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Opinion & Essays
Music and Wartime in Ukraine, Part One: Life, or Culture?
In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk explores the Ukrainian musicians whose work has placed them on the cultural frontlines of the war, from 2014 to the present day
Low Culture Essay
Anna Doble on Patrick Keiller’s London and Journeys from Saint Etienne to Real Lies
Troubled by facts that felt like fiction, Anna Doble feared Patrick Keiller's 1994 film might all be an in-joke. But, as she writes in this month's Low Culture Essay, it created a magic-real place that she would later explore through song.
Album of the Week
Excellences & Perfections: Young-Girl Forever by Sofie Royer
Drawing on Tiqqun's Preliminary Materials for the Theory of a Young-Girl, the Austrian artist and musician deftly deconstructs ideas around femininity, pop music – and herself (without skimping on the good times and great tunes)
Reissue of the Week
Reissue of the Week: Violent Femmes’ Hallowed Ground
Violent Femmes’ self-titled debut is one of the most essential American indie rock records of the early 80s, but it’s not the only album by the band you must have in your collection, argues Cal Cashin, as he re-examines its unfairly overlooked follow-up Hallowed Ground 40 years on
Black Sky Thinking
Indie-gestion: With Universal Ravenously Hungry, is the Independent Label Sector Facing an Existential Crisis?
As the Universal Music Group gobbles up independent stalwart PIAS, music biz expert Eamonn Forde asks if this corporate greed suggests bleak times are ahead for the rest of the indie ecosystem
Baker's Dozen
The Archivist: Mark Webber of Pulp’s Baker’s Dozen
From his first discovery of The Velvet Underground to a cruise with Father John Misty, via mixtapes personally compiled for him by Spacemen 3 and encounters with Alex Chilton, Pulp’s Mark Webber takes Jonathan Wright through his favourite records
Opinion & Essays
No Ordinary Thing: The Momentous Life & Times of Dory Previn
On the release of a new documentary on Dory Previn, Adelle Stripe explores an artist who learned to live with voices in her head, despite societal and institutional pressure to ignore them, and whose experiences demonstrate how female artists can seek a fulfilled creative life against the odds
Anniversary
Let Me Rock You: Chaka Khan’s ‘I Feel For You’ at 40
40 years after it stormed to the UK number one, Wrongtom charts the history of ‘I Feel For You’, from an overlooked Prince album track to Chaka Khan’s smash hit, via Stevie Wonder, Patrice Rushen, glitching tape machines, the death of Sugar Hill Records and more
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