C’mon let’s work! C’mon let’s work it to the bone! We’re hitting 2026 with vim and vigour, and back down the rehearsal room hammering out new jams for a bunch of shows in the next few months. (1/4)

Can confirm this did take place, and moreover received a stern telling off from KR immediately afterwards

Don't have to try too hard to do this game as our first album launch was literally with Big Naturals

“More of a comment than a qu—“ *shot rings out*

Thanks to everyone that bought tickets for @bugpressure.bsky.social at Corsica Studios in March. That's now SOLD OUT. Last tickets for Holy Tongue, @teethofthesea.bsky.social & Pharaoh Overlord. dice.fm/bundles/cors...

Was there, and can attest this will doubtless be the greatest live album ever involving a hurdy-gurdy player who by the end of the set had drunk so much neat gin he couldn’t stand up.

My fave Snub TV moment remains the archetypally British moment where Pussy Galore's louche NYC cool is interrupted by a pissy Student Grant style ENTS manager telling them they have to get out of the dressing room in 5 minutes -4:31 here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpYv...

Guardian liveblog from the Oscar nominations, today in 2015. Eleven years on this remains a Typo World Record.

Two (2) high profile TV shows have now used The Prodigy’s Firestarter in a club scene in the last 12 months. Music supervisors acknowledge the last 30 years challenge.

And now for something different: Lady Sylvia Marsh from one of my faves, Lair of the White Worm !! 🐉 #artsky #lairofthewhiteworm #horror

❝𝗡𝗼𝘄 𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗺 𝗜? 𝗝𝗮𝗻𝘂𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝟭𝟬.❞‬ Grey Gardens, 1975

Nuts in May on BBC FOUR tonight.

Hawkwind photo archivist Pedro Bellavista has posted some excellent pics from the band's BBC Maida Vale session for the Johnny Walker Show, where they recorded versions of Silver Machine and Brainstorm (02/08/72). Here's a selection...

Quite extraordinary tangle of handbags here

The reckoning will come eventually that the vast majority of us actively *loathe* the AI that's now constantly up in our grill. Moreover the only FOMO relating to these sites originally was from our peer groups.

Daft Punk’s ‘Teachers’ loop starts…

So sorry to hear of the death of The Cure's Perry Bamonte, a former guitar tech who stepped up to become a full member for 15 years, an invaluable Swiss Army knife multi-instrumentalist. Every fan loved seeing him back on board for the Lost World tour. R.I.P. 'Teddy'. Love to his family & friends. x

“The comfort you have demanded is now mandatory.” - Jello Biafra, A Message From Our Sponsor.

Recent scrawl of @teethofthesea.bsky.social @rocketrecordings.bsky.social @thegreatbartoni.bsky.social live gig from last year from a forthcoming work in progress tome of illustrated live reviews.....

The Doom Generation (1995) Nihilistic, visually stunning road movie about a trio of troubled, horny young people travelling through America Written and directed by Gregg Araki - BOTD in 1959

Trump's statement about Rob Reiner shows the depth of his trench. USA, you elected someone who has no idea how to be a decent human being. Trump is destroying your humanity.

Something about the way David says "Barbershop raga!" speaks to a kind of self-flagellating exasperation every musician can relate to

Here we are again. 2026 is the ten year anniversary of this epochal moment of awkwardness, and some of us are still griping about it. Can we maybe agree this move hasn't been an unqualified success?

Years of high street music store experience has provided several similarly triggering artists - Dido, Zero Seven, but particularly Robbie Williams, whose smarmy ITV-Saturday-night clarion call only ever signifies that you’re on the tills with three hours to go.

Netflix limited series about the tortured genius artist who created old VHS covers

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...