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Desperately In Love: Asiq Nargile Interviewed

Georgian traditional folk singer and saz player Asiq Nargile is about to head on a European tour. Nargile speaks from Tbilisi with Tristan Bath about the ancient bardic tradition, the difficulties facing a female Asiq, and touring with Richard Dawson

PTU

A Broken Clock Is Right Twice A Day

A Shark In Jet’s Clothing: Reclaiming Blondie’s Radical Roots

As Blondie prepare to release their 11th album Pollinator, Ben Graham talks to Debbie Harry and Chris Stein about Warhol, William Burroughs, the need for a focussed opposition to Trump and why Debbie wishes she'd been even more outrageous back in the day

Straight Hedge: Punk & HC For April Reviewed By Noel Gardner

From the speed metal scene of Helsinki to the Mexican HC underground, Noel Gardner's bringing you all the punk and hardcore you'll need for another month. Fuck You Pay Me photo by Kevin McCann

Quit Your Band! Musical Notes From The Japanese Underground

As an outsider, It's tempting to view Japan through an extremely narrow musical lens, a caricature typified by jazz and karaoke – if you're lucky someone might mention either Sakamoto – but Ian F. Martin's new book is a wide angle shot of a sprawling scene

Too Much On My Mind: Keith Tyson In Hastings

John Quin navigates Keith Tyson's overwhelming show of drawings, Turn Back Now, at the Jerwood Gallery, Hastings

Wire

Silver/Lead

King Ayisoba

1000 Can Die

The Best New Music You Missed In March

After a short break, we're back with a selection of the best new music you might have missed in the last month – and some of the very best that we managed to miss too

Crawl Of The Wild: Free Fire Reviewed

Mat Colegate reviews director Ben Wheatley's latest, the action comedy Free Fire

Behold! March’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

From Bowie to Gaugin via the Canadian forest, it’s March’s round up of great comics from Pete Redrup & his comic compatriots

Aurora Mitchell On Pharmakon’s Contact

In Margaret Chardiet's third album with her noise project Pharmakon, Aurora Mitchell finds a record of parallel dread and comfort, and a study of both bodily autonomy and bodily failure through noise

Teleplasmiste

Frequency Is The New Ecstasy

Hwyl Nofio

From Elevated Gangways Rivers Of Molten Metal Flow

Diamanda Galás

In Concert At Saint Thomas / All The Way

Enter Room 29: Jarvis Cocker And Chilly Gonzales Interviewed

With the release of their new collaboration, Room 29, Jarvis Cocker and Chilly Gonzales talk to Jeremy Allen about outsiderism, their work together, and the redemptive qualities of an erect Mickey Mouse

Full Clip: February And March’s Hip Hop Reviewed By Tara Joshi

Is there anything to be gained in comparing hip hop as done by Drake and Kendrick Lamar? Tara Joshi considers the hierarchy of pop vs purism in the genre, alongside some of the most notable releases of the past two months

Alasdair Roberts

Pangs

All In It: British Sea Power’s Scott Wilkinson On His Favourite LPs

Ahead of British Sea Power's soundtracking of Polish animation at the Barbican as part of Kinoteka Film Festival and the release of new album Let The Dancers Inherit The Party, vocalist Scott Wilkinson guides Richard Foster through his favourite albums, from War Of The Worlds to Mighty Sparrow, Pavement and more. Photo by Mayumi Hirata

WaqWaq Kingdom

Shinsekai

How The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy Lived Down To Their Name

Why is it so difficult to revisit the strident political albums of one's youth? David Bennun returns to the once inflammatory Hypocrisy Is The Greatest Luxury and finds it’s so much smaller now, and didn't it all used to be fields around here?

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For March By Tristan Bath

Noisy sound art, zen future grime, Brightonian free improv, and tinny ZZ Top motorik dominate this month’s choice tape picks, reviewed by Tristan Bath

Let’s Dance: Eno Williams Of Ibibio Sound Machine Interviewed

Clyde Macfarlane talks to the singer of the Anglo-Nigerian highlife funk group

‘What Does Anti-Capitalist Ambient Sound Like?’ Sam Kidel Interviewed

Sam Kidel talks to Lucia Udvardyová about capitalism, Muzak and his upcoming event Customer Service Agent at Cafe Oto. He's also prepared a special ASMR and ambient podcast for tQ, which you can hear below

40 Years On: Revisiting AC/DC’s Let There Be Rock

AC/DC released plenty of good albums, but Let There Be Rock in 1977 was their first truly great long player, says Julian Marszalek

Iron Fist Is A Leaden Five Knuckle Shuffle, By John Tatlock

After some spectacular highs, the Netflix's Marvel Universe shows have painted themselves into a dull narrative corner, says John Tatlock. ****Contains spoilers****

Inventing Masks: Gillian Wearing And Claude Cahun

At the National Portrait Gallery, Gillian Wearing confronts surrealist Claude Cahun in Behind the Mask, Another Mask

Concrete Poetry: Robert Montgomery’s Hammersmith Poem

As Robert Montgomery unveils his latest commission at Hammersmith Town Hall, Geoff Cowart catches up with the Scottish-born artist to chat modernism, Malevich, and metaphor

Into The Fire: Rollo Smallcombe On Scoring Clouzot’s Inferno

This weekend The Barbican is presenting a specially re-edited and re-scored presentation of Henri-Georges Clouzot's great lost film The Inferno. We talk to Rollo Smallcombe about the challenges of re-framing one of the great missing movies

Harsh My Buzz: The Colossus Of Destiny: A Melvins Tale Reviewed

Neil Fox takes a look at a Melvins documentary that's as uncompromising as the band themselves

Desperate Journalist

Grow Up

Lottie Brazier On Gnod’s Just Say No…

In Gnod's latest, aptly-titled missive Lottie Brazier finds a relentless work concerned with confronting the rampant dehumanisation and destruction of personhood under Western Capitalism