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 ...

From venue closures to VAT, conversations around the UK’s beleaguered nightlife sector have struck a singularly gloomy tone for more than a decade. But has that pessimism become part of the problem?

Following 2018’s Booker longlisted *The Water Cure* and 2020’s *Blue Ticket*, Sophie Mackintosh’s latest book marks the author’s first foray into historical fiction. In an interview with Miles ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

There is a peculiarly modern horror at the centre of Schattenfroh, Michael Lentz’ gargantuan, experimental novel, newly translated into English. The horror of the last century preyed on the blind ...

Depeche Mode have put out official releases covering the vast majority of their tours since the mid-1980s, whether via film, live album releases or more often than not both, so the release of Memento ...

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 ...