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The Jesus & Mary Chain

Damage And Joy

Somnambulant State: An Interview With Pharmakon

Ahead of the release of her third album under the Pharmakon moniker (and appearance at the Rewire Festival), and a decade since she first began the project, Karl Smith speaks to Margaret Chardiet about the unique power of noise, the peculiar vulgarity of human existence and the meaning of contact

Noel’s Foul House: Weird New Britain In Review

What is Noel's Foul House? Let Noel Gardner answer with his pre-emptive FAQs - Foul Assistance Questions - before tackling new music by Casual Nun, Shitmat, Kiran Leonard, Colin Webster and more...

Stone Rolling: Raphael Saadiq Interviewed

Despite a masterful solo career and being the producer behind some of the best D’Angelo and Solange Knowles songs, many still don’t know who Raphael Saadiq is, says Thomas Hobbs, who interviewed him recently

Back In The New York Groove: Boss Hog Interviewed

Mark Andrews charts the re-emergence of the legendary Boss Hog and the genesis of Brood X, their first LP in 17 years

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal For March By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan takes in Body Count, Obituary, OHHMS, Aluk Todolo and Unearthly Trance while explaining what you can stuff in that Bolt Thrower-shaped hole in your life

How Do I Listen To This? Tyondai Braxton’s Favourite LPs

As he prepares to to play London's Convergence Festival and other UK venues, Tyondai Braxton guides Lottie Brazier through 13 key records, from Brian Eno to Mark Fell, Autechre and Florian Hecker

Rat Columns

Candle Power

The Day Of The Locust: Paul Leary Of The Butthole Surfers Interviewed

Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary talks to Ben Graham about the making of the band's classic 1987 album, Locust Abortion Technician, and how its traumatic closing track was actually influenced by a Carly Simon Bond theme

WHY?

Moh Lhean

Ryan Murphy’s Feud & BBC’s The Replacement Reviewed By John Tatlock

Two shows about two women not getting along with each other, one of which is cleverer than it looks. ***Contains mild spoilers***

The Drugs Don’t Work: Brave New World, 85 Years On

Joel McIver celebrates the insights of Aldous Huxley’s terrifying masterpiece – and questions whether anything has changed since it was published in 1932

Slated and Curated: Vlatka Horvat And Tim Etchells At Sheffield Millennium Gallery

Vlatka Horvat and Tim Etchells playfully reimagine Sheffield’s historic museum collection

Mightier Than The Sword: Raymond Pettibon At The New Museum

Rob Arcand checks out the Raymond Pettibon retrospective, A Pen Of All Works, at New York's New Museum

Wolf Eyes

Undertow

Sherwood & Pinch

Man vs Sofa

Anniversary Feature: Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun Remembered

On the month of it's 40th anniversary, Dave Hamilton-Smith takes a sneaky peek back at Jesus Franco's redoubtable slice of Euro-sleaze 'Love Letters Of A Portuguese Nun' WARNING - SOME IMAGES NSFW

Reach Out And Touch Cloth: Personal Shopper Reviewed

Yasmeen Khan reviews Olivier Assayas' follow up to The Clouds Of Sils Maria, the ghost story Personal Shopper, in cinemas today.

Brian Coney On The Moonlandingz’ Interplanetary Class Classics

In The Moonlandingz first full-length offering as a non-fictional outfit, Brian Coney finds a record that refuses to wear only one mask – futurist without revivalism, acerbic but with swagger – and throws off with gusto any accusations of the term side-project

Pere Ubu

Drive, He Said (1994-2002)

Real Estate

In Mind

Manifest Proclamation: The Life & Opinions Of Power Trip

Riley Gale of Texan thrashers Power Trip tells Dan 'The Doom' Franklin about sleep paralysis, Plato's Cave and the work ethic of Thatcher-era UK punk bands

Out Of Character: Craig Finn Interview

Ahead of his gig at Ramsgate Music Hall on April 16, Craig Finn speaks to Michael Hann about his life post-Hold Steady as a solo artist

Extra-Auditory Adventures: Rum Music For March By Russell Cuzner

An officious and unwanted audit leads the Rum Music Library to finally articulate a clear and honest policy behind the magical sounds it seeks. Russell Cuzner lists potent sonic spells in the form of the latest releases from Unicazürn, Dave Phillips, Olivia Block, Mira Calix and Daniel Menche

Thirteen Albums I Currently Like, From A To M. By Stephin Merritt

As he releases new Magnetic Fields album 50 Song Memoir, Stephin Merritt doesn't delve into the past for his Baker's Dozen list but instead gives tQ an A-Z of some contemporary favourites, from Japan to Marc Almond, bawdy cockney songs and the BBC Radiophonic Workship. Pic by Marcelo Krasilcic

Ultimately Meaningless: Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel Is The Nadir Of Street Art

As spray can charlatan Banksy opens his Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, Bella Gladman argues that it makes for a naff and simplistic stunt devoid of political power or artistic merit

D. Glare

4 OSCILLATORS AND 130 SAMPLES AT 130 BPM

Dutch Uncles

Big Balloon

Intonation, Innovation, Interventions: An Interview With Horse Lords

Neither rock, dance, trance, noise or minimalism, Baltimore's Horse Lords are a great and hypnotic Other. Noel Gardner presses them on their process

No Sleep ‘Til Notting Hill: The Moonlandingz Interviewed

As The Moonlandingz prepare for the launch of their debut album, Patrick Clarke tracks down Valhalladale's finest to the depths of the Yorkshire moors to talk fact, fiction, and the end of the world

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For March By JR Moores

After the proto-dystopian arsestorm that was the last calendar year, JR Moores looks on the bright side of psych

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Was David Bowie's trilogy actually a quadrilogy; heck, was it actually a pentalogy; or, asks Jeremy Allen, is Berlin simply a state of mind?