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Forgotten Words: The Raincoats’ Three Lives
Audrey Golden's book, Shouting Out Loud: Lives of The Raincoats, reframes punk history, making space for voices excluded from the usual male-dominated narratives of rock history
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Reissue Of The Week: Hell Hath No Fury by Clipse
Francis Buseko Mubanga looks back two decades to Clipse's Coke Rap album par excellence, reissued this week by CMG. Features a Clipse Quietus Essentials Playlist for top tier subscribers
Anniversary
Unbeatable: Drum’s Not Dead by Liars, 20 Years On
Two decades on from the release of Liars third album, Luke Turner argues that its percussive invention shouldn't obscure a rich, emotional core. For our top tier Subscriber Plus supporters, this Anniversary feature comes with a playlist by Liars of the music they were listening to when the album was made.
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Peaches
No Lube So Rude
Back after eleven years and filthier than ever, Peaches returns with an album full of bangers and more than a few profanities – but does it all get a bit one note sometimes?
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Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Anniversary
Unbeatable: Drum’s Not Dead by Liars, 20 Years On
Two decades on from the release of Liars third album, Luke Turner argues that its percussive invention shouldn't obscure a rich, emotional core. For our top tier Subscriber Plus supporters, this Anniversary feature comes with a playlist by Liars of the music they were listening to when the album was made.
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“It’s About Time We Brought Art In, Innit?” Talk Talk’s The Colour Of Spring at 40
Though eclipsed by what came in its wake, The Colour Of Spring, at the heart of Talk Talk’s catalogue, is no less astonishing. Forty years on, Wyndham Wallace commends the inaugural rebirth of Mark Hollis’ synthpop band. And for top tier subscribers there is a 'Quietus Essentials Playlist' guide to the music of Talk Talk
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Three Decades On: Sepultura’s Roots At 30
Three decades on from the release of Roots, Keith Kahn-Harris digs in to the legacy Sepultura's much vaunted sixth album. This feature was first published 15/02/21
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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
The Public Enemy frontman has always been one of rap music’s most articulate advocates, but in 2022 he shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, Chuck D talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future
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What Makes a Classic Album in the Streaming Era? or What Charli XCX Could Learn from The Police
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Body of Work: How the Album Outplayed the Algorithm and Survived Playlist Culture, author Keith Jopling looks at the curious phenomenon of the 'vanishing LP' – as well as the ones that didn't
