This week the Portal celebrates some of the biggest shows that tQ has ever attended – the good, the bad and the very ugly.

Mat Colegate mourns the passing of Michael Madsen by looking back three decades to Species which asks an unthinkable ...

Look! There he is! Cuthbert the horn-blowing turnip, back again with another gigantic playlist for our subscribers who make ...

We recently conducted a survey of Quietus subscribers to discover some of their motivations in supporting us. It can be hard ...

An album of experimental music made by Todmorden school children evokes The Necks, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a series ...

Ahead of the annual John Peel Day celebrations, some of the legendary DJ's favourite artists remember how he championed their music. Interviews by Dave Simpson ...

Hannah Peel speaks to poet, writer and sometime collaborator Will Burns about the 13 albums that influenced her, from Kraftwerk to Jill Scott, Radiohead, Cluster and Steve Reich. Photo by Peter Marley ...

Some of those who knew the singer-songwriter and guitarist best, including his widow Andru Chapman and collaborator Thurston Moore, help guide Jonathan Wright through Michael Chapman’s extraordinary ...

Darran Anderson looks back a quarter of a century to the undersung album that might just have been the band's best Two themes are routinely described as transformative for Primal Scream’s celebrated ...

The New York Dolls' guitarist on why history shouldn't be tampered with, the legacy of his old band, and how David Johansen was putting on act rather than living the life ...

Books Too Much Information: Don DeLillo’s White Noise Three decades on from its first publication, Don Delillo's White Noise is as relevant as ever, argues Robert Bright in this penetrating and ...

In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian ...