Silent Words Speak Loudest

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 ...

It's a shame that Upchuck's latest album I'm Nice Now - their first for Domino - doesn't really do them justice. But that...

Happy thirtieth birthday to Sonic Youth's magnificent Washing Machine.  To mark the occasion for the Quietus , Stevie Chick has written ...

It's only been a month since I wrote about Nick Cave's increasingly troubling politics , but the fact that he's doubled down in ...

Many photographers make it their mission to document " things that will soon be gone forever ", but few go to lengths quite so ext...

The death of poet and playwright Tony Harrison has served as a reminder that culture wars are nothing new. This BBC article by Neil Armstron...

To say the making of Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now was a fraught experience would be an extreme understatement. For a BBC artic...

" If you saw Martin Parr and didn't know who he was, you would barely notice him. He is Mr Invisible and Mr Normal rolled into one ...

At a time when (to quote the Quietus on Bluesky) " flagshagging wrong 'uns " appear to be ubiquitous, rallying for racism and...

Football is the most watched sport in the world and so it takes a very special kind of photographer to offer a fresh, unusual and frequently...

As ever with the constraints of a 200-ish-word review, there's so much more that could be said about Keith Cameron's wonderful new b...

Rarely can there have been a TV series so deserving of sweeping the board at the Emmys than Netflix's  Adolescence . The awards - for t...

The words of Chien-Chi Chang on his friend and fellow Magnum member Chris Steele-Perkins, who died last week. The whole body of work amassed...

Yet again, I've found that the prompt to finally checking out a particular musician's work has been reading their obituary. Very poo...

It's fair to say that parenting is no picnic, instantly bringing with it a deluge of anxieties and pressures that, while often natural, ...

One Welsh legend (Aneurin "Nye" Bevan), played by another (Michael Sheen), on the Wales Millennium Centre's biggest stage? Whe...

With the world of politics seeming to descend into even more of a shitshow by the day, the election of Zack Polanski as leader of the Green ...

Jason Everman has the (perhaps dubious) distinction of being kicked out of both Nirvana and Soundgarden before they hit the big time - but i...