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Slowly Exploding: 10 Years Of Perc Trax

Defiance Never Ages: The Manics’ Holy Bible Live

Late last year Tom Hawking flew across the Atlantic just to see the Manic Street Preachers play The Holy Bible at the Camden Roundhouse. Here he reflects on a record that had the power to change his life. Thanks to the Manics for the use of images.

Significant Involuntary Memories: Paul Allen Of Anthroprophh’s 13 Top LPs

Following last year's mighty Outside The Circle album and the news that Anthroprophh will be playing this year's Desertfest, the band's leader and former Heads man Paul Allen (the hirsute gentleman on the right below) cherrypicks 13 albums from his hefty collection

With All Duet Respect: On Snobbery, Kanye & McCartney

Turns out plenty of Kanye fans don't know who Paul McCartney is. So what? It's not the ignorance of youth that bothers Ned Raggett, it's the faux outrage and the smug lols that greet it

Tallying With The Present: Dan O’Brien’s Scarsdale

First reviewing the American poet's second collection, Scarsdale, Jeremy Gordon then sits down to talk about confessional poetry, the irrelevance of form and the mythic quality of childhood with Dan O'Brien

25 Years On: The Necks’ Sex Revisited By Kate Hennessy

Kate Hennessy revisits the debut LP by Australian jazz improvisers, The Necks. Band portrait courtesy of Camile Walsh Photography

Momentum And Memory: PUSH Magazine – Poetry At The Gates

Kit Caless sits down with Joe England, editor of PUSH — a literary magazine with a dedicated, football-based readership — to discuss why the contributions lean toward the brutal, selling at the gates and always thinking forward

‘Must…Remember…’: 40 Years Of Humanoids

Aug Stone gives an introduction to one of Comics most influential and innovative publishers as they enter their fifth decade

Drums Not Dead: An Interview With Si Wolstencroft

Mick Middles interviews the man whose book charts turning down a role in The Smiths, being an early member of the Stone Roses and eventually joining The Fall

Complete Communion’s Favoured Jazz Albums Of 2014

Stewart Smith looks back over 2014 to pick his 20-and-a-bit favourite albums in a round-up of the best jazz of the year

Strange Refuge: Holly Johnson Discusses His Favourite Albums

In our final Baker's Dozen of 2014, Ian Wade talks to the former Frankie Goes To Hollywood frontman following the release of Europa, his first solo album in 15 years, about his all-time top 13 LPs

Scorched Earth: The The’s Mind Bomb Revisited

Matt Johnson may have set out to blow your mind on The The's third LP in 1989 - but the effects ended up being much more devastating, says David Bennun

Short Fiction By: Alan McCormick

New writing this week comes to you as short fiction from Alan McCormick, in which the spectre of the one and only Noel Edmonds appears in the form of a fox. Obviously

Nuanced Splendor: Australian Music In 2014

Kate Hennessy takes a look through a year of Australian music, featuring tracks from HTRK, Xylouris White, Blank Realm and more

Snack Family

Pokie Eye EP

Azealia Banks

Broke With Expensive Taste

Spools Out’s Out: Tristan Bath’s Top Tapes Of 2014

Tristan Bath rewinds 2014 to look at the the increasing popularity and creativity of the cassette release, and picks his favourite label and a selection of essential releases. Plus a mix!

The Maim Event – Johnny Ryan On The Prison Pit Animation

Mat Colegate talks to Johnny Ryan about the animated adaptation of his ultra-violent comic book Prison Pit

Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2014 (In Association With Norman Records)

tQ staff and writers scour this year's singles, EPs, 12"s, one-off releases, reissues and albums to pick their top tracks. Peruse and buy below, courtesy of our friends at Norman Records

Rowland S. Howard

Six Strings That Drew Blood

Maston

Opal Collection

Rhyton

Kykeon

Shifted

Arrangements In Monochrome 1&2

Beyond Dapper Laughs: Comedic Realism & The Failure Of Liberalism

In the latest Quietus Wreath Lecture looking back at 2014, Joe Kennedy looks at how comedy is failing to deliver a decent response to the current British malaise

Sound In Space: Paul Smith & Peter Brewis Interviewed

An arts festival commission has become a new album with a bit of Maxïmo Park, a bit of Field Music and a lot of string quartet. Before they play three dates this week, Nick Hutchings investigates

Various Artists

A Fine Selection Of Independent Disco, Modern Soul and Boogie 1978-82

The Smashing Pumpkins

Monuments To An Elegy

The Skull Defekts

Street Metal

Cassegrain

Centres Of Distraction

A Radical Century: Mahmoud Refat Of 100 Copies Cairo Interviewed

Yousif Nur takes a trip to Cairo's only dub plate cutting facility - the open platform and experimental recording studio, 100 Copies, to talk to owner and facilitator, Mahmoud Refat. Photographs by John Doran

D’Angelo

Black Messsiah

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Metal Albums Of 2014 With Toby Cook

Toby Cook threw a party for his celebrity mates recently. The price of admission? They had to help him write about the best heavy metal albums released this year