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Konstrukt To Tour UK Next Month

Turkish free jazz band heading to these shores very soon

Reverence Festival Approaching

Portugal's Reverence Festival boasts an all-star line up and invincible cost-benefit ratio

Things Learned At: Caught By The River Thames

At this year's inaugural Caught By The River Thames, Gary Budden and Tim Burrows learn their respective lessons about sex cults, Chris Packham and the enduring quality of the Super Furry Animals

READ: Pet Shop Boys — Smile If You Dare

In this extract from his book, Smile If You Dare, Ramzy Alwakeel considers the parallels between the Pet Shop Boys' Very and the immersive world of video games

Cosey Fanni Tutti To Publish Memoir

Out on Faber Social next spring

The Bird Is The Word: Milhões De Festa Reviewed

Do you want to run an amazing cross-genre, challenging festival? No problem. All you need is giant chickens, a swimming pool and fearless programming. Mat Colegate and John Doran reap the hairy caged whirlwind and report back with their findings

Things Learned At Festival d’été de Québec

At this year's Festival d'été de Québec (or Quebec City Summer Festival to the anglophone among us), inclusivity wins out, nature joins the party, and star power proves impressive but not to be the be all and end all

Preview: La Route Du Rock Festival

Running from the 11th to the 14th of August in the (sort of) historic Breton city of Saint-Malo, this year's La Route Du Rock festival promises another four days of looking ahead and looking over your shoulder in a setting that remains hard to top

A King Has Passed: Alan Vega Remembered

Ben Graham pays a personal tribute to the suicide frontman, who has left us just when we need him the most, while Tim Cooper recalls the vicious spectacle of watching the duo play live and Alan Vega the visionary conceptual artist

Suicide’s Alan Vega Dies At 78

As a statement via his friend Henry Rollins' website sadly confirms the death of Suicide's Alan Vega, another creative force joins the silent majority in 2016

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal Gets An Iron Fisting For July

Our pals from Iron Fist magazine Louise Brown and Angela Davey set their sights on this month's heavy metal albums... and we've got an exclusive from Subrosa!

The Best New Music You Missed In June, Chosen By The Quietus

Here at The Quietus it seems we're not quite the all-seeing eye after all — just a few degrees off of omniscience. And, with that in mind, sometimes we miss things. Our unquestionable omnibenevolence, on the other hand, well, that's got us trying to correct ourselves for your benefit

LISTEN: New Pixies

The Boston band reveal their first album since 2014

ICH BIN EIN EUROPEAN: Bill Drummond Stands With A Romanian Gypsy Band

A week after Britain voted to leave the EU and the national mood darkened with racism, Bill Drummond has sent us this communiqué and short film of an action undertaken in Birmingham with a Romanian gypsy band. Text by Bill Drummond, photography by Tracey Moberly

Hope And Repulsion: The Quietus At Field Day 2016

Braving the mud for the festival's tenth anniversary — and with performances from PJ Harvey, Holly Herndon, Skepta and Fat White Family — Luke Turner, Lottie Brazier, William Doyle, Laurie Tuffrey, Emily Mackay, Glen Mcleod, Christian Eede and Julian Marszalek get stuck in to one of the UK's most varied and exciting festival bills. (Photographs by Valerio Berdini)

We Rule The School – Belle & Sebastian And Indie’s Troubling Cult Of Childhood

As Belle and Sebastian perform their first two albums at the Royal Albert Hall, Fergal Kinney examines indie’s long standing infatuation with all things adolescent, taking covering C86, twee, Orange Juice and the Smiths

WATCH: Chris Fonseca

A self-taugt dancer who lost his hearing at a young age, Chris Fonseca has partnered with Smirnoff to help promote dancefloor inclusivity as something for everyone

PREVIEW: Outline 2016

Philipp Gorbachev picks some choice Eastern European DJs that are doing it for him right now ahead of his appearance at Outline next month

LISTEN: New Vince Clarke & Paul Hartnoll

One half of Erasure teams up with one half of Orbital; listen to the results of the collaboration below

Coil Interview & Extract From England’s Hidden Reverse

The American writer Derek de Koff got in touch with us recently to offer us this rarely seen or read Coil interview (with John Balance and Peter Christopherson) from 2001. And we've also got a long extract from David Keenan's excellent England's Hidden Reverse on the narcotic and artistic influences on Love's Secret Doman. Thanks to Luke Cartledge & Mark Pilkington

Thurston Moore On Mayhem

Sonic Youth musician/Ecstatic Peace boss's afterword to Jorn 'Necrobutcher' Stubberud's biography of the early years of Mayhem

May’s Best Music, Chosen By The Quietus

In the second instalment of this undeniably consummate column, Quietus staff pick their favourite albums, EPs, tracks and reissues of the month, shining a light on things we've not managed to cover on the site and nodding toward a handful of the best of what's already been reviewed

Beth Orton On Her New Album

Beth Orton goes in-depth on her new album ahead of its release next weekend

PLAYLIST: Guruguru Brain’s Asian PZYK Scene

Team behind Tokyo-based psych label put together a playlist of selections from across the Asian psych underground ahead of Liverpool Psych Fest

Night Call: The Art Of Thalma Goldman

In an exclusive extract from their new book about her, Richard Hallam and Sylvie Venet-Tupy discuss the life and work of artist and animator Thalma Goldman

Lush Live In London – Photographs

PLAYLIST: Love Cult’s Favourite Current Russian Artists

Ahead of their London show this Friday, the Russian duo recommend 10 acts from their home country

April’s Best Music, Chosen By The Quietus

In the first of a new column, Quietus staff pick their favourite albums and EPs of the month not covered on the site and a handful of the best of what's already been reviewed. Comments are open (with cautious optimism), so let us know what you'd have chosen

If This Is A Man: Son Of Saul Reviewed

Michael Brooks assesses the Academy Award winning holocaust drama, which is out in cinemas now

Injustice For All: The Quietus Writers Pick Their Favourite Underrated Films

The Quietus film team come together to celebrate the little films that could... but didn't.

Prince: Revolutionary Transmissions From Beyond The Greatest Hits

While there's nothing wrong with a Prince hits anthology or two, this doesn't even begin to tell the story. Petra Davis, Joe Stannard, Al Denney, Wyndham Wallace, David Moats and John Tatlock choose their favourite non-single tracks... (republished 21st April 2016 - RIP Prince)

Three Songs No Flash: Two Views From Tallinn Music Week 2016

Richard Foster provides us with a primer of new Estonian music while Tristan Bath looks at Tallinn Music Week in the context of the Union