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Mike Drop: Finn Wolfhard’s Favourite Albums
As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the Stranger Things star speaks to Alex Rigotti about the 13 albums that formed his taste
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Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.
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Chris Watson & Stephen Mallinder Reunite for Cabaret Voltaire Redux
Performance in Sheffield this autumn
Black Sky Thinking
Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black
Zachary Lipez puts on his his tightest pants, casts "'n' Roll" to one side and hails the unbeatable trinity of 20th century rock music. All photographs by Maria Jefferis. Thanks to Matt Ducker
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Electronic
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for May Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.
Folk
Radical Traditional: Folk Music for Spring, by Patrick Clarke
Patrick Clarke's seasonal exploration of forward-thinking folk music returns, featuring an interview with Eliza Carthy on the attentional ebb & flow the scene attracts, and the importance of hammering home an anti-fascist message, plus reviews of ten essential new releases – from magical Kazakh guitar to the Italians at the heart of Ireland's trad scene, via the Balkans, Lebanon, Argyll, Connemara and beyond
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Organic Intelligence XLIV: World-Building-For-One AKA DIY Synth Music for Getting Off-Planet
In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, exclusive to tQ subscribers, Jennifer Lucy Allan guides us through a selection of transportive releases from DIY synth voyagers of the near past
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50 Years On: Hawkwind’s Warrior On The Edge Of Time Revisited
Danny Riley traverses the space time continuum to find Hawkwind in 1975 at a galactic crossroads. This feature was first published 26/07/15
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Borderlands: Alex Niven on Harry Lawson’s Stepney Western
At Newcastle Contemporary Art gallery, an exhibition featuring a new film by Harry Lawson plus archival photos by Henri Cartier-Bresson, Martine Franck, Chris Killip, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Tish Murtha and others, draws links between the fabled American West and England’s North-East
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