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Black Sky Thinking Beyond the Black Eyed Dog: Why Nick Drake Deserves more than ‘Indiefication’ On the fiftieth anniversary of Nick Drake's death, Rob Chapman argues that his legacy has been let down by a culture that allows his mental health struggles to overshadow his art, and that turns his songs into fodder for wellness-adjacent twee whimsy
30 Years On: Remembering The Sundays’ Reading, Writing and …
Feb 10, 2010 · Admittedly, these are heights that would never be repeated; a second single apparently couldn’t be plucked from this because the band had no more songs that they could’ve put on the B-side (an issue reminiscent, in a curious parallel, of a certain New York band, also on Rough Trade, who could be said to have kick-started the decade that followed), second album Blind didn’t feature on ...
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Culture Countered. Founded in the UK in 2008, The Quietus is one of the world’s leading independent websites for quality longform writing on visionary and modernist music and culture, covering all genres with an equal weighting.
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
Baker's Dozen Straight Dubplate Business: Slimzee’s Favourite Tracks The godfather of grime takes Manu Ekanayake through thirteen favourite tracks, that soundtracked his journey through his part in the birth of grime, scaling tower blocks to set up pirate radio aerials, his hiatus following a mental breakdown, and helming chaotic raves from Milton Keynes to Ayia Napa
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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks V – How a Single Radio Show Shaped Odesa’s Music Scene. In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv’s 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, paying tribute to Twiggy Pop, and ask what is an Independent label, in Ukraine. The fifth Memory Leaks episode is a trip to the south of Ukraine in the 2000s and ...
Alison Moyet Interviewed: Only You – The Story & End Of Yazoo
May 4, 2011 · England’s post-punk mythos tells that certain towns became spawning grounds for the pioneering new sound, with Manchester, Sheffield, London and Liverpool generally acknowledged as the quadraphonic holy alliance that gave birth to the sound of Britain in the early 80s. However, often missed in the romantic recollections of …
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The Quietus International The Quietus International: Portuguese Music Reviewed by Pedro João Santos. In the second instalment of our journey through the global underground, Pedro João Santos delivers a guide to the bold musicians, daring festivals and crucial grassroots collectives that are defining DIY music in Portugal in an era of increasing gentrification, and picks out …
The Strange World Of… William S Burroughs
Sep 8, 2020 · The most transgressive of Beat-era authors, William S. Burroughs was an animating and enigmatic force behind the evolution of rock & roll in the 20th century. Although professing little interest in music, he nonetheless served as a catalyst in the creative and personal lives of The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, Patti […]
The Strange World Of… Chris Watson - The Quietus
Jan 25, 2023 · Over the course of tQ’s 15 years online, I can think of few other artists who have provided me such joy as Chris Watson, the sound recordist who began his musical career in the mid-1970s with Cabaret Voltaire and has now arguably reached as many ears as the world’s biggest music stars via his work recording the natural world for David Attenborough’s hugely popular documentaries.
Depeche Mode — Memento Mori - The Quietus
Mar 24, 2023 · First single ‘Ghosts Again’ – the one where everyone was looking for some clues or expecting maudlin reflection – is one of their most direct pop-facing delights of recent years, the sort of warm invite that a fan of the commercial end of things like Fletch would’ve approved of.