Exclusive: We spoke to
@PaulMcCartney
for his first interview about McCartney III – a DIY solo album 40 years on from his last that's "just me – that's the truth."
#mccartney3
@capitolrecords
Sweet 16 -
@ArcticMonkeys
' Matt Helders left school and spent his savings on a drum kit stored in Alex Turner’s garage. He revisits that teenage year for our latest column >
GOOD NEWS! A massive thank you to everyone who’s subscribed (and donated) over the last two months. We need to keep banging on about subscribing but we are now able to get the mag back up and running. THANK YOU X
Because you can’t really give an album 10/10 and say it’s “everything a rock band can do”, and not say it’s the best of the year, can you?
@BCNRband
's For The First Time is our favourite album of 2021:
@ninjatune
JPEGMAFIA
@darkskinmanson
– The possibilities are infinite.
@ElfinKate
went to meet him in Baltimore for this month's cover feature interview. It's here, in full >
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@yokoono
– The activist artist on writing a vital chapter at the age of 85. Discussing her compulsion to speak out, and being "frightened" to tackle 'Imagine' on new LP 'Warzone'. Interview >
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@grahamcoxon
likes watching boxsets and dumb movies and driving big cars in America. We know this because he's our guest on the latest Midnight Chats podcast. Have a dabble >
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@grahamcoxon
likes watching boxsets and dumb movies and driving big cars in America. We know this because he's our guest on the new Midnight Chats. New podcast >
Ahead of her new album 'Warzone' coming out tomorrow, read our cover feature interview with
@yokoono
in full. 'It seems like plain hypocrisy that I’m alive, surviving and not speaking out'
"I get really inspired by the mundanity of things around me. I really get into motorways. Looking at how people are in their houses, if I’m able to fleetingly look into a window."
@sleafordmods
and
@drycleaningband
in conversation:
The re-emergence of
@IGLOOGHOST
– his first interview discussing new album Lei Line Eon – a record that's a change of pace and expansion of his universe
It's happening at a painfully slow rate, but L&Q is, we're knackered to say, still sinking. You can help by either a.) becoming a member, b.) giving us thousands of pounds to advertise your big company, or c.) buy us outright and make us your slaves
Brand new issue of the magazine is coming this weekend! We went to Venice Beach to meet The Internet (
@intanetz
) for this month's cover feature. Pre-order your copy here >
Today marks 15 year of The magazine, which is obviously nuts, and down to all the people who have contributed to it and supported us in any way. Labels, PRs, readers, and on and on. Beyond appreciative to everyone. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Aren't bands like this meant to look like they're hating every second of hanging out again? Read our review of
@pavement_band
's big reunion at
@Primavera_Sound
here
We are halfway towards our target of new subscribers to keep L&Q alive. Thank you to everyone who’s signed up already. The second 50% is tougher to reach, we’re told, but we’re feeling a lot more positive about it these days.
I look at what's happening to a platform as important as
@Bandcamp
and further think what chance has the rest of independent music (and the music press) really got? The whole industry is in a very bad spot, and it goes extremely deep once you dig at it just a little
✨
@AngelOlsen
: it's been a lot ✨
The songwriter's new album was forged during a period in which she fell in love, came out and lost her parents in quick succession. In her hometown, she gets into the details of the aptly-titled Big Time
→
Just like everything else, independent culture is suffering badly under the current crisis.
That's why we've teamed up with a few mates and started the Independent Music Dispatch. Sign up here: .
First is was a financial nightmare to make this magazine, now it’s a logistical one too. Shout out to all of our team doing their best to deliver the goods right now. Issue 145 is going to be a fucker, but it will happen.
RSD is worldwide and celebrates a record store's place in their community. As good citizens of those communities we want everyone to be safe, healthy and feel comfortable coming to the party.
Record Store Day 2020 is moving to June 20.
#washyourhands
#benice
#listentorecords
We can’t send enough thanks the people who’ve subscribed to the magazine since April. All of our support has come from them as we’ve had no loans, grants or even been eligible for Furlough from the government due to Ltd company & freelance loopholes. We’re here thanks to readers.
We’re back in business! Here’s how our first post-lockdown issue looks. Out this weekend. Thank you for bearing with us, and to everyone who made it happen.
@TKAYMAIDZA
on the cover. Full info here, where you can become an L&Q Member too.
@4AD_Official
👀👀👀 We've made a new issue of our magazine. It looks like this. 👇 GLOO are on the cover – a deep dive into the DIY universe of
@IGLOOGHOST
,
@BABii_mp3
+
@kaiwhiston
. Available to order now anywhere in the world 🌍 >
Big up
@Bandcamp
. All day they're not taking any cut from sales on their site. Artists: feel free to reply to this thread with links to your stuff and we'll share it later on.
LA hardcore group
@zululosangeles
: “I’m hoping that years from now, people can look at us in the same way I looked at Bad Brains"
@jnessr
interviews a bold new force in punk:
📸 Alice Baxley
Here's our latest The Rates feature –
@pcmus
's
@agcook404
's picks three musicians he thinks have gone under-appreciated, and three new names who he hopes will avoid a similar fate >
A new series of our Midnight Chats podcast begins.... first up,
@YnnsPhilippakis
from
@foals
discussing greek monasteries, social media and how Stormzy is gonna crush
@GlastoFest
. Listen >
UK GRIM by
@sleafordmods
review: bruised vignettes of a completely knackered nation
It's another bleak triumph from Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn, out this week via
@RoughTrade
:
“Sometimes a minute-long song can be more to chew on than most albums”
@injuryreserve
are now By Storm: an exclusive interview with Ritchie With A T and Parker Corey on retiring the IR name and their new video release – which is a "piece itself":
Next up on our new series of Midnight Chats,
@lucydacus
is our podcast guest chatting childhood home videos, boy genius and revisiting the Twilight Saga films during lockdown... 👇 Out now in all podcast places
Good evening. This is the new issue of our magazine, Loud And Quiet 128. Cover feature interview with
@yokoono
. It's available to pre-order now, if you want >
From rags to Richards: 17 years of ups and downs with Jason Williamson. Since Loud And Quiet first started printing in 2005, a lot has changed for the Sleaford Mods frontman – we caught up with him for Issue 150 of our magazine: