Loud And Quiet

Loud And Quiet is an independent music publication that comes out monthly in print on newsprint format, based in London, England. In addition to the print edition, we also maintain a website. Our offerings include podcasts and videos, and we occasionally organize film screenings and live events. We also showcase our favorite new tracks through a dedicated radio show.

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20 Years of Loud And Quiet, and time for something new

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.
Charli XCX at The O2: the Brat victory lap from a star reminding us she's still a fan, first and foremost

Nov 28, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Gemma Samways

Nobody is more deserving of mainstream success than Charli XCX. For 18 years, she’s put in the hard yards, hammering the live circuit and steadily amassing a catalogue of weapons-grade party-starters that have consistently pushed the pop envelope forward. It took until 2022 for her to score her first number one album – with the unapologetically accessible Crash – but 2024 will go down in history as the year the 32-year-old finally got her flowers.
Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More - Loud And Quiet

Nov 17, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Hayden Merrick

Kim Deal has always had an unorthodox relationship with genre. Though not a middle-of-the-road rock tune by any means, the Breeders’ hit ‘Cannonball’ spuriously referred to itself as “this reggae song” and the demo was given the tortuous descriptor “Grunggae”, a portmanteau of grunge and reggae. ‘Flip Side’ from the same album (1993’s Last Splash) was a manic, distortion-addled impression of Dick Dale’s surf guitar school.
Iceland Airwaves 2024, and the success of a country bothering to invest in its musicians

Nov 17, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Gemma Samways

Imagine having a government that pays more than just lip service to supporting the arts. Where funding is readily available for those that need it, so that music needn’t merely be the preserve of the upper middle classes. Sounds wild, right? Except in Iceland it exists. Reporting to the Ministry of Culture and Business Affairs, the Iceland Music office administers the Iceland Music Fund, which supports local artists with music creation and promotion, both domestically and internationally.
Laura Marling - Patterns in Repeat - Loud And Quiet

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.
Faux Real - Faux Ever - Loud And Quiet

Oct 9, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Tristan Gatward

Brother-or-lover duo Faux Real’s debut album Faux Ever has been a long time coming, its origins ambiguous as the two-of-a-kind minds behind it. Since starting the band in 2018, Elliott and Virgile Arndt’s anti-serious art pop has seemingly become a hedonistic staple of every music festival worth your money, summer after summer, city after city.
Why has there only been one edition of Loud And Quiet magazine this year?

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.
The Smile - Cutouts - Loud And Quiet

Oct 2, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Sam Walton

Towards the end of the podcast series Dissect, which conducted a forensic song-by-song investigation of Radiohead’s In Rainbows across ten episodes, there’s a well-sourced aside about the reason the band’s albums have been so few and far between in the last 20 years: essentially, Thom Yorke can’t bring himself to greenlight a Radiohead release until he’s completely content with it all, and that’s a process that – understandably for the man who most embodies the band – takes time.
Geordie Greep - The New Sound - Loud And Quiet

Oct 1, 2024 | loudandquiet.com | Cal Cashin

To fervent followers of outlier rock trio Black Midi, a breakup courtesy of drifting musical interests might not have come entirely out of the blue. The brilliance of the group’s triptych of studio albums, from 2019 to 2022, seemingly came from the ancient alchemy of three (well, formerly four) highly proficient and creative individuals pulling in different directions – and there’s only so long that the luminous sparks of such chemical reactions can burn.
Sweaty Ceilings: a book documenting the independent music venues of London, past and present

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.