Stevie Chick

The Strange World Of… Brainiac

Stevie Chick speaks to John Schmersal in order to offer ten points of entry into the back catalogue of recently reconvened cult rock band Brainiac. Main portrait by Lee Ann McGuire

Reissue of the Week: Expansions by Lonnie Liston Smith

Genre purism be damned – there is no surer evidence of jazz’s immortality than the enduring influence of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ecstatic, eclectic and resolutely non-denominational call to spiritual arms, argues Stevie Chick

Reissue Of The Week: The Locust’s Peel Sessions

The half-eaten sausage would like to see you in his office, and when you're done in there, we'd like you to have a word with Stevie Chick who has something to say about this perfect moment of rock & roll

25 Years On: Mos Def and the Promise of Black On Both Sides

A quarter century since Black On Both Sides, Stevie Chick dives deep into a savage display of talent from a young artist ready to take it all on, and reflects on the dispersed promise of what was actually to follow

The Road from Seattle to Ireland: Lori Goldston Interviewed

Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth

Confusion Is Text: Thurston Moore Interviewed

The 65-year-old post punk powerhouse has just written an autobiography and is contemplating, he tells Stevie Chick, a brand new chapter of his life, as a writer. Home page portrait by Vera Marmelo

What Real Looks Like: They Hate Change Interviewed

Tampa Bay duo They Hate Change are just about to release the most dazzling hip hop LP of the year so far. Stevie Chick talks to Vonne and Dre about their magpie reach

After The Crash: Oneida’s John Colpitts Interviewed

When Oneida, Boredoms and Spiritualized drummer John Colpitts was involved in a serious road collision in 2018, he initially thought his ability to make music had been taken from him. He tells Stevie Chick about the long road to recovery and his new album, Music From The Accident

The Strange World Of… Howlin’ Rain

Ethan Miller, key cosmonaut with Comets On Fire and lead grizzly dreamer in Howlin’ Rain, recounts his path to neo-psychedelic nirvana to Stevie Chick, taking in feral punk rock, doomy folk and feedback-soaked poetry readings along the way

Playing More Music: Consolidated Interviewed

The American activist band Consolidated are back. Stevie Chick talks to Adam Sherburne about why it was time for new messages of militant tolerance and diatribes against capitalism

Everything’s Connected: Omar Rodríguez-López Favourite LPs

Former At The Drive In and Mars Volta member Omar Rodríguez-López speaks to Stevie Chick about the records that shaped his life, from Latin traditionals to how Janet Jackson got him into punk

Return Of The American Primitive: Joe Cardamone Interviewed

The Icarus Line is dead, but Joe Cardamone lives on. Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, he tells Stevie Chick about his searing new multimedia project, making art in the era of Trump, and how he survived the end of the greatest rock & roll band of his generation. Videos NSFW

A Cult Within A Cult: The Posies Interviewed

A Thousand Leaves: How Sonic Youth Chose The Wilderness

The alternative rock major label gold rush of the mid-90s didn't last long but it burned most of those involved, in one way or another. Stevie Chick examines how the New York mavericks managed to "quietly decouple" themselves from the mainstream and prepare for their final late period genius phase as he looks at A Thousand Leaves, which was released 20 years ago

The Moonbears

Let's Get Nice With...

Roots Bloody Roots: Mr Manuva Interviewed

Stevie Chick speaks to Rodney Smith about wanting to be somewhere between the Stone Roses and Linton Kwesi Johnson, Opal Fruits and sitting drunk in empty rooms 'talking' to people who aren't really there. Portraits by Shamil Tanna

The Afghan Whigs

Gentlemen At 21

Life After Brainiac: John Schmersal Of Vertical Scratchers Interviewed

Master Of The Dough, Stevie Chick talks to John Schmersal of Brainiac and Enon about keeping busy with Caribou, Crooks On Tape and Vertical Scratchers

The Icarus Line

Slave Vows

Rewire Your Brain: An Interview With Endless Boogie

New York's Endless Boogie couldn't be more aptly named, frying minds with sprawling, blues-tinted jams that seem to chug on forever. With career-best album Long Island just released, Stevie Chick speaks to the band's Paul Major about psychedelic experiences and intuition

Carlton Melton

Photos Of Photos

You’re Not Gonna Get Yours: Chuck D Of Public Enemy Interviewed

The Quietus' favourite hip hop group are back in the charts and their debut is now 25-years-old, so we sent Stevie Chick to get a Bakers Dozen from Chuck D. The power house rapper had other ideas however... Photo by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits

50 Years On: The Trial Revisited

Orson Welles' striking 1962 adaptation of the Franz Kafka novel has been newly issued on Blu-ray. Stevie Chick takes the witness stand

Like A Machine Destroying Everything: Monkey Island Interviewed Part One

Stevie Chick interviews Peter Bennett of Monkey Island, one of the greatest live groups ever and reistors to the gonzoid foofaraw of the music biz

Volting Ambition: Revenge Of The Electric Car Reviewed

American filmmaker Chris Paine follows up his lauded 2006 investigation Who Killed The Electric Car? Stevie Chick goes for a spin

“This Record Sold My Heart”: Bobby Womack Interviewed

"[This record] speaks for itself," says soul legend Bobby Womack of his new album. "If it didn’t sell no records at all, it sold my heart." In a frank conversation, he shares truths, histories and lessons learned with Stevie Chick

Queens Of The Stoned Age: THEESatisfaction Interviewed

Seattle-based "Empresses of Time" THEESatisfaction have just followed up a string of remarkable self-released records with their debut for Sub Pop. The duo tell Stevie Chick about bonding over music and embracing their weirdness

These You Have Loved: Part Chimp For Your Stereo

Stevie Chick is working on a massive history of London rock bastards Part Chimp for us. Ahead of this weekend's Supersonic he performs featurus interruptus to advise us on the purchase of their back catalogue with the help of Tim Cedar...

The Who

Live At Leeds: 40th Anniversary

The Heads

Relaxing With The Heads

Ninja Tune Week: An Extract From Stevie Chick’s 20 Years Of Beats & Pieces

Continuing Ninja Tune week here on The Quietus, we have an extract from Stevie Chick's excellent new tome _20 Years Of Beats And Pieces_, plus a Q & A with the author himself

Rise Above: An Extract From Stevie Chick’s Black Flag Biography

An excerpt from Stevie Chick's brilliant new book on the history of DIY hardcore heroes Black Flag