Back in the 1980s, the sound of my mother’s hairdressing salon, Reflections, was one of real and fake sympathy, neighbourhood ...

Sandwell District were the Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young of austere techno, appearing and disappearing in a haze of bad vibes, Berlin drugs, and imperious, hard-to-find releases. Kiran Sande offers a ...

Pulp have revealed details of a UK and Ireland arena tour set to take place this summer. Marking their first live shows in both countries since 2023 – that previous run of gigs was their first in over ...

Kevin Martin and Dis Fig have released a special one-off collaborative track for Valentine’s Day – when we first listened to ...

There was a certain point where, and I know that it’s totally ludicrous to say this about a 20-minute-long song, I was like, ...

Ifetayo an Afro-centric 1976 album by the unique Trinidadian Black Truth Rhythm Band is reissued by Soundway Records ...

A trawl through the archives of one of the pioneers of Chigago footwork still has fresh ideas for the future of the genre, ...

Darran Anderson looks back a quarter of a century to the undersung album that might just have been the band's best Two themes are routinely described as transformative for Primal Scream’s celebrated ...

As they release a new live recording exclusively to tQ subscribers, Shovel Dance Collective speak to Patrick Clarke about the “density of human culture, death, and life” If you’ve read something you ...

Liverpool-based trio Stealing Sheep tell John Freeman how the glistening electronic pop of second album, Not Real, was all about making their "Sheepiness easier to understand" ...

Quietus writers and staff have chosen their favourite tracks of the year so far for your delectation. Contains monstrously long Spotify playlist. Where's my damn croissants says John Doran after two ...

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and ...