Hay no banda! There is no band… just two fine looking gentlemen of a certain age resplendent in their seasonal knitwear. John ...

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 ...

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 ...

Every year, when we publish our round-up of the year’s best albums, the default reaction on social media and certain corners of Reddit – yes, I have scanned them on occasion I’m afraid – is to assume ...

As Cave himself slides into his establishment artist era, a live set recorded in Europe in 2024 sounds best when you can still hear the old grime and the seediness, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey With last ...

The penultimate track on Kibrom Birhane’s Lisané Bahir, ‘AMEN’, has the voices of Ethiopian elders giving blessings over a slow swinging drum machine. A sequencer bubbles out a rubbery pattern beneath ...

Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins off the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in ...

Home Front’s third album lands with the uneasy thud of a watered-down Protomartyr filtered through the pop-punk polish of Green Day and the more saccharine edge of Turnstile. The vocals, presumably ...

‘World Building’, the opening track from Leather.head’s debut album, starts with a big bang of a guitar riff which subsides shortly after. The lulling pace of the song’s verse, echoing Alen Ginsberg’s ...

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 ...

One wet Autumn night, a photograph of a young woman appears on my Instagram feed. “Back in the day, I worked on Edge Of Darkness,” her post begins. I’m taken back to Bob Peck in the rain, Joanne ...

Footage from The Bug’s recent sold-out PRESSURE Berlin sets show heaving, sweaty crowds, losing themselves in Kevin Richard Martin’s genre-stretching dub and the pounding, cathartic barrage of low-end ...