Jack Davies

Senyawa Detail New Album, ‘Alkisah’

The album's release coincides with their tenth anniversary as a band

Listen Here: The Sound of Crashing Waves

The Quietus' new column Listen Here is an anthology of sounds. This week John Doran recalls a wave heard up close. Portrait by Al Overdrive, design courtesy of Daniel Hall

PJ Harvey’s ‘Let England Shake’ Set For Vinyl Reissue

The 2011 album will be re-released alongside a 'Let England Shake - Demos' collection

John Frusciante

Letur-Lefr

Goat, TotS & More For Liverpool Psych Fest

2014 edition announced, with Gnod, Hills, Sudden Death Of Stars and more in first names on the line-up

How Live Aid Ruined My Life, By John Doran

In an extract from Jolly Lad, John Doran remembers how in 1985 Live Aid was one of the three events that set him off the straight and narrow into two decades of depression and alcoholism. Illustration by Krent Able

Music Of The Month: Things We’ve Loved This May

A selection of the finest albums, EPs and tracks that have received heavy rotation in our office this month, chosen for you by John Doran, Luke Turner, Christian Eede and Robert Barry

Twin Peaks Season Three: No Cosy Nostalgia

John Tatlock prepares himself some damn fine coffee and stays up all night to bring us the first review: The alpha programme of modern TV returns, but you'll find no cosy nostalgia here, he says

LISTEN: New PJ Harvey

PJ Harvey returns with the first taste of her forthcoming album; listen below

Gestures Of Defiance: The Hollow Of The Hand With PJ Harvey And Seamus Murphy

How do you celebrate your birthday if you’re PJ Harvey? With a night of new poetry, photography, film and music exploring warfare and its enduring legacy in the modern world. James MacKinnon is amazed

Tree Of Life: Mat Osman’s Debut Novel, The Ruins

In the first novel by Suede founder member Mat Osman, Aug Stone finds something magical, beating with strange desires

TONIGHT: tQ Ed John Doran In Liverpool

John Doran's UK tour in support of his book heads to Liverpool tonight featuring guests aplenty and readings from Jolly Lad

Junk Shop Classical on Vivaldi: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Unheard for 200 years, Vivaldi became a star for the second time when an Italian group had a hit album with The Four Seasons in 1955 – the same year that rock & roll exploded. But it was a brilliant 1970 recording by Britain’s Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields that, for better or worse, made it truly omnipresent

Rockfort! French Music For March Reviewed By David McKenna

David McKenna celebrates ten years of the Rockfort column and tackles folk, rap, the dark arts - and classic French Europop

Deeper Cuts Festival To Launch In Liverpool

Teeth of the Sea, Gum Takes Tooth and more will play the inaugural Deeper Cuts festival this July

Mollie Zhang On Pan Daijing’s Lack惊蛰

Delicate, visceral and grossly intimate, Pan Daijing's debut full-length is an unsettling triumph, says Mollie Zhang.