty's album featuring a "bulging thickness" in the packaging that warped the vinyl beyond repair. But, says Robert Barry, this is just the latest in a rich history of self-destroying art
In claiming their new album The Magic Whip to be 'Asia-inspired', Blur have become the latest in a line of Western musicians to boil down the diverse cultures of the most populated region in the world into one nonsensical mishmash, says Sandra Song
Reporting back from last night's vigil for the victims of yesterday's atrocity, our Paris correspondent Jeremy Allen asks how it will affect French society and, optimistically, if it will galvanise the nation's left
Before his appearance at Platform's celebration of the year's darkest, coldest quarter in Glasgow this weekend, the prolific singer-songwriter takes a moment to reflect on how a flu jab, a family away holidaying in Portugal and a lonely recording session in 2011 forever changed winter for him
Wild Beasts' singer and adopted Geordie Hayden Thorpe speaks to Andrew Fenwick about the joys, sorrows and injustices of supporting Newcastle United under Mike Ashley and Alan Pardew. Hayden Thorpe photographed live by Valerio Berdini
In the second of our series recounting independent musicians personal relationships with the beautiful game, British Sea Power's Martin Noble talks to Andrew Fenwick about eating crisps at Old Trafford, performing at an FA Cup Final and catching a glimpse of Sir Bobby Charlton's penis...
As The Apprentice returns to our television screens, Phil Harrison looks at how the programme, and 'business TV' in general, reflects the grim reality of the work market and wider culture in capitalist realist Britain
SBTRKT's new album Wonder Where We Land represents the apex of dubstep morphed into marketable navel-gazing romantic mithering. Is this closer to nu-folk than you might expect and the sound of post-Olympic Britain, asks Joe Kennedy
In our latest extended list feature, the Quietus staff and writers select a mighty list of the best, brightest and weirdest psychedelic music currently emerging from Europe. Lock the doors, shutter the windows, spark up a Bristol cone and prepare to be turned inside out...
John Doran wonders if there are any rules as to what makes a modern song psychedelic, or is it simply in the (third) eye of the beholder? With Spotify list of mind-warping office favourites from the history of the Quietus
Mr Agreeable once took a holiday in Southern Bavaria and for reasons that remain unclear has been furious at our Teutonic cousins ever since. Therefore tidings of a new book about German experimental music from the 60s and 70s broke his poached egg...