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
The new project will be released by Tresor in May Surgeon has a new album on the way for Tresor. Titled Shell~Wave, the nine-track record follows 2023's Crash Recoil and continues a partnership with Berlin's Tresor label that stretches across almost three decades. Expanding on th … | Continue reading
Moritz von Oswald, Nkisi and more will play the travelling Italian event this year Terraforma Exo, the new event founded by the team behind the defunct Milan festival Terraforma, has confirmed the first wave of acts for its 2025 trio of events. Now in its second year, Terraforma … | Continue reading
Hekla Turnar Theremin virtuoso Hekla Magnúsdóttir’s third album is austere and uncompromising, but it more than rewards careful listening Turnar by Hekla For a few bars it seems like things might be straightforward, even pleasant. ‘Inni’, the opening track on Icelandic theremin v … | Continue reading
Listen to first track, Caroline Polachek duet 'Industrial Love Song', on tQ. These New Puritans with Caroline Polachek by Holly Whitaker These New Puritans have announced details of Crooked Wing, Jack and George Barnett's first album since 2019's Inside The Rose, releasing a new … | Continue reading
Julian Marszalek looks back four decades to the hit album that shouldn't have been and nearly wasn't. This feature was first published 16/03/2015 The clues to The Sisters of Mercy's imminent implosion were already in place: Ben Gunn's departure in 1983 after the band's first US t … | Continue reading
Having failed to secure tickets for the big Black Sabbath farewell this summer, Kez Whelan wonders whether missing out might be for the best. He also reviews the latest from Intensive Care x The Body, The Overmold, Abduction and many more Vacuous, photo by Stanley Gravett No, I d … | Continue reading
This month John and Luke head all the way back to 1904 to experience the thrills, chills and outright horrors of a modern compendium of ghoulish tales 1968 BBC adaptation of M.R. James' Whistle & I'll Come To You Crumpets and sherry dear subscriber? Would you like to pull your ch … | Continue reading
This month John and Luke head all the way back to 1904 to experience the thrills, chills and outright horrors of a modern compendium of ghoulish tales 1968 BBC adaptation of M.R. James' Whistle & I'll Come To You Crumpets and sherry dear subscriber? Would you like to pull your ch … | Continue reading
Open Vocal Phrases, Where Songs Come In And Out was captured at Phill Niblock's Experimental Intermedia Foundation in New York City A new live album has been jointly released by Rough Trade and Audika Records taking in a full unedited solo performance by Arthur Russell captured i … | Continue reading
Less than two months out from the return of Pewsey's Acid Horse, Noel Gardner picks out 10 must-sees at this year's edition, from Matmos to Milkweed via ballroom-gone-industrial, Eastern Bloc alt pop, psychic drone and much, much more Last year's Acid Horse. Photo by Maria Jeffer … | Continue reading
Less than two months out from the return of Pewsey's Acid Horse, Noel Gardner picks out 10 must-sees at this year's edition, from Matmos to Milkweed via ballroom-gone-industrial, Eastern Bloc alt pop, psychic drone and much, much more Last year's Acid Horse. Photo by Maria Jeffer … | Continue reading
Earth Ball Actual Earth Music – Volume 1 & 2 Pulling recordings from a Wolf Eyes support slot and a recent Cafe Oto resident, Earth Ball's latest tests the rule that live rock albums suck Actual Earth Music – Volume 1 & 2 by Earth Ball Unless you’re talking about the likes of No … | Continue reading
Was disco the hated antithesis of all that was punk? Not according to OG punk rocker, Vivienne Westwood collaborator and Sex Pistols DJ Alan Jones. With his new book Discomania recenly published, here he picks his all-time top ten celluloid stompers Although nagged to write my au … | Continue reading
Lady Gaga Mayhem Mayhem is both a satisfying return to form and also an unabashed revisiting of stylistic and thematic roots, even linguistic tropes and tics, says CJ Thorpe-Tracey https://youtu.be/vBynw9Isr28?si=2QmCPEAIOn4oyutG People never think of Gaga as cute. She’s been oth … | Continue reading
Hesse Kassel La Brea Cal Cashin hails a scorching debut album by Chilean art rock group Hesse Kassel which comfortably spans the power and textures of Godspeed, early BC,NR, Shellac and Swans La Brea by Hesse Kassel La Brea is a truly inexplicable, revelatory debut. Spending 80 m … | Continue reading
A new audiophile vinyl version of the controversial 1974 live set offers unprecedented clarity on an inspirational if oft-misunderstood moment, Angus Batey argues There are, surely, only two key factors that really determine whether a reissue is worthwhile. The first is if the mu … | Continue reading
Darkside Nothing Nicolás Jaar’s old jam band with Dave Harrington (and now Tlacael Esparza) just gets funkier with every release, finds Aydin Khalili For many years now, guitar music and electronic production have followed divergent, even antagonistic paths. Daft Punk seems like … | Continue reading
The 1975 and Olivia Rodrigo join the previously announced Neil Young as headliners of this year's festival Glastonbury has shared the first wave of acts playing the main stages at its 2025 edition this June. This year's festival will be headlined by The 1975, Neil Young and Olivi … | Continue reading
The second album by a young master of the tanbur reminds Kamyar Salavati of a special trip to the mountains of Kermanshah in Iran MOHAMMAD MOSTAFA HEYDARIAN - NOOR-E VOJOOD by MOHAMMAD MOSTAFA HEYDARIAN It is March 2020, during the Covid spring. In a remote town in the western pr … | Continue reading
Los Pirañas Una Oportunidad Más de Triunfar en la Vida Sean Kitching celebrates the Latin tropical supergroup releasing their best record to date Una Oportunidad más de triunfar en la vida by Los Pirañas On the cover of their fifth album [Another Chance To Succeed In Life], the t … | Continue reading
Peter Harris – Fritz Catlin – Lee Scratch Perry Mercy Posthumous collaboration for the Upsetter featuring Peter Harris and 23 Skidoo's Fritz Catlin Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry met artist and musician Peter Harris while the latter was making a philosophical film about death called Higher … | Continue reading
Slow Magic, 1977-1978 captured never-heard-before songs written and recorded by the Hollywood actor with a band of close friends Light In The Attic is set to release a compilation collecting a number of previously unheard recordings by the actor Jeff Bridges. Dating back to the l … | Continue reading
Blue Veil is out next month on Stephen O'Malley's label Lucy Railton has shared details of the first release to document her solo cello works, titled Blue Veil. Due out via Stephen O'Malley's Ideologic Organ label, the seven compositions featured on the record clock in at around … | Continue reading
It's the second release in the ambient-based Liminal series from UK label Oscilla Sound Ukrainian producer Andriy K., one of the artists on the 2024/25 SHAPE+ roster, has released a new album, Poetry Of The Vanished Territories. Arriving as part of the ambient music-based series … | Continue reading
The American composer and pedal steel player who died earlier this year left behind a formidable body of work; Jakub Knera provides ten points of entry Susan Alcorn by David Lobato There is usually nothing out of the ordinary about watching musicians setting up instruments on sta … | Continue reading
Rwake The Return Of Majik From Arkansaw with sludge, heavy riffing septet dig deep into Southern roots The Return Of Magik by Rwake Though clearly part of a lineage of introspective, forward-thinking post-metal stretching back to Neurosis, Rwake never really sounded like any of t … | Continue reading
They're also reissuing 1998's The Three E.P.'s in a deluxe vinyl set The Beta Band have reunited for a run of shows across the UK and North America later this year. The tour will feature the classic lineup of Steve Mason (guitar / vocals), Richard Greentree (bass), John Maclean ( … | Continue reading
30 years on, Keith Kahn-Harris tries to make sense of one of metal's most confusing years and considers what actually makes a genre Music is flow without the ebb. The musical soundscapes in which we are embedded resist the work of critics and historians who attempt to corral it i … | Continue reading
Noel Gardner's latest dispatch from the undergrowth features weird grime, Super Nintendo cartridges, an anti-music Napalm Death covers LP, a scorching bagpipe/saxophone drone and much much more Imperial Valley's American Memory Feel like it’s been long enough that a column such a … | Continue reading
Nikolaienko Love-Fidelity or Hiss Goodbye Ukrainian cassette archaeologist and Muscut records boss melts into a dubby ooze Love-Fidelity Or Hiss Goodbye by Nikolaienko Moiré patterns are peculiar optical effects that occur when similar sets of lines or patterns are superposed ont … | Continue reading
Alex Deller explores the life, death and rebirth of industrial metal, and tries to assess whether its futurist potential died in 1995. This feature was first published 17/11/2020 "No fate" – the legend Sarah Connor wistfully carves into a picnic table in 1991 action juggernaut Te … | Continue reading
Aya Sinclair talks to John Doran about giving up drink & drugs; reckoning with her emo, metal & IDM past and finds time to pass on some tips for those wanting to fill their mouths with live earthworms. Main portrait by Dee Iskrzynska hexed! by aya You might find hexed! bewitching … | Continue reading
KXB & Thrush Driving Through A Tunnel That Is Filling From Both Ends Intercontinental collaboration brings the fun back to the club KXB & Thrush - DRIVING THROUGH A TUNNEL THAT IS FILLING FROM BOTH ENDS by R.i.O. Label At the risk of straw-manning a po-faced caricature of contemp … | Continue reading
In an exclusive extract from his new biography of the artist, Nicholas Fox Weber peeks inside the Paris home of Piet Mondrian to find “a unique combination of poetry and toughness” Phrenological portrait of Piet Mondrian (1909), photo by Alfred Waldenburg Paris, September 8, 1926 … | Continue reading
The first edition features an in-depth profile on Swedish artist Bladee Pitchfork has launched a new print zine, which will be published quarterly. The zine will be centred around the publication's cover stories feature, which will also be posted online. The first of these is an … | Continue reading
The inagural release on Pramuk's new pop.soil imprint marks her first solo music in five years Photo by Leonardo Scotti Lyra Pramuk has shared a new track, called 'Vega'. Marking the first solo release from the artist in five years, it serves as the first release on her new label … | Continue reading
2025 keeps up its blistering pace with a wealth of brilliant new records released this February. tQ's staffers select the best of the bunch After remarking last month on how the customary winter lull of new releases failed to appear this time around, February proves that there's … | Continue reading
Exploring the subtle microcosms in rock music then bending them to his will, Ryan Walker interviews Mike Vest about Brain Pills, his new band with Nick Raybould and Adam Stone whose debut EP is released exclusively to tQ subscribers today – a gathering of tales, tunes and feedbac … | Continue reading
The two-stage three-day festival at The Barge Inn, Wiltshire is back for the Spring Bank Holiday Weekend with sets from Regis & Slav To The Rhythm plus live music from Milkweed, Haress, Rattle and William Doyle, who is playing the East India Youth album Total Strife Forever in fu … | Continue reading
Feelies fanatic Sean Kitching celebrates the 40th anniversary of their debut, Crazy Rhythms, by talking to Glenn Mercer and Bill Million. This article was originally published on 01/04/2020 The Feelies by Lynne Pickering Taking their name from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Th … | Continue reading
Derek Walmsley looks at the tough, progressive sounds of the Anglo-Jamaican digital dub duo created in the early 90s and now gathered together in an instructive box set Out Here On The Perimeter 1989-1996 by Dub Syndicate As the 70s turned to the 80s, echo chambers got bigger. Di … | Continue reading