As is now traditional on tQ, we combine our round-ups of the last two months of the year into one playlist and feature, to ...

“There is a cosmic force at play with this band!” Hey Colossus – never doing anything the easy way – have just announced their new album on Christmas Day, via a mini documentary, streaming above, ...

From venue closures to VAT, conversations around the UK’s beleaguered nightlife sector have struck a singularly gloomy tone for more than a decade. But has that pessimism become part of the problem?

Following 2018’s Booker longlisted *The Water Cure* and 2020’s *Blue Ticket*, Sophie Mackintosh’s latest book marks the author’s first foray into historical fiction. In an interview with Miles ...

When you look at Chino Moreno’s selections for his Bakers Dozen favourite albums, it’s hardly surprising that Deftones were able to escape the moronic nu metal mire that were at first part of. In fact ...

With its ecstatic chorus resembling ‘Crimson and Clover’ by Tommy James & the Shondells, ‘Alien’ is a charming account of stalking an object of desire. “I see you cry, see you trying to boil an egg, ...

Aphex Twin has shared two new songs via his user18081971 SoundCloud account. The two tracks are titled ‘Zahl am1 live track 1’ and ‘Zahl am1 live track 1c f760m1 unfinshd’, and are alternate versions ...

With the very rare exception, albums consciously released on Samhain itself are, at best, wax-dripped approximations of magick, spellwork as press-cycle. Night CRIÚ, Hilary Woods’ fourth album for ...

Japanese hardcore / noise-rock duo Melt-Banana return nine years since their last album, with a project that challenges everything we think we know about hardcore It’s been a little while since ...

It’s been such a long time since Eiko Ishibashi produced the kind of leftfield pop music that her early solo work centered around, you might have assumed she was finished with the medium. She’s ...

In 1952 the chemist and rocket engineer Jack Parsons died from wounds that he sustained during an accidental explosion whilst working in his home laboratory on explosives for a film set. Upon hearing ...

Many Quietus readers will no doubt be familiar with Time Team, the archaeology programme broadcast by Channel 4 for a decade between 1994 and 2014 and recently revived online. Presented by actor Tony ...