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Tony Iommi, founding guitarist of Black Sabbath, is to release his first solo album in 21 years—From The Dark You can watch a video for lead track ‘Word Alone’ here: @iommi.com buff.ly/DkTW1gP

"I have a quite intense dislike of pips but the avocado stone is a thing of wonder – it’s the most surprising of all stones." Rebecca Perry's May We Feed the King - is on the #BookerPrize 2026 Longlist - Revisit a Quietus interview here: @grantabooks.bsky.social buff.ly/kz0981o

Dis Fig is releasing a new album on @thrilljockey.bsky.social, titled What To Make Of These Mortal Hands You can listen to lead track ‘The Account’ here: buff.ly/ITuMGJk

"I liked the Eno approach, he saw it more as an art project, which I had much more empathy with, as soon as he left I kind of lost interest." Martyn Ware on #RoxyMusic - Roxy Music buff.ly/gC381oz

'It feels apt that the cover of his haunting new collaborative album bears a photo of this fabled Blackpool Tower Ballroom, as the record oozes with appropriate grandeur.' 2K88 & Lauren Duffus & Rainy Miller & Bianca Scout - Everything Always Changes, For We’re Truly Here buff.ly/igDDQxu

'Everything else on XXXXX is mediated, processed, pitched, glitched, run through the machine. The voice functions as a prosthesis throughout, a tool for disrupting fixed ideas about gender and sound.' XXXXX by Arca is tQ's Album of the Week buff.ly/jkZBNiA

'If he could be a band, Kennard would like to be Pavement. "I constantly have at least three of Malkmus’s lyrics going round in my head,” he says.' Luke Kennard's Black Bag - is on the #BookerPrize 2026 Longlist - Revisit a Quietus interview here: buff.ly/nYSVbOI

"I discovered this record when I first met Phil Oakey at school. He introduced me to it and Snowflakes Are Dancing by Isao Tomita, and the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange, and these records pointed me to my future career." Martyn Ware on Tonto’s Expanding Head Band - Zero Time buff.ly/5O0k0jD

Unsound has shared a second wave of acts playing its 2026 dual edition in Warsaw and Kraków this October. New additions to the bill include live sets from Arca, Wendy Eisenberg, Sarah Davachi, Bendik Giske and One Leg One Eye buff.ly/BGUrXwn

With the #BookerPrize Longlist announced yesterday, we take a closer look at several of the entries, beginning with an extract from John M Harrison's new book The End of Everything... @serpents-tail.bsky.social buff.ly/3ywLH4Q

The prolific Human League, Heaven 17 and British Electric Foundation co-founder Martyn Ware on his 13 favourite records, from Northern Soul and glam to encounters with Tina Turner and the still-unreleased track he was sent by Prince Martyn Ware’s Favourite Albums buff.ly/owgebay

As caroline's Magdalena McLean and The Umlauts' Annabelle Mödlinger announce their dazzling debut EP as Curbside Lambsear, they tell tQ about about pre-destiny, self-education, and the vulnerability of venturing out from large ensembles An Interview with Curbside Lambsear buff.ly/RB2glcY

Four previously unavailable albums of devotional music by Alice Coltrane are to be reissued by @matadorrecords.bsky.social buff.ly/A7jE1GW

'While its lead singles continue to do historic lifting for African music worldwide, the album functions better as a delivery system for individual hits than as a cohesive LP' Tyla - A*Pop buff.ly/9zN5Sbv

'These moody-but-catchy tunes, their niches decorated with delightful sonic details, are a treat while Klock’s lyrics are playful and acerbic, her vocals alternating between maudlin singing and deadpan spoken word' Anadol, Marie Klock - Manivelles - Rockfort! French Music for July buff.ly/Ur0Bv1l

'Back in the 90s, Fugazi were known as the one band that all the more famous, yet creatively lamer, acts were so eager to be photographed next to and seen to be endorsing from on high...' The Strange World Of… #Fugazi - #ThePortal: Your Weekly Quietus Archive Dive buff.ly/NV8IDpM

"The first time I’d seen [Prince] was when he was on TV. I was watching with my cousin when I was a kid and we were just curious about him. But ‘Darling Nikki’ is the first time I was really listening to Prince." #Tricky on #Prince - ‘Darling Nikki’ buff.ly/6fMuGWA

@warprecords.bsky.social has announced a 25th anniversary edition of @aphextwin.bsky.social's 2001 album Drukqs—in quadruple vinyl, double-CD, double-cassette and digital formats. There will also be a limited-edition remake of the ‘chocolate box’ four vinyl record box set buff.ly/B71Rc8J

'Then there is extreme brevity as novelty, which is its own sport: Napalm Death’s ‘You Suffer’, roughly a second long and a fixture of the record books, is a brilliant joke about the limits of the form.' A Brief Encounter: In Praise of the Shortest Songs buff.ly/ViGA7im

Richie Culver's fourth release of 2026 takes the listener to some dark places (and a fair few pretty ecstatic ones, too) Quiet Husband - The Architecture of Perception @industrialcoast.bsky.social buff.ly/z7VVKft