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Filling in the Blanks: The World of Homemade Album Covers
To celebrate the publication of her new book, Sleeve Notes, photographer Dominique Russell takes us into the weird world of the many handmade record sleeves that have turned over the years at the record shop where her dad works
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Billy Bragg, Graham Coxon and More for Special Martin Carthy Show in London
The Life and Songs of Martin Carthy is set for September
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Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of May 2025
Here are the albums and songs from the last month that we think you should hear, as selected by tQ's staffers
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Reissue of the Week: Kendrick Lamar’s To Pimp A Butterfly (10 Year Anniversary Edition)
In 2014 Kendrick Lamar found himself in South Africa, an experience that helped to shape his third studio record, which is perhaps his most complex and enduring statement. Siobhán Kane revisits To Pimp A Butterfly
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The Chameleons’ What Does Anything Mean? Basically, at 40
This relatively obscure, nihilistic and resigned second album by a near forgotten Mancunian post punk group was released decades before the birth of writer Lina Adams in the early 00s; so why does it speak so clearly to her life 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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13 Reasons Why I Can’t Pick My 13 Favourite Records, By Drew Daniel
When we asked Drew Daniel of Matmos and The Soft Pink Truth for his Baker's Dozen, he refused - and with good reasons. Thirteen of them, to be precise. Here Daniel presents them in an essay titled A Rant Against The Quantification Of Aesthetics. All photographs courtesy of Drew Daniel
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Jungle Just Crushes: Two Fingas on his Novels Chronicling London’s 1990s Ravers
As his novel Bass Instinct returns to print after 30 years as part of a long-overdue reappraisal of his trilogy of books about jungle, bass and rave in 1990s London, Two Fingas speak to Rob Corsini about being one of the few to document the subculture from within
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The Sound of Young Queer Scotland: An Interview with Carrie Marshall
With the release of her new book Small Town Joy: From glam rock to hyperpop: how queer music changed the sound of Scotland, author Carrie Marshall talks to Claire Sawers about growing up in 1970s Lanark, clubbing at Edinburgh's Fire Island and the "seismic" influence of Jimmy Somerville
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