When Einstürzende Neubauten formed in West Berlin 44 years ago, few would have predicted the speed-fuelled, metal-bashing industrial pioneers would be easing into their fifth decade by releasing their ...

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 ...

Alastair Mackinven, the musician, artist, painter, writer, and teacher, has died at the age of 53, following a long ...

If you’ve never been, Italy’s third-largest city is as frenetic, as chaotic, as you’ve heard; you need to keep your wits about you, remaining alert to the speeding motorini that are forever coming at ...

Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin ...

The American artist also known as Hayden Silas Anhedönia digs deep into twilit territories of Southern Gothic fiction and ...

I don’t know if it’s due to the rugged, physical performances or the nagging sense that this is a fly-on-the-wall recording ...

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

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

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

Bridget Hayden’s brand new album Cold Blows The Rain (Basin Rock) is, I feel confident in saying, the most accessible release this British underground keystone has put her name to in a quarter-century ...