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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.

Enya

Dark Sky Island

The Deathly 90s, Corbyn & An Old Post Punk Hails A New Counterculture

Many of the post-punk generation like to sit on Facebook moaning about how the LOL-addled youth of today lack the political gumption of their forebears. David Stubbs, on the other hand, got stuck in making fanzines with a bunch of teenagers and found that a new generation are far from apathetic

A Middle Way: Petite Noir Interviewed

The South African singer-songwriter and producer talks to Christopher Sanders about his debut La Vie Est Belle/Life Is Beautiful, working with Spoek Mathambo and Yasiin Bey and developing his noirwave movement

“I Experience Life, And Music Emerges”: Shye Ben Tzur Interviewed

Shye Ben Tzur, whose new album Junun featuring Radiohead's Jonny Greenwood, 19 folk musicians from India and production from Nigel Godrich producing, speaks to Akhil Sood about recording inside a 15th century fort in India and the mechanics of fusing contrasting musical disciplines

Osibisa

Singles As, Bs & 12 Inches

Pedestrian Deposit

Eleventh Hour

Nice And Sleevy: Andrew Liles’ Favourite Album Covers

The prolific multi-instrumentalist, Nurse With Wound and Current 93 collaborator and vinyl art devotee picks his top 13 LP covers, tipping his hat to Coil, Cabaret Voltaire and a quintet of dancing banjos among others

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

While conventional rap beefs often spoil well before their official sell-by date, these reviews of the latest hip-hop albums are as fresh as they come

The Bolshoi

The Arkive

Ink From The Eyes: Jerusalem In My Heart Interviewed

Lebanese-born Montreal-based musician Radwan Ghazi Moumneh tells Lottie Brazier about the evolution of his project combining electronics with traditional Arabic instruments and documenting a changing Beirut on record

Space Celts & A Voyage Into The Avant-Garde: Enya Interviewed

Thought Enya was naff? Think again, says Luke Turner as he speaks to Enya and argues that her music is some of the most successful avant-garde pop of all time