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Complete Communion: Jazz For May Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Jazz may just be returning to the live stage, says Peter Margasak, but the musicians never stopped producing great music, and this month we cover new work from Maria Grand, Milford Graves & Jason Moran, and the new quartet Hearth
A Quietus Interview
Organised Chaos: Swell Maps Interviewed
With a flurry of recent activity, including reissues and the promise of a book, Duncan Seaman talks to Jowe Head, Biggles Books and Phones Sportsman, as well as Geoff Travis of Rough Trade about the cult DIY band. Home page band portrait by Caroline Kraabel
A Quietus Interview
A Brutal Harmony: Gary Numan & Ade Fenton Interviewed
Gary Numan’s hard-won return to the peak of his creative powers and commercial success has been driven by an intense 15-year partnership with his musical foil Ade Fenton. They speak to Alastair Shuttleworth in their first ever joint interview
Low Culture Essay
A Kind Of Music: Kat Lister On The Olivetti Typewriter
In our monthly subscribers only essay, Kat Lister discusses how finishing her first book and a year of being locked down alone steered her towards buying a typewriter, only to discover these machines are going through something of a reversal of fortunes. Homepage photograph: the author's portrait of her own Olivetti Valentine
Art
Deep Forest: Ackroyd & Harvey On Planting Beuys’ Oaks
Back in 1982, Joseph Beuys proposed a radical plan to plant 7000 oak trees in the German city of Kassel. Nearly forty years later, British artist Ackroyd & Harvey (Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey) talk to Aida Amoako about planting new trees outside the Tate Modern with acorns gathered from Beuys' original project
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Punk
Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For June
In a special, British bands-only summer edition of his punk and hardcore round-up, Noel Gardner surveys superb new releases from Chain Of Flowers, Yfory and more, as well as a highly-reccomended new compilation of classic anarcho punk. Homepage photo: Fashion Tips
Baker's Dozen
Take It From The Man! Anton Newcombe’s Favourite Tracks
With The Brian Jonestown Massacre's UK and Ireland tour in support of recent LP Revelation starting in Brighton on Saturday, the band's frontman shirks the album rundown request, opens up his DJ bag and gives Julian Marszalek a top 13 songs mixtape
Reviews
Aphex Twin – Syro: A First Listen Review
First there came the blimp, then the graffiti, then the deep web album announcement, then a tQ scribe bound for a secretive listening party to hear Richard D. James' most celebrated guise making a long-awaited return. But is it any good? Joe Clay reports back from the Warp offices
