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Ben Jacobs, aka Max Tundra, talks to Fergal Kinney about the long road to album four, his love for Kate Bush and the evolution of pop music. TQ has the exclusive play of his new video – and first single in nearly 15 years – 'This Woman's Work'
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Travis Elborough revisits No Two The Same, a documentary about London's Pimlico that reveals many of the foibles of its creator, thirsty outsider and outspoken architecture critic Ian Nairn
One night of torrential rain can't dampen Julian Marszalek's spirits as he has a hoot at Green Man 2023, taking in sets by the likes of Devo, Jockstrap, Spiritualized, Bob Vylan, Billy Nomates, Nuha Ruby Ra, Lankum and his festival highlight Mandy, Indiana
A narrative is forming around Les Rallizes Denudes that perhaps some of their haunting strength has sprung from the lo-fi quality of their bootlegs. Cal Cashin spends time with the new crystal clear official release of CITTA '93 and finds their sublime avalanche of sound just as addictive as ever
Ahead of their performance at this year’s Green Man festival, Slowdive’s Rachel Goswell talks to Julian Marszalek about being the only goth in the village, the enduring power of the voice and why pen pals and fan clubs are beautiful things.
Ahead of the release of the posthumous Sparklehorse album, Bird Machine, David Lynch, Steve Albini, John Parish, Angela Faye Martin and Jason Lytle talk to Brian Coney about the rewarding and often joyful experience of working and being friends with Mark Linkous
In this month's antidote to the algorithm, Justyna Banaszczyk (whom regular tQ readers will know as the musician FOQL) guides us through summer woodlands and murky memory with a terrific selection of Polish contemporary experimental music, including Krolowczana Smuga, pictured below.
Ahead of his appearance at this month's Green Man Festival, Sathnam Sanghera talks Tara Joshi through his favourite music, from Goldfrapp to Dave and Massive Attack, Sly, George Michael, Prince, Bally Sagoo and much more
Forty years ago this week Marc Almond released the album that almost finished his career. Derided at the time as an overblown, self-obsessed indulgence, Torment and Toreros is now considered a flawed masterpiece in the lineage of Lou Reed’s Berlin, Big Star’s Third, and Nick Cave’s Your Funeral…My Trial. Here the people who made the record tell its story in their own words.
In this month's column on the best in punk and hardcore, Noel Gardner bastes his ears with new music from Snõõper, Landowner, Parallel Worlds, Gimic, Fashion Change, Piñén, Spirito Di Lupo, Motorbike, JFA, as well as a reissue from early 90s Glaswegian group Dawson
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