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MIA To Release ‘Paper Planes’

Spool’s Out: Your Tape Cassette Release Roundup For June

Beatless techno, dub concrète, a sonic rock garden and sad gabber are among this month's best tape releases, picked by Tristan Bath

A Cinematic Lockdown: Confinement In the Films Of Alfred Hitchcock

On the fortieth anniversary of the death of Alfred Hitchcock and under Coronoavirus lockdown, Adam Scovell finds new meaning in the filmmaker's use of confinement and enclosed spaces

Ninja Tune Week: An Extract From Stevie Chick’s 20 Years Of Beats & Pieces

Continuing Ninja Tune week here on The Quietus, we have an extract from Stevie Chick's excellent new tome _20 Years Of Beats And Pieces_, plus a Q & A with the author himself

Out West: Patrick Haggerty Of Lavender Country Interviewed

Country's all men's men and woeful moaning about lost dames, right? Wrong: back in the early 70s Patrick Haggerty defied C&W conventions - and those of gay culture at the time - by releasing an out and proud country album. This is his story.