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Reissue of the Week: Billy Woods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing
As it receives a new 10th anniversary release, Zachary Lipez delves back into the metafiction, self-interruptions, complexities digressions and inversions that made Billy Woods' Today, I Wrote Nothing a masterpiece
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Supersonic 2025: Your Quietus Essential Picks
With this year's Supersonic Festival just a week away, tQ's Claire Biddles selects 10 must-sees from a stacked lineup, from Nigerian rap to Philadelphia queercore to locally-sourced Brum heaviness, via a screening of a cult Czech gothic drama, a heavy dose of weirdo folk music and more
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90s nu-metal survivors indulge in a séance, but the ghost they are summoning is… themselves?
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Columnfortably Numb: Psych Rock for August by JR Moores
JR Moores addresses the painful rise of AI psych rock before getting his lugholes around some manmade releases
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Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix' fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the "youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs" actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.
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Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: Marie Le Conte on Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
When Marie Le Conte moved from Nantes to London she rejected her French identity, along with a teenage infatuation with Phoenix' fourth album. Years later, she reflects on how the "youth and hope and enthusiasm bottled inside ten neat and clean little songs" actually allows her to have a conversation with her past self about life, love and becoming.
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Sometimes Easy, Sometimes Hard: Harmonia’s Deluxe at 50
Both prefiguring the urgency of post punk, while simultaneously providing a continuation of utopian counter-cultural impulses, Harmonia's Deluxe is the sound of the faultline running through the mid 70s, says Toby Manning
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Hypnosis for Cats: Ben Pester’s Expansion Project Playlist
Ben Pester's brilliantly surreal new book is a "horror novel about office work" where the monster is a business park. Here he takes us through the songs he played while writing and the songs the book seems to summon for him now it's finished and (almost) out in the world
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“Want to Change My Clothes, My Hair, My Face”: How Springsteen Helped Me Come Out
In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian writer explores trans identity, the music of the American heartlands and how the Boss changed her life for good
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