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Sinjin Hawke

First Opus

Black Lips

Satan's Graffiti Or God's Art?

Is Poptimism Now As Blinkered As The Rockism It Replaced?

With every pop release hailed like the coming of a prophet have the big names of the mainstream sucked up too much critical oxygen? Michael Hann asks if poptimism has merely ended up becoming as narrow minded as the rockism it usurped. (Pictured - the "pop South Sea Bubble" of PC Music)

Mat Colegate On Man Forever’s Play What They Want

In John Colpitts' latest outing as Man Forever, Mat Colegate finds a record invoking a fading – or altogether faded – vision of bohemian New York, but one which does so through power and innovation, rather than nostalgia

Bill MacKay

Esker

Kasabian

For Crying Out Loud

Jim Jones & The Righteous Mind

Super Natural

Not-So-Bitter Music: Ali ‘Perc’ Wells On His Favourite 13 Albums

We've sent that young rascal Tonka to interview Ali Wells about the albums that made him Perc, from Huey Lewis & The News to Pete Swanson, Aphex, and how Iron Maiden made his kick drum mockery-proof

This Is What We Get: 20 Years Of OK Computer

Two decades later Brian Coney looks at how the Radiohead album takes the temperature of 21st century anxiety, while examining our relationship with technology and the murkiness of modern politics

Hiroshima Mon Amour: Paul Thomsen Kirk Of Akatombo Interviewed

Paul Thomsen Kirk uses the isolation afforded him by life as a Westerner in Japan to make his own special brand of dub and post punk influenced industrial music, says David Stubbs

Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus

Mirror

Revisiting Fields Of The Nephilim: Dawnrazor 30 Years On

Julian Marszalek remembers 30 years ago, when it were all Fields Of The Nephilim round 'ere

Multiple Media: Olivia Louvel On Music, Art & 17th Century History

For her latest record, Data Regina, Olivia Louvel packages experimental electronic music, new media art, and 16th century conflict into multimedia art, says DJ Pangburn

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For May By JR Moores

JR Moores has a religious experience after shopping at Cheeses Of Nazareth - yet he still had time to deliver reviews of albums by Bardo Pond, Wolf Eyes, Pontiak, Endless Boogie and Part Chimp

Products Of Hysteria: An Interview With Oxbow

As they return with the decade-in-the-making Thin Black Duke, revered quartet Oxbow meet Kiran Acharya to discuss ageing, money and hitting the Goldilocks level of success

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain In Review For May

Noel Gardner brings us the best from the UK DIY underground, including releases by Lower Slaughter, Wolfhounds, Tomaga, JFK, Vom and Vanishing

Singular Talent: Iron Maiden Live In Nottingham

Michael Hann enjoys watching Iron Maiden, some thirty years after he first saw them live but he has a novel suggestion for their next tour... Photographs by John McMurtrie

Taking The Bull By The Horns: Picasso’s Minotaurs

A new exhibition at the Gagosian Gallery in London explores Picasso's obsession with horny beasts and fighting taurines

Spatial Problems, Temporal Solutions: Cevdet Erek Interviewed

On the eve of the Venice Biennale, Craft/Work talks to Cevdet Erek, who this year will be the artist responsible for the Turkish Pavillion

From Arca To Adult.: April’s Best New Music

Another month, another round of incredible new albums that we weren't able to give the time to that they might have deserved – and, of course, another quick nod to our favourites of the ones we've already told you about

Anniversary Feature: František Vláčil’s Smoke On The Potato Fields Remembered

Dave Hamilton-Smith takes a look back at František Vláčil's Smoke On The Potato Fields and examines it's place in the wider social mileau of the troubled and revolutionary Czech cinematic New Wave

At The Drive-In

Inter Alia

Love Time: Exploring Can Drummer Jaki Liebezeit’s E-T Rhythm Theory

Can drummer and rhythmic innovator Jaki Liebezeit sadly died earlier this year, but the sounds and pulses he created will continue. In this Quietus Essay, John Payne takes an in-depth look at the theory behind the noise

Bob Cluness On Perc’s Bitter Music

The third album from Perc takes his brutalist techno sound and places it in the historicism of the machinic modernist utopias of the 20th Century. An era, argues Bob Cluness, that for all its chilling monstrosity, has now been usurped by a techno dystopia more terrifying

The Month’s Electronic Music: Looking Inwards

Christian Eede shines a light on some of the best recent records from the more relaxed end of the electronic music spectrum, while also reviewing records from Wilted Woman (pictured), Kara-Lis Coverdale, Juniper and more

The Strange World Of… Alice Coltrane

Stewart Smith takes a look at the astounding back catalogue of Alice Coltrane and finds ten points of entry for the curious

A Document in Time: Neil Halstead Of Slowdive’s Baker’s Dozen

With Slowdive reformed and about to release their fourth album (as well as playing Field Day and Roskilde), Neil Halstead tells Joe Clay about the gateway albums that influenced him the most. Photo by Ingrid Pop.

Wu-Tang Forever: The Making And The Breaking Of The Clan

Angus Batey looks back 20 years to the album that came at the end of the Wu-Tang Clan's five year plan and asks, What went wrong?

Rum Music: Lending An Ear On Borrowed Time, With Russell Cuzner

In which a mysterious presentation enhances the listening powers of staff at the Rum Music Library as they go on to pick Spring’s most profound experiences in sound, including the latest releases from Russell Haswell, Francisco López, Sophie Cooper & Julian Bradley, Hans-Joachim Roedelius & Carl Michael von Hausswolff and Zbigniew Karkowski

The Reports Of The Record Industry’s Rebirth Are Greatly Exaggerated

Last week the major labels were all over the media shouting excitedly about new positive streaming figures. But, points out Eamonn Forde, the reality is far from rosy - especially for those artists tQ loves.

Sex Positive: Betty Tompkins’ Virgins In New York

Adam Lehrer explores the explicit pleasures of Betty Tompkins' Virgins show at P Pow Gallery

Sticking Pins In Beautiful Things: Juergen Teller In Berlin

Photographer Juergen Teller's show in Berlin gives us Charlotte Rampling with a fox and Kim Kardashian looking gloriously daft