Slint swimming in a creek. Black and white photograph.

Britt Walford, David Pajo and Todd Brashear, discussed a new generation of fans, the Breadcrumb Trail documentary and revisiting their seminal second album

Slint Discuss Spiderland’s Enduring Appeal - #sponsored #paidpartnership #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Black and white photograph of Pixies.

Get levitated beyond the hits and enjoy some of the band's greatest album tracks, B-sides and rarities...

Pixies: Quietus Writers Digging For Fire Beyond The Hits - #sponsored #paidpartnership #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats album cover. The band standing on a cliffside, ironically looking a little 'easy listening'.

Slint image. Black and white photograph of the band swimming in a creek, with only their heads visible.

Pavement - Slanted and Enchanted album cover.

This week’s Portal archive dive is dedicated to our pals at Norman Records, who are marking their 30th birthday with a run of limited edition versions of five albums (see below). #sponsored #paidpartnership

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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It's in the line #ThePortal, which just means we bring up articles from our archive. We do it every week. We have a huge archive. Over the course of the week though, it's mostly new stuff. Maybe three or four archive posts. Since you ask.

Aaron Funk, best known for his work as Venetian Snares, spoke to Angus Finlayson about delving into the void, sleep states and never compromising

The Man Don’t Give A Funk: #VenetianSnares Interviewed #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Early colour photograph of Napalm Death sat in a pub.

Benjamin Myers reflected on the 1.316 second-long track 'You Suffer' by grindcore titans, Napalm Death, and what it says about the age of anxiety we all live in

You Suffer: How A One Second-Long Song Represents The Age Of Anxiety - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Namedropping, social media stats, keeping safe and sane when touring solo, Justin Bieber, pyrotechnics, their least favourite instruments and more...

Peer Reviewed: Claire Rousay Interviews Circuit Des Yeux… And Vice Versa - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Black and white photograph of the five piece band Bolt Thrower.

'Inspired by Crass and Discharge as much as they were by Slayer and Black Sabbath, Bolt Thrower were pivotal in bridging the gap between hardcore punk and thrash metal in the late 80s...'

The Strange World Of #BoltThrower - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Black and white photograph of Charlotte Gainsbourg.

'Charlotte Gainsbourg’s albums are a lot like tattoos, souvenirs that evoke strong memories of important moments in her life...'

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive - Charlotte Gainsbourg’s Favourite Albums

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Photograph of Chris Packham with an owl on his shoulder and a tree close up in the background.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy album cover. The Reid brothers - one stood by a drum, the other lying on the floor with his left hand supporting his head at a 45 degree angle.

The Smiths - The Queen is Dead album cover.

'Are you enjoying the thunder of bird song as soon as the spring dawn cracks the blinds? Well then naturalist, broadcaster and activist Chris Packham’s love of punk rock is for you...'

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Alice Coltrane playing the harp, her face glimpsed through the strings.

'One of the greatest artists of the 20th century, with a sublime musical vision that encompasses jazz, blues, gospel, Indian classical, North African music, and European modernism...'

#ThePortal: The Strange World Of Alice Coltrane

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Black and white photograph of Bill Orcutt playing the guitar.

Bill Orcutt charts the series of serendipities and chance encounters that led to one of the most boundary-pushing and varied careers in experimental guitar playing

#ThePortal: An Interview With #BillOrcutt

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Mabe Fratti, photo by Andrea Ballesta.

'To mark Mabe Fratti and Bill Orcutt's forthcoming collaborative album Almost Waking, we've got Fratti's 2024 Baker's Dozen in which she praised Orcutt, resulting in the duo's initial communication...'

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Colour photograph of Wolf Eyes as a trio.

As at the weekend our John Doran wrote for The Guardian about how Wolf Eyes ‘Stabbed In The Face’ is a romantic ditty in his relationship – we’ve got Wolf Eyes’ guide to their craziest gigs...

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Black and White photograph of Bonjo Iyabinghi Noah and Adrian Sherwood as younger men.

With Adrian Sherwood and African Head Charge having played London’s Barbican Centre last week, and Head Charge on tour to celebrate their 45th anniversary in April and May, we’ve got a refresher on their Strange World

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Kate Bush, detail from the 'Hammer Horror' 7" sleeve.

With the new film adaptation of Wuthering Heights getting people hot under the collar (perhaps not in the way the filmmakers hoped) we go back to 1978 and Kate Bush’s song named for the gothic novel by Emily Brontë...

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Blurry colour photograph of The Heads on stage.

The Heads will release yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell, their first album in 20 years, on 2 March. Revisit a Quietus interview with the brutalist psychedelic rock band here

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Archive Quietus Dive

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The Heads - yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell album cover. A blue tinted image of an oil rig in choppy seas.

Having our heads fried by yourprettyplaceisgoingtohell, the new album from #TheHeads, we’re celebrating the group with two interviews from our archives, amongst other things...

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Archive Quietus Dive

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Image of an old brown bakelite radio with three white knobs on the front.

In the run up to the release of his new book, Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994, revisit an archive Quietus interview with Simon Reynolds

#ThePortal: Simon Reynolds Discusses Retromania

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Simon Reynolds - Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994 book cover. Blurred pink, red and orange with the names of some of the bands covered within appearing in a slightly darker pink, so that they're a little difficult to make out.

Last week we shared the news that Simon Reynolds next book will be Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers And The Reinvention Of Rock, 1984–1994

We’ve updated #ThePortal with pieces on several of the artists featured in the book, as well as an archive Simon Reynolds interview

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With music venues in crisis, does celebrating them as places where bands appeared on the way to fame overshadow their true purpose as the places in which music is played for the sake of communal joy?

#ThePortal: Independent Venue Week in the UK

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As this week is Independent Venue Week across the UK, we’re dipping into our archive to bring up some of the writing we’ve done over the years about the myriad problems faced by the spaces that nurture our favourite music...

#ThePortal: Your weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Patti Smith - Horses album cover. The artist with her jacket thrown over her shoulder, wearing a white shirt in a black and white photograph.

Our final incarnation of The Portal archive dive carries a selection of our favourite articles from the last 12 months. Over the course of the winter break we’ll be featuring more of these on our Bluesky and Instagram socials channels

#ThePortal: Some tQ Highlights of 2025

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Jimmy Cliff. Black and white still from the film, The Harder They Come.

The Stone Roses debut album cover. A splatter style painting with the band's name and three lemons.

We've got John Doran’s interview with #JimmyCliff - “the true original and the owner of one of the sweetest voices in popular music”, plus a #StoneRoses and #PrimalScream piece...

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Colour photograph of John Cale, with a string of coloured beads wrapped around his head.

Colour photograph of Bjork, with a mass of fluffy red hair.

We've got #JohnCale’s Baker’s Dozen, an archival interview with #Björk on the intersection of her work with environmentalism, and with #MyBloodyValentine on the road, there’s an essay on the power of their rhythmic invention

#ThePortal; Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Colour photograph of Enya.

Colour photograph of a young Pet Shop Boys, sitting next to each other on a bench at a train station.

Autumn is the most Enya of seasons so as a gauze of rain obscures the increasingly denuded branches outside we’re re-upping our 2015 interview with the Irish singer. We’ve also got out PSB Beyond The Hits feature and David Toop on Dr John’s Gris Gris

#ThePortal: Archive Dive

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Was invited to perform at a remarkable venue called The Portal in SF — fitting, since we literally take people through a hypnotic portal.
The “portal” we create is the Mystery State — a deep hypnotic trance where wild, transformative things happen. These pix are seconds apart. #Theportal

Dave Ball of Soft Cell and The Grid

Richard H Kirk of Cabaret Voltaire.

We're paying tribute to Dave Ball of #SoftCell and #TheGrid who passed away last week. Also, this weekend, #CabaretVoltaire celebrated 50 years since their first gig and we've got a Baker's Dozen from founder Richard H Kirk...

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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D'Angelo - Voodoo album cover. The artist bare chested with a cross around his neck.

Live photograph of D'Angelo with guitar, and wearing a hat, from 2012.

'In this week’s edition of The Portal we mark the sad passing of D’Angelo last week by bringing you two articles from the vaults – a retrospective on his 2000 album Voodoo, and a live review from 2012...'

#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive

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Solstice is back in Destiny 2 with one major change 💠 ☀️

Solstice is back in Destiny 2 through August 19 with new weapons, armor, updated activities, limited-time rewards, and more.

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