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Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For August Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is back once again like a renegade mosher, with news of all that is righteous and good in (extreme) metal

Flux Capacitors: The Alternative School Of Economics Unpack The Present Moment

An online workshop by The Alternative School of Economics, part of an ongoing residency for Arts Catalyst, proves a timely exploration of economics and the environment for Cathy Wade

Powell’s Books: A Baker’s Dozen Special Edition

Electronic music producer Powell picks favourite books by Baudrillard, Derrida, Kafka, and Susan Sontag

You Can Be Anything: On Oscar Micheaux, History’s Most Prolific African American Filmmaker

Controversial yet mainstream, Oscar Micheaux is the often forgotten African-American filmmaker who paved the way for Steve McQueen, Spike Lee and Childish Gambino. Soma Ghosh guides us through Micheaux's history

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Greatest Imaginary Hits

A fan-selected best-of set puts Phil Todd and Co's psychedelic languor and squall into a fresh, multidimensional perspective.

Full Force: Secret Machines’ Awake In The Brain Chamber

Despite a fraught and fragmented 12 year wait, Secret Machines' new LP 'Awake In The Brain Chamber' achieves something transcendent. Stream the album in full ahead of release exclusively via tQ alongside our review

Peter Brötzmann / Paul G. Smyth

Tongue in a Bell

An unsurprisingly roaring set by two improv veterans

Low Culture 16: Law & Order And Television As Prophecy

Andrew Walker celebrates a TV show which is often easily dismissed as a poor cousin of The Wire or NYPD Blue because in it he sees an unusual amount of prescience...

Nightports w/ Betamax

The improvised drumming of he Comet is Coming's Betamax is the star of this collaboration with electronic duo Nightports, finds Cal Cashin

Coming Back To Beauty: Kevin Rowland’s Favourite Music

Kevin Rowland guides Fergal Kinney through the songs that saved him, from self-discovery as a musician through the saving grace of music in recovery from drug addiction. Rowland portrait by Eliza Hill.

Voice Activated: Max Richter Interviewed

Duncan Seaman talks to Max Richter about his new album Voices, which is inspired by the Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

When You Look Out Of The Void: The New Wave Of Czech Noise

Super Sonics – 40 Junkshop Britpop Greats

Various

A compilation of "junkshop Britpop" – from Bis and Shampoo to Menswear and Rialto – has Ned Raggett feeling wistful

Rockfort! French Music For August Reviewed By David McKenna

David McKenna rounds up the cream of the latest electronic, jazz and indie rock releases from France, taking in Maghrebi sounds from Lyon, farty drum machines and oceanic musique concrete. Homepage image of TripleGo

Uniform’s Michael Berdan On Cormac McCarthy

Michael Berdan of the band Uniform pens an essay for tQ on how the stunning beauty and harrowing violence in the books of the great Cormac McCarthy has influenced his work

Senyawa & Stephen O’Malley

Bima Sakti

The Sunn O))) main man goes head to head with Javanese duo Senyawa with visceral, elemental results

The World’s First Band: Black Country, New Road Live At Haldern Pop 2020

What happens when you're the band tipped for very big things just as everything grinds to a halt? That's when things really start to get interesting says Richard Foster

The Strange World Of… Hawkwind

Joe Banks offers ten musical reasons why maverick space rock titans Hawkwind matter

Best Of Fronds: Zheng Bo’s Vascular Sexuality

Zheng Bo's exhibition “The Soft and Weak Are Companions of Life 柔弱者生之徒” at Kunsthall Lissabon offers a fascinating *ars erotica* of plant-human relations

Lexicon Of Love: The Liar’s Dictionary By Eley Williams

The debut novel by Eley ('Attrib.') Williams turns out to have a heart as big as its vocabulary, finds CD Rose

O Captain: Is Robert Altman’s Popeye Still A Failure 40 Years On?

In 1980, Robert Altman turned his talents to an unlikely character with a live-action take on Popeye – with Robin Williams in the title role. The confusing plotline and baffling concept troubled audiences at the time – but how does it hold up?

Max Richter

Voices

Max Richter leads from the bottom on new album, Voices

H.P. Source? Lovecraft Country Reviewed

Misha Green’s thrilling adaptation of Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel, Lovecraft Country could hardly have arrived at a more apposite moment, finds Sean Kitching. *Contains mild spoilers*

A Tower Of Songs: Sylvie Simmons’ Favourite Music

Like a gamekeeper turned poacher, rock journalist Sylvie Simmons has a new album of her own music out. Here she guides Manu Ekanayake through 13 lifelong inspirations, from Leonard Cohen to Johnny Cash, Miles Davis and Black Sabbath

Hearts Of Glass: Still House Plants’ Fast Edit

The new album by Still House Plants is a fractured, fractious thing, twinkling like glass in the light

Young Southpaw

The Lost Archimedes

Young Southpaw gets tangled up in tangents on *The Lost Archimedes*, but it's that sheer excess that makes this spoken words record so funny, finds Nick Roseblade

TootArd

Migrant Birds

Armed with a Yamaha PSR-62 synthesizer, TootArd's second album creates dreamlike effects, finds Richie Troughton

otta

Songbook

Otta's latest EP offers a playful disregard for genre boundaries, but its her soaring vocals that hang the record together, finds Will Salmon

Straight Hedge! Noel Gardner Reviews Punk & HC For August

Noel Gardner is back with this Summer's best punk, hardcore and 80s focused French Oi. (Home page portrait is of All Hits)

James Dean Bradfield On Compiling Crossword Puzzles

To see himself through lockdown, James Dean Bradfield of the Manic Street Preachers has been compiling tailor-made crossword puzzles for his family and friends. He tells Patrick Clarke about the therapeutic effects and extreme cultural wormholes they can inspire. Plus, solve an exclusive '80s indie crossword compiled by JDB himself!

The Alchemical Brothers: Brian Eno & Roger Eno Interviewed

Wyndham Wallace speaks to Brian and Roger Eno about their new mini-LP Luminous and the state of the world in 2020

Laura Cannell

The Earth With Her Crowns

Recorded at Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, the latest from Laura Cannell breathes life into empty structures, finds Stevie Lennox