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Pop’s Lingua Franca: La Femme Live At Le Zénith

Jeremy Allen enters the psychotropical live spectale of La Femme, who could be the next Christine and the Queens, if they'd only change

tQ Columnists Recommend Bandcamp Labels You Should Buy From Today

With Bandcamp set to donate 100% of their share from sales made today in response to Donald Trump's Executive Order banning citizens of seven predominantly Muslim countries from entering the US, tQ's columnists have got together to recommend labels you should be purchasing records from

“I Get Paid And We’re All Going To Die”: John Michael McDonagh Talks War On Everyone

John Michael McDonagh, director of Mexico-set Cop Caper War On Everyone, takes time out to give Ian Schultz a piece of his mind

The Month’s Electronic Music: Looking Forward

In the first edition of his Hyperspecific column for 2017, Christian Eede takes a look at what he hopes might be in store for the 12 months ahead, as well as reviewing releases from Shanti Celeste (pictured), Burnt Friedman, Leif, RAMZi and more. Photo courtesy of Nic Kane

Joseph Burnett On Shackleton’s Sferic Ghost Transmits

In Sam Shackleton's latest offering, Joseph Burnett finds a record occupying two spaces simultaneously – pushing both the legacy of Coil's post-industrial pagan folk tradition and testing a sense of "what might have been" for mid-to-late 00s dubstep

Elias Rønnenfelt Of Iceage & Marching Church’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of Marching Church's appearance at Roskilde Festival later this year, Elias Rønnenfelt guides Daniel Dylan Wray through his favourite 13 albums

The Reflection Of Emotion: An Interview With Sky H1

Before heading to 2017’s CTM Festival, the Brussels-based producer talks to Nikita Velichko about pouring her personal grief and worries into tracks

Embrace The Contradictions: The Strange World Of… The KLF

Following a wave of fevered speculation about the possible return of The KLF, AKA The JAMs, The K Foundation, K2 Plant Hire, the Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu etc., Ben Graham explores the mythology of Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty, in order to explain why any "reunion" is likely to be far more interesting than just another musical comeback

HBO’s Beware The Slenderman: A Very Modern Tragedy

This unsettling documentary about child-on-child violence is difficult to watch, but an important and powerful piece of work, says John Tatlock ****Contains mild spoilers****

21st Century Birth Pains: Electric Wizard’s Come My Fanatics Revisited

Dan 'The Doom' Franklin speaks to Chief Wizard Jus Oborn and gets the low down on how eschatological panic, Sabbath and drum & bass influenced Britain's most heaviocious band to give birth to the new millennium in the form of Come My Fanatics...

Short Shark Shock: Thirty Years Of Young British Artists

Three decades after they were dubbed Young British Artists, Robert Barry looks back at the work of a generation for whom conceptual art did not demand the denial of life and joy.

The Uncle Sold

Ed Dowie

Rockfort: French Music For January With David McKenna

David McKenna is back with reviews of Aquaserge, Ta-Ha, Le Vasco and more in his first Rockfort column of 2017

Overlooking the Outback: Australia’s Impressionists

At the National Gallery's Australia's Impressionists exhibition, Victoria Rodrigues O'Donnell finds hallucinatory effects mask colonial narratives

Elementary My Dear: Michael Andrews At Gagosian

From debauched scenes with Bacon and Freud to the gritty earth of the Thames Estuary, the paintings of Michael Andrews have a creeping sense of the uncanny

Primal Evidence: The Strange World Of COUM Transmissions

In COUM Transmissions the future members of Throbbing Gristle would intensely interrogate the nature of art and performance, along with testing their own experiential limits, across almost a decade of unique 'actions'. Join us on a journey through their strange world where their compulsion to find a pure and honest form of expression saw them tearing up taboos, severely unsettling the establishment on the way. Images thanks to the Tate Archive / Cabinet Gallery. WARNING - SOME IMAGES NSFW

Behold! January’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

New year, new releases – with offerings from the usual publishing suspects and beyond – it’s January’s round-up of the best new comics on the market from Pete Redrup & co.

Irma Vep

No Handshake Blues

Joseph Burnett On Emptyset’s Borders

In James Ginzburg and Paul Purgas' latest musical outing as Emptyset – an unsettling, dark and unrelenting piece of work – Joseph Burnett finds cause to question whether metal has ceded some of its traditional ground to electronic music

Getting The Mask On: The Black Madonna Interviewed

In the often apolitical world of house and techno, stellar DJ/producer/booker The Black Madonna is fearless when it comes to voicing her beliefs. Manu Ekanayake sat down with her to talk race, gender, disco and house, Trump and the Ghost Ship fire

Avec Le Soleil Sortant De Sa Bouche

Pas Pire Pop (I ♥︎ You So Much)

Killing It In America: An Interview With Uniform

With their second album of industrial noise punk metal fury out now, Noel Gardner talks downward spirals, overloaded drum machines and pulp fiction with NYC duo Uniform

Understand The Feeling: Fenriz Of Darkthrone’s Favourite House Records

As well as being the core of black metal masters Darkthrone, Fenriz is a massive house head and regular DJ. Here, he guides us through the 13 records that are never out of his crate

A Winged Victory For The Sullen

Iris

Hyper Edited Fragments: Jan Nemeček interviewed

Tristan Bath meets multifaceted Serbian electronic musician Jan Nemeček at Elevate Festival to talk about techno, minimalism, Yugoslavian acid rock, and the ongoing transformations of Belgrade’s music scene

The Rise Of Fear & The Strange Death Of The UFO

UFOs were once at the heart of popular culture and science fiction, with even an American president claiming he'd had a strange encounter. Jeremy Allen looks at the strange decline of the little green men, asking if it's a symptom of our troubled age

An Ommadawn Chorus: Mike Oldfield’s Favourite Albums

As Mike Oldfield releases new album Return To Ommadawn he guides Gary Kaill through 13 albums that he listened to before he began making music - after which he never listened to much music at all

The System Drives You: An Interview With Emptyset

Having made music using entire buildings and the ionosphere, Emptyset speak to Tristan Bath about going back to basics and inserting themselves back into their music on new album Borders

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

Tristan Bath returns to sift through the month’s best cassette releases, including a new solo EP by Samara Lubelski, some banging techno from Budapest and the latest stellar release from Anji Cheung

‘We Have To Invent The Future’: An Unseen Interview With Mark Fisher

Tim Burrows sat down with Mark Fisher and the poet Sam Berkson in 2012, to talk celebrity culture, transport, the uses of boredom and the future of public space

Self-Portrait With Skull: Inside Andy Warhol’s Artist Rooms

Anthony d’Offay's roving exhibition of Artist Rooms comes to Manchester's Whitworth, with a show dedicated to pop artist Andy Warhol

First Cut Is The Deepest: Thelma Schoonmaker Talks Scorsese And Silence

With Scorsese's Silence out in cinema's now, Ian Schultz interviews Thelma Schoonmaker, the great director's long-term editor and collaborator