Baker's Dozen
Out of this World: SHERELLE’s Favourite Records
Ahead of this month's BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, SHERELLE takes Alex Rigotti through 13 albums that provide escape and energy, from DJ Rashad to Justice to Janelle Monae
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GENA
The Pleasure Is Yours
A collaboration between Liv.e and Karriem Riggins proves sweetly seductive (perhaps even a little too much so)
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Hey Colossus
Heaven Was Wild
A new record from the noise rock stalwarts will always have us pricking up our ears at tQ towers, but despite a newfound sense of joy and even a certain swagger, this latest album is far from the group's peak, finds Laviea Thomas
Cassettes
Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for March by Daryl Worthington
Seals versus pedal-steels, a DIY symphony of garage rock & Super Nintendo synths, and a shadowy drone crew borrowing a 12 century church; Daryl Worthington dives into the tapes of March
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Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Acid Horse 26: tQ’s Ten Essential Picks
Three months to go until Acid Horse festival; Noel Gardner selects ten must sees from The Ex to Lord Spikeheart, via futurist mutant rave and ancient, hairy French-Alpine folk invocations! For top tier subscribers there's also an essential audio guide to Acid Horse past & present
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Anniversary
The Auteurs Sing Uber Hate: After Murder Park At 30
Self-hobbled and confined to a wheelchair, Luke Haines dug deep into middle England’s psychic hinterland to produce the definitive anti-Britpop album. Joe Banks reflects on a “monsterpiece” that still resonates today
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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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Black Sky Thinking
Eric Clapton & Enoch Powell To Morrissey: Race In British Music Since ’76
During an August 1976 gig in Birmingham, Eric Clapton made racist comments and praised Enoch Powell, inadvertently inspiring the Rock Against Racism campaign. Four decades later, with Morrissey making offensive comments about Sadiq Khan and Britain reeling from Brexit, David Stubbs asks if anything has changed
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Books
Fight The Power: Chuck D on the Politics of Hip Hop
The Public Enemy frontman has always been one of rap music’s most articulate advocates, but in 2022 he shifted career from MC to university lecturer. In an exclusive extract from his new book, In The Hour of Chaos, Chuck D talks about the cultural politics of hip hop and what it means for the future
