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Watch Stewart Lee Interview The Fall’s Steve Hanley Ahead of New Audiobook
Lee narrates a new audiobook of the former Fall bassist's acclaimed 2014 memoir The Big Midweek, which is released next week
Black Sky Thinking
Why Labour’s Proposals to Ban Ticket Touting don’t go far Enough
While music biz expert Eamonn Forde welcomes government plans to close the exploitative "secondary ticket" market, he argues that more needs to be done to help consumers and artists alike
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EUSEXUA Afterglow
A hastily assembled 'part two' to the Gloucestershire-born singer-producer's last album fails to live up to their best, finds Liam Inscoe-Jones
Anniversary
The Wind is Screaming Around the Trees: 40 Years of Psychocandy
Four decades back a major label released a debut album that sounded like almost nothing on earth while still sounding incredibly familiar. Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett takes stock of it all
Anniversary
The Murmuring of the Future: Ghost In The Shell 30 Years On
Lawrence English speaks to art director Hiromasa Ogura and composer Kenji Kawai in order to celebrate one of the greatest anime ever made. Japanese interview translation by Haruna Ito. Cover portrait of Hong Kong courtesy of the author
Cassettes
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
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Cassettes
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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Plans That They Made: Hüsker Dü Interviewed
Stevie Chick talks to Bob Mould and Greg Norton about blazing a trail in hardcore, the uneasy switch from independent to major label and their complex relationship with Grant Hart, plus paving the way for Pixies and Nirvana. Cover portrait courtesy of Greg Norton
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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
The Portal
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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Black Sky Thinking
Shadowplay: The Case For Regulating Online Ticket Touting
The online ticket resale industry is still exploitative and worryingly unregulated. Professor Guy Osborn of Westminster Law School and Professor Mark James of Manchester Law School present their latest research on this controversial practice and make a case for a new Labour government bringing in legislation to deal with it
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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
