Brazilian vocalist Anna Vis and Príncipe label affiliate Helviofox are among the artists playing next year’s event

Anna Vis

SQUARE festival has revealed the first wave of acts playing its 2027 edition in January.

The Portuguese festival returns to its main base of Braga for its third year, with additional programming set to spread out to nearby Northern Portugal bases of Famalicão, Guimarães and Viana do Castelo. The lineup has been put together by SQUARE’s organisers, and its network of festival and events partners, such as Iceland Airwaves, MENT, Rewire, Nyege Nyege and Novas Frequências.

The theme of next year’s SQUARE will be Continuity, and this will explore “the projects that endure, the acts of care and repair that sustain them, and the people and structures that keep independent…

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The set at Knockdown Center formed part of the Detroit artist’s 30th anniversary tour for his Live At The Liquid Room, Tokyo mix compilation

Jeff Mills has released a new set recording via Apple Music, capturing a set that he played at New York’s Knockdown Center in March of this year.

The show, which was Mills play all-vinyl, formed part of his tour around the world in support of the 30th anniversary reissue of his classic Live At The Liquid Room, Tokyo mix compilation last year. The set was recorded in Spatial Audio using 14 microphones that Apple Music set up around Knockdown Center.

It’s been split into two parts, with the first part available for streaming now alongside a Ken Ishii mix…

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It follows a residency at the 2023 Kraków edition of Unsound festival

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claire rousay and Martyna Basta have released a new collaborative album through Unsound’s in-house label.

Spanning six tracks, hotel room has its roots in a residency by the two artists at the 2023 Kraków edition of Unsound. The two artists met for the residency and exchanged ideas that birthed the record, which takes in three long-form pieces and three shorter cuts. From there, they worked in isolation with the drafts they had made, before rousay handled the final mixdown of the material for the album.

Speaking about the lengths of the tracks that they made, Basta said: “It wasn’t something we specifically planned. It just unfolded that way.”

The duo will present…

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He will also tour the album in the US this winter

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Danny Brown’s 2016 album Atrocity Exhibition is being reissued for its 10th anniversary.

Set to be made available in new CD and vinyl editions, the release will feature new artwork from original sleeve designer Ed Davis, as well as a commemorative booklet and previously unreleased instrumental versions of every track.

The US rapper is also heading out on a short tour of the US to mark the anniversary. He’ll play Los Angeles’ Catch One on 7 November, Outset in Chicago on 13 November, New York City’s Irving Plaza on 19 November, and a hometown show at Austin’s Mohawk on 3 December.

Listen to Atrocity Exhibition in full below.

Brown’s latest album,…

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With their explosive debut album Gallows became the unlikely band to match Sex Pistols’ “breach in the pop milieu”, but it came with a hefty price tag. Words: Robert Davidson

In his 1989 book chronicling the Sex Pistols, Lipstick Traces: A Secret History Of The 20th Century, American music writer Greil Marcus would present one of the greatest questions ever asked in music journalism: “Were the Sex Pistols a major event in history?”  

Today, we will not ask the same question of hardcore punk band Gallows, who some, initially, saw as a second-coming of the filth and the fury when they erupted in 2006. However, in navigating the Watford band’s short, violent ascendency, a lot of the same questions explored in…

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To celebrate its 25th birthday, Anna Mahtani unravels how the total assault of Silent Hill 2 – and its roots in modernist literature, alternative music, progressive cinema and modern art – birthed a new era of psychological horror for gamers. Contains spoilers  

A gentle mist curled around the gravestones as I struggled to find my way out. It was 2021, and I was wandering along the seemingly endless stone wall which separates Cimetière du Père-Lachaise from the rest of Paris. The air resounded with what I assumed was schoolyard glee, but which sounded exactly like screaming. I’d been carried here by an unshakable curiosity, a longing to commune with those already buried. Now, I felt like one of them. Sometimes,…

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Here’s everything we’ve loved at The Quietus this month, hand-picked by our staffers

As much as I love autumn, the extreme whiplash from endless heatwaves to a sudden brisk chill has left me in a strange state of mind as we pass the equinox, almost dreamlike. It’s times like this that I find music can have the most impact – psychic defences are down, grey matter left open for songs to worm their way in.

Everything featured below, as well as all the other knockout music we’ve covered at tQ this month, will be compiled into an hours-long playlist exclusive to our subscribers. In addition, subscribers can enjoy exclusive music from some of the world’s most forward-thinking artists, regular deep-dive essays, a…

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This month’s subscriber essay looks at a film that presented a far more complex view of male friendship than most buddy films of the 90s

“If Harry does something dumb, you drink, and if Lloyd does something dumb, I’ll drink”

After seconds of consideration, my wife and I came up with these exhaustive rules to determine, once and for all, which of the two leads from The Farrelly Brothers’ 1994 comedy deserved the title of ‘Dumber’. We chose our respective poisons and, one night early on in our relationship, set about solving a question that nobody had dare ask. 

In a sea of gross-out comedies that have aged poorly, Dumb And Dumber stands pumpkin-pie haircut and shoulders above the competition. It was released…

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Godflesh

Decay

A pummelling swan song from the legendary industrial metal powerhouse

Decay by GODFLESH

Bands heralding their own end is not that uncommon a thing. Godflesh themselves have done this twice so far. But it hits differently when it’s a cherished band from your late adolescence. The Brummie duo were, for me, an epiphanic trove unearthed around the time of their reunion, shaping my taste for the heavy, low-tuned and minimalist strains of extreme music amid the ruins of what could once have been an independent, DIY, creative, intrepid scene, long since lost. But this time, it seems to be for good, and the dismantling of Godflesh’s machinery has been set in motion by Justin Broadrick, the act’s main driving force, whose inability…

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The updated release takes in 16 additional rare and unreleased tracks

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Sebadoh’s 1996 album Harmacy is being reissued by Sub Pop.

The updated release will take in 16 bonus tracks, including alternate versions, rare B-sides, BBC radio sessions, and live material from the Harmacy era. The original album has also been remastered for the reissue. It will be made available on CD, vinyl and digital formats.

Harmacy was Sebadoh’s breakout sixth album, and found them sitting at a crossroads in their sound between harder slacker rock and gentler tones.

Listen to an alternate version of ‘Beauty Of The Ride’, lifted from the reissue, below.

Sub Pop will release Harmacy (30th Anniversary Expanded Edition) on 20 November 2026.

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