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Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

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Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park

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Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

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“This is My Happening – and it Freaks Me Out!”: 10 of the All-Time Weirdest Rock’n’Roll Movies

Baker's Dozen

Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums

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Running Free: Tuff Times Never Last by Kokoroko

Baker's Dozen

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

Reviews

Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

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LISTEN: New Daniel O’Sullivan

The Grumbling Fur man's solo record VELD is due next month, listen to a new track 'The Swimmer' below.

A Quietus Interview

Driff-Raff: Happy Mondays, Bummed & Driffield

Soldiers, tequila and asti-spumanti slammers, ecstasy, guns, LSD, brandy and waitresses. The good, good, good, good, good, good, double-good recording of Bummed by the Happy Mondays as dimly remembered by Shaun Ryder, Bez and others and told to Daniel Dylan Wray

Black Sky Thinking

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern Defends Jamie Oliver

In this month's column, Sam Herlihy explains why the much derided TV chef should be clutched to our bosom. Photograph by Barney Britton www.photoinsensitive.com

Baker's Dozen

On Her Radio: Pauline Black’s 13 Favourite Albums

The Selecter leader and one of 2 Tone's most formidable figures takes Lois Wilson from Jimmy Cliff to Björk in this list of the LPs that shaped her

Anniversary

All Of This Is Coming Your Way: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People

Twenty-five years after the release of REM’s Automatic For The People, Stewart Smith looks back on a masterpiece of nostalgia and loss that still retains its mysteries

News

Harriet Harman Proposes Plan For Post-Brexit EU Touring

The Labour MP's 10-point plan has the backing of UK Music and the Musicians' Union

Baker's Dozen

Dulli Noted: Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs’ Favourite Albums

With Do To The Beast, the first Afghan Whigs album since 1998, recently released, frontman Greg Dulli takes Aug Stone through the crime scenes of his all-time top LPs

A Quietus Interview

Zarjaz Of Tronics & Freakapuss: Being A Real Person Is Overrated

Is Zarjaz, aka Ziro Baby, the UK's most underground cult star? Dale Shaw conducts the second ever interview with this most fantastical of characters

Anniversary

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Was David Bowie's trilogy actually a quadrilogy; heck, was it actually a pentalogy; or, asks Jeremy Allen, is Berlin simply a state of mind?

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

Jennifer Lucy Allan navigates a frustratingly patchy compilation that nevertheless is studded with some unusual gems

Live Reviews

Manic Street Preachers: Soulboys In Hammersmith. Plus Photos From The Band

Manic Street Preachers last week launched new album _Postcards From A Young Man_ at the Hammersmith Working Men's Club. Al Denney explains why they're as relevant now as in his days of teenage fandom. PLUS the Manics have given us a gallery of photographs taken during the day.

Album of the Week

Joseph Burnett On Emptyset’s Borders

In James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas' latest musical outing as Emptyset – an unsettling, dark and unrelenting piece of work – Joseph Burnett finds cause to question whether metal has ceded some of its traditional ground to electronic music

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Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

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Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

Uneasy on the Ear: An Interview with Lola De La Mata

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

“This is My Happening – and it Freaks Me Out!”: 10 of the All-Time Weirdest Rock’n’Roll Movies

Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums

Running Free: Tuff Times Never Last by Kokoroko

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

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Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

Previously Read

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Driff-Raff: Happy Mondays, Bummed & Driffield

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern Defends Jamie Oliver

On Her Radio: Pauline Black’s 13 Favourite Albums

All Of This Is Coming Your Way: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People

Harriet Harman Proposes Plan For Post-Brexit EU Touring

Dulli Noted: Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs’ Favourite Albums

Zarjaz Of Tronics & Freakapuss: Being A Real Person Is Overrated

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Reissue of the Week: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

Manic Street Preachers: Soulboys In Hammersmith. Plus Photos From The Band

Joseph Burnett On Emptyset’s Borders

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Sheer Momentum: Jack Barnett of These New Puritans’ Favourite Music

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

Confronting & Celebrating the Limits of the Body: Black Sabbath Live at Villa Park

Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

Uneasy on the Ear: An Interview with Lola De La Mata

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

“This is My Happening – and it Freaks Me Out!”: 10 of the All-Time Weirdest Rock’n’Roll Movies

Instant Grounding: Patrick Wolf’s Favourite Albums

Running Free: Tuff Times Never Last by Kokoroko

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

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Look into the Shadows: Peter Murphy’s Favourite Albums

Previously Read

LISTEN: New Daniel O’Sullivan

Driff-Raff: Happy Mondays, Bummed & Driffield

Sam Herlihy Of The Northwestern Defends Jamie Oliver

On Her Radio: Pauline Black’s 13 Favourite Albums

All Of This Is Coming Your Way: R.E.M.’s Automatic For The People

Harriet Harman Proposes Plan For Post-Brexit EU Touring

Dulli Noted: Greg Dulli Of The Afghan Whigs’ Favourite Albums

Zarjaz Of Tronics & Freakapuss: Being A Real Person Is Overrated

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Reissue of the Week: TV, Anime & Manga New Age Soundtracks 1984-1993

Manic Street Preachers: Soulboys In Hammersmith. Plus Photos From The Band

Joseph Burnett On Emptyset’s Borders

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