Laura Cannell tells us about the challenges of improvising and recording music made on a replica of an instrument buried with the Sutton Hoo ship in the seventh century
Austin, Tx's Buttholes were notorious for any number of reasons, but, says Ned Raggett, why not think of them first and foremost as an inspired and shit hot rock group?
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
Slovenian Martial Industrialists embark on what may be their most intrepid gambit yet – will they succeed? On the evidence of their latest album, it has at least pushed them towards some of their most adventurous and experimental music yet, finds Jeremy Allen
With Heart Of The Original, his radical treatise on creativity, back in print and new novel The Book Lovers out last December, cult author Steve Aylett is ripe for discovery. Aug Stone talks to him and offers ten points of entry into his back catalogue
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 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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Enter Subscriber AreaIn 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
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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Explore The PortalWith Brexit looming on the horizon like a, well, a massive wicker man, writer Adam Scovell, author of the forthcoming book Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange, looks back at Robin Hardy's 1973 cult classic and finds surprising parallels between it and our current political predicament
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
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...
When the trio of Richard Dawson, Rhodri Davies and Dawn Bothwell played together as Hen Ogledd at 2016's Tusk festival it was only the second time they had performed together. The first was when they recorded their highly-praised album, Bronze - a future classic bearing a rare combination of unbound experiment with enchanting engagement. Ahead of their second show as a trio we talk to Davies and Bothwell about how their encounters in sound are embedded in time and place