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Top Of The Curve: Wayne Holloway Interviewed

Kit Caless, publisher at Influx Press, speaks to Wayne Holloway - author of Land Of Hunger, a book of short stories that could be (and maybe sort of is) a novel - about the value of sentiment, 'banging for Marx', and balancing left-wing views with capitalist reality

Digital Materialism: An Interview with Benedict Drew

As his De Re Touch project for Art on the Underground invades tube stations across London, tQ’s Robert Barry talks to Benedict Drew about bodies, sludge, and radical dyslexia

Impure Intentions: Sandi Thom & Writing To Please The Radio

After Sandi Thom had a viral YouTube wobble over Radio 2 turning its nose up at new song Earthquake, Pete Paphides looks at the uncomfortable history of pop musicians writing to please the wireless

Wrekmeister Harmonies

Night Of Your Ascension

The Lead Review: Oneohtrix Point Never’s Garden Of Delete

"Lopatin is not just a producer; he's an overproducer". Ryan Alexander Diduck examines the enduring new album from 0PN and all its extensional oxymoronic glory.

Orange County: Sean Baker And Mya Taylor On Tangerine

Tangerine director Sean Baker and actress Mya Taylor talk to Patrick Gamble about trans-gender representation, shooting on an iPhone and why we all need to stop being so sensitive.

Grimes

Art Angels

Paint Something: Desperate Journalist Interviewed

The London purveyors of chiming, literate guitar-pop talk to Gary Kaill about drawing on a nerdish love of leftfield '80s indie, avoiding onstage shape-throwing and wedding sweeping sonics to an intimate lyrical dialogue

Confounding Found Sounds (Unfounded): Rum Music For November

Taking another rummage through modern music’s borderlands, Russell Cuzner reports back on Hawthonn’s audio scrying, a percussive Colin Potter, the ruptured rave of Russell Haswell and a bask in the latest batch from Baskaru

Anna von Hausswolff

The Miraculous

Psychedelic Meditation: Kurt Vile’s Favourite Albums

As he starts the UK leg of touring b'lieve i'm goin down…, the Philadelphian singer-songwriter goes from live free jazz to dry-humoured piano sketches in picking 13 albums that steered the sound of his sixth album

Hans Joachim Roedelius & Leon Muraglia

Ubi Bene

Born To Do This: Allen Toussaint Interviewed

Very few people deserve the soubriquet 'Living Legend'. Allen Toussaint does. John Doran talks to New Orleans "musical royalty"

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews For November By Tristan Bath

Tristan Bath is back with the best music on tape for November including a charity project for those affected by the Nepal earthquake

Keith Rowe/John Tilbury

Enough Still Not To Know

Precious Sounds Uncut: An Interview With Hilde Marie Holsen

On debut Ask, Hilde Marie Holsen forged a singular sound world of dense, textural pieces out of her trumpet and electronics set-up. She talks to Russell Cuzner about her sonic approach, improvising solo and titling troubles

Daylight Come: An Interview With Teeth Of The Sea

Suzie McCracken talks to the London quartet about new album Highly Deadly Black Tarantula, finding their gaze tightened and their enthusiasm reignited since 2013’s multivalent Master

Artists Arranging Things Themselves: The Digressionary Subject

In an essay riddled with digressions, David Price argues for the productive value of digression, examining the inevitable digressions that take place when artists digress from art-making into the act of curating

GHAOS Reigns: The Total Institutions of Reactor

As a new show called The Gold Ones opens at Hackney’s Xero, Kline & Coma gallery, Nottingham’s Reactor group reflect on their landmark Total GHAOS project

Some Might Slay: Kill Your Friends Reviewed

Robert Bright reviews the new film adaptation of John Niven's cult britpop bashing novel.

The Lead Review: Mike Diver On Teeth Of The Sea’s Highly Deadly Black Tarantula

Mike Diver explores the lingering effect of Teeth Of The Sea's fourth full length album, released on Rocket Recordings today

Wolf Eyes

I Am A Problem: Mind In Pieces

Reality Is Strange: An Interview With U.S. Girls

Meg Remy talks to Suzie McCracken about depicting multiple lives coloured by grief and hurt through the cast of characters on her 4AD debut, Half Free, feeling ashamed of the States and being angry to the point of mourning

Finish Him! The Quietus Picks Great Movie Fight Scenes

The Quietus writers square off in order to consider what makes a truly great cinematic brawl... FIGHT!

K.O! Oxbow’s Eugene Robinson On Cinematic Fight Scenes

Ahead of tomorrow's article on the best cinematic fight scenes, Eugene Robinson takes time out to consider what elements go toward making a truly memorable cinematic punch up.

Genuine Freedom: Sadaf Interviewed

Before she supports Grimes tonight, the performance artist talks to Lottie Brazier about narrowing the gap between 'experimental' and 'pop' and flipping gender dynamics in the video for industrialised banger C.F.C.

Again, Melancholy: Sarah Cracknell’s Favourite Albums

Off the back of releasing her second solo LP, Red Kite, the singer-songwriter and Saint Etienne member diligently jogged her memory, picked her 13 top records and made annotations. She talks Gary Kaill through her notes

Cardiacs

The Seaside

Visionist

Safe

State Of Mind: An Interview With Protomartyr

John Freeman talks to Protomartyr's singer and lyricist Joe Casey about how the Detroit post-punk quartet's excellent third album, The Agent Intellect, was inspired by both Aristotle and Alzheimer's disease

Not The Greatest Dancer: The Return Of Altern 8… And Crez

Not many 46-year-old professionals moonlight as dancers for early-90s rave acts; however, with Altern 8’s popularity enjoying a resurgence, Martyn Cresswell didn’t need to be asked twice to get back on stage. Words: Scott Oliver

One Take: A Grime Column For November By Tomas Fraser

Tomas Fraser is back with all of November's crucial grime releases and shows. Stormzy photo by Blaow. Dread D photo by Vicky Grout