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Anniversary

As Good As New: 40 Years Of ABBA’s Voulez-Vous

In 1978, ABBA were on top of the world - No 1 hits, sell-out tours, a top-grossing movie, a set of Matchbox dolls: they had it all. So what happened when the inspiration ran dry? Matthew Barton investigates
Black Sky Thinking

Collective Dreaming: Inside The All-Female NYX Drone Choir

Whispering from the bones: Lisa Busby spends time with the NYX all-female drone choir to discover their philosophy of singing sharing, and shaking the foundations. Photos by Jamie Cameron.

News

Matana Roberts & More For Epping Forest Arts Fest

See below for Quietus involvement in The People's Forest, a special programme of music and more devoted to the unusual landscape of Epping Forest, East London
A Quietus Interview

Mirrored Bodies: An Interview With Hans Appelqvist

Hans Appelqvist’s latest stage show, which shows at Intonal festival, Malmö, Sweden, explores a controversial Japanese horror in the context of a first date. Matthew Neale talks to the Swedish artist about pornography, body genres, and why art doesn’t need to be therapeutic. Contains spoilers for film and show
Books

On Extinction and How Thomas Bernhard Can Save Us From Brexit

Faber Social’s Creative Director Lee Brackstone makes the case for Faber’s reissues of five Thomas Bernhard novels. With Spotify-based Soundtrack To The Abyss
Album of the Week

How Do We Feel When We Feel Alive – Rose Elinor Dougall’s A New Illusion

A New Illusion, the third solo album by Rose Elinor Dougall, is a record teeming with life, verve, and great warmth
Anniversary

RAR Power: Rock Against Racism 40 Years On

We need “a rank and file movement" to stand against the racist poison in culture more than ever, says author David Renton, looking back to 1979
News

Green Man Announces Talks Programme

Welsh festival unveils programme of talks include Jarvis Cocker and our Luke Turner
Books

Dead Precedents: How Hip Hop Hacked The Future

In an exclusive extract from his new book Dead Precedents: How Hip-Hop Defines the Future, Roy Christopher explores rap and cybernetics
Album of the Week

The Echoes Of Anxiety: The Caretaker’s Final Chapter

With Everywhere at the end of time – Stage 6, The Caretaker brings to a close a twenty-year project with a double album of heartbreaking, elegiac music, finds Maybury
Books

Books At Bedtime: Quietus Writers & Friends Reading For Pleasure

In a new semi-regular series, Quietus writers and friends talk about the books they read for pleasure and the rituals and habits they keep to while reading, with Lara C. Cory, Frances Castle of Claypipe Music, and tQ Books Editor Robert Barry
Reviews

Bilge Pump

We Love You

We Love You by Bilge Pump is out now on Gringo Records, an English Shellac who would rather chuckle than scream, finds Sam Saunders
News

READ: Brand New Mag Featuring Snapped Ankles

Print title also contains features on Jockstrap, Lice and Les Rallizes Denudes
Anniversary

The Sky Would Open Up: Twenty Years of Sleater-Kinney’s The Hot Rock

Len Lukowski explores what Sleater-Kinney’s uncompromising album of emotional extremes meant to a teenage queer in 1999, and what it means now, on the twentieth anniversary of its release
News

Tusk Festival Announces First Names

Gateshead do shapes up nicely for October!
News

Evan Dando On Lemonheads Varshons 2

Ahead of the Lemonheads live show at Kentish Town Forum on Tuesday February 19, Evan Dando talks us through all of the tracks on the new album Varshons 2
News

Skullflower Dropped From Raw Power

Skullflower dropped from bill due to racist associations, allegedly anti-Semitic language and use of Nazi symbolism
News

WATCH: These New Puritans Anti-Gravity

TNPs release another track ahead of new album, taking cues from Francis Bacon and William Blake
Beyond The Hits

Metallica… Beyond The Hits

David Bennun, Dean Brown, Louise Brown, Dan Franklin, Julian Marszalek, Jimmy Martin, Joel McIver, JR Moores and Ned Raggett look past The Metallica Collection to bring you the best of the album tracks, b-sides, live recordings and deep cuts
Live Reviews

The Shape Of Hardcore: Fucked Up Live At The Garage

The Canadian progressive punks have grow even further from the recognisable tropes of hardcore sonics with Dose Your Dreams, but Sophie Porter finds its original spirit in the band’s live performance in north London
Books

Beverley Hills Adjacent: Extract From Wayne Holloway’s Bindlestiff

In an exclusive extract from his new novel, Bindlestiff, Wayne Holloway takes us on a tour of that strange area of LA known as "Beverley Hills Adjacent"
Live Reviews

Presence Tense: Unsound Krakow Reviewed

John Doran and Luke Turner consider the theme of presence at the peerless Unsound festival in Krakow
Columns of the Year

Columnus Metallicus: The 20 Best Metal Albums Of 2018

Devastating multi-faceted gut-punches! Swirling maelstroms of blackness! Raging torrents of misanthropic hate! It can only be our top 20 metal records of 2018, selected by Louise Brown, Kez Whelan and Cheryl Carter
Books

Leaky Jars & Millennial Malaise: New Fiction By Geraldine Snell

Geraldine Snell's "non-fiction novella", overlove, is "concerned with love, boundaries, leaky jars and the female gaze in today's context of digital communication, millennial malaise and searching online for something 'more'." Read an exclusive extract below
Books

Hair And Angels: A Christmas Story By Marcel Theroux

Still looking for that last minute stocking filler? Marcel Theroux's An Unexpected Gift: Three Christmas Stories is one of the latest batch of small pamphlets from Rough Trade Books. Enjoy an exclusive extract below, entitled 'Hair and Angels"

In Conversation

Changing Fortunes: Vashti Bunyan & James Yorkston In Conversation

Ahead of a rare concert by Vashti Bunyan in Fife this weekend, she sits down with James Yorkston for a chat about nature and song and the nature of songs
Books

Make Way For Queer Communism: Owen Hatherley In Bishkek

In an exclusive extract from his new book The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space, out now from Repeater Books, Owen Hatherley, goes in search of Utopian Bishkek, only to find all is not what it at first seems
Books

The Monster In The Box: Amy Dresner On Addiction And After

In an exclusive extract from her new book, My Fair Junkie: A Memoir of Getting Dirty and Staying Clean, Amy Dresner recalls the halfway houses of the San Fernando Valley
Books

The Apartment: An Extract From Paradise Rot By Jenny Hval

An exclusive extract from the new book by Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
Film

The Future Is In Your Hands, Mr Travis: 45 Years Of O Lucky Man!

Ahead of its screening at Brighton's Cine City Festival, writer and actor Graham Duff looks back over 45 years of Lindsay Anderson's brilliant O Lucky Man!
News

WATCH: New Acid Mothers Temple Video

Psych legends Acid Mothers Temple share new single, and announce album and tour
News

Live Report: John Carpenter, Shepherds Bush Empire

Novelists Tariq Goddard and Carl Neville celebrate Halloween by going to see the maestro of the horror soundtrack live in concert at the Shepherds Bush Empire
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