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Black Sky Thinking
The Academisation of Rave: Is Everyone Talking About Dancing, Rather Than Doing It?
Clubs are closing, a new generation is less keen on going out and bashing their bonces with garries – yet raving is discussed more than ever, with endless books and academic articles discussing the dancefloor as a utopia. Chal Ravens asks what this phenomenon tells us about the state of modern raving.
A Quietus Interview
A Personal Exorcism: An Exclusive Heartworms Interview on Debut LP, Glutton For Punishment
As Jojo Orme announces details of debut Heartworms album Glutton For Punishment, she speaks to to Jeanette Leech about how fending for herself after a traumatic childhood led to her fierce DIY ethic, confounding sexist music blokes, and why you can love warplanes but still be anti-war
Opinion & Essays
Community in the Ukrainian Underground, Part Two: “Nyzhnoyurkivska”, Porichka, the Ukrainian Institute and Noise Every Wednesday
In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk and Kseniia Yanus continue their examination of the DIY stations, events and communities that are providing a framework for the Ukrainian music scene
Anniversary
This Land is Death: Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50
On the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Mat Colegate pushes back against the common consensus that its director Tobe Hooper spent the rest of his career merely failing to escape its shadow, and argues that he deserves just as much acclaim for the misunderstood filmography that was to follow
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence XXXVII: Trash Electroclash Bangers
It's back nearly a quarter century in this month's antidote to the algorithm as Luke Turner revisits the heady Monday nights at Trash, where the arch and exotic rhythms and deadpan chat of electroclash soundtracked cheap booze and rent of early 21st century London
Anniversary
A World That’s Gone: Suede’s Dog Man Star 30 Years On
At odds with the world, with reality, with Britpop and with each other, Suede were in a terrible place as they wrote and recorded Dog Man Star. But, writes Matthew Lindsay, it's the album that would end up as their masterpiece. This feature was originally published in 2014
Things I Have Learned
Lara Rix-Martin on The Heavy Existentialism of Soviet Sci-fi
Meemo Comma, aka Lara Rix-Martin, speaks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about how the Strugatsky brothers' 1971 Soviet sci-fi Roadside Picnic formed the source material of her new album Decimation Of I, and the lessons she's learned from wider Russian science fiction
The Quietus International
The Quietus International: Chilean Music Reviewed by Álvaro Molina
In the latest edition of our journey through the global underground, Álvaro Molina examines the steadily-diversifying sounds of Chilean DIY, from abstract hip hop to ambient deep listening, and picks out five crucial new releases
Electronic
Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for October Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel
Jaša Bužinel addresses the "panopticonisation" of dance music culture, and reviews exciting new releases from various electronic realms, among them new albums by CS + Kreme, Lechuga Zafiro, Mala Herba, Rrose x Polygonia and more
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