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How Did A Major Label Manage To Lose A John Coltrane Record?
John Coltrane at Amsterdam airport, October 1963 (Hugo Van Gelderen/Dutch National Archive) It ...
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Why Everything Is Love Is Tidal's Last Desperate Throw Of The Dice
It is demonstrably not working; and yet they persist with it. One has to admire the unshakeable...
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Perfect Sound For A Little Longer: In Defence Of The CD
A man, fiftyish, walks into a record shop, accompanied by his daughter. While the young girl be...
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What Is New Weird Britain? A Guide To The UK Underground In 2018
Over the past year or so you might have noticed a new term cropping up on The Quietus: Ne...
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Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing
Lil Miquela is like every other pop star. The 19-year-old Brazilian-American appears on Instagr...
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Why Psychological Analysis Shows We're Right To Worry For Musicians' Mental Health
Last week brought the tragic news of the untimely death of Frightened Rabbit singer, Scott Hutc...
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No, Streaming Services Are Not 'Saving The Music Industry'
This week it was announced that streaming platforms generated $7.1 billion in revenue in 2017, ...
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The Quietus Essay
My Country Needs Me: on Sons Of Kemet’s Your Queen Is A Reptile
Photo by Guidou Pierrick Your Queen Is A Reptile comes dressed in a trickster’s puffer jacket. ...
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Id Versus Brain: Why We Love Bad Dancing In Pop
To imagine pop choreography is to imagine Britney's machinic popping and locking hips, Mariah C...
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Windrush & Anti-Semitism: When Politicians Play With Fire, Minorities Get Burned
Immigration has been unpopular throughout this country's modern political history. Every govern...
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