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Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
tQ Subscriber Release: Bruise Blood
Nov 29, 2024 · Mike Bourne, aka Bruise Blood, will be best known to tQ readers as one third of the magnificent Teeth Of The Sea, the sonic voyagers whose travels have taken them from sprawling psychedelic rock to immense prog wigouts, to the mutated beats of last year’s career-peak Hive and beyond. Bruise Blood, however, sees him set out on a journey of his own, one that’s been a long time coming; the ...
Tyler, The Creator – Chromakopia | The Quietus
Nov 1, 2024 · From the moment the first notes echo, Chromakopia reveals itself as a meticulously crafted auditory journey, laden with raw emotion, and seamless yet unpredictable transitions that pass by almost unnoticed. The opening line, spoken by Tyler’s mother, Bonita Smith, sets the album’s tone: “You are the light / It’s not on you, it’s in you / …
"Embrace It Or Fuck Off" - Robert Plant Interviewed - The Quietus
Nov 20, 2014 · Partly inspired by his break up with singer Patti Griffin and his increasing isolation in Texas, the album is a superb melting pot of influences that takes in West Coast psychedelia, North African music, loops, electronics, folk and country without it ever sounding like a cut and paste Frankenstein monster.
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Oct 31, 2024 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …
The Strange World Of… Gruff Rhys
Jan 17, 2024 · "I still feel I need to do something original", says Gruff Rhys as he ponders his ongoing motivation for making music. "I’m working with quite a limited palette in a way and just looking for ways to make unique music. I still feel there are things I need to try out. I still feel in […]
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A Quietus Interview Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole.
Taking It Easy: Joe Walsh Of The Eagles Interviewed
Jun 21, 2012 · That The Quietus is awaiting the presence of a superstar is well in evidence. The interview is scheduled to take place in a well-heeled hotel in Knightsbridge just a stone’s throw from Hyde Park. Awaiting the appointed hour in the lounge of a comfortable suite, your scribe is kept company by an online PR, a […]
Primal Scream – Come Ahead | The Quietus
Oct 30, 2024 · On Utopian Ashes, an album of fogeyish duets with ex-Savages vocalist Jehnny Beth, Gillespie strove to reinvent himself as a torch crooner, albeit one who still needed assistance from another singer.Following that yawn-inducing effort, Come Ahead was initially conceived as a solo album. We’re told it turned into a Primal Scream record when Gillespie asked the only other member remaining from ...