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WEBIn this month's essay, Skye Butchard remembers their dad's collection of cassettes on which he recorded the 1981 radio version of Tolkien's classic to reflect on memory, archiving, and how familial relationships and loss are intrinsically bound up with the culture we share. Subscribers. The Quietus International.
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WEBIn the first of a new monthly series delving into DIY music scenes across the globe, Patrick St. Michel offers a guide to the experimental pranksters, sonic mish-mashes and technical innovations shaping the Japanese underground, and picks out five key releases. The Quietus International.
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
WEBMy Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music. The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg. Baker's Dozen.
The Endless Now: An Interview With Lisa O'Neill | The Quietus
WEBFeb 20, 2023 — The Irish singer-songwriter tells Jonathan Wright how embracing a lack of control, the influence of poet Patrick Kavanagh and the upheaval of the coronavirus pandemic influenced her new album All Of This Is Chance. Birds are a recurring motif in the songs of Lisa O’Neill, so it’s fitting that, within five minutes of our interview beginning ...
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WEBFounded in the UK in 2008, The Quietus is one of the world’s leading independent websites for quality longform writing on visionary and modernist music and culture, covering all genres with an equal weighting. The Quietus treats the emerging artists of the genre-melting present with the same reverence the mainstream reserves for the stale ...
Alison Moyet Interviewed: Only You – The Story & End Of Yazoo
WEBMay 4, 2011 — In an extensive interview about the history of life before, during and after Yazoo, Alison Moyet explains why her forthcoming Roundhouse performance with Vince Clarke could be the duo's last hurrah. Alison Moyet photo by Nicole Nodland. England’s post-punk mythos tells that certain towns became spawning grounds for …
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WEBTwo Quietus writers, JR Moores and Alex Maiolo, pay tribute to Steve Albini who died this week, remembering him not only for his innumerable contributions to music, but his humour, his generosity, his self-awareness, and his impact on keeping communities alive. Main photograph by Maria Jefferis. Remember Them….
30 Years On: Remembering The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and …
WEBFeb 10, 2010 — Iain Moffat looks at The Sundays' 'Reading, Writing and Arithmetic', originally released in 1990. The first great album of this decade is something that looks likely to be up for debate for some time yet, but there was a time when things were rather more clear-cut; specifically, thirty years ago. Of course, to really appreciate the impact of ...
Central To Process: Justin Broadrick’s Favourite Albums
WEBOct 16, 2014 — In a piece originally commissioned by The Bug's Kevin Martin, Justin Broadrick follows the release of Godflesh's new album A World Lit Only By Fire by taking a new spin on the Baker's Dozen format and talking Kate Hennessy through his current listening favourites. Photograph courtesy of VB. "So …
The Strange World Of… The Brian Jonestown Massacre
WEBOct 26, 2016 — Julian Marszalek Published 9:41am 26 October 2016. Formed in San Francisco in 1990, The Brian Jonestown Massacre have gone on to become one of the most influential neo-psychedelic bands in the world. In the process they have shaken off the tag of 60s revivalists by forging ahead with an exploratory attitude that has seen them – …
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