Stuart Stubbs

1 month ago | loudandquiet.com | Stuart Stubbs

The independent music industry is full of music fans who started something and learnt on the job. Bands, of course, but also labels, websites, promoters, management, and, in my case, a printed fanzine that became a magazine, which then needed to have its own website. Naturally, the website then needed its own podcast.

Oct 20, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Stuart Stubbs

Has any artist got what they want from the music industry with as much grace as Laura Marling over the last tumultuous 16 years? Impossibly still only 34 years old, she’s released 7 albums in that time, the first 5 as a major label artist.

Oct 7, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Stuart Stubbs

Close readers and supporters of Loud And Quiet and the UK’s independent music press may have noticed that during this, the 19th year of Loud And Quiet magazine, we’ve not been much of a magazine at all. Having released a fresh physical edition of L&Q every month before the pandemic and every other month since, 2024 has seen us publish just one lonely issue – February’s Kim Gordon edition. A very good edition, but a sole edition, all the same.

Oct 1, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Stuart Stubbs

The numbers around independent music venues in the UK aren’t good. According to the Music Venue Trust, a charity that protects, secures and improves grassroots music venues, 2 venues closed per week in 2023. Sweaty Ceilings is a new book project that will celebrate London’s indie music venues, directly raise funds for the ones we still have, and cast an eye back at those that we sadly don’t.

Aug 19, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Stuart Stubbs

Charli XCX‘s career highlight was coming on our podcast back in 2018, for what turned out to be a rushed conversation about art school, living in LA, writing songs for Blondie and seeing songs as colours.