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 ...

Stewart Lee and EarthBall synthesise alchemical gold out of the base materials of a confusing and badly planned conversation.

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, ...

Although the band’s early career was characterised by a revolving cast in the rhythm section, the departures of founding members Saul Adamczewski and Nathan Saoudi between third album Serf’s Up and ...

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 ...

“Not long now before I can review bands whose members are younger than this column,” I wrote back in summer, implicitly begging to be respected for a 15-year stint writing Noel’s Straight Hedge on ...

As Cave himself slides into his establishment artist era, a live set recorded in Europe in 2024 sounds best when you can still hear the old grime and the seediness, finds CJ Thorpe-Tracey With last ...