'‘Music for Multiple Keyboards’ resembles Terry Riley at his more structural, but which opens up into a softly cushioned layers that effectively upholster the frame he opens with.' Michael F. Hunt - Passage Of Time: The Music Of Michael F. Hunt - Rum Music for June buff.ly/Hv86HgX

"The duo were one of the first white British bands to make the transition from indie pop to dance music as a result of their experiences on the ecstatic dancefloors of 1988...' The Sound of #MDMA: Matthew Collin on The Beloved - ‘The Sun Rising’ buff.ly/oEXER2l

Charli xcx has shared a new single, titled ‘Wink Wink’ You can watch a video for the song, directed by frequent collaborator Aidan Zamiri, here: buff.ly/GVncJJq

In an exclusive extract from his new book, author and music journalist Richie Unterberger re-assesses the role played by pop artist Andy Warhol in one of the seminal albums of the late 1960s On the Recording of #TheVelvetUnderground & Nico buff.ly/DBtPJ69

A new box set, Eternal (Live), will offer a comprehensive overview of #JoyDivision’s live concert recordings, bringing together audio from 16 live shows on 14 CDs and two DVDs buff.ly/4AiBtm1

Green Man has finalised its lineup, and revealed day splits for this year’s festival Full details here: buff.ly/hA0iA22

Unsound has detailed the first wave of acts playing its ‘SOFT POWER’-themed edition later this year Full details here: buff.ly/Xx14czC

"What album has got Calvert, Viv Stanshall, Lemmy, the rest of Hawkwind and Eno on it? At one point Nico was going to be on it." Luke Haines on #RobertCalvert - Captain Lockheed & The Starfighters - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/zhjlmlb

“I guess it basically came together because there was this band called #StillHousePlants that were kicking around Glasgow,” says Gordon Bruce. "I was like, ‘We need to try and record this band’, and that was the impetus." The Strange World of… GLARC buff.ly/fhmeoGy

Delayed, but no less delightful, your latest dispatch from the zone features everything from free-wheeling finger picking to tessellating violins, via dancehall, folksong and more Rum Music for June Reviewed by Jennifer Lucy Allan buff.ly/Hv86HgX

"The 3 Fall albums I love are Dragnet, Totale’s Turns and Grotesque. I’d say Grotesque is the best album, way above Hex Enduction Hour, but I picked Totale’s Turns—it was the second Fall album I ever heard." Luke Haines on #TheFall - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/MnOHJxU

Modular whizz Gengras brings in pals from Body Meta, Charalambides and Six Organs of Admittance. Despite some dazzling moments, the overall record suffers from a surfeit of features M. Geddes Gengras - Guest List buff.ly/kI1ZhiZ

'To promote the single, Be With You, Muse sent a specially designed tablet into space, a reckless act of galactic provocation. We’ll know who to blame if we soon find ourselves in a War Of The Worlds situation...' Muse - The Wow! Signal buff.ly/CJ2sx5H

"I hate the idea of lists. Lists are for fucking shopping. Rock & roll has nothing to do with lists." Luke Haines’ Favourite Albums - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/1tqkLxV

'Her 2025 collaborations with Brazilian singer Tulipa Ruiz prove she can still surprise, their complementing Portuguese and Chinese vocals wrapped in soundbeds of neo soul or serene indigenous folk" Yehaiyahan, Tulipa Ruiz - China Sessions - Shanghai’s Underground Music buff.ly/pHqLTCJ

"Soft Cell went to New York to record their debut album, where they went out clubbing and met a woman who went by the name Cindy Ecstasy, who introduced them to MDMA. The creative impact was profound." The Sound of #MDMA: Matthew Collin on #SoftCell - ‘Memorabilia’ buff.ly/fx7wnxh

Stewart Smith offers ten points of entry – including Still House Plants, Quinie and Harry Gorski-Brown – into the strange world of Glasgow label, Greater Lanarkshire Auricular Research Council The Strange World of… GLARC buff.ly/fhmeoGy

Portugal's showcase festival SQUARE has announced an open call for artists to play next year's event Find out the full details here: buff.ly/emH7HB2

The exploratory Canadians capture lightning in a bottle, marshalling their transcendent free rock into a package that feels joyful and effortlessly communicative Actual Earth Music – Volume 3 & 4 by EarthBall is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/gamGsKo

In this month’s pod, John Doran and Luke Turner discuss witnessing the glorious evolution of the doom titans in the early 2000s, and how it led to the formation of The Quietus Low Culture Podcast: Altar by Sunn O))) and Boris buff.ly/wTBPZWG

'The initial reaction is familiarity: the organ’s monolithic sonic shape has become pervasive in experimental music, filtered through the work of Kali Malone, Sarah Davachi and Anna von Hausswolff. Before long, though, things start to change...' Gamut Inc - Radiating buff.ly/tndhTiJ

StubHub UK has been issued with a fine totalling £900,000 after breaking UK laws and failing to display the full cost of tickets upfront buff.ly/GJ9fIJI

"The peak moment for flagrant ecstasy innuendo. Sounding like a rallying call for an illegal drug – the refrain could hardly be heard as anything else..." The Sound of #MDMA: Matthew Collin on The Shamen - ‘Ebeneezer Goode’ buff.ly/po8xfxf

#PJHarvey has shared a new song, titled ‘Voyager’ You can watch the video for it here: buff.ly/e63Dywr

"I can remember where I was. I was in our first house, in Herne Hill SE24. Labour was just going into government. I’d just got a job in the government. And here’s Billy, casting doubt on it all!" #AndyBurnham on Billy Bragg - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/9Z3nUoM

'To listen to Chillgogog feels like digging out Shanghai’s best kept secret in a hidden record store.' Chillgogog - Motivations TO-GO - The Quietus International: Shanghai’s Underground Music buff.ly/pHqLTCJ

'This music has been lost for decades – genuinely lost in that nobody outside the Meher Baba organisation knew where they were or even that they definitely existed' Robbie Basho Song Of The Avatars: The Lost Master Tapes (2020) The Strange World Of… #RobbieBasho - #ThePortal buff.ly/XHTShyD

With a new edition of his definitive book on ecstasy and dance culture Altered State out now, author Matthew Collin charts the history of MDMA’s relationship to music via 13 tracks The Sound of #MDMA: Matthew Collin’s Ecstasy Tracks buff.ly/x83WuLj

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'Using swelling, repeated electronic sounds, the Rose of Nevada OST has an overwhelming atmosphere that expands way beyond the screen, and envelops the listener like an incoming tide.' Mark Jenkin - Rose of Nevada OST buff.ly/qda40k0

Julia Holter is releasing a new album, titled Materia You can watch a video for lead single ‘Fantasy’ here: buff.ly/xsTjNPb

"A flock of Byrds clones crowded the 80s indie scene on both sides of the Atlantic. But it always disappointed me that nobody took off from ‘Eight Miles High’ or ‘Space Odyssey’" Simon Reynolds on #TheByrds - Younger Than Yesterday buff.ly/NL1W3K1

The ongoing series of Can live releases will continue this September with the unveiling of Live In Arles 1975 You can listen to an excerpt from the recording, ‘Arles 75 Drei’, here: buff.ly/E2TmSpG

One of film’s most adventurous composers speaks to tQ, ahead of an astonishing new live album and performance at Italy's Nextones festival next month. Plus, exclusive live footage #DanielBlumberg Talks Nextones Performance, New Live Album and More buff.ly/1wiUEJp

Shanghai's underground is like a washing machine that never stops, says Jonas Klein, as he presents an in-depth report on the city's extraordinary musical infrastructure, and picks out five key releases The Quietus International: Shanghai’s Underground Music buff.ly/pHqLTCJ

A relative's death leads the English viola player and vocalist to a meditation on grief and rebirth, backed by a soundscape of drones and crows Alison Cotton - The Gods Laugh buff.ly/GLzY20f

“I thought: ‘It’s like the dance of the bees when they’re communicating.’ Then a second image: ‘planets and cymatics!’ And then: ‘cells! It’s beautiful, mysterious, the way we organise ourselves and inner movement, and it creates joy.” Radical Traditional: #FolkMusic for Summer buff.ly/WJJt3Kg

The Beatles, The Smiths, New Order, Big Thief... with Richard Osman analysing Andy Burnham’s Baker’s Dozen on The Rest is Showbiz podcast, we thought you might like to revisit the choices of the likely next UK PM first hand #AndyBurnham’s Favourite Albums buff.ly/K0fZ7IN

'Basho was on a genuine quest to integrate and represent non-Western folk and spiritual traditions, through the development of esoteric tunings and conceptual roots for his songs.' The Strange World Of… #RobbieBasho - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/XHTShyD

#FKAtwigs has shared a new standalone single, ‘On Your Mind’ You can listen to it here: buff.ly/fv9PYPF

"The [avant-garde guitar] record that seems to have most in common with #SonicYouth – while not actually resembling any of their records – is Space Guitars by Allan Bryant, a former member of the electronic ensemble MEV." Simon Reynolds on Allan Bryant - Space Guitars buff.ly/LzKBaVM

'Birmingham-born, London-based rapper and producer Sian Arli’s debut EP works as a form of testimony. Through her fluid synthesis of hip-hop and R&B, the project thoughtfully surveys two perspectives impacted by the harm caused by domestic abuse' Sian Arli - We’ll Get There buff.ly/lHUv18L

No one wants to be in an airless subterranean lair this week, so while reading Jordan Whiteman on the invention of #DungeonSynth, let’s pretend these particular dungeons are kitted out with state of the art A.C... #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/8jzjV7B

'#Krautrock was a conscious break from American and British blues and rock, an attempt to forge a new, distinctly German path in music. Its greatest irony was that the German market wanted none of it. Dinger wanted to correct that...' #LaDüsseldorf’s La Düsseldorf at 50 buff.ly/9lugqvp

A new tool allowing artists to check whether their music is potentially being used by AI companies has launched online A cursory search of AI Watchdog will reveal that 175 songs by #TheFall show up across the four datasets used by AI companies buff.ly/oId9AKp

"I reviewed A Midsummer Night’s Scene—it felt like they were not ancestors but somehow contemporaries with The Jesus and Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentine." Simon Reynolds on John’s Children - A Midsummer Night’s Scene buff.ly/WE5zYkF

Patrick Clarke reports from France's superb New Trad Fest, and rounds up 10 essential new folk releases, from euphoric Occitan minimalism to Sicilian worksongs combined with ferocious noise Radical Traditional: #FolkMusic for Summer buff.ly/WJJt3Kg

Drawing from 80s new wave, alt-rock and The Cure, Olivia Rodrigo builds a soundtrack to her own lovesick world, exploring her sound beyond the pop-punk frame #OliviaRodrigo - You Seem Pretty Sad For A Girl So In Love buff.ly/N67rUQf

🧌🧌🧌New @thequietus.com Folk Column!🧌🧌🧌 My ten favourite new radical traditional releases, taking me everywhere from Occitania to the Calanais standing stones via Sicily, Poland and America Plus an essay on DEEP TRAD PSYCHEDELIA via medieval crypt murals and French folk dance

"To me the fact that Janet was one of the pioneers of electronic music, some twenty years ahead of her time, and is still overlooked is remarkable.” Artist Luke Fowler on Electronic Music Pioneer Janet Beat buff.ly/Ky6sUpm