William Snelling explores how the John Fahey's combination of simplicity and atmosphere continues to hold sway over myriad ...

Matt Berry takes us through his favourite records, from a teenage obsession with Tubular Bells to the London pub where Danger ...

Based in the Angré neighbourhood in Abidjan, the country’s largest city, Nida, Block Dog & African Diplomat are an excellent ...

In an exclusive extract from his new book Join The Future, a history of Sheffield bleep techno, Matt Anniss details Cabaret Voltaire's conversion to club sounds and the birth of Sweet Exorcist They ...

Your final tQ subscriber download of the year comes from none other than our albums of the year chart toppers Ex-Easter ...

As one of your many, many perks for becoming a Quietus subscriber, we’re compiling a specially-curated, playlist for our readers every month. Given that last month’s playlist was handed over to the ...

After cheering up the nation with her lockdown kitchen discos, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes Fergal Kinney through her 13 favourite albums, from Blur to Madonna, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and musicals ...

In an exclusive extract from his new book, Daft Punk's Discovery: The Future Unfurled, Ben Cardew explores the collaboration between the French dance duo and New Jersey garage kingpin behind the ...

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 ...

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 ...

12 Bar Club, Friday 25th April. The British geezer is under threat, his pleasures denied, mocked and ignored by the media, and apparently prey to the temptations of the EDL. In Sleaford Mods, asks Kev ...