Having once listened to the NOW Xmas album on repeat for 15 Decembers solid for professional purposes, I can relate with confidence that the worst Xmas song is the grinding, tortuous, anhedoniac funeral march of Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade. No record on Earth sounds worse on a hangover.

As we enter the Yuletide season, this is my annual reminder to all of you that Ted Kotcheff’s WAKE IN FRIGHT (1971) is a Christmas film.

WHOA!

Don't be like Liam, the miserable old bore sat counting his dynamically-price-gouged Oasis tour coin like Smaug the dragon on his mountain of gold – get stuck into the joy of the new in tQ's albums of 2025: thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...

Joining our Corsica Studios closing parties on 18th of March is none other than The Bug who will be joined by a special MC he has a long history with and some of his biggest tunes. Tickets go on sale on Thursday at 10am. Save the ticket now via Dice as this one will fly! link.dice.fm/Ad5c37440481

Leonard Cohen loved Foetus. Leonard Cohen was right. I so miss Leonard Cohen being in this world. "Nobody ever masters the heart, it continues cooking like shish kebab"

Spot Alan Moore in his 6th form Northampton Grammar School photo, taken two days before he was expelled

Actor in the Fall shirt also almost certainly the only Stranger Things cast member to have played Supernormal (drumming for Comanechi, 2013)

Oh But You Can, Oh But You Will for me!

Candace Hiligoss in Carnival of Souls

Meredith Monk (with scenes from her film "Book of Days") - BOTD

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

i used to think the lyric was ‘i wanna rock and roll all night / and part of every day’ and i remember thinking, honestly that sounds reasonable

Big up Ben Wheatley, who has been creating and building a giant YouTube playlist of all the various BBC Arena documentaries from back in the day. It’s now featuring over 100 films. Loads of gold in here. youtube.com/playlist?lis...

No messing about here. Pharaoh Overlord!

2026! And what better to announce as our second show next year than this almighty hoedown in Bristol - chuffed to be in the company of almighty third eye seers and longtime raves of ours Acid Mothers Temple nd ur-klang monsters Thee Alcoholics! 24/04/26 = Psychic Warfare!

Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.

For years I had no idea where this much-used sample, which crops up in everything from Cypress Hill to Meat Beat Manifesto. Paula Abdul to Gunshot, came from - cheers Whosampled for clueing me in the other day that it was from this very moment - www.whosampled.com/Fiorello-La-...

Mike Bourne of Teeth of the Sea and Hirvikolari takes us on a dystopian synth-wave journey replete with industrial crunches and stabs of sub bass Bruise Blood - You Run Through This World Like An Open Razor buff.ly/bWWL3tX

Worth watching the furious and exasperated reactions to said masterpiece on this RIght-To-Reply show two weeks later, not to mention the producer with the distinct look of someone who's bitten off more than she can chew - www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUyh...

RELEASED TODAY: 'You Run Through the World Like An Open Razor' by Bruise Blood Teeth Of The Sea’s Mike Bourne blends neo-psych, shoegaze, alternative dance, and electronica on this Rocket-released debut. @rocketrecordings.bsky.social www.normanrecords.com/records/2115...

Loathe though I am to get into TV nostalgia here, bracing to countenance the pre-internet mayhem of Laurie Pike's anarchic 1991 phone-in show Ring My Bell, which it transpires was even more demented than I remember it

RIP Prunella Scales. Does so much with a fag, a box of chocolates, and little more than three words. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zva...

Brian Eno's Another Green World is a beautiful, tricksy album, summoning the wetlands of Suffolk and a playful yet melancholic childlike sensibility. A joy to speak to @juderogers.bsky.social about one of my favourite albums for tQ's Low Culture podcast: thequietus.com/subscriber-a...

@bruiseblood.bsky.social, the new project by Mike Bourne from @teethofthesea.bsky.social has just released his second single – the stunning, electronic 'shoegaze' noise of 'Until the Sun Breaks Down'. Watch the mesmerising self made video here: youtu.be/GaENuOPxhgo?...

No other film ending has ever gone this hard. Every time this rolls up on-screen I immediately think, “Damn right I have.”

a) Rewatching Mad Men atm and realised one of the plummy Putnam Powell & Love lads was the titular character in this b) Peter Cushing’s last screen role c) Contains a ‘sound weapon’ that is well TG-industrial in aspect

Eldritch Perennial Top Tenner

Surreal moments online from only a few years ago, an occasional series

Uncanny record, out of time and out of sight

Broadcast’s ‘Tender Buttons’ came out 20 years ago today. Take a look back at an eerie masterpiece…

Tbf, nothing will ever beat the GW website front page at that time. "The Queen is dead: PREPARE FOR SKIRMISH COMBAT!"

Was very honoured to be asked to play some trumpet on a few tunes in this great album, released today. alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/album/lsd

We have these three impressive albums up for presale over on the Rocket shop... Bruise Blood – You Run Through the World Like An Open Razor Smote – Songs from the Free House The Utopia Strong – Doperider ...infuse your world with these essential sounds: rocketrecordings.com/collections/...

Watch this great video for 'The Pressure', the first track to be revealed from Bruise Blood's @diemikemaschine.bsky.social debut album 'You Run Through the World Like An Open Razor': youtu.be/ATDAXEae1tU Preorder Ltd LP: rocketrecordings.com/products/you...

NATURAL BOURNE KILLER

@teethofthesea.bsky.social's Mike Bourne has revealed the debut album by new project Bruise Blood. The album titled 'You Run Through The World Like An Open Razor' is released on 31.10.25.  Watch the video for 'The Pressure': youtu.be/ATDAXEae1tU Preorder LP: rocketrecordings.com/products/you...

Saw a gig poster for Dozy Beaky Mick and Tich and thought "surely they're all dead" and oh boy this makes the Black Lace timeline look easy. They're onto the 3rd iteration of Mick and Tich, with Beaky the only original, although they did burn through two more Beakys in the 90s and 00s.

We are happy to announce that Launch420 is 'Doperider', the new album by The Utopia Strong – the cosmic trio that consists of Steve Davis, Kavus Torabi and Mike York. Watch the video for the first single to be revealed below – the blissful sound of 'Harpies': youtu.be/r86AVQAc8m8?...

15 years ago Supernormal Festival was born: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuFl... ...and still it is a festival that is never matched!

Monster record

Hear me out: Pete Steele biopic. A vampire/mythical demon lover who was ultimately happiest working for the Brooklyn Parks Dept. Bon mots and gallows humour galore. Magical realist elements. Jacob Elordi in a wig in lead role. Title: CENTREFOLD or BLACK NO. 1

The original US pressing of Trout Mask Replica is the finest example of this. 95% of the jackets suffer from ringwear, but 95% of the LPs appear not to have been played more than once. (Side 4 often appears to have never been played at all.)

RIP Terence Stamp - charisma personified, the arch-villain in the first movie I ever saw at the cinema, and a fave thesp ever since

The Greatest!

You guys really get played like a fiddle when it comes to Emerald Fennell. It's best to just accept that she is our generation's Michael Winner and you can decide if that's a good thing or not.

Presumably this, talked about a fair bit in Mick Farren's Give The Anarchist A Cigarette? - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phun_City

J.G. Ballard on the greatest gig he was ever at (from a 1995 issue of Q magazine).

Peter Dinklage stealing the entire movie in less than 5 minutes in Living In Oblivion

look man if your band does not or would not write songs about a wizard then quite frankly i don't give a shit