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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

Explore Functions: Zero Zero At Annka Kultys Gallery

At Annka Kultys’s Bethnal Green gallery space, Craft/Work meets artist-curators Molly Soda, Ada Rajkovic, and Arvida Byström to talk online and offline presences – and the blurry spaces in-between

Neon Melodies: Composer Cliff Martinez Interviewed

Ahead of its release next week, composer Cliff Martinez talks about his work soundtracking Nicolas Winding Refn's lurid fashion fantasia, The Neon Demon

Lead Review: Lauretta Charlton On Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound

In Dev Hynes' third album as Blood Orange, Lauretta Charlton finds the adoptive New Yorker in fine cosmopolitan form, the free-flowing quality of his music celebrating a parallel sense of fluid identity and of freedom to be — to construct our own selves, in whichever way we choose

Full Clip: Hip Hop Albums/Mixtapes Reviewed By Gary Suarez

On the auspicious occasion of a hip hop classic’s big boy birthday, our American rap know-it-all, Gary Suarez crunches the numbers before delving into the month’s releases of note

Umberto

Alienation

ICH BIN EIN EUROPEAN: Bill Drummond Stands With A Romanian Gypsy Band

A week after Britain voted to leave the EU and the national mood darkened with racism, Bill Drummond has sent us this communiqué and short film of an action undertaken in Birmingham with a Romanian gypsy band. Text by Bill Drummond, photography by Tracey Moberly

Grace Jones

Warm Leatherette (Reissue)

Collaboration Elaboration: RM Hubbert’s Favourite Albums

Following the release of his new album, Telling The Trees, the Glaswegian singer-songwriter talks Nicola Meighan through his 13 top records by artists he's worked with over the course of his musical career

Where’s The Urgency? An Interview With Porest’s Mark Gergis

With his first album under the Porest name in ten years, Mark Gergis draws on years of recordings made across Syria for his own take on pop music. He tells Yousif Nur about making a "tragicomedy told in song and sound"