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David McKenna flags up some French compilations released in response to the Covid-19 crisis and reviews new music from Felicia Atkinson, Franco-Senegalese rapper Zuukou Mayzie and the final album from Black Devil Disco Club
As Jordan Peele’s Twilight Zone begins a second season, lifelong Twilight Zone fan Sean Kitching considers the history of rebooting the series and asks if this new version does justice to the original, whilst successfully updating its approach for a contemporary audience. Contains mild spoilers
25 years ago, Jude Rogers had her life changed somewhere in a field near Pilton. On the 50th anniversary of the first Glastonbury weekend, she reflects on the sunny days of 1995, lamenting the loss of the communal live experience in the Coronavirus summer of 2020
With the debut album by JARV IS... out next month, Jarvis Cocker speaks to Jeanie Finlay about his new project, why prehistoric cave dwellers were the world's first ravers, and why he's uncomfortable being called a 'National Treasure'
In this exclusive excerpt from their new book, A Comedian and an Activist Walk into a Bar: The Serious Role of Comedy in Social Justice, Caty Borum Chattoo and Lauren Feldman look at how the collaboration between civil rights activist Amanda Nguyen and comedy website Funny or Die succeeded in changing the law about victims' rights
One of the finest independent cinemas in London, the Rio also has a lost archive – reports on Hackney life made by local young people in the 80s. A new picture book celebrates a treasure trove of photos revealing a history of street life, social activism and protest.
With A Certain Ratio contributing an ambitious re-work to Maps' new series of EPs, which premieres exclusively with tQ, the band's Jez Kerr and Maps' James Chapman get together to talk the art of a good remix, the importance of limitation, and why drive-in gigs just simply won't suffice
Algiers grew up in the shadow of Stone Mountain, a giant memorial to Confederate military leaders built as late as the 1970s. Here, the group's Ryan Mahan explains how it inspired their music and why we have to look at the structures behind the symbolism of monuments