Album of the Week
Build Back Better: Greatest Heads by Al Karpenter
Born out of the febrile Basque Country experimental music community and infused with the weirdness of the early 00s New York noise scene, the former solo project of Bilbao’s Alvaro Matilla (now joined by Marta Sainz, Enrique Zaccagnini, and multi-instrumentalist, serial collaborator Mattin) sounds wild and untamed and bursting with possibility
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The Strange World Of… Part Chimp
Ahead of a headline slot at the Baba Yaga's Hut 19th Anniversary Party, Part Chimpers past and present speak to Stevie Chick about an illustrious career in higher-function-shattering rock music
Film
Watch Dublin Elegy Down The Market by Dave Tynan
Darran Anderson speaks to the writer and filmmaker about the closure of Smithfield Market on the Northside and the sung and spoken eulogy he made to celebrate its passing
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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Playlist: Catch up with June 2025
Four hours of sounds from the month that was
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Electronic
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for June Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
This month’s edition of our dance music column brings a surprise six-hour marathon set from Italian techno legend Donato Dozzy and plenty of dancefloor goodies, from “bard tech” and new gen Italo house to re-touched French Touch and cerebral IDM techno
Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Anniversary
The Shark of the New: Jaws 50 Years On
When a mechanical fish brought novel horror to the big screen in 1975, little did the filmmakers realise that they were about to warp an entire generation and help usher horror into everyone's homes, says Joel McIver
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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Books
Artists Only? Jonathan Gould’s Book on Talking Heads and Downtown New York
Burning Down the House by Jonathan Gould tells the story of the American new wave band and the fertile scene they came up with, but does the book risk reducing the city and everyone in it to a backdrop for the group's mercurial lead singer? asks Elizabeth Wiet
Books
Live Happening: Peter Ulrich Recalls the First European Tour of Dead Can Dance
In an exclusive extract from his book, Drumming with Dead Can Dance: and Parallel Adventures, former Dead Can Dance drummer Peter Ulrich looks back at an almost fateful mishap in the heady days of the band's early time with 4AD
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