As is now traditional on tQ, we combine our round-ups of the last two months of the year into one playlist and feature, to ...

Hey Colossus announce their 15th album in 22 years, Heaven Was Wild via the Christmas Day launch of a mini-documentary ...

A December afternoon, and I’m watching the afternoon sky turn from light to dark grey to black. An overgrown holly bush waves vigorously at me through the window. It is a stark backdrop, but one ...

Many Quietus readers will no doubt be familiar with Time Team, the archaeology programme broadcast by Channel 4 for a decade between 1994 and 2014 and recently revived online. Presented by actor Tony ...

Eagle-eyed tQ readers will have spotted that there was no best-of-November round-up last month, in order to make room for our ...

Shackleton has a new album on the way. Marking his first solo release for AD 93, the 10-track Euphoria Bound follows last year’s collaborative record with Holy Tongue, The Tumbling Psychic Joy Of Now, ...

Guitar strings are punished and reverb is smeared on My Disco guitarist Benjamin Andrews' tribute to Robert W. Chambers's gilded age gothic ...

Every year, when we publish our round-up of the year’s best albums, the default reaction on social media and certain corners of Reddit – yes, I have scanned them on occasion I’m afraid – is to assume ...

Deck the halls with boughs of melancholy as Sacrifice Zone – the energising Susu Laroche, an artist of French/Egyptian descent & the mysterious but ineluctable Josef Kurtz – present their debut live ...

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house not a creature was stirring, not even a clump of earthworms in a musician’s mouth. John and Luke, as has become part of tQ’s annual ...

Japanese Television's Al Brown eagerly licks the toxins off the back of a Sonoran desert toad and sinks into a bottomless funk of motorik rhythms, twisting basslines and Balearic guitars resulting in ...