Things I Have Learned
Kevin Lee Kharas of Real Lies on the Joys of Doomscrolling
People say doomscrolling is tearing apart the social fabric – and they're probably right – but, says Kevin Lee Kharas as his project Real Lies release a new album, it's a problem he's learning to like. Here, he tells us what it's taught him about life and people
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence XLIII: South African Mbaqanga Girl Groups from the 60s and 70s
In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Stephanie Phillips guides us through the South African girl groups who resisted apartheid oppression through the joy of their song
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Murk in High Def: Demilitarize by Nazar
Five years after his thrilling 'rough kuduro' debut, the Angolan-born / Manchester-based producer returns sounding more introspective, more ambiguous and more weird than ever, finds Eden Tizard
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All American Fuckboy
Even the presence of actor LaKeith Stanfield fails to lift this narrative of lust and redemption to the epic proportions of its own ambitions, finds Eden Tizard
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The Strange World Of… Michael Chapman
Some of those who knew the singer-songwriter and guitarist best, including his widow Andru Chapman and collaborator Thurston Moore, help guide Jonathan Wright through Michael Chapman’s extraordinary catalogue
Anniversary
I Can See You Still: Richard Thompson’s Across a Crowded Room at 40
40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)
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Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Anniversary
I Can See You Still: Richard Thompson’s Across a Crowded Room at 40
40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)
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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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A Quietus Interview
“We Had To Remake Ourselves”: Wayne Coyne Discusses The Soft Bulletin
Ahead of their Don't Look Back ATP show on July 1, Flaming Lips singer Wayne Coyne tells Stewart Smith all about the making of their classic LP The Soft Bulletin - including comparisons with Mercury Rev, the impact of his father's death and Steven Drozd's heroin addiction
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Art
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
Books
An Extract from Exterminate/Regenerate: The Story Of Doctor Who by John Higgs
John Higgs, author of books about the KLF, William Blake and James Bond, has now turned his eye to Doctor Who. In this fabulous extract from Exterminate/Regenerate, he considers Ben Wheatley's snow globe and the Tommy Westphall Universe Hypothesis...
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