This week the Portal celebrates some of the biggest shows that tQ has ever attended – the good, the bad and the very ugly.

Mat Colegate mourns the passing of Michael Madsen by looking back three decades to Species which asks an unthinkable ...

Look! There he is! Cuthbert the horn-blowing turnip, back again with another gigantic playlist for our subscribers who make ...

We recently conducted a survey of Quietus subscribers to discover some of their motivations in supporting us. It can be hard ...

An album of experimental music made by Todmorden school children evokes The Necks, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a series ...

In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian ...

Pepe and Irene have been GrRzZz for 25 years and were musicians already before punk hit; David McKenna talks to an evergreen ...

Le Guess Who? has launched a fundraising campaign in order to help secure the festival’s future going forward. Citing rising ...

Sunshine cynicism from mid-70s Nigeria, The Lijadu Sisters deliver sharp political commentary in a soulful voice ...

Stevie Chick offers ten points of entry into the heaviocious back catalogue of South London rock destroyers Part Chimp ...

Writer film director Dave Tynan on the elegy he wrote for Smithfield Market, Northside, Dublin, Down The Market ...

Noel Gardner delivers another guide to the sound of New Weird Britain, taking in 16rpm street soul, the dub/folk connection, ...