'What our new website will allow us to do is to keep celebrating the culture that has inspired us over 16 years and more than 30,000 articles thus far'

We’re All About The Love – Listen Here: A New Column, A New Quietus

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“I remember me and Steve [Harris] had the most terrific argument when we finished shooting the ‘Number of the Beast’ video. After that, we gradually settled into a bit of a truce.”

#BruceDickinson interviewed

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'As part of our #PetShopBoysWeek , we have regenerated #ThePortal to give a dive into The Quietus' archive of writing on Messrs. Tennant & Lowe'

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'An album that defies classification and bursts with existential meaning, with all the death and pain that go hand in hand with that percolating out of its ancient verses.'

Gordan - Gordan

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'We still think like children, because that’s the source of our creativity. Playfulness, pretending, that’s a huge part of what we do, so it still feels fresh.”

A Pet Shop Boys Interview

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.David Gedge are releasing a live album featuring recordings from a gig the band played in Strasbourg in 1994

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.Sleaford Mods are reissuing their breakthrough album 'Divide And Exit' to mark its 10th anniversary

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'The Director’s Cut is not so much a covers album as a nightmarish Dadaist tapestry where their own agenda interrupts hallowed compositions and, in many cases, shreds them to bits'

Reissue of the Week: Fantômas’ The Director’s Cut

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Jeremy Allen

'Sisso now incorporates an even wider array of influences in his music, from techno and footwork to Afrohouse and gqom'

Sisso & Maiko - Singeli Ya Maajabu

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'In those two years I learnt more transferable skills than I did from the GCSEs that I took during the same period, and not all of them involved getting as high as possible on a minuscule budget.'

Benjamin Myers On His Teenage Punk Band Sour Face

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'If you flip for crossover thrash then don’t waste another minute not listening to Nerve Agent, who come from Birmingham and just dropped their Game Of Death EP on
Noise Merchant Records'

NERVE AGENT - GAME OF DEATH - Straight Hedge! Punk & HC For May

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.John Doran and Luke Turner hymn a glorious compilation album which was released at pretty much exactly the same time as the Quietus launched...

Low Culture Podcast: Sprigs Of Time (78s From The EMI Archive)

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'As part of our #PetShopBoysWeek , we have regenerated #ThePortal to give a dive into The Quietus' archive of writing on Messrs. Tennant & Lowe'

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Pet Shop Boys

'This isn’t a rally against the world, an expression of a gnawing emptiness or a deep dive into desire. These are songs from a Beth Gibbons who is confident to present her innermost journey'

Beth Gibbons’ Lives Outgrown is tQ's Album of the Week

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'For better or worse, Play is the first record of the 21st century: the patient zero for a recording industry scrabbling to survive after the collapse of recorded music.'

How Moby’s Play Predicted The Collapse Of The Music Industry

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'In opposition to rock’s impetus, the band concentrates on individual phrases, which gradually develop, demonstrating the incredible beauty and possibilities of the electric guitar sound stripped of its rock ethos'

Ex-EasterIslandHead - Norther

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Jakub Knera

“Music, for both of us, has given us our lives, without having to rely on other people. The lives we’ve created comes out of using our wits. We’ve never ever been surrounded by ‘yes’ men or women'

A Pet Shop Boys Interview

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'Sheila Davis really knows what she’s talking about. To the point that what she’s telling you in a book like Songwriting Secrets almost verges on psychology...”

#TheStreets ’ A Grand Don’t Come For Free Revisited

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Striaght out of Dar Es Salaam, bringing the blistering 200 BPM, Technicolor sounds of singeli to the extended Nyege Nyege Tapes family

Sisso & Maiko - Singeli Ya Maajabu

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'It’s somewhat normal to be furious yet numb; profoundly sad yet totally void of the appropriate response mechanisms. South London vocalist and musician Wu-Lu has managed to capture this emptiness'

Wu-Lu - Learning To Swim On Empty

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