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WEBThe ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual ...
About Us - The Quietus
WEBFounded 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. The Quietus treats the emerging artists of the genre-melting present with the same reverence the mainstream reserves for the stale ...
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WEBIn the first of a new monthly series delving into DIY music scenes across the globe, Patrick St. Michel offers a guide to the experimental pranksters, sonic mish-mashes and technical innovations shaping the Japanese underground, and picks out five key releases. The Quietus International.
Reality Check: An Interview With Richard Dawson | The Quietus
WEBNov 8, 2022 · Reality Check: An Interview With Richard Dawson. Richard Dawson speaks to Patrick Clarke about his vast new album The Ruby Cord', the film that accompanies its 41-minute lead single 'The Hermit', virtual reality and non-linear time. “I might just grab something that seems pertinent,” says Richard Dawson …
Baker's Dozen - The Quietus
WEBMy Quest for Breaking Everything: John Cale’s Favourite Music. The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg. Baker's Dozen.
Maximum Drama: Lee Ranaldo's 13 Favourite Albums | The Quietus
WEBNov 8, 2017 · A list of Lee’s songs from ‘Eric’s Trip’ and ‘Hey Joni’ via ‘Mote’ to ‘Wish Fulfillment’, ‘Karen Koltrane’ and ‘Hoarfrost’ feels like they alone would have made a fantastic album let alone be part of a stellar oeuvre of truly equal, collective songwriting. It seemed only natural post-Sonic Youth that Lee would make ...
Reissue of the Week: Throbbing Gristle’s The Third Mind Movements
WEBAug 16, 2024 · Neither of the last pair of Throbbing Gristle reissues, TGCD1 or The Third Mind Movements, represent the TG of tabloid lore – the abrasive, confrontational, salacious “wreckers of civilisation”. Instead, these two albums offer a potent reminder of just how capable Cosey Fanni Tutti, Chris Carter, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Peter “Sleazy” Christopherson were at conjuring a deep ...
Give Up Your Enquiries: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut Turns 20
WEBJul 15, 2019 · Kubrick’s films have always been laced with conspiracy. He’d been partially blamed for an epidemic of gang violence following the controversial release of A Clockwork Orange and also accused of faking the Apollo 11 moon landing in 1969, later alleged to be using subliminal messaging in The Shining to apologise for doing so. The speculation is mostly a pile of cack.
The Quietus Radio
WEBFeb 2, 2017 · Show 51 – Hannah Peel. Friend of the Quietus Hannah Peel pops into tQHQ for a cup of tea and a chat about Barnsely-based cosmic explorer Mary Casio, the challenges of combining brass with synths and chooses all of today’s records inspired by the Cassini Probe’s death dive into the atmosphere of Saturn.
‘Everywhere At The End Of Time’ Becomes TikTok Challenge
WEBOct 19, 2020 · The Caretaker's crushing six-and-a-half-hour epic exploring dementia, 'Everywhere At The End Of Time', has been turned into a TikTok challenge. Leyland James Kirby gives us his reaction. Everywhere At The End Of Time, The Caretaker’s crushing six-and-a-half-hour album exploring dementia, has become an …