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Something To Hold Onto: An Interview With Martin Creed

With the release of a new double A-side single, 'Let Them In' / 'Border Control', Martin Creed sits down to discuss borders real and metaphorical

Round Them Up (In A Nice Humane Way): December Exhibition Previews

From a group show inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy to an exhibition dedicated to Rammellzee, Robert Barry rounds up some of the month’s most enticing art exhibitions

Life And Truth: Director Terence Davies Interviewed

Tim Cooke sits down with British director Terence Davies to talk about his latest film, the Agyness Deyn starring Sunset Song

Head Music: Stop Making Sense Reassessed

With Jonathan Demme and Talking Heads' Stop Making Sense out on blu ray, Neil Fox takes another look at the 'greatest concert film ever made'.

Closed Circuits

Breaker

Six Organs Of Admittance

Hexadic II

The Spirit Is The Thing: Irmin Schmidt’s Favourite Records

As the former Can man releases his Electro Violet box set this week, he boils his all-time favourites down to a 'records of the day' selection, taking Sean Kitching from albums to individual songs and classical compositions

The Lead Review: Kim Kelly On SunnO)))’s Kannon

With today's release of Kannon, the first complete SunnO))) album in six years, Kim Kelly looks at the spiritual potence behind the stagecraft and theatricality of their work.

One Take: December In Grime By Tomas Fraser

Tomas Fraser steps real steady with all of the grime reviews that are fit for consumption this month

Bing & Ruth

City Lake (Reissue)

Ramleh

Circular Time

A Crushing Embrace With The Earth: Ecological Sound In 2015

Against the backdrop of climate and ecological crisis, argues Rory Gibb in our latest Wreath Lecture, much of this year's best music has deeply considered our complex relationships with our world and each other

Senegal 70

Sonic Gems & Previously Unreleased Recordings from The 70s

Okokon

Turkson Side

The Essence And The Purity: Rob Halford Of Judas Priest’s Favourite LPs

With their Redeemer Of Souls tour bound for Scandinavia after wrapping up the UK leg at Brixton Academy last night, the heavy metal veterans' singer takes Alex Macrow through his top 13 "game changers" of rock & roll

Social Media Snakepits & Solidarity Versus Corporate Shafting, UK 2015

In the first of this year's Wreath Lectures, Luke Turner looks back over 2015 and argues that the decline of small, unfashionable institutions and professions is opening the door for an increasingly boring, corporate future. What alternative, resisting communities are being formed?

Soft Shoulder

No Draw

The Nectarine No. 9

Saint Jack

Tape Adapter: November’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed by Gary Suarez

As 2015 careens to a close, hop in the Coupe and check out some of the latest mixtapes to weather the imminent winter. Also peep the Top 20 Best Hip Hop Albums of 2015 list below

A Mad Love: An Interview With Lush

Seminal shoegazers Lush are back and armed with an EP of new material and a UK tour in 2016. John Freeman speaks to Miki Berenyi, Emma Anderson and Phil King about why the timing was finally right for a reunion

The Vinyl Staircase: November In Record Buying Misery By John Doran

John Doran suffers a flexistential crisis, recalls interviewing Harmonia and casts his eye over reissues by Peter Gabriel and Simple Minds in the latest instalment of his vinyl collecting column

Vega, Chilton, Vaughn

Cubist Blues

Shapednoise

Different Selves

“Picture Of A Sunny Day”: Carrie Brownstein’s Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl

Digging into Carrie Brownstein's memoir — Hunger Makes Me A Modern Girl — Alex Robert Ross finds a work that, removed from interaction with her collaborators, is as rife with tension as her work with Sleater-Kinney, packed full of introspection and self-laceration, but one which never strays into rock memoir cliché

Verfreundungseffekt: Is Love Enough? Versioning, Translating & Self-Translating Maltese Poetry

Having come across one another’s work on The Quietus, British-Maltese writers Jen Calleja and James Vella worked together to create versions of two poems by celebrated Maltese poet Adrian Grima using literal translations. But should ‘versioning’ be considered translating? And can Maltese poets do without English translators altogether? (Portrait of Adrian Grima by Richard Phœnix)

Rainbow Actions: An Interview with Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa

On the eve of his live streamed action for the Tate’s Performance Rooms series, tQ's Robert Barry talks to Guatemalan artist Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa about colour, humour, and trauma

Artist Run: ADAO, Barreiro, Portugal

In a former fire station in the Portuguese post-industrial town, Barreiro, tQ’s Robert Barry finds a thriving community of artists building a new cultural hub

Then We Take Berlin: Bridge Of Spies Reviewed

Robert Bright reviews Spielberg's new cold war thriller, out in cinemas now

Footage At The Borderlands: Horror Writer Adam Nevill’s Cinematic Baker’s Dozen

With his new novel 'Lost Girl' out now, horror author Adam Nevill recommends his favourite recent horror films to Sean Kitching. You are going to want to work through this list.

Kaseciarz

Gay Acid

Something Like A Question Mark: Rockfort Interviews Colder

David McKenna talks to Marc Nguyen Tan about the return of Colder after ten years’ absence, the social value of work and the power of hidden meanings

The Lead Review: Harry Sword On Broken English Club’s Suburban Hunting

As Oliver Ho releases the debut full-length from his Broken English Club alias on Cititrax this month, Harry Sword wanders through both his discography and the explorations of the surrealist mundanity and militaristic rhythms that litter this new body of work.