Oda To Joy: The Stereo System Bringing Terry Riley To Your Living Room

tQ is in partnership with Oda, a new speaker system that allows artists to broadcast directly into your home. With Laraaji, Madlib, Terry Riley, Mt Eerie, Arca and more already signed up for their first season, Jennifer Lucy Allan explores what this means in our current gigless crisis

‘White Light/White Heat, The Velvet Underground Day-By-Day’ Reviewed

Critic Steve Jelbert digs deep into the latest page in the VU's ongoing mythology

Hey Colossus

Cuckoo Live Life Like Cuckoo

Alternate Utopias: An Interview With Sarathy Korwar

Sarathy Korwar speaks to Patrick Clarke about how Indo-futurism, a colonialist critique of Thomas More’s Utopia, and the invention of his own new circular rhythm system have pushed his practise forwards on ambitious new album KALAK

Julie Byrne

The Greater Wings

Life goes on. Julie Byrne’s reflections on love and loss are breathtaking and beautiful, finds Jonathan Wright

Beijing Gallows: The Hanging Man Reviewed

Barnaby Martin’s show-stopping dispatch reveals more to Kiran Acharya than any document to date on Ai Weiwei’s place in China and the international art world and a rare glimpse in to the present and future of a secretive state

Kate Bush Did Not Discuss Playing Coachella

"It was never Kate’s intention to play any more shows than she did in London," a statement says

Pearson Sound To Release New Single

New 12" marks the producer's first release since his debut album earlier this year; listen to clips below

Kitchen’s Floor

Battle Of Brisbane

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: July 2024

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

The Coen Bros’ True Grit: Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld Interviewed

Daniel A Nixon sits down with Jeff Bridges and Hailee Steinfeld as they discuss father figures, eye-patches, and why Bridges' surly US Marshall is neither a John Wayne nor a Clint Eastwood prototype

FKA Twigs Releases New Single

Three years on from her last new track, FKA twigs returns

Reissue Of The Week: Heavenly Remixes By Andrew Weatherall

Darran Anderson looks at a pair of compilations drawing together some of the finest remixes constructed by Andrew Weatherall

Landfill Sprechgesang? Yard Act’s The Overload Reviewed

Fergal Kinney wonders if the trend for sprechgesang has started to lose its voice after immersing himself in Yard Act's highly praised new album

Depeche Mode’s Andy Fletcher Has Died, Aged 60

"Fletch had a heart of gold and was always there when you needed support," the band have said in a tribute statement

Joyful Transference, Against the Tide: Sunn O))) & More at Unsound New York

As the US reels from the re-election of Donald Trump, Jesse Dorris finds solace and inspiration in a fine weekend of concerts curated by Polish festival Unsound, from hunkering down to basement techno to riding the drone of Kali Malone and Sunn O))). Photos by Lawrence Sumulong.