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Look Upon These Works: Iain Sinclair Interviewed

Robin Turner talks to the writer Iain Sinclair about new book Ghost Milk and the folly of the Grand Project

Red Player One: Aaron Bastani’s Socialist Futures

Novara Media's Aaron Bastani discusses his new book Fully Automated Luxury Communism and why the future isn't coming fast enough

Love Like Rain: Ann Peebles & Don Bryant Interviewed

tQ is in partnership with Oda, a new speaker system that allows artists including Ann Peebles and Don Bryant to broadcast directly into your home. Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to the legendary Memphis soul couple about telling stories, singing gospel, staying together, and their biggest hit, I Can’t Stand The Rain

PREVIEW: Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then

US filmmaker Brent Green chats to Kate Taylor about his remarkable, part-animated docudrama, ahead of its special Empire Drive-In screening at Abandon Normal Devices festival in Manchester

Still Corners

The Last Exit

The dream pop duo hit the road on their Americana-infused new album. Will Salmon rides shotgun

Proving Thatcher Wrong: Electro Duo Society Interviewed

tQ’s Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)

These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes, OSTs and etceteras of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers

Above The Clouds: An Interview With Main Attrakionz

Across a series of mixtapes and now a full-length album, Oakland rap duo Main Attrakionz have sunk their voices deep into a blissful fog of reverb and weed smoke. They speak to Kyle Ellison about why they're unfazed by the increasing attention on their music

Heavier Than A Skeletal Templar In A Lead Tunic: A Desertfest Playlist!

Ahead of The Quietus curating a stage at Camden's Underworld for this weekend's Desertfest, Mat Colegate picks a selection to get you in the mood for the carnage

Counting Down To Infinity: John Heckle Interviewed

With his raw and decidedly cosmic takes on house, Liverpool's John Heckle blasts off into deep space with only a cockpit's worth of hardware to keep him company. He speaks to Harry Sword about underage raving, missing records and his excellent new The Last Magic Maker mini-LP

High NRG Dancefloor Mayhem: An Interview With Blacknecks

Harry Sword meets the not-so-shadowy duo behind the belting Italo-gabber-techno of Blacknecks, responsible for some of the Quietus' favourite club bangers of the year so far, to chat boogie nights, tape loops and cereal boxes

Belle & Sebastian Launch Self-Isolation Project

'Protecting the Hive' will see the group collaborate with their fans while the COVID-19 lockdown continues

Ugly Beauty: The World Of Inturist

Jenya Gorbunov of Moscow’s brilliant Inturist and гш / Glintshake gives a rare interview, to Richard Foster, where we learn about ugly design, quotidian absurdisme, and why playing live should employ the whole body

Utopias Are Traps: Toyin Ojih Odutola On A Countervailing Theory

With her exhibition A Countervailing Theory currently occupying the Barbican's Curve Gallery, Nigerian-American artist Toyin Ojih Odutola talks to Amah-Rose Abrams about colonial legacies, world building, and escaping the Eurocentric gaze

Loraine James Shares New Song, ‘Let’s Go’

The Hyperdub artist's latest album is out later this month

It’s Like The New Past – Life Without Buildings Interviewed

On the 20th anniversary of their one and only studio album, Any Other City, 
Fergal Kinney speaks to Life Without Buildings about their short productive life and their incredibly long tail