Thoroughly enjoyed One Battle After Another. DiCaprio’s worn-out Jack Dee face. Sean Penn’s bowlegged John Wayne fascist walk. The twinkle in Benicio’s eyes. Just great filmmaking. 🎥

Thank you @thequietus.com. Getting "Bartleby, the Scrivener" referenced in your Quietus review should come with an award, @spinal-bap.bsky.social.

I highly recommend everyone do that same 💎 🌊

While we’re celebrating the anniversary of Sonic Youth’s Washing Machine, here’s a reminder that the founding members of Mogwai used to repeatedly listen to The Diamond Sea, backwards as well as forwards. @mogwai.scot @plasmatron.bsky.social

THE DIAMOND SEA 🌊 💎 ❤️ 🎶

Music journalism was once funded by labels advertising. In 2025, barely any record labels advertise, instead paying influencers to gab on. If you believe in cultural criticism and long-form writing, becoming a tQ subscriber is one vital way to ensure it survives: thequietus.com/subscribers/

Great book. Highest recommend.

Electric Wizards! www.amazon.com/Electric-Wiz...

At the West Coast premiere of the new Butthole Surfers documentary 'The Hole Truth And Nothing Butt' Tuesday night, the band surprised the audience by reuniting for their first performance together in eight years

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The first release in over a decade from Icelandic electronic collective múm, "History of Silence” is our Album of the Day.

Our Strange World Of #Fugazi article is now accompanied by a curated playlist of essential tracks that define their career Join the Quietus Subscriber Plus tier for access (to this plus many more perks) buff.ly/P35PU1X

Fair to say that, on the strength of the book chapters on them by @michaelazerrad.bsky.social and @spinal-bap.bsky.social (among others), this will be worth watching...

Lou Reed & Metallica Metallica Anthrax Slayer

I hope everyone knows Jeffrey Lewis’ song about Tylenol (and that you read about him now in Record Collector). #Tylenol m.youtube.com/watch?v=VA5G...

Congratulations to book hero Robin Ince! As I’ve said before, one of the good guys. ✊👏💪📚

'Ganser still know how to rock - in a way that can be dubby and angular yet accessible rather than fiddly or overrefined. ‘Discount Diamonds’ is part-Fugazi and part-Sonic Youth, with bonus synths' Ganser - Animal Hospital buff.ly/lJhpFkA

Excuse the slightly battered CD case. #nowplaying Red Line by TRANS AM. One of America’s greatest ever bands? YES! 💿 #bringthefusion #pleaserecordanotheralbum

Today in intergenerational poser rock promo shoots: “What a coincidence! Your limbs get a lot colder than your chest, as well? This medical condition is the cross we three must bear.”

Recently inhaled Robin Ince’s first book of poetry. (Loved the prose parts too.) Dedicated to his favourite people with “J” names. Opens with a poem about a mobile library. 🚌 📚 Another one concerns Orbital. In case it needs repeating, Ince is one of the good guys. #booksky @robinince.bsky.social

Dreamt I met the two Michaels from REM. They seemed nice.

I want my country back … from those who profit as public transport is run into the ground , those who get rewards for putting shit in the sea, those financiers and bankers who will destabilise a country for a quick buck, basically everyone Farage will stand up for if he wins an election

Dan Franklin on DOPETHRONE @thequietus.com ⚡️ 🧙‍♂️ thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

It’s nice when other journalists mention a book you’ve written. Here’s Electric Wizards popping up in an article about the mighty PART CHIMP on the excellent Echoes And Dust site. Thanks @jonezyboy.bsky.social 🙉 echoesanddust.com/2025/09/part... @echoesanddust.bsky.social @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

If any Hollywood actors, including Paul Mescal, are prepping to portray Sir McCartney in later middle age, I’ve got a good book to recommend. #OffTheGround 😉

This is the best record I’ve heard this year. It’s mad. Like the other Phantom Spell record it’s all from the perspective of a time drifting wizard. It’s the kind of thing Rumpelstiltskin would choose to listen to.

I dip my toes into music journalism with this detailed piece about my love for noise rock band PART CHIMP. I've lost count of the times I've seen this awesome band in sweaty basement pubs! @terekhova.bsky.social knows what I'm talking about.

Suitable place to retire based on its subgenre namesake. 👇 🎶 🍃 #freefolk

Electric Wizards: A Tapestry of Heavy Music, 1968 to the Present is four years old! 🎂 “a mind-riot,” according to the late, great Neil Kulkarni. Still in print! 📖 #booksky @reaktionbooks.bsky.social reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/electri...

I've written another new Adrian Chills story (short horror stories inspired by the Guardian columns of Adrian Chiles). This one is called 'Spoons'. bsky.app/profile/adri...

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Congratulations on your Radiohead ticket code! © @xeaglepissx.bsky.social

We are honoured to feature in @peteralanross.bsky.social’s superb new book UPON A WHITE HORSE - Tom spoke to the author about his favourite subjects of folklore and heavy metal before our show in Glasgow earlier in the year. Nice to see him listed in the index between Tacitus and Margaret Thatcher…!

Mehcury Prize.

4.5 Black Alps www.nme.com/news/music/g...

Today in Australian rock sensation promo shoots: Nothing says ‘living on the edge’ like riding a tiny invisible tricycle through a deserted car park in the middle of the night while deliberately looking the wrong way.

I defended box(ed) sets in Off The Ground on a take ‘em or leave ‘em basis. “Some of these mixes do make for an interesting listen” justifies their existence (if not the price), as does paragraph 12 of this article. Still, food for thought. @reaktionbooks.bsky.social thequietus.com/opinion-and-...

For real, if you've ever been considering reviewing / interviewing / etc. someone but stopped yourself because the book was released months ago... do it! We love getting coverage after pub day.

So Paul Mccartney was spotted at an Oasis show, was he? Is it me or did he look a bit bored? He’ll have been wishing Nirvana were still around. Read more about Macca’s 90s allegiances in Off The Ground: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/off-the... #booksky #oasis #McCartney @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

My 33 1/3 book on George Michael’s Faith came out in the UK three years ago today. Dominated the headlines for – ooh – a good 12 hours until the Queen went and died. Anyway, still available. #GeorgeMichael #Faith‬⁩ www.bloomsbury.com/uk/george-mi...

So Paul Mccartney was spotted at an Oasis show, was he? Is it me or did he look a bit bored? He’ll have been wishing Nirvana were still around. Read more about Macca’s 90s allegiances in Off The Ground: reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/off-the... #booksky #oasis #McCartney @reaktionbooks.bsky.social

i would be more impressed if someone could name a perfect album from the 90s that IS by nirvana, pearl jam, alice in chains or soundgarden.

Anyone who thinks McCartney lost it creatively should listen to this monster: youtu.be/Reoqe6t14BA?...

Imagine actually being in a relationship with this fucker. *shudders*

Michael Stipe clarifying lyrics is cool but can @michaelstipe.bsky.social confirm whether he was at this show? #REM #harveymilk

The Quietus champions musicians who don’t receive their due coverage elsewhere. The editors will also let me mock an album that every other publication fawns over. Taste is subjective but, ideally, music criticism can redress some of the imbalances. Long live tQ.

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