Silent Words Speak Loudest

It being Independent Venue Week , the Quietus drew renewed attention to this 2024 piece by the site's co-founder Luke Turner , which tak...

Contemporary events, I accept, are such that none of us really need any more reason to be depressed - and yet George Monbiot's commentar...

Many an artist has struggled with the question of how to make art in the midst of atrocity - but at the present moment, with atrocity seemin...

It's little wonder that filmmaker Joel Coen struck up " an immediate rapport " with photographer Lee Friedlander . After all, ...

Thurston Moore is no stranger to evangelising about artists and genres, and sharing his recommendations. Who else would compile and publish ...

If  MTV Rewind got me in a nostalgic mood , then  this  Guardian  article about vintage crisp packet designs  maintained it. As an avowed cr...

Once upon a time, MTV was about music videos. Which is where MTV Rewind comes in - an incredible project that enables users to relive the e...

Never judge a book by its cover - wise words, the truth of which is underscored by I Saw A Man . At first glance, it might look like a commo...

It's a running joke in our house that I'm obsessed with covering the living room walls with depressing black-and-white photo prints....

I've written critically about AI recently , but it was also with a sense of despair and futility. It feels like the horse has bolted and...

For the past four summers, we've lent a hand to the archaeological dig that has been uncovering evidence of Cardiff's oldest house ....

Dry Cleaning's new LP Secret Love isn't the first album to be oversold/missold by its press release, and it won't be the last, ...

It might appear perverse to have chosen the present moment to willingly read a book about the antics of venal, unscrupulous, manipulative, s...

Reluctant though I am to start the year on a negative note, the fact that Side's gallery is definitely no more demands acknowledgement....

Our techbro overlords would have us believe that we're on the cusp - or even in the midst of - a golden age, a new Enlightenment, an exp...

Reacting to the news of Martin Parr's death , Don McCullin, while expressing his admiration, noted: " Our work was in total contras...

Encouraging news from London, where the O2 Arena has committed to providing funding to the Music Venue Trust to support their work with gra...

Some of the restaurants I've enthused about for Buzz don't really need the additional promotion, either because they're not shor...

Towards the end of Lee Shulman's documentary I Am Martin Parr ( highly recommended and available on iPlayer , folks!), Grayson Perry cl...

Having contrived to be otherwise engaged for every single one of Vogon Laundromat's first-Saturday-of-the-month noise/metal/punk nights ...

The Oxford University Press' choice for word of the year so often speaks volumes about contemporary culture, and this year's, "...

Fresh from accusing Pavement of straying into sell-out territory by releasing another greatest hits compilation , I now find myself pointing...

It's become something of a happy tradition to see Gnod once every four years - though ideally it would be much more frequently than that...

For a debut, Invada's Game is remarkably accomplished. Part survival story, part psychological thriller, part folk horror, part cultural...

As with the recent Pavement soundtrack album , it's hard to assess Animal Collective's sonic companion-piece to Sam Fleischner's...

After a good run - The Offing , The Perfect Golden Circle , Cuddy , Rare Singles - Jesus Christ Kinski is the first Benjamin Myers novel in...

Amid the relentless torrent of shit, a rare good news story: that of striker Richard Kone's remarkable route to becoming a Championship ...

I wasn't really that bothered about missing out on seeing My Bloody Valentine on the current tour - until I read Daniel Dylan Wray's...

It was a curious coincidence that no sooner had I got my head out of Paul Morley's latest book on David Bowie than Ned Raggett was open...

GWENIFER RAYMOND / SAM GRASSIE, 19TH NOVEMBER 2025, CARDIFF PARADISE GARDEN It comes as no surprise whatsoever to learn that Sam Grassie was...

It's not often that the shower of shite currently calling themselves the Labour Party gets something right, but the decision to ban all ...

When Nigel Godrich was working on what turned out to be Pavement's final studio album, he claimed he wanted to create something that wou...

I'll be honest: Paul Morley's style in Far Above The World: The Time And Space Of David Bowie has rendered the prospect of reading ...

Reviewing Tortoise's new album Touch for Buzz recently  and reading Louis Pattison's Guardian feature on the band reminded me of Pa...

Ever since my first live encounter with Marissa Nadler, at Godspeed You! Black Emperor's ATP in 2010 , I've been desperate to see he...

For someone turned off by tech talk and largely uninterested in the finer points of photographic technique, last month's Eye Festival in...

If you only read one thing about Husker Du, make it the chapter from Michael Azerrad's superlative Our Band Could Be Your Life . But if ...

Terri White's mini-documentary on child poverty for the Guardian is alarming and eye-opening, not least because of the staggering, sham...

Ever since being baffled by a library copy of TNT in my youth, I've never fully grasped what Tortoise are all about. Long-awaited new al...

I think it was through Offline that I first learned of the work of Mohamed Hassan, so it was fitting to hear the Egyptian-born photographer ...

Listening to Just Mustard's We Were Just Here is like staring at the ripples on the surface of a murky pond, and then finding yourself ...

The National Museum of Wales' current exhibition  Picture Post: A Twentieth Century Icon pays rightful tribute to a titan of a publicat...

Not a day goes by without new reminders of the damage that the internet generally but social media in particular have done (and continue to ...

If you come at the kings, you best not miss. Despite having the gall to take on formidable local adversaries in Tommy Heaney and Tom Waters,...

It makes a change for a musician to be giving tours rather than going on them - but it's become a way of life for Idlewild's Roddy W...

" I want to see if people are still interested ." So said Bob Mould to Rolling Stone 's David Browne in announcing that Sugar ...

I'll admit to being a little unsettled by the new Antlers album Blight . Partly this is because its gloomy reflections on environmental ...

2025 saw the sad death of genius songwriter (not a phrase I use lightly) Brian Wilson . It's also seen the return of the Besnard Lakes, ...

I like to imagine JR Moores as a savage beast caged in the corner of the Quietus offices, pacing back and forth hungrily until another unsus...

Have you heard the one about the Orthodox Jewish housewife who lived a double life entertaining punters with her racy and uproarious hi-NRG ...