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Wardruna main man Einar Selvik tells Dan Franklin about how his passion for ancient instruments fuels his music, and the ways in which nature creates culture
As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community
In this month's pod John Doran and Luke Turner get stuck in to two favourite albums from one of tQ's most-loved and much-missed groups, Sonic Youth
In the final part of tQ's collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Anton Shmarhovych offers a comprehensive overview of some of the wonderful music to come out of Ukraine from 1988 onwards
A new year finds the tape scene as vibrant, weird and wonderful as ever. Daryl Worthington dives into water tapestries, time-folding folk and hip-hop, vibrant electronic noise and an album of online product reviews
Kristin Hersh offers Sean Kitching the exclusive first interview about Throwing Muses’ first new album in five years, her recording process, synaesthesia, the similarities between music and stand-up comedy, and turning difficult personal situations into art (not product) that celebrates the humanity of us all
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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As The Transfiguration Of Blind Joe Death turns 60, Will Snelling explores how the record's combination of bare-bones intimacy and haunting atmosphere, post modern edge and inherent tension loom large over myriad artists today
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Explore The PortalIn the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus
As Elaine Kraf's The Princess of 72nd Street is added to the Penguin Modern Classics roster, Kat Lister re-examines the author's legacy and talks to Kraf's daughter about putting together the pieces of the life of one of the most neglected and most radical novelists of the 1970s
With its focus on the 1970s career of Leonard Rossiter and its mordant metaphysics of the moist, Sophie-Sleigh Johnson's Code: Damp might just be the most original book yet to emerge from Repeater publishing, finds Tim Burrows
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