Daily Newsletter, July 2, 2024

We’ve recently been running a sale on subscriptions to The Quietus that highlights one of the paradoxes of trying to keep our operation going in 2024: it’d take just 1% of our readers joining up to secure the future of the site beyond our sixteenth year. I imagine similar maths work for many of the […]

Finally! After multiple weeks with upwards of 400 releases, the music gods are finally taking a break for the summer — or at least for the week. Of course, break is a relative term — there are still more than 300 albums, EPs, singles, box sets, compilations, anthologies, retrospectives, soundtracks, vinyl reissues and cassettes on […]

July begins and Glastonbury ends. The UK's biggest festival was one laden with highs and lows, which we look back on now.

The music streaming giant is hiking prices, fighting lawsuits, and laying off employees. But hey, at least investors are happy.

Their third album, complete with I’m Not In Love, moved away from three-minute singles and embraced opera and concept pop. Did it also inspire Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody?

Spend a year with Robyn Hitchcock, make a pre-emptive strike with Radio Birdman, get a piece of Billy Childish’s mind, riff with Earl Slick, prowl Serge Gainsbourg’s Paris, and more great holiday reads. Let’s crack the covers:   1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left By Robyn Hitchcock THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “1967: […]

This year will see the re-release of the documentary 'Heaven Adores You' and a tribute concert, in celebration of Elliot Smith's birthday.

The Who's iconic rock opera 'Quadrophenia' was a landmark rock opera, now it's being turned into a ballet set for 2025.

By Ljubinko Zivkovic, Rock At Night Amsterdam Review: The Speed of Sound – ‘A Cornucopia: Minerva‘  – Release date: April 26, 2024  If you have forgotten some of the great indie names of the eighties [...]

No film genre is more American than the Western, and these are cinema's most enduring and revered entries into to legend of the Old West.