“One purpose of the film is to inspire a sense of solidarity and to combat hopelessness as Fisher’s writing often did. It reminds us that the future is not something we inherit, it’s something we can have agency over.” Why We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher buff.ly/piC4ARL
tQ's albums of the year 2025 have landed! As ever, it'll be a joy over the next 12 months speaking to people excited about the releases they discovered through it – this is why we continue, into our 18th year. I hope you'll find something you love herein: thequietus.com/tq-charts/al...
The Quietus Albums of the Year 2025 (In Association with Norman Records) | The Quietus
One of the scant benefits bestowed by editing a countercultural magazine born in a time of great financial turmoil is that you eventually develop a state of permanent readiness for the next disaster. ...
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No party on the planet was safe from Hoggy rocking up!’ Irvine Welsh on his friend Pam Hogg | Culture | The Guardian www.theguardian.com/culture/2025... www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...
‘No party on the planet was safe from Hoggy rocking up!’ Irvine Welsh on his friend Pam Hogg
‘Pam was one of our most groundbreaking artists, whose jam-packed life was characterised by independence, courage and kindness. We spent the 90s together – clubbing and partying in the way those times...
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"...an album of abstract, menacing bass music."" Shocked and grateful, to see The Bug vs @ghostdubs.bsky.social 'IMPLOSION' has been given the lead review in The Observer online @theobserveruk.bsky.social , as one of their 'Albums of the week' ! 🔊♥️ observer.co.uk/music/pop/ar...
Albums of the week: The Bug vs Ghost Dubs, Jerkcurb, Stray Kids, Manizeh | The Observer
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Mani RIP : a tribute by John Robb louderthanwar.com/mani/ via @louderthanwar
a tribute to manc musical legend Mani
a genuine, warm human and a force of nature that filled a room with good times just by being there - the ultimate accolade for anyone.
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It's Roy Wood's birthday. I love the Move. I love Wizzard. I love Boulders and Mustard.
“Wonderfully enjoyable and informative … a superb account, at once lucid and complex … SURROUND SOUND is a model for how to write about cultural production.” Still buzzing over this fab review from the legendary Richard Dyer in Literary Review, so here it is in full!
Great piece by Daniel Dylan Wray on the Quietus, he has a better way with words than I do. thequietus.com/quietus-revi...
An Elated Sense of Unity: The Live Return of Cabaret Voltaire | The Quietus
“For Richard Kirk,” says Stephen Mallinder, as his first words of the evening on stage. A mighty roar erupts inside the former Victorian steel forge in tribute to the late founding member who passed…
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My previous horror short DEATHLY, starring Alan Ruck with music by @iamclintmansell.bsky.social , is now online at Blacklight Pictures (link 👇🏻) Thanks to all the fests that screened this one! BEYOND FEST, FANTASTIC FEST. @frightfest.bsky.social - My new short MR. STATIC drops online in two weeks!
+WREN'S NEST (LIVE AV SHOW)+ Delighted to share the trailer for a forthcoming edgeland horror AV project by Hidden Britain. 'Wren's Nest' will combine an immersive live soundtrack with cinematic storytelling, and premiere in the UK in late 2025. Ticket details coming soon. YT/info link in the bio
DEATHLY, my previous horror short film starring Alan Ruck and Kathleen Wilhoite with a score by @iamclintmansell.bsky.social will drop on my Blacklight Pictures YouTube channel next week. My new short MR. STATIC will be dropping there in August! ☠️☠️☠️
My second horror short IN THE WALL is now on YouTube for the first time ever. Winner best short film @ FANTASTIC FEST and @screamfest.bsky.social and more. Starring @chrislmckenna.bsky.social with a score by @iamclintmansell.bsky.social Link 👇🏻
As a mother - as a human - I find it very difficult to look at these photos and not weep. “Rates of severe malnutrition among children aged under five at Médecins Sans Frontières’ Gaza City clinic have tripled in the last two weeks” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Severe malnutrition in under-5s has tripled at Gaza City clinic, charity reports
Charity says number of people needing care for malnutrition has quadrupled and blames Israeli ‘policy of starvation’
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PREORDER: 'Black Swan (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)' by Clint Mansell One of Mansell's many Darren Aronofsky scores returns to vinyl. www.normanrecords.com/records/1574...
We know things are tight, so here's a new release for you free of charge. theblackdog.bandcamp.com/album/the-bl...
The Black Dog Presents Sleep Deprivation: Greatest Mix Volume 1, by The Black Dog
1 track album
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kiss me, you're beautiful - these are truly the last days
I had a lovely talk with Danny McKaren of PLAYGIRL Magazine playgirl.com/entertainmen...
Fab and Kinky: The Provocative Work of Cosey Fanni Tutti | Playgirl
Interview with Cosey Fanni Tutti on her album '2t2' out via Conspiracy International and 'Magazine Actions' exhibit at Maxwell Graham Gallery
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Don’t forget the amazing @maryannehobbs.bsky.social returns with a new show on BBC 6 Music tonight 6-8pm !! 🙌
mary anne hobbs@maryannehobbs.bsky.social · last yr.New Radio Show: It's a joy to return to BBC 6 Music Sundays 6-8pm from June 8th The Show will be a borderless space for music across all spectrums. Open conversations with Artists we love. New experiments in storytelling & sound. Come with us.. Photography: @photobrettwalker.bsky.social
New Radio Show: It's a joy to return to BBC 6 Music Sundays 6-8pm from June 8th The Show will be a borderless space for music across all spectrums. Open conversations with Artists we love. New experiments in storytelling & sound. Come with us.. Photography: @photobrettwalker.bsky.social
"Both TG and punk were unapologetically disruptive. But we went about things in very different ways. We weren’t interested in recreating what had gone before, or the punk notion of learning three chords and then forming a band." Peter Strickland Interviews #CoseyFanniTutti buff.ly/c2PCpsL
Here’s a New York Times photo of the Chicago “No Kings” rally. NYT said the march that followed spanned at least 10 blocks.
