Film
Murderers Among Us: Owen Hatherley Picks Over the ‘Rubble Films’ of Post-War East Germany
A new boxset from Eureka Entertainment collects five films from the DEFA archives, taking in film noir, Expressionism, melodrama – and denazification
Remember Them…
Remembering Mani, by Gordon Moakes
The musician Gordon Moakes remembers the late Gary "Mani" Mounfield, the bass player’s bass player whose delicate but propulsive anti-rock energy was The Stone Roses’ life and soul in microcosm
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the Week: Before Aksak Maboul (Documents & Experiments 1969-1977)
Jeremy Allen finds much to celebrate in an early doors odds and sods compilation from the Belgian underground powerhouse, Aksak Maboul
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Duncan Wheeler on Ozzy at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival
Although they went to the same primary school, Duncan Wheeler knew little about Ozzy Osbourne until Jon Bon Jovi led him to a VHS of a gig that counts as one of the strangest live events in rock history
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Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for November by Daryl Worthington
From radical dance music to triumphant, intricately layered synth pop and a levitating collaboration between a Ugandan embaire ensemble and a Japanese dub producer, Daryl Worthington finds rays of joy on cassette to blast away the impending winter entropy this November
Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Baker's Dozen
Good Tradition: Tanita Tikaram’s Favourite Albums
Ahead of her performance at this year's EFG London Jazz Festival, Tanita Tikaram takes Luke Turner through her favourite records, from the soundtrack of her childhood spent in military bases, via formative encounters with OMD and The Beatles, an abiding love of the jazz and soul greats, and more
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Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Duncan Wheeler on Ozzy at the 1989 Moscow Music Peace Festival
Although they went to the same primary school, Duncan Wheeler knew little about Ozzy Osbourne until Jon Bon Jovi led him to a VHS of a gig that counts as one of the strangest live events in rock history
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Anniversary
LL Cool J: Radio Versus Mama Said Knock You Out
Angus Batey takes a look at LL Cool J's two greatest LPs and considers the difference five years can make in a rapper's career. This feature was first published in 2015
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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Books
The Lodger In Me: Bid from The Monochrome Set on the Aneurysm that Changed His Life
In an exclusive extract from his new book, Strange Young Alien, the founder member and principal songwriter of the Monochrome Set discusses the ruptured cerebral aneurysm that changed the way he thought about music and the creative process
Books
Stroppy, Optimistic, Overdressed Young Men: Robert Elms Remembers the Blitz Club
Blitz: The Club That Created the Eighties, a new book by Robert Elms, returns the reader to a bygone London of squats full of future popstars and cans of Red Stripe to recall the nightclub that birthed Spandau Ballet and Visage and might just have invented the future
