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Space Afrika have a new album on the way, Quiet Storm, featuring contributions from Klein, Tony Njoku, RXKNephew, Kelly Moran and more.
You can watch a video for lead track ‘If This Is Hell’ here:
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Nyege Nyege Festival is launching a European sister event in Brussels, called MIRROR WORLD
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At the weekend #TheCure played an incredible set at Barcelona’s #PrimaveraFestival. We’ve more on that to come later in the week, but for now this edition of The Portal features Tariq Goddard’s essay on a 2023 gig at Wembley Arena
#ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive
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'Bannon says his choice of 13 albums comprises “ritualistic daily listens”, “releases that are historically significantly important to our band and to my trajectory and to our songs”, and “a few emotional favourites”'
#Converge's Jacob Bannon on his Favourite Albums
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"It changed the way I looked at heavy music all of a sudden. I was a teenager that just wanted fast, fast, fast, fast – hyper aggressive. And I got this mature take on that thing. And I was like, what did I just experience?!"
Converge's Jacob Bannon on #Slayer - South Of Heaven
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"Tuna really liked music. He really liked when Maeve [Gilchrist] would come over and play the harp. He would climb the sofa to be right where her hands were, and just shove his face into the harp somehow."
Arooj Aftab on Adopting Stray #Cats
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#ThomasBangalter guested on New York-based The Lot Radio yesterday (8 June), and the recording of his DJ set has now been shared online
Find out which artists he played and listen to the full set here:
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'At only 35 minutes, the record is a remarkably prismatic state-of-the-nation piece examining, unabashedly, American decay from the bottom up.'
Vince Staples - Cry Baby
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#BeastieBoys’ Mike D has announced his debut solo album, Thank You—the first full-length release to emerge from any of the hip hop group since they put out Hot Sauce Committee Part Two in 2011
You can listen to new track ‘True Colors’ here:
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The Quietus
The Quietus
'I’ve analysed Sing To God cinemaesthetically, in other words as if it were a sequence of films. It’s a deliberately unorthodox approach, but let’s be unorthodox. The music deserves it.'
Many Happy Returns to #Cardiacs' Sing To God, which turns 30 today!
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