Black Sound London will run until July 19 A new exhibition at London's Barbican Music Library is exploring the past 100 years of Black British music. Black Sound London opened earlier this month and will be on display at the Barbican until July 19. It aims to explore "the outsize … | Continue reading
Darran Anderson sifts through all of the glorious rubble of German experimental music, psychedelic rock, avant funk and elektronische of the late 1960s onwards to hail an unbeatable trinity. All photographs by Maria Jefferis Three Album Run is a new series on tQ where we explore … | Continue reading
The band have currently lined up three dates in Manchester, alongside festival appearances in Europe WU LYF are reuniting for a run of live shows, beginning next month. Marking the band's first dates in 13 years, the announcement of the shows follows on from frontman Ellery James … | Continue reading
Inturist Tourism With a broken tape recorder and a flea market mixer, the exiled artist summons ghosts of Cluster and the Clangers Tourism by Inturist Forever alone, forever making beautiful things. The nomadic life of Jenya Gorbunov continues apace after russia’s brutal and ille … | Continue reading
Driving Him Nuts: Squirrely Years Revisited Is Ministry's Best Album In Decades Al Jourgensen's latest is a startling proposition – re-recordings of material that he outright despises, with a raging squirrel phallus displayed on the cover. It's also, says JR Moores, the best mate … | Continue reading
From hypnagogic pop to the New Weird America, Jon Buckland finds a glimpse of hope in an anthology of music writing by author and critic David Keenan “I like art where the blood is streaming and the flowers are blooming like hell.” – Peter Brötzmann Pitiful royalties. Chronic tic … | Continue reading
Twenty years on from her debut, Skye Butchard maps the ways M.I.A.’s art has aligned with and often predicted internet culture - in both the bad and the brilliant Last summer, M.I.A. debuted a fashion line of sorts on Infowars, the platform of far-right conspiracy theorist Alex J … | Continue reading
The subversive cinema takeover is back in Hackney this April with an even bigger celebration of women in underground scenes, goth, EBM and fetish culture Dalston institution The Rio Cinema has been part of cultural life in Hackney for half a century but in more recent years, it h … | Continue reading
Jeremy Allen considers the special plight of the brilliant album which commits the crime of only refining a sound when the previous album originated it “Today kids get an instrument and see what they can do with it. Then they look around and start to copy, which is okay to start … | Continue reading
Genre purism be damned – there is no surer evidence of jazz’s immortality than the enduring influence of Expansions, Lonnie Liston Smith’s ecstatic, eclectic and resolutely non-denominational call to spiritual arms, argues Stevie Chick If there’s a commonality shared by all the n … | Continue reading
More Eaze & Claire Rousay No Floor As the two friends and regular collaborators slide into Thrill Jockey's roster, Emo and Americana get stirred into the ambient stew to heartfelt and often dreamlike effect no floor by more eaze & claire rousay Longtime collaborators and kindred … | Continue reading
It's out next month on Rocket Recordings Photo by Alex Telfer Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs have a new album on the way, titled Death Hilarious. Continuing the band's longstanding connection with Rocket Recordings, the record features nine tracks. The group's producer and gu … | Continue reading
Anna Doble recalls a youthful encounter with Trish Keenan and James Cargill in Leeds, and their debut album which is now a quarter of a century old The Noise Made By People by Broadcast A song drifts across a creaking wooden stage and through the side exit of a pub. I see the sin … | Continue reading
Heimat Iti Eta No French duo weave Byzantine dreamscapes out of complex rhythms and folkish surrealism Iti Eta No by HEIMAT There’s something about trees and storms in Iti Eta No. Heimat’s third album is an exploration of collage and landscape – not just the physical landscape of … | Continue reading
New York metal power trio hone their wild off-kilter excursions into a set of lean, mean pummelling machines, as decadent as your life Pic: Alex Krauss 1929, New York City. six months before the crash. Edward Bernays, inspired by the work of his double uncle Sigmund Freud, paid w … | Continue reading
Westminster City Council is aiming to respond to noise complaints, but some business owners believe the measures could harm nightlife Photo by Larry Jordan Westminster City Council has revealed plans to introduce designated 'nightlife and entertainment zones' in Central London. T … | Continue reading
The new imprint is dedicated to solo works by the band's members, as well as outlier material and collaborations beyond their core collective output Horse Lords have started a label, called OMA Editions. Founded by the trio of Andrew Bernstein, Max Eilbacher and Owen Gardner, it … | Continue reading
It's lifted from forthcoming solo album Ten Crowns Photo by Sean Black Erasure's Andy Bell has released a new song, 'Dance For Mercy'. It's the third cut to be unveiled from Bell's forthcoming solo album, Ten Crowns, after the previous release of singles 'Don't Cha Know' and 'Bre … | Continue reading
Tune-Yards and Dee Dee Bridgewater are among those playing the festival later this year Tune-Yards EFG London Jazz Festival has begun announcing the extensive list of acts playing its 2025 edition this November. Leading the first lineup announcement are Tune-Yards – who will perf … | Continue reading
Floating Points, Geordie Greep and Astrid Sonne are among those set to play the Southwark Park event this August Photo by Jake Davis London day festival RALLY will return for its third edition this summer. Taking place at its usual home of Southwark Park, this year's festival wil … | Continue reading
In this month's essay, Jeanette Leech seeks to reclaim the legacy of Elastica's vastly underrated second album from prurient mutterings about drug addiction and the collapse of Britpop, celebrating Mark E. Smith collaborations and the birth of M.I.A. When Elastica’s second album … | Continue reading
In this month's essay, Jeanette Leech seeks to reclaim the legacy of Elastica's vastly underrated second album from prurient mutterings about drug addiction and the collapse of Britpop, celebrating Mark E. Smith collaborations and the birth of M.I.A. When Elastica’s second album … | Continue reading
Clipping Dead Channel Sky LA rappers look back to a classic 1984 novel for a dark vision of a cyberpunk future set to the big beats of 90s club music Dead Channel Sky by clipping. Last year marked a four-decade anniversary since William Gibson’s cyberpunk classic Neuromancer, wit … | Continue reading
It follows his 2024 solo debut, White Roses, My God Alan Sparhawk of LOW has a new solo album on the way. Spanning nine tracks, With Trampled By Turtles was recorded by Sparhawk in late 2023 alongside long-time friends and fellow Minnesotans, the folk band Trampled By Turtles. Jo … | Continue reading
It features new tracks by Venetian Snares, Jlin, Nik Colk Void and more Planet Mu is to mark 30 years of operations with a new compilation, set for release in May. Planet Mu 30 takes in 25 new and previously unheard cuts from artists long affiliated with the influential label, as … | Continue reading
The track marks the band's first new material in three years Photo by El Hardwick caroline have shared a brand new single, titled 'Total Euphoria. Out now, the new cut marks the first new material from the band in three years and sees vocalists Jasper Llewellyn and Magdalena McLe … | Continue reading
Rattle Encircle Percussion-heavy UK duo offer up a sinuous ritual born of sound, space, and a little bit of magick Encircle by Rattle On their third album, Rattle continuously trace the circle’s edge, experimenting with the interplay of time and expectation utilising only doubled … | Continue reading
Daryl Worthington speaks to Turmeric Acid about telepathic collaborations, and reviews tapes of free-wheeling hardanger and Andean flute improvisations, sat nav fall outs, ecstatic noise and more in March’s dive into the cassette scene Zosha Warpeha and Mariel Terán, photo by Ale … | Continue reading
The four-track Burning Moonlight is out in June A new EP by Marianne Faithfull is to be posthumously released this June. Featuring four songs that the artist had been working on before her death, Burning Moonlight had been indented to be released as a bookend to Faithfull's caree … | Continue reading
The fire at Club Pulse started during a performance by the hip hop duo DNK 59 people have died in a fire at a nightclub in the North Macedonian town of Kočani. As The Associated Press reports, a further 155 people were injured – 20 of them critically – when the fire broke out as … | Continue reading
A decade ago CdY couldn't understand why people compared her music to that made by a man in his seventies, but after listening to the work of Scott Walker she found much she approved of, including scatological humour. Main portrait by Dana Trippe, all other pictures by Haley Fohr … | Continue reading
Boba Sopa That Moment GW Sok, formerly of The Ex, narrates a cautionary tale by Nicoleta Esinencu with dramaturg Jean Vangeebergen and musician Pavel Tchikov on modular synths That Moment by Sopa Boba (featuring Pavel Tchikov/Ogives and G.W. Sok/The Ex, Oiseaux-Tempête) Since lea … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his new book for Bloomsbury's Object Lessons series, Cambridge Historical Geography professor Philip Howell explores the lore and language of alehouse signage You know where you are with the pub sign, and no pub tourist should pass by without tipping … | Continue reading
Angus Batey looks behind the enshrined myth of Tupac Shakur and finds an album which is more compromise than triumph. This feature was initially published on 03/04/2015 Let's get this said right at the start. There's a reason discussion of 2Pac tends to avoid detailed re-investig … | Continue reading
Jeremy Allen celebrates a timely reissue of a stunning live album that challenges received wisdom about Nico in the 1980s Chelsea Town Hall by Nico This recording of Nico's live concert from the Chelsea Town Hall in 1985 has been issued a few times before, but never with the pres … | Continue reading
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm Puja Nandi celebrates five pioneering artists, from Asian Dub Foundation (pictured) to Osmani Soundz, who enriched the soundtrack of the pre-millennial UK by mixing drum & bass and electronica with the sounds of the Bengali diaspora Look … | Continue reading
Marina Zispin Now You See Me, Now You Don’t Bianca Scout and Martyn Reid zip up their ski jackets and fire up the 606 for an album of cold-sweating synths with hair-raising ambience Now You See Me, Now You Don't by Marina Zispin South London-based dancer, producer and choreograph … | Continue reading
The originally planned 2024 release of the sequel to 1984's This Is Spinal Tap was previously delayed due to the Hollywood strikes of 2023 Spinal Tap II, the long-awaited sequel to 1984 film This Is Spinal Tap, has finally been given its long-awaited new release date. The film ha … | Continue reading
Though The Bends has since been overshadowed by what followed, its release 30 years ago found Radiohead on the cusp of stardom. Wyndham Wallace joins them on a journey from their early days to their inevitable worldwide breakthrough. This article was first published on 3 March 20 … | Continue reading
The latest reinvention of Haley Fohr finds the Indiana-born singer-composer taking a headlong dive into her own inner world, coming back for air with an album of commanding physicality Photo credit: Dana Trippe “Enter the room of nothing / Enter the room of me,” sings Haley Fohr … | Continue reading
Joni Void Every Life Is A Light Blurred layers of voice and synth evoke a place once seen but half-forgotten, for Luke Cartledge Every Life Is A Light by Joni Void It takes a while to sync up with this Joni Void record. The latest LP from the Montréal artist is a fluttery, meande … | Continue reading
Slikback, Valentina Magaletti and more are heading to the Montréal festival this August MUTEK has shared the first wave of acts playing its 26th edition this August. Taking place across six days, the Montréal festival will this year take in live performances by the likes of Slikb … | Continue reading
It features contributions from El-P, The Alchemist, Shabaka Hutchings and more Photo by Natalia Vacheishvili billy woods has shared details of a new album, titled GOLLIWOG. Set for release via his own Backwoodz Studioz imprint, the 18-track record features production and music fr … | Continue reading
The near-200-song collection includes tracks by Burial, Severed Heads and Simple Minds, among many others Aphex Twin has curated a Spotify and YouTube playlist for streetwear fashion brand Supreme. Titled '[mostly mellow]', the 191-song collection clocks in at almost 10 hours wor … | Continue reading
The 12-track LP marks Yorke's first release with Warp Records Photo by Pierre Toussaint Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke have collaborated on a new album, Tall Tales. Spanning 12 tracks, it is Yorke's first release with Warp Records and its announcement follows on from the unveiling … | Continue reading
On the verge of a new album and his final ever tour, Edwyn Collins takes Jude Rogers through 13 records that have defined his life, from indie, soul and country classics to his encounters with Sparks and The Cribs Photo by Fenella Lorimar Edwyn Collins – Scottish national treasur … | Continue reading
Anchoress Cockdust Berlin goths find unexpected feminist energies in the literature of the middle ages Cockdust by Anchoress It’s easy to bandy about the term ‘goth’ for certain aesthetics, but Anchoress have the literary references to hold the title. The Berlin-based band (not t … | Continue reading
She's also shared the record's lead cut, 'Daze' Kara-Lis Coverdale has shared details of her first new album in eight years, From Where You Came. Comprised of 11 tracks, the record nods to 19th century programmatic music and mid-70s jazz, and was recorded across several locations … | Continue reading