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Baker's Dozen
Playing The (Baker’s) Dozens: George Clinton’s Favourite Albums
With the funk kingpin and founder of Parliament and Funkadelic taking his bands on a festival tour this summer, Suzie McCracken caught up with him to find out about the 13 records that have stuck with him through his lifetime
A Quietus Interview
Immortal Party Poodles: An Interview With Warmduscher
As they prepare their first album for Bella Union, Warmduscher speak to Patrick Clarke about the inspiration of the “ancient caners” found at public WiFi hotspots, the pros and cons of proper studio time, and the greasy essence at the band’s core
News
GALLERY: Rowan Bulmer
In 2012, Tahita Bulmer of NYPC discovered masses of contact sheets of her father Rowan's photographs of the big names of Swinging London: Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger, Paul McCartney, Elton John and more among them. Here, Rowan talks Val Siebert through ten of our favourites. Photographs courtesy of Rowan Bulmer
Rum Music
On The Chopping Block: Transmissions From The Outer Reaches
Feel that rumbling underfoot? That's the sound of Rum Music emanating from the Quietus office, as Luke Turner and Rory Gibb take a tour through some of this month's outer reaches, via Emptyset, Man Forever, Thomas Koner, Human Greed, Richard Skelton & more
Black Sky Thinking
Music For Algorithms: In Search Of Eno’s Ambient Vision In A Spotify Era
As Brian Eno prepares to reissue his influential 'ambient' albums, William Doyle asks what significance the genre still has in a world of Spotify playlists designed for wellness pursuits and making admin bearable
Books
Crumbling Pillars Of Feminine Convention: Viv Albertine’s Autobiography
Rhian E. Jones delves deep in to Viv Albertine's autobiography, finding much more than just another punk memoir, something more like a treatise on socially and culturally accepted and expected modes of sex and sexuality, of femininity and the impact, immediate and enduring, of those eponymous clothes, music and boys
