Patrick St. Michel

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024 (In Association With Norman Records)

As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

Nihiloxica

Kaloli

Hailing from Uganda (but recorded in Bradford), Nyege Nyege Tapes' alumni Nihiloxica offer up six musicians giving it six-nowt on their debut album for Crammed Discs

Sing, Cuckoo! Sing, Cuckoo! Green Man Festival Reviewed

Where Julian Marszalek witnesses a three-way battle for the past in an uncertain and tumultuous present, and Alix Buscovic parties with wicker men and wicked women

30 Years On: Morrissey’s Viva Hate Revisited

Thirty years after its release, John Freeman looks back at an album fuelled by hatred which contains some of the finest songs of Steven Patrick Morrissey’s solo career

Regis And Female’s ’90s Housewerk Records Reissued

The Downwards sub-label's first two releases are newly available to buy again

GUTS: Viv Albertine Interviewed

The Slits guitarist chats to Aug Stone about the intuition, coincidences, and going all the way that went into writing her autobiography

Forwards Not Forgetting: Owen Hatherley Interviewed

Jamie Sutcliffe talks to the firebrand of architechtural criticism Owen Hatherley about his recent book A New Kind Of Bleak. Main photo by Agata Pyzik

Iron Maiden: Officially Bigger Than Beethoven

Finds obscure yet righteous Classic FM chart

Columnus Metallicus: January’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Toby Cook

Toby Cook reviews all the metal that's fit for your shell-like: Napalm Death, The Body, Thou, Xibalba, Lotus Thief and Necrocanibalistic Vomitorium

Zola Jesus

Conatus

Johnny Marr Responds to Claims Made by Morrissey About The Smiths Trademark

The former The Smiths vocalist has recently alleged that Marr "ignored" an offer for a 2025 reunion tour and "blocked" plans for a greatest hits album

Europe Endless: Owen Hatherley On The Lost Continent

With his latest book, Trans-Europe Express, out now from Allen Lane, Owen Hatherley talks to Michael Brooks about the nation-state, open borders, and why Morrissey is "just like any other old fat cunt on the Spanish coast"

Self-Confident Weirdos: Kavus Torabi’s Favourite Albums

With Knifeworld's second album The Unravelling just out, Matt Evans gets the top albums rundown from the band's leader and prolific multi-instrumentalist

LIVE REPORT: Gnaoua Festival 2019

Yousif Nur visits the second ever Gnaoua Festival in The Hague and finds hidebound ideas about female representation in this strictly codified, Islamic trance music are being challenged

Clive Burr RIP

Former Iron Maiden and Samson drummer

Nicely Proposed, Coxy! Bradford Cox Of Deerhunter’s Favourite LPs

After we asked the Deerhunter and Atlas Sound man to pick his top LPs, Tristan Bath rang him in Atlanta and, over the course of a two-hour dog walk, had Bradford Cox talk through 13 albums of "accidents and starkness"