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Leonard Cohen’s O2 Concert Is Part Of A Remarkable Renaissance

As Leonard Cohen brings his world tour to the O2 Arena, Luke Turner discovers that even the biggest venue makes for a perfect pulpit for the master of song. First published in 2008

Rats On Rafts

Rats On Rafts / De Kift

Closer To God: Lift To Experience’s ‘The Texas-Jerusalem Crossroads’ Revisited

Tom Hall speaks to Josh T Pearson and Andy Young about why they’re not done with the album that’s defined them.

Danny Riley on Shirley Collins’ Lodestar

In Shirley Collins' first solo album in 40 years, Danny Riley finds a a sonic continuum blurring the British folk tradition with the farthest outliers of the country's hidden musical history

As Good As It Gets: How To Dress Well’s Favourite Albums

With his fourth album, Care, released earlier this year and a UK tour imminent, Tom Krell picks his top 13 LPs and tells Lottie Brazier why "the true value of bubbly pop music consists in its relationship with desperation"

American Hedonist: Cakes Da Killa Interviewed

Gary Suarez talks to the rapper about glass ceilings and the importance of live performance

Nils Bech

Echo

I Say We Nuke The Entire Site From Orbit: Aliens At The Royal Albert Hall

After witnessing the 1986 action movie Aliens accompanied by a live orchestra, Joel McIver nominates it as the best film of its genre ever made. For those who have been hiding in the Jungle Of Guam, waiting for WWII to end - ****Contains Spoilers****

In Respect Of Tactics: An Interview With Shifted

Guy Alexander Brewer's new album Appropriation Stories marks a return to dancefloor-aimed techno. He tells Maria Perevedentseva how he's excited about the genre again and why he's set up a new label, Drifting Over

Trashcan Sinatras

Wild Pendulum

Millstone Or Milestone? DJ Shadow On Endtroducing 25 Years On

DJ Shadow and Angus Batey have one thing in common: neither of them are sure that Endtroducing is the former's best LP. On the anniversary of one of the most discussed electronic LPs of the mid-90s the pair discuss the merit and status of the landmark album

Straight Hedge! Punk Reviews For November By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner is back with punk, hardcore, d-beat, oi & OMFUG releases galore to review

David Holmes

Late Night Tales

Croatian Amor

Love Means Taking Action

Broken Sounds, Broken Times: Things Learned At Unsound 2016

This year's Unsound Festival in Krakow takes place against a background of bleak political news across the globe, making its theme of Dislocation a timely one. Luke Turner and John Doran explore this via stunning performances by Miss Red to Matmos, Senyawa to Yves Tumor and many many more. Photos by Anna Spysz & Theresa Baumgartner

Columnfortably Numb: November In Psych/Noise Rock By JR Moores

Trying his damnedest not to digress, Dr Moores examines the latest deluge of psych/noise discs by the likes of Goat and Terminal Cheesecake

The Sea Nymphs

On The Dry Land & Self-Titled

The Eyes Have It: Circuit Des Yeux Interviewed

Circuit Des Yeux are currently one of the best live acts in the world - no matter what form they appear in. John Doran talks to Haley Fohr ahead of European live dates

Wanderlust: Steve Gunn Interviewed

With Eyes On The Lines, the singer-songwriter has produced one of 2016's finest guitar albums. He tells Barnaby Smith about going from adolescent hardcore acolyte to channelling the fretboard dexterity of John Fahey

Viva Exthopia! The Ex On Ethiopian Music

Ahead of their appearance across Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht this November Terrie Hessels, Katherina Bornefeld, Andy Moor and Arnold de Boer of The Ex sit down with Noel Gardner to talk about the importance of Ethiopian music. Features exclusive Fendika track

In Place: Yann Tiersen’s Favourite Albums

With his ninth album, EUSA, out now, the French composer and multi-instrumentalist takes Fred Jage-Bowler from the Velvets to Bill Callahan via NEU!, Vashti Bunyan and Joanna Newsom on a tour of his favourite records

Machinedrum

Human Energy

Petite Meller

Lil Empire

Horns Of Consecration: Xylouris White Interviewed

Xylouris White's new album Black Peak is a startling mixture of Cretan traditional music, punk rock and fiery improvisation. Danny Riley catches up with the drum and lute duo to discuss how this strange brew came together

He Shares A Lot: Chuck Mosley Interviewed

Jeremy Allen sits down in Paris with Chuck Mosley to talk Faith No More, Cement and second acts

Celebrating 20 Years Of Wolfgang Voigt’s Gas

Wolfgang Voigt's ambient techno project turns 20 this year and is celebrated by a new box set on Kompakt. Long term fan David Stubbs sees Gas as a bridge between Krautrock and "the great dancefloor movements of the late 20th/early 21st century"

Taman Shud

Oracle War

Full Clip: October’s Hip Hop Albums Reviewed By Gary Suarez

An autumnal chill fills the air, and leaves begin to find their deaths on the ground. But the heat exuded by Meek Mill, Gucci Mane and Jeezy albums reviewed by Gary Suarez can counter all that

The World That Glitters: Diamonds And Pearls By Prince Revisited

Diamonds And Pearls may have been the first Prince album to feature The New Power Generation but it also marked the period where he began falling from critical favour. It is, however, an album that has aged extremely well, argues Lesley Chow. [NB: This feature was written before Prince's untimely death earlier this year]

Westworld, The Walking Dead & The Exorcist: TV’s Unholy Trinity

Cliffhangers and guessing games may be a necessary evil of episodic TV, but they aren't the same thing as narratives, says John Tatlock, tQ's new TV correspondent. *****Contains some mild spoilers*****

A Working Class Mythology: Alan Moore’s Jerusalem Reviewed

Ben Graham plunges into Moore's 600,000 word new novel, and concludes that it's a post-psychedelic proletarian masterpiece that, if anything, could have been longer

Some Will Not Sleep: Adam Nevill’s Favourite Horror Short Stories

To mark the Halloween release of his own first collection of short stories, Some Will Not Sleep: Selected Horrors, horror novelist and genre aficionado, Adam Nevill, selects a Baker’s Dozen of his favourite short stories from contemporary writers in the field of modern horror. As with Nevill’s 2015 filmic Baker’s Dozen, fans of the genre are going to find an abundance of suggestions to work through on this list. (Written by Adam Nevill, as relayed to Sean Kitching)