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Getting to the heart of what artists are thinking
From his first discovery of The Velvet Underground to a cruise with Father John Misty, via mixtapes personally compiled for him by Spacemen 3 and encounters with Alex Chilton, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through his favourite records
From demon-riffing drone-lords Bong to gruelling, piledriver punks Drunk In Hell, power trident-pronged psych outfit Blown Out, experimental soundtracking with Artifacts & Uranium, the atomic noise rock of Melting Hand and the crushing cosmic doom of 11Paranoias, plus a plethora of collaborations with luminaries from the Japanese psych underground, Mike Vest’s discography over the last decade is as dizzying as it gets. Ryan Walker attempts to deliver a guide to the 10 best points of entry
Andy Abbott speaks to Kat Lister his new album as ADRA, born from his work as a creative practitioner on psychiatric wards, how working with service users challenged preconceptions about who experimental music is 'for', and how it's changed his own creative philosophy moving forward
Ahead of a run of US and European shows, Anastasia Coope speaks to Tristan Gatward about how a lifetime in New York and the domestic sphere shaped her dreamy yet deliberate debut album Darning Woman
Valentina Magaletti, Joe Andrews and Tom Halstead – aka Moin – tell Tony Inglis about deconstructing genre and putting things back together piece by piece, and the enticing new avenues they're exploring on third album You Never End
As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be anti-war
A Quietus Interview
As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be anti-war
From the intensity of working with Scott Walker, to the transformative thrill of seeing Joy Division live, via Mahler, Brel and Bowie, former Virgin Prunes frontman Gavin Friday takes Julian Marszalek through the 13 albums that shaped him
From underage drinking soundtracked by Germs to the ton-of-bricks hit of Prince And The Revolution, via classics in hip hop, goth, easy listening and metal, former Liars and current Nonpareils musician Aaron Hemphill takes Luke Turner through an eclectic Baker's Dozen
Baker's Dozen
From underage drinking soundtracked by Germs to the ton-of-bricks hit of Prince And The Revolution, via classics in hip hop, goth, easy listening and metal, former Liars and current Nonpareils musician Aaron Hemphill takes Luke Turner through an eclectic Baker's Dozen
Our journalism is funded by our readers. Become a subscriber today to help champion our writing, plus enjoy bonus essays, podcasts, playlists and music downloads.
Support & Subscribe TodayAhead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us
We left musician Saint Leonard and the polymath Jonathan Meades alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked
We left Joel Gibb of Canadian group The Hidden Cameras and touring partner Owen Pallett alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked. Owen Pallett portrait by Jeff Bierk, Joel Gibb portrait by Alp Klanten
In Conversation
Ahead of the release of the This Is Memorial Device album, based on the play, which was in turn based on the novel, musician Stephen Pastel and writer David Keenan interview one another, without any interference from us
In Conversation
We left Joel Gibb of Canadian group The Hidden Cameras and touring partner Owen Pallett alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked. Owen Pallett portrait by Jeff Bierk, Joel Gibb portrait by Alp Klanten
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction
Things I Have Learned
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction
From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)
Fifteen years after the release of Radiohead's phenomenal OK Computer, we visit the Rock's Backpages archive for Paul Morley's Uncut magazine review
The Quietus are proud to be hosting the Village Mentality stage, headlined by Tortoise, at Field Day this Saturday. Writing for the Melody Maker in February 1996, Simon Reynolds heralded their album Millions Now Living Will Never Die as the future...
Rock's Backpages
From Rock's Backpages this month, an infamous NME pop summit from 1989. James Brown and Sean O'Hagan took Mark E Smith, Nick Cave & Shane MacGowan to the Montague Arms (RIP) in New Cross. Great merriment ensued... (republished 24th January 2018)
Rock's Backpages
The Quietus are proud to be hosting the Village Mentality stage, headlined by Tortoise, at Field Day this Saturday. Writing for the Melody Maker in February 1996, Simon Reynolds heralded their album Millions Now Living Will Never Die as the future...
On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that serve as guides to an intimidating post-Velvets discography
As the Brewis brothers, the mainstays of Field Music, prepare to release a new album, they guide Jonathan Wright through their work together – and apart – via 10 key releases
Strange World Of...
On the release of a new compilation of Lou Reed’s 1960s compositions at Pickwick Records, Wayne Gooderham surveys the sprawling solo career that was to come later, and picks out ten key tracks that serve as guides to an intimidating post-Velvets discography
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