Kate Carr Midsummer, London South London sound artist travels across town, finding strange beauty in the everyday Midsummer, London by Kate Carr Kate Carr’s new album is a ‘sonic transect’ across London. She slices the city from her Loughborough Junction home out west to Staines … | Continue reading
Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker WEBO A legendary live set from the summer of ‘91 is full of joy and fire, finds Vanessa Ague WEBO by Charles Gayle / Milford Graves / William Parker In June 1991, Charles Gayle, Milford Graves and William Parker played two nights a … | Continue reading
Daryl Worthington relishes tQ's Compilation Of The Week: an anthology of electronic and tape music made by Peruvian composers In the early sixties, the Peruvian composer José Malsio started experimenting and composing music with a pair of Philips reel-to-reel tape players. It was … | Continue reading
The diaristic title of the Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's live record demands it be put into some kind of historical context. Michael Bellis looks at a highly unusual album released in a time of great cultural and social change Things were not looking up in 1974. Fr … | Continue reading
Well-established left field festival in Salford with strong emphasis on diversity returns this September This year's Fat Out Festival has just been announced for a number of venues in and around Salford, Greater Manchester, to run 20, 21 and 22 September. The lineup includes tQ f … | Continue reading
Shackleton & Six Organs Of Admittance Jinxed By Being Deep bass rumble meets ritual folk on an album filled with post-apocalyptic dread Jinxed by Being by Shackleton & Six Organs of Admittance Both habitual collaborators and sonic adventurers, Sam Shackleton and Ben Chasny share … | Continue reading
Cursed at the time of its released, Mohammad Reza Aslani's film The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better At a film festival in 1970s Iran, after the screening of The Chess of the Wind, a critic brutally … | Continue reading
The Berlin festival will feature a spotlight on the pioneering Katalin Ladik amid a diverse programme of music, video art, workshops, panel discussions and more Heroines Of Sound festival will return to Berlin next month, and has announced its full programme for this year’s editi … | Continue reading
Wolf Eyes & Anthony Braxton, DJ Anderson do Paraíso, and more have joined the bill for the Portuguese festival Barreiro's OUT.FEST has confirmed a second wave of acts playing its 2024 edition this October. The Portuguese event, which celebrates its 20th anniversary this year, wil … | Continue reading
Martha Skye Murphy Um A remarkably accomplished debut from the South London singer/songwriter Um by Martha Skye Murphy Martha Skye Murphy’s debut album has been a long time in coming even if she’s still in her twenties. Collaborations with Squid and Maxwell Stirling are in the re … | Continue reading
Upon the release of Sumac’s new album The Healer, Aaron Turner speaks to Jon Buckland about creating communities, having a good lie down, and the 13 records that shaped his life Photo by AF Cortes Connected to the mainland only by ferries, Vashon Island sits in Puget Sound, just … | Continue reading
The new clip shows the band in the process of recording their forthcoming album in a studio in Provence Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have shared a new video featuring footage of the band recording their forthcoming album, Wild God. The near-five-minute video, which you can watch bel … | Continue reading
'Sun Ra: Door Of The Cosmos' collects interviews, concert footage and more to put together an oral history of the legendary musician A Kickstarter campaign has been launched to help fund the completion of a documentary on Sun Ra. Directed by filmmaker Drew DeNicola and in the mak … | Continue reading
The nine-track release is out in September Xiu Xiu have shared details of a new album, titled 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips. Spanning nine tracks, it was partly motivated and inspired by the group's recent relocation from Los Angeles to Berlin. It sees … | Continue reading
The standalone single follows recent LP 'The Collective' Kim Gordon has shared a new non-album single, 'ECRP'. The track was produced by Justin Raisen, with whom Gordon also worked for her recent LP, The Collective. It comes with a music video directed by her daughter, Coco Gordo … | Continue reading
Ned Raggett remembers the audacity – the white heat – of a first encounter with the OST in 1984. This feature was first published on 25 June 2014 Saying something new about albums that have been loved and discussed over the moons can sometimes feel like gilding the lily, no matte … | Continue reading
Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band Dancing On The Edge Louisville artist takes on the big stuff in an album of long song, packed with ideas RYAN DAVIS & the Roadhouse Band "Dancing on the Edge" by Ryan Davis & the Roadhouse Band “I never asked to be born / I was only wondering where … | Continue reading
In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months. Bosc, photo by Nicolas Godin There have been signs in the past few months that France’s hith … | Continue reading
The self-titled record has been arranged by the late artist's brother, Benny Long A posthumous SOPHIE album is to be released later this year. Though the full tracklist for the self-titled record hasn't yet been revealed, it's said to feature contributions from several artists wi … | Continue reading
Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth Photo by Austin McDonald “It’s a little bit p … | Continue reading
Mabe Fratti Sentir que no sabes Backed by loyal collaborators, Guatemalan-born Mexico City-based cellist Mabe Fratti delivers a confidently confusing knockout Sentir que no sabes by Mabe Fratti There’s shame in not knowing. That’s why it’s hard to admit when you’re wrong. Doubt i … | Continue reading
In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!) I first met George Smiley … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his new book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, Justin Patrick Moore takes us through the secret history of the links between wartime cryptography and electro-funk By the 1940s, radio and telephone had revolutionized communications in the industrialized wo … | Continue reading
The album was recorded in Chicago in March 2022 Bill Callahan is releasing a live album, Resuscitate! Spanning 10 tracks, it was recorded during a show at Chicago's Thalia Hall in March 2022. Callahan was joined by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on alto sax and Jim White … | Continue reading
He's also shared lead track 'Sans Limities', which features vocals from Stereolab's Laetitia Sadier Thurston Moore is set to release his ninth solo album this September. Titled Flow Critical Lucidity, the seven-track record was recorded at London's Total Refreshment Centre. Moore … | Continue reading
d’Eon Leviathan Montreal's Chris d'Eon returns with more rococo digital psychedelia for those who like their deconstructed IDM with a cool slice of Bach Leviathan by d'Eon While epithets like “transporting” and “evocative” tend to be overused to death, every once in a while somet … | Continue reading
JR Moores casts a cynical eye over the exorcism genre and asks whether Russell Crowe's contribution to the form adds anything new. Contains spoilers for a variety of exorcism and shark attack-related films Films about exorcisms suffer from much the same problem as any movie in wh … | Continue reading
Innovation slowly becomes stifling orthodoxy in Irish music, says Darran Anderson, so welcome Lankum, the force that arrives once with every generation to revitalise the form Live in Dublin by Lankum Say what you like about the British Empire, and its crimes are legion, it sure h … | Continue reading
Kali Malone, Marie Davidson and more will play the Bologna festival this October Italian multi-venue festival ROBOT has revealed the first wave of acts playing its 2024 edition later this year. Taking place across four days in the city of Bologna, the festival will feature a spec … | Continue reading
The nine-track record explores themes of shock and trauma Jeff Mills has shared details of a new album, titled The Eyewitness. Comprised of nine tracks, it explores themes of shock and trauma, and follows on from the Detroit artist's recent record, The Trip: Enter The Black Hole, … | Continue reading
Martyyna Written in the Scars Czech producer weaves trauma into fractured and futuristic post-techno IM113 - Martyyna - Written In The Scars by Martyyna Martyyna takes a unique approach to the voice. The Prague-based producer and DJ sees her vocals as a starting point to tell spe … | Continue reading
Major new work by the Icelandic composer and Slátur co-founder is inspired by an old hydro-electric dam that became a haven for birds and other wildlife Stífluhringurinn is a landmark in suburban Rekyavik. The name means ‘dam circle’. It is the site of an old hydro-electric dam. … | Continue reading
In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases Elijah Minnelli … | Continue reading
Still House Plants, Nadah El Shazly and more will play the Guimarães event later this year Photo credit: Jorge Nicolau Portuguese festival Mucho Flow has shared the first wave of acts playing its 11th edition this October into November. The event, which takes place across multipl … | Continue reading
The LP tells the story of Amelia Earhart's tragic last flight Laurie Anderson has a new album on the way, titled Amelia. Spanning 22 tracks, the record tells the story of the tragic last flight by aviator Amelia Earhart, and its lyrics, written by Anderson, present a subjective n … | Continue reading
The Velvet Underground co-founder and longstanding experimental outlier reflects fondly on his 18-hour long debut US performance, producing for The Stooges and writing an ode to Brian Wilson, and makes a case for the avant-garde genius of Snoop Dogg Photo by Madeline McManus In J … | Continue reading
µ-Ziq Grush After thirty years in the game, Mike Paradinas is clearly still having a heck of a time, finds Jon Buckland Grush by µ-Ziq µ-Ziq aka Mike Paradinas has been in the game long enough to see styles and fashions come and go. Hell, in his career spent carving out glitchy, … | Continue reading
The NYC-based saxophonist, composer, bandleader of the Contortions and member of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks passed away on Tuesday of an unspecified illness James Chance, the New York City-based no wave, free jazz and punk funk musician and composer died at the age of 71 on Tues … | Continue reading
The label will release remastered vinyl versions of 'Locust Abortion Technician', 'Hairway To Steven' and 'Cream Corn From The Socket Of Davis' in September Three records by Butthole Surfers are to be reissued by Matador later this year. The label will issue remastered vinyl vers … | Continue reading
The music and audiovisual art platform co-funded by the European Union will curate lineups at Polja Festival and şien Festival respectively SHAPE+, a music and audiovisual art platform co-funded by the European Union, has announced two collaborative showcases outside of the EU, a … | Continue reading
The tracks from four highly limited cassettes released in 1981 are being released alongside some previously unheard material Chrislo Haas and Beate Bartel's collaborative work as CHBB is to be given its first official reissue. Out later this week, the release takes in all nine tr … | Continue reading
The expanded 30th anniversary release is out across multiple formats in October Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works Volume II is getting an expanded reissue by Warp Records. Out in October, the 30th anniversary release will include all of the album's songs that were released on v … | Continue reading
The suspension affects all of Live Nation's UK festivals for 2024 Barclays has suspended its sponsorship of all UK-based Live Nation festivals for 2024 following protests against the bank's ties to Israel. Protest group Bands Boycott Barclays, which has encouraged artists to pull … | Continue reading
Richie Culver Hostile Environments Hull-born sound artist and painter simmers with resentment, finds Ian Opolot Richie Culver · Hostile Environments Richie Culver paints a decrepit landscape in Hostile Environments. It’s a record that features a fusion of distorted synth sounds i … | Continue reading
The Rotherham-based musician and artist looks back 40 years and considers the noise of industry, the noise of industrial action, the noise of excessive police violence and electronic music as political resistance. Digital and 35mm photographs of the site of the former Orgreave Co … | Continue reading
It’s four decades since Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds released their debut album From Her To Eternity, a record that found Cave attempting a new musical and lyrical language that could free him from his past and help him create – and curate – his future, says Wesley Doyle “At the e … | Continue reading
Taking in a solo track by each artist, the new record is out now on Hyperdub Burial and Kode9 have released a split single, titled Phoneglow / Eyes Go Blank. Available now for digital download and streaming via Hyperdub, it features a solo track by each artist. Burial's 'Phoneglo … | Continue reading
Immersion Nanocluster Vol.2 Thor Harris from Swans, Penelope Isles’ Cubzoa and Matt Schulz from Holy Fuck join Malka Sppigel and Colin Newman’s ever-convivial Immersion project for a head-on collision of experimental technique and poppist euphoria Malka Spigel and Colin Newman ar … | Continue reading