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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

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For November

Cyrus cynic JR Moores pounds the patterned pavements in search of fresh psych (and noise rock) releases

Charlie Sheen Plays Patient Zero: On HIV & Mainstream Culture

Thought we were over the AIDS panic of the 80s? Think again. In the wake of Charlie Sheen's revelation that he is HIV positive, Mike Miksche argues that mainstream heterosexual culture has a lot of catching up to do, and prejudice to overcome

45 Years On: Joni Mitchell’s The Hissing Of Summer Lawns Revisited

Joni Mitchell risked everything; she had a career of "unparalleled audacity" says David Bennun when reassessing The Hissing Of Summer Lawns some 45 years later

Zombi

Shape Shift

Arca

Mutant

Behold! November’s Quietus Comics Round Up Column

From quiet despair to outright horror — via worlds of film, magic and the truly bizarre — Pete Redrup and co round up the best comics November has to offer

Beat Street: Graffiti Online And Off

In the week of Pussy Riot's collaboration with Banksy's Dismaland, a flyer for an online street art exhibition prompts tQ’s Robert Barry to muse on the paradoxical essence of graffiti

Enter At Your Own Risk: Two Exhibitions at Turner Contemporary

Two exhibitions at Margate’s Turner Contemporary bring performance to the forefront, Jessica Jordan-Wrench investigates

Adele

25

Theatre Of Extremities: On Red Bull & The QT Agenda At C2C 2015

Jazz Monroe braves a sticky sea of Red Bull at Turin's Club To Club festival to ponder the sickly hyper-commercialised metapop of QT and SOPHIE in the context of Italian austerity. Photograph by Andrea Macchia

Underworld

Second Toughest In The Infants (Reissue)

Anthony Child’s Electronic Recordings From Maui Jungle Vol. 1

Ian Maleney examines the tonal complexities of Anthony Child's latest full length released last week on Editions Mego, including the meeting of organic and synthetic, sonic manipulation, and the intricacies of unknown place

Meatraffle

HiFi Classics

Housewives

Work

Heavier Elements: Nicole Dollanganger Interviewed

With her sprawling, cinematic pop belying a lyrical fixation on darker matters, the singer-songwriter talks to Karl Smith about horror and hardcore influences, honest depictions of female sexuality and touring with Grimes

Burn Again: Lawrence English’s Favourite Albums

After celebrating Room40's 15th birthday, the label head and ambient composer pauses in his hometown of Brisbane to go from Swans to Japanese court music in taking Kate Hennessy through his 13 "foundational" records

The Strange World Of… Arnold De Boer (The Ex / Zea)

Richard Foster talks to The Ex and Zea mainstay Arnold de Boer about a creative life mapped out in dictaphones, old bangers and music boxes

25 Years On: Autechre’s Tri Repetae Revisited

Gary Suarez gives us an American perspective on one of Autechre's most revered albums and a duo about to sever all remaining ties to the culture that surrounded them

Consumer Electronics

Dollhouse Songs

Hieroglyphic Being & J.I.T.U. Ahn-Sahm-Buhl

We Are Not The First

Enter The Void: On Kode9 & A Brief History Of Nothing In Art

As Hyperdub head honcho, Kode9 (aka Steve Goodman), announces his new album named, about, and inspired by nothing, we take a look through some of the artistic precedents for Goodman’s minimalist inspiration, from sculpture to painting and performance

Porn To Do It: Erika Lust’s Cinematic Bakers Dozen

Feminist pornographer Erika Lust picks 13 films and TV shows that have influenced her unique approach to the erotic. Slightly NSFW

All Truth, No Lies: Big | Brave Interviewed

The Montrealers talk to Tristan Bath about the pursuit of "good" feedback, dealing out honest live performances and how unexplainable feelings fed into their inward journey towards their triumphant second album, Au De La

DJ Paypal

Sold Out

Heather Leigh

I Abused Animal

Roots Bloody Roots: Mr Manuva Interviewed

Stevie Chick speaks to Rodney Smith about wanting to be somewhere between the Stone Roses and Linton Kwesi Johnson, Opal Fruits and sitting drunk in empty rooms 'talking' to people who aren't really there. Portraits by Shamil Tanna

Boyle-d Apples: Steve Jobs Reviewed

Patrick Gamble reviews Danny Boyle’s biopic of Apple Co-founder Steve Jobs

Getting Closer: Jeremy Allen Reports From Paris

tQ writer Jeremy Allen was at the Stade De France on Friday night. He reports from Paris on the recent terror attacks. Photographs by author