CJ Thorpe-Tracey

The Low Culture Essay: Jeanette Leech on Elastica’s The Menace

In this month's essay, Jeanette Leech seeks to reclaim the legacy of Elastica's vastly underrated second album from prurient mutterings about drug addiction and the collapse of Britpop, celebrating Mark E. Smith collaborations and the birth of M.I.A.

Eminem

Relapse

WATCH: Teeth Of The Sea – Reaper

We always suspected they were evil...

Red Army Fiction Event This Week

Spoken word night, featuring tQ's John Doran, taking place on Thursday

Senyawa Return With New Album, ‘Vajranala’

The follow-up to 2021's 'Alkisah' is out in May

Things The Quietus Learned At Incubate 2013

Last week, the Quietus office relocated to Tilburg for the latest installment of Incubate Festival. Rory Gibb, Luke Turner, Mat Colegate and Laurie Tuffrey report back from the week's events

Kevin Cummins Talks Stone Roses Photos

The Third Coming, a retrospective of photos of the newly reformed Stone Roses by Ian Tilton, Kevin Cummins and Paul Slattery, runs until the 12th August at Whiteley's Bayswater. Helen Donlon caught up with Cummins and Slattery at the exhibition's opening to discuss their history with the band

Dredder Than Dredd: Geoff Barrow And Ben Salisbury On Drokk

Mat Colegate talks to Portishead's Geoff Barrow and soundtrack composer Ben Salisbury about their Judge Dredd inspired album Drokk. Warning - contains the phrase, "the ribald adventures of shape-shifting warrior oaf Slaine".

Lady Gaga

Artpop

Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Strong new albums from Mary Halvorson’s Code Girl, Nate Wooley’s Seven Storey Mountain, and New Hermitage nonchalantly reach beyond the language of jazz without abandoning its fundamental improvisational core, says Peter Margasak

Midnight Doesn’t Mean Anything: An Interview With Ned Beauman

Karl Smith speaks to the Man Booker long listed author and Granta Best Young Novelist about the difference between crack and classical music, talking with foxes and how his new novel, Glow, is as much a thriller as it is a love letter

Mani: Stone Roses Still “Light Years Ahead”

Bassist speaks about re-issue success

Trupa Trupa

Jolly New Songs

More dreamy catchy rock from Gdansk, with otherworldly shades of Barrett, Cope and Stereolab.

tQ And Faber Social Night

tQ's John Doran, John Niven, DBC Pierre and Wydnham Wallace all joining together for night of readings and entertainment hosted by Faber Social

Caterina Barbieri/ELEH

Split

Don’t just do something, sit there! New pieces from Caterina Barbieri and ELEH expand your mind, find strength in staticity

Wiley: Eskiboy’s Dalliance With An Electro-Dance Alliance

This week saw the first play of Wiley's new single with Chew Fu. 'Take That' meddles with electro; but is he already too far behind Dizzee, asks Tom Thurgood?