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North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena
New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed. From jumpstyle to hardcore punk, from hip hop to garage rock (for those who can’t afford a garage), she introduces five key artists keeping the flame alive
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Joshua Bridge Premieres New Short Film ‘What Do You Want?’
The film was commissioned by Mary Anne Hobbs and Anna Phoebe as part of this year's Manchester International Festival. You can view it first via tQ below
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Charli XCX & John Cale Unveil Noisy Wuthering Heights Collab
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Black Sky Thinking
How Dennis Potter’s TV Plays Were Guides to the Purgatory of the Modern Age
Darran Anderson reflects on the work of the great Dennis Potter, an artist who saw the potential of television as medium, and a working class writer so "imaginative in the ways he defied containment"
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The Quietus International
North American Music: tQ in New York City, by Maxelle Talena
New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed. From jumpstyle to hardcore punk, from hip hop to garage rock (for those who can’t afford a garage), she introduces five key artists keeping the flame alive
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A Long Drink of the Best Water: Highlights from 2025’s Le Guess Who?
Richard Foster reports back from another stellar edition of the Utrecht Festival, where he finds equal space for spiritual nourishment gibbering wig-outs, courtesy of Valentina Magaletti, upsammy, EarthBall, The Fiery Furnaces and many more
Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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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
Baker's Dozen
Strings to the Bow: Sudan Archives’ Baker’s Dozen
From the artists and musicologists who fuelled a fascination with traditional string instruments to the songs that make her cry - via a memorable encounter with Erykah Badu and more, Sudan Archives selects 13 pieces of music that have shaped her life
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50 Years On: Patti Smith’s Horses Revisited
Hannah Pezzack looks back half a century and finds a crucial album which is pulsating with erotic energy
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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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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
