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Slot Machine Music Vol. 1 (Reissue)

Separate The Game From The Truth: Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die

On March 10, 1997, Angus Batey was due to interview Biggie Smalls, a conversation that never took place after the rapper was fatally shot a day earlier. Here, he takes an in-depth look at the "masterpiece" that was the debut album from the hip-hop luminary

Joel Gion

Apple Bonkers

English Heretic

The Underworld Service

Rustie

Green Language

Songs Of Innocence: On U2, Tax & Hypocrisy

John Doran is singularly unimpressed by U2's invocation of William Blake's Songs Of Innocence. Shouldn't they stop cosying up to morally bankrupt corporations, banks, philosophers, religious leaders and politicians instead?

Punch Drunk Punk: An Interview With Plaids

With their self-titled debut released next month, Kyle Ellison meets Joe Caithness of Nottingham punks Plaids to discuss DIY spaces and drawing equal inspiration from grime and astrophysics

Haphazard Archivism: Stephen Morris Of New Order Interviewed

John Doran talks to Stephen Morris about New Order signing to Mute, pulsar PSR B1919+21 and Joy Division oven gloves

Ekoplekz

Four Track Mind

Crush Depth: Karen O Interviewed

Karen O speaks to Lior Phillips about expressing more of her persona from a standpoint that’s outside the construct of Yeah Yeah Yeahs

Mannheim Rocket

Mannheim Rocket

Karen O

Crush Songs

From The Darkest Chasms: Neil Young’s On The Beach Revisited

Forty-five years after it was first released, Joseph Burnett returns to Young's fifth solo record, an album that marked an angered transition from Harvest, bolstered by some of his bleakest and greatest moments

Lorenzo Senni

Superimpositions

Diabolical Crackers: Trans Am’s Favourite Albums

With new LP Volume X just out, the Washington D.C. trio split the top albums rundown three ways and self-pen us their Baker's Dozen

Two Poems By: Daisy Lafarge

To Edinburgh this week for September's first instalment of new writing, coming via two new poems courtesy of Daisy Lafarge

Share The Radical: Free Jazz and Improvisation On Vinyl 1965 – 1985

Stewart Smith examines Johannes Rød's "collectors' guide to a niche area of music" — a book of lists with more to offer than catalogue numbers and discographies

Necessarily Unafraid Of Failure: Spencer Madsen & Alt Lit Poetics

Taking the writer and editor's latest offering, You Can Make Anything Sad, as a starting point Jake Elliott considers what Alt Lit has to offer as an art form and where, within that, Spencer Madsen and his work fit in

Dam And Blast: Night Moves Reviewed

Gary Green goes enviro-mental over director Kelly Reichardt's latest

Aaron Dilloway

The Beauty Bath (Reissue)

Howling At The Endless Freezing Grey: Berlin Atonal Reviewed

Luke Turner reviews the likes of Ike Yard, UF, Source Direct, Cabaret Voltaire, Dalhous and Powell as he spends the weekend exploring all things stern in a Berlin power station

Robert Curgenven

SIRÈNE

Troglodyte With Destiny: 20,000 Days On Earth Reviewed

Because Troglodytes live in caves, yeah? Caves, geddit? Suit yourselves... Nadia Attia gets to grips with the 'Constructed Documentary' on the life and work of Nick Cave

Aphex Twin – Syro: A First Listen Review

First there came the blimp, then the graffiti, then the deep web album announcement, then a tQ scribe bound for a secretive listening party to hear Richard D. James' most celebrated guise making a long-awaited return. But is it any good? Joe Clay reports back from the Warp offices

Black Pus/Oozing Wound

Split LP

Playing For Keeps: Cate Le Bon’s Favourite Albums

With her UK tour just started, singer-songwriter Cate Le Bon tells John Freeman about how an attitude of playfulness runs through her 13 top LPs

Mogwai On: Scottish Independence – A Quietus Q&A

With just two weeks to go until the Scottish independence referendum, a Quietus filmed Q&A with Mogwai on their views on the crucial vote. Camera & edit: Kenichi Iwasa

It All Comes Back To Garage: DJ Q Interviewed

Bassline and garage innovator DJ Q's debut album Ineffable hit 2014 with a thrilling and much-needed blast of UK rave-pop. Following the album's release earlier this year, Rory Gibb catches up with him to chat feelgood music, perfectionism and the demise of bassline

Shouting Louder Than Words: Hüsker Dü’s Zen Arcade

Ned Raggett turns the clock back thirty-five years and looks at American masculinity in terms of Hüsker Dü's Zen Arcade

On Young Thug & Obama: The Latest Hip-Hop Mixtapes

Gary Suarez ponders unfulfilled potential and disappointment as he reviews the latest tape from Young Thug, as well as casting his ears over new stuff by Young Scooter, Rich The Kid, Porter Ray, Mick Jenkins, The Celestics, Ty Dolla $ign, King Louie and Euro

Zammuto

Anchor

Sonic Router 034: Airhead Blasts The Dancefloor

The formerly delicate electronica of London-based musician Airhead has just taken a thrillingly warped swerve towards the dancefloor. For our latest Sonic Router column, he meets Oli Marlow to discuss how club experiences have informed his explosive upcoming Hemlock 12"