An expanded edition of the album will come with added bonus tracks, all curated by Tim Burgess The Charlatans' 1994 album Up To Our Hips is being reissued by Beggars Arkive to mark its 30th anniversary. Set to be made available across digital, vinyl and CD formats, the expanded e … | Continue reading
From underage drinking soundtracked by Germs to the ton-of-bricks hit of Prince And The Revolution, via classics in hip hop, goth, easy listening and metal, former Liars and current Nonpareils musician Aaron Hemphill takes Luke Turner through an eclectic Baker's Dozen “It's one o … | Continue reading
Jill Fraser Earthly Pleasures With a custom-built Serge synthesiser, Fraser re-imagines the revival hymns and choruses of the late 19th and early 20th century Earthly Pleasures by Jill Fraser In all likelihood, Jill Fraser is a name that won’t ring many bells. It is also equally … | Continue reading
Gwen Siôn speaks to Jude Rogers about how her love of dubstep raves in tunnels became a creative practice of turning the slate of North West Wales into music, blending field recordings with choral song, and how landscape art is political Bethesda is a slate town of 5,000 people i … | Continue reading
The 80-year-old artist's upcoming North American live shows will be his last Beverly Glenn-Copeland has been diagnosed with dementia. The 80-year-old ambient music artist and composer confirmed the news in an Instagram video, which he appeared in alongside his wife, Elizabeth Gle … | Continue reading
The Act 1.5 shows will take place at a renewable-powered site in Liverpool Massive Attack, Nile Rodgers & Chic, and IDLES will take part in a series of low-carbon gigs this November in an attempt to test a number of proposals to radically decarbonise the events industry. The Act … | Continue reading
Ahead of sets at Unsound's Krakow and New York editions, and a long-awaited reissue of his recordings of John Coltrane and Langston Hughes compositions, Raphael Rogiński speaks to Jakub Knera about his love of the world, spirituality in music and Central and Eastern European iden … | Continue reading
Karl Smith feels SOPHIE's absence most keenly in the many gaps on this posthumous guest contributor album SOPHIE – Exhilarate (feat. Bibi Bourelly) by Future Classic "There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in" As an opener for reviewing the new album from SOPHI … | Continue reading
Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett gives us his Stateside view of another classic UK album… this time, Depeche Mode's fourth LP. This feature was first published on 15 September 2014 In 1984, George Orwell has Winston Smith overhear one of the anonymous proles sing a song descr … | Continue reading
From swampy squalls of Floridian grot rock to wriggling and stuttering cello, Jennifer Lucy Allan returns with your latest dose of Rum Music Artwork from Omoya: Houses For The Blue Meditation by Masami Makino The seasons are changing. The rose had its last flush of fluffy white b … | Continue reading
Nonpareils Rhetoric & Terror Inspired by Giorgio Agamben, ex-Liars man Aaron Hemphill creates a dreamily amorphous stew, finds Puja Nandi Rhetoric & Terror by Nonpareils Nonpareils is Aaron Hemphill’s solo project, which he launched several years after leaving Liars. His second a … | Continue reading
The four-track record explores elements of jazz and electronic music Jeff Mills has released a new EP under his Millsart moniker. Spanning four tracks, Powerland is inspired by the relationship between Earth and its surrounding universe, according to a social media post shared by … | Continue reading
The band's long-awaited new single will come along with full details of their next studio LP Songs Of A Lost World Photo via Wikimedia Commons The Cure have announced that their new single 'Alone' will be released this week, the first track from their first new studio album in si … | Continue reading
The Jordanian producer teams up with 3D artist sida100 for a unique, specially commissioned show in Prague this weekend With Lunchmeat's fourteenth edition kicking off in Prague today, tQ caught up with Jordanian producer Yazan Zyadat, aka Toumba to discuss his special show for t … | Continue reading
Thurston Moore Flow Critical Lucidity The former Sonic Youth guitarist invites us into his own dreamworld of grinding guitars and dappled light In 1988 the artist Jamie Nares painted an image titled Samurai Walkman which featured multiple tuning forks sticking out of a helmet. Th … | Continue reading
In the latest edition of the Memory Leaks podcast from tQ and Kyiv's 20ft Radio, we hear how Ukraine's underground developed during the early 00s. This is the story of how a small Ukrainian label evolved away from expectations of Ukrainian music as being all about folk music. The … | Continue reading
“Screaming ‘Jesus, help me’”, Wyndham Wallace looks for God in the 1987 album which returned The Wholly Cosmic Julian Cope (© TOTP) to the charts Unlike the Son of God, it took the acronymic Julian Cope three years to undergo resurrection. While on stage at London’s Hammersmith P … | Continue reading
Robin Mackay By The North Sea Author and Urbanomic director Robin Mackay drifts through mourning, melancholia and HP Lovecraft over dusty synths and mutant bass By The North Sea by Robin Mackay Part audio essay, part crypt-synth record, part junglite mutant bass music, part unfin … | Continue reading
The album blends studio and live recordings by the IDM producer, and has been remastered for its updated release Squarepusher, photo by Eva Vermandel Squarepusher's album Ultravisitor is being reissued by Warp Records. Marking 20 years since its original release, the updated rele … | Continue reading
It features on the forthcoming Diagonal label box set '13' Diagonal, the label run by Oscar Powell and Jaime Williams, has shared a previously unheard remix by Autechre of Russell Haswell's 2015 track 'Heavy Handed Sunset'. The Warp Records-affiliated duo's 'Form Conversion' vers … | Continue reading
The new editions come with additional bonus tracks John Cale's albums Paris 1919 and The Academy In Peril are getting their first official reissues courtesy of the artist's now label home of Domino. Both records have been specially remastered by recording engineer Heba Kadry for … | Continue reading
In the latest instalment of his series exploring music in Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera dives into the Romanian underground Diana Miron, photo by Andrei Mateescu Romania has given the world a distinct variety of spectralism, music that built on the foundations laid by c … | Continue reading
Kugelschreiber Cheerleaders Debut album from Cardiacs’ extended family mixes scientific and humanistic metaphors with hurdy gurdy drones and gorgeously layered vocals, finds Sean Kitching Cheerleaders by Kugelschreiber For their debut album, Kugelschreiber distil a different kind … | Continue reading
Andrew PM Hunt, of Ex-Easter Island Head, Outfit, and Land Trance, imagines far-flung worlds through glitches, whistles, and the chirruping of birds Photo credit: Daria Shestakova Andrew PM Hunt imagines a future archaeologist to shape a music of tomorrow from fragments of the pa … | Continue reading
Ahead of the reissue of Horizon Unlimited this week, Steph Phillips talks to Yeye Taiwo of legendary Nigerian Afrobeat group The Lijadu Sisters about revolutionising Nigerian pop music and how she is ready to go back on stage. Portrait of Kehinde & Taiwo by Jeremy Marre from the … | Continue reading
In this month's essay, Skye Butchard remembers her dad's collection of cassettes on which he recorded the 1981 radio version of Tolkien's classic to reflect on memory, archiving, and how familial relationships and loss are intrinsically bound up with the culture we share. Wheneve … | Continue reading
Drew McDowall, Eli Keszler, Forest Swords and more will play across nine nights at the King's Cross venue next month Drew McDowall Annual event series Luminate is set to return to its usual home of Kings Place in King's Cross, London next month. Across nine concerts, the series a … | Continue reading
The song features lyrics by guitarist Barry Burns' seven-year-old daughter Mogwai has shared a new single, 'God Gets You Back'. Marking the first new material to emerge from the Scottish band in two years, the new cut features lyrics written by guitarist Barry Burns' seven-year-o … | Continue reading
Featuring bonus demos, B-sides and live recordings, it marks the record's 20th anniversary The Hidden Cameras' 2004 album Mississauga Goddam is getting an expanded reissue next month. Marking 20 years since the record's original release, the reissue will take in the full album, a … | Continue reading
The former The Smiths vocalist has recently alleged that Marr "ignored" an offer for a 2025 reunion tour and "blocked" plans for a greatest hits album xr:d:DAFdQs00OyQ:202,j:45851962228,t:23042512 Johnny Marr's management has issued a statement responding to recent claims made by … | Continue reading
Ahead of her performance at OUT.FEST, The Newcastle turntablist and composer tells Alastair Shuttleworth about some of the records that have shaped her career – from Pauline Oliveros to Missy Elliott. “I want people to see how full of possibility and potential the turntable is,” … | Continue reading
'Thread head' Jude Rogers has spent decades in thrall to the notorious nuclear war television drama as well as recent months researching and writing a new BBC Radio documentary on it. Here she writes about being a member of an international community of fellow, often neurodiverse … | Continue reading
Sealionwoman Nothing Will Grow In The Soil An eerie set of pagan psalms from London-based voice/double bass duo Nothing Will Grow in the Soil by Sealionwoman The Sealionwoman is a mythological figure in the folklore of several northern European territories. In the Faroe Islands, … | Continue reading
A new box set will take in rarities, unreleased outtakes, live recordings and more Talking Heads' debut studio album, Talking Heads: 77, is being reissued in a deluxe box set. Split across four pieces of vinyl, as well as four seven-inch singles, the set takes in the remastered o … | Continue reading
The founding of Respect The Creators comes amidst the recent dissolution of DJ revenue-sharing platform Aslice A new campaign has been launched which calls on DJs to credit the producers of music that they are seen playing in social media clips that they share themselves. Backed … | Continue reading
"With the pressure of rising costs and shifting club culture, this is the only sensible and responsible decision," the club's operating team said Much-loved Berlin nightclub Watergate is to close at the end of the year after 22 years of operations. Confirming the decision to brin … | Continue reading
A video animation featuring her 2018 track 'Immaterial' marks what would have been the late artist's 38th birthday Today's Google Doodle across a number of worldwide territories celebrates the life and work of SOPHIE. Marking what would have been the late artist's 38th birthday, … | Continue reading
Fennesz and Max Cooper are among the final additions to the bill Italian multi-venue festival ROBOT has shared the full lineup for its upcoming 2024 edition. Taking place across four days, the Bologna event will newly take in live sets from Fennesz, premiering his forthcoming alb … | Continue reading
Cargo Records UK founder Phil Hill will act as CEO for the new joint venture, known as Cargo Independent Distribution Three of the UK's biggest independent record distribution companies – Secretly Distribution, Beggars Group and Cargo Records UK – have partnered to form a new joi … | Continue reading
ANOHNI is among the last acts to be added to the bill for the event EFG London Jazz Festival has shared the final wave of acts playing its 2024 edition this November. The event will take over multiple London venues across 10 days, with ANOHNI among the last set of names to be add … | Continue reading
Ahead of a set at this year’s OUT.FEST and off the back of superb new LP Ficar Vivo, Caveira's Pedro Gomes speaks to Stewart Smith about Lisbon’s storied experimental underground, the importance of dramatic dynamics on record, and the art of improvisation Caveira (lower L-R: Migu … | Continue reading
Before getting stuck into the latest avant rock releases, JR Moores pins his colours to the mast of Macca Hello Mary, photo by Cooper Winterson History repeats itself, according to Karl Marx, “the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.” He was writing about Napoleon III … | Continue reading
Floating Points Cascade Sam Shepherd's dancefloor-focused new album causes a Proustian rush for Puja Nandi Cascade by Floating Points Floating Points often induces a ‘madeleine moment’ for me, transporting me back to a dimly lit, subterranean room on Curtain Road in Shoreditch wh … | Continue reading
The track, lead singer Alli Logout, said is about "stagnancy, overstayed welcomes and the moment you decided to confront your complacency" Special Interest have shared a new song, titled 'Nothing Grows Here'. Marking the first original material to emerge from the New Orleans grou … | Continue reading
Nightclubs, pubs and other large spaces that fail to comply with the law could face a fine of £10,000 A new bill being put before UK parliament is aiming to better prepare venues to protect against acts of terrorism. If passed, the law would require nightclubs, pubs and other spa … | Continue reading
Kat Lister hits the road in the footsteps of Wim Wenders, travelling from Brooklyn to North Carolina, in search of the meaning of instant photography Photograph No. 7: Objects In The Mirror In Wim Wenders’ 1974 road movie Alice In The Cities, we first meet Philip Winter sitting u … | Continue reading
Wendy Eisenberg Viewfinder As a member of Bill Orcutt's quartet, guitarist Wendy Eisenberg certainly knows her chops, but here she sitts back a little to let the band shine, finds Levi Dayan Viewfinder by Wendy Eisenberg Wendy Eisenberg’s Viewfinder uses the experience of laser e … | Continue reading
Go wild, go wild, go wild in the country with iconoclasts of the Basingstoke avant garde and their video making exploits Magnificent drums/ oscillators/ pedals/ sax outfit and proud bearers of the 'Worst Band In Basingstoke' mantle, Sly And The Family Drone, are looking for you t … | Continue reading