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The Portal: 2 February 2026
We’ve spent this afternoon having our heads fried by yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell, the new album from The Heads – especially the glorious heaven-shredding 20 minute track ‘It’s About Time… And Space’ (and with props to the cover artwork of an oil rig in heavy seas). With that in mind, we’re celebrating the group with two interviews from our archives. Earl Sweatshirt is currently on tour in the UK so we’re heading back to our Strange World Of Odd Future from a few years ago, and as Jimmy Eat World line up a US tour, we’ve got Emma Garland’s Three Album Run essay on why they’ve never been bettered in emo. We hope you’ve seen our essay in which Iranian artists discuss the recent uprising and brutal crackdown, and some of the problems in the Western response. To accompany that we’ve our Organic Intelligence feature on Iranian pop from the Caltex record label. With a new album from Beverly Glenn-Copeland out last week we revisit her Baker’s Dozen, mark the news of Michael Bracewell’s The Smiths – A Novella with our Quietus Interview from 2022, and herald Mayhem’s first UK dates in years with John Doran and Tony F Wilson in conversation on their connections with NWA.
A Quietus Interview
If That’s Not A Freak Out, Then I’m A Dutchman: The Heads Interviewed
All four members of cult stoner quartet The Heads talk to Tristan Bath about their "sloppy magnum opus" Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (currently riding high in tQ's reissues of the year chart) and how releasing a record is like taking a big shit
Baker's Dozen
Cabin Fever: Beverly Glenn-Copeland’s Favourite Music
Beverly Glenn-Copeland takes Stephanie Phillips through the albums that fuelled his love for music over the years, from the soundtracks to secluded woodland trips to meetings with younger artists inspired by his work and how he found the work of Sting
A Quietus Interview
Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere: A Rare Interview With The Heads
Jimmy Martin talks to reclusive Bristolian psychedelic warriors The Heads about being the UK's best cult rock group. Essential moral and technical guidance from their "whipping boy, dogsbody and chief enthusiast" Mr Simon Keeler
Black Sky Thinking
Three Album Run: How Emo Never Bettered Jimmy Eat World’s Static Prevails, Clarity and Bleed American
As the world was changing irreversibly, from 1999 to 2001 Jimmy Eat World went from DIY band done good, to powerhouse name, to international phenomenon – the story of emo itself in microcosm. For Emma Garland, their encapsulation of the subculture's multi-generational range is emo's definitive three album run
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