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Cross Channels: Performance And Ritual At Wysing Polyphonic

At Wysing Polyphonic, Augustin Macellari finds a curious mix of memories, expectations, and personal uptightness marring his appreciation of an otherwise bold line-up of cutting-edge performance art

The Middle Eastern & African Playlist For July By John Doran

John Doran rounds up the best mixes, tracks, reissues etc. from the Middle East and Africa... including one playlist that is 70 hours long. Ideal for a bank holiday blow out...

Injustice For All: Mary Harron’s Anna Nicole Revisited

Philippa Snow reassesses the American Psycho director's made-for-TV movie on the life of Anna Nicole Smith

Ketev

I Know No Weekend

Paul Mosley

The Butcher

Columnus Metallicus: Heavy Metal Gets An Iron Fisting For July

Our pals from Iron Fist magazine Louise Brown and Angela Davey set their sights on this month's heavy metal albums... and we've got an exclusive from Subrosa!

Lead Review: Tristan Bath On JK Flesh’s Rise Above

In stripping away some of the most recognisable elements of the JK Flesh project, Tristan Bath finds Rise Above to be the most direct music Justin Broadrick has made in a decade

Summer 13: Malcolm Middleton’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his sixth album, Summer Of '13, and before Arab Strap play their anniversary gigs later this year, the musician talks Nicola Meighan through the records that have had the biggest effect on him

Alien Love: An Interview With Jackie Lynn

For her new album, Haley Fohr of Circuit des Yeux spins the story of Jackie Lynn, on the run from the law after leaving behind her Chicago drug empire. She tells Luke Cartledge about her "fried cocaine-country record"

This Happened: Sylvia Patterson And Miranda Sawyer In Conversation

Jude Rogers took a long brunch (if we're going to be specific) with two of this country's best music writers, Sylvia Patterson and Miranda Sawyer, recently. Samantha Hayley was on hand to take photographs

The Best New Music You Missed In June, Chosen By The Quietus

Here at The Quietus it seems we're not quite the all-seeing eye after all — just a few degrees off of omniscience. And, with that in mind, sometimes we miss things. Our unquestionable omnibenevolence, on the other hand, well, that's got us trying to correct ourselves for your benefit

Complete Communion: Stewart Smith On Jazz For July

Stewart Smith is back once again like a renegade magpie, with reviews of everything from Turkish free-jazz experimentalists Konstrukt to Albert Ayler reissues

Róisín Murphy

Take Her Up To Monto

The Second Life Of Concrete: Brutalism’s Renaissance

Christo Hall takes a walk through the Sound Mirrors of the Kent coast with photographer Stuart Leech and finds an obscure functionalism melting into majestic land art

Imagine The World Anew: Assemble Talk Brutalist Playgrounds

At Sheffields S1 Artspace, Sam Gregory clambers over some brutalist playgrounds and talks to architectural collective ASSEMBLE

Deerhoof

The Magic

Satanic Blahnik: The Neon Demon Reviewed

Mat Colegate reviews Nicolas Winding Refn's curdled fashion world fantasy, The Neon Demon

Narcissism Is Freedom: Nicolas Winding Refn On The Neon Demon

With his new film The Neon Demon in cinemas today, Philippa Snow interviews Nicolas Winding Refn, director of Drive and Only God Forgives.

His Last Major Stand: Songs In The Key Of Life Turns Forty

With the album rising to greet its fourth decade, David Stubbs unpicks Stevie Wonder's transition from a technological pioneer to a musically conservative finger wagger of the highest order, and wonders just what might have been

Mick Harvey

Delirium Tremens

Lead Review: Amy Pettifer On Bat For Lashes’ The Bride

The Bride

In Natasha Khan's latest outing under the moniker, Amy Pettifer finds Bat For Lashes with her influences on her sleeve and her music on high-narrative form — a different story, set in a familiar sonic universe

The Month’s Electronic Music: Community Is Key

Christian Eede returns for another round of Hyperspecific taking a look over releases from Margaret Dygas, M.E.S.H. (pictured), Beatrice Dillon, Karen Gwyer and more

Music Is A Replication: An Interview With Kara-Lis Coverdale

After her performance at this year's Mutek Festival in Montreal, Ryan Alexander Diduck sits down to talk (and order slipshod tapas) with Kara-Lis Coverdale — an artist who, through her music, resists simplification, invites collaboration and thrives on the power of replication

Semi-Incongruous Morass: The Past, Present and Future of Smegma

Portland, Oregon's "folk music avant garde" institution Smegma, now in their fourth decade, has been spending more time reflecting on their past, but that doesn't mean there's no future ahead

Where You Lead: Carole King & The Lifespans Of Pop Music

As well as being cause for an emotional outpouring in Hyde Park on Sunday night, the singer-songwriter-in-chief's revisiting of the Tapestry album, says David Bennun, is emblematic of a musical moment we won't see again

The Avalanches

Wildflower

Odonis Odonis

Post Plague

Revelation Junkie: An Interview With Sasha Siem

For her second album the singer-songwriter uncovered her Sami heritage in Norway. She tells William Doyle about learning from a tradition where music can move matter and serves the community over the individual

Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore For July By Noel Gardner

Noel Gardner only has one problem - finding the space to fit in all of the reviews into this column that he wants. But enough with the flexi discs already

Gazelle Twin, Kingdom Come And The Death Of Live Music At Sonár

After witnessing the uncanny majesty of Gazelle Twin's Kingdom Come at this year's Sonár Festival, Karl Smith considers the possible future of live music in a post-chrome world

At The Brink Of Destruction: Ian William Craig Interviewed

John Doran speaks to one of tQ's favourite artists of recent years, the singer and tape manipulator, Ian William Craig

Pattern Man: Rick Holland Interviewed

With the release of his new book, Rick Holland challenges the idea of himself as a poet. He speaks to William Doyle in a concrete room in Yorkshire about modes of delivery and capturing inspiration