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A New Era: Big Joanie Interviewed

On the release of their new album Back Home, Big Joanie speak to Laviea Thomas about the diversity of punk music, and redefining their sound

Live Reviews

The Legacy Of The AACM: Anthony Braxton And Henry Threadgill Live In London

Anthony Braxton and Henry Threadgill’s double headliner at EFG London Jazz Festival is a reminder of the astounding achievments of their musical collective AACM, says Stewart Smith

Reviews

Eliza Carthy And The Restitution
Queen Of The Whirl

Heir apparent to a great English folk dynasty reclaims her extensive back catalogue

Live Reviews

Truth Music: Le Guess Who? 2022 Reviewed

Lentils as projectiles, a medieval answer to Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, twin xylophone attack from Mexico City, a post-punk opera about the paranoid mind – Richard Foster and Patrick Clarke report back from another headspinning edition of Utrecht’s Le Guess Who?

Reviews

Shake Chain
Snake Chain

London quartet throw a series of musical curveballs

Anniversary

From The Front Lines Of Lyrical Warfare: Canibus’ Mic Club 20 Years On

The combative rhyme master has paid the price for his inability to compromise, says Angus Batey, as the rap laureate's master's thesis turns 20

A Quietus Interview

A Lore Unto Themselves: AG.R97 interviewed

Portuguese duo AG.R97 speak to Daryl Worthington about building their own video game inspired lore, the community of musicians around the Turva label, and why humour is a powerful thing in experimental music

Art

The Human Factor: Chris Killip Photographs Britain Under Thatcherism

A new exhibition at The Photographers’ Gallery curated by Ken Grant and Tracy Marshall Grant features over 140 works from the photographer’s career

Books

Shout Outs & Sharp Cuts: The Early Days Of Rap Radio

Breaks in the Air, a new book by John Klaess, charts the rise of hip hop broadcasting in New York City. An essential read, finds Arusa Qureshi

Books

Advertising That Money Can’t Buy: That Time Depeche Mode Started A Riot In LA

In an exclusive extract from their new book, Halo, David McElroy and Kevin May recount the events that led up to the Los Angeles police showing up to an instore signing session

Reissue of the Week

Reissue Of The Week: Monster Magnet’s Test Patterns Vol. 1

With the first of God Unknown's 'Test Patterns' series featuring Monster Magnet's sprawling psychedelic masterpiece 'Tab' in two different forms, JR Moores revisits the band's imperious first phase

Reviews

Plaid
Feorm Falorx

What's that warm glow of retrofuturistic nostalgia oozing through the speakers? Ah, yes, a new Plaid album

Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Ryan Diduck On The Larry Sanders Show

In this month's Low Culture essay for tQ's subscribers, Ryan Diduck recalls the programme-within-a-talk show brilliance of The Larry Sanders Show, and the troubled genius of its creator, Garry Shandling

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Reviews

Thorn Valley
Various

A compilation from Bethnal Green's World of Echo record shop features tracks by Moin, Exek, Still House Plants and more

Album of the Week

Songs Of The Earth: Duval Timothy’s Meeting With A Judas Tree

The South London-based multi-disciplinary artist reconnects with the soil from Spoleto to Sierra Leone

Reviews

Darren Hayman
You Will Not Die

The former Hefner frontman follows a set of Oulipian constraints to produce a set of typically affecting meditations of love, life and mortality, finds Aug Stone

A Quietus Interview

Ridiculous / Sublime: An Interview With Lunch Money Life

As they premiere new single 'Telecommunion' exclusively with tQ, Patrick Clarke meets with the genre-defying Lunch Money Life at their base in Dalston's 'Clowns Church'

Baker's Dozen

The Perfect Sentence: Tariq Goddard’s Favourite Storytelling Songs

Novelist and publisher Tariq Goddard chooses thirteen songs that have defined his life, with a focus on the musical storytellers who inspired him to tell tales of his own from The Kinks to Ice T

Live Reviews

Multisensory Essence: Lunchmeat Festival 2022 Reviewed

Jaša Bužinel, our dance music correspondent, rounds up his favourite AV shows and DJ sets at this year’s Lunchmeat Festival

Reviews

Fenella
The Metallic Index

Jane Weavers experimental ensemble plays hauting paeans to the electric girl of the 1920s

A Quietus Interview

Reality Check: An Interview With Richard Dawson

Richard Dawson speaks to Patrick Clarke about his vast new album The Ruby Cord', the film that accompanies its 41-minute lead single 'The Hermit', virtual reality and non-linear time

Black Sky Thinking

Zos Sounds: The Musical Adventures Of Austin Osman Spare

As a fundraising campaign to recreate Austin Spare’s tarot deck nears its goal, Mark Pilkington explores how the artist and occultist influenced musicians from Amebix to Led Zeppelin

Anniversary

Accept The Unknowable: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Revisited

30 years on, Darran Anderson revisits Aphex Twin’s first volume of ambient works, and finds an album of musical genius, but also a disarming innocence

A Quietus Interview

Village Music: An Interview With Naphta

On the release of a new album that draws links between club music and the traditional sounds of his native Poland, Naphta speaks to Mariia Ustimenko about being an Eastern European artist under the Western gaze, issues of appropriation and more

Reviews

Ebe Oke
SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Ebe Oke centres the non-human other on a strange and compelling debut, says Bernie Brooks

Art

Life Lines: Benjamin Owen’s New Vocal Club

A new project by Benjamin Owen in Perthshire explores the many facets of the human voice

Books

Through Thick And Thin: Miki Berenyi On Lush And Loss

Recently published memoir by Miki Berenyi, Fingers Crossed: How Music Saved Me From Success, is a survival manual for a life adventurer, finds Irina Shtreis

Film

Rage Was Always the Virus: 28 Days (And 20 Years) Later

The classic apocalyptic film galvanised horror as a genre but also foreshadowed contemporary life 20 years on, finds Kathryn Finch

Reviews

Dry Cleaning
Stumpwork

South London quartet follow up their critically acclaimed *New Long Leg* with a more sombre record shot through with stony-faced rage

Reissue of the Week

A Sticky Sense of Fun and Daring: Ride’s 4 EPs

As Ride reissue their first four EPs, Richard Foster revisits his first-hand experience of the band’s glorious first phase, and assesses how the records stand up three decades later

Film

Welcome To Wakaliwood: Africa’s Almighty Filmmakers

Welcome to Wakaliwood, Uganda's cult-like film production company bringing Kung Fu fighting and plastic waste solutions to a global stage – Frank L'Opez meets the team

Low Culture Podcast

Low Culture Podcast: An Eerie November Edition

John Doran and Luke Turner explore two fantastic new exhibitions in the new edition of the Low Culture podcast

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A New Era: Big Joanie Interviewed

The Legacy Of The AACM: Anthony Braxton And Henry Threadgill Live In London

Eliza Carthy And The Restitution Queen Of The Whirl

Truth Music: Le Guess Who? 2022 Reviewed

Shake Chain Snake Chain

From The Front Lines Of Lyrical Warfare: Canibus’ Mic Club 20 Years On

A Lore Unto Themselves: AG.R97 interviewed

The Human Factor: Chris Killip Photographs Britain Under Thatcherism

Shout Outs & Sharp Cuts: The Early Days Of Rap Radio

Advertising That Money Can’t Buy: That Time Depeche Mode Started A Riot In LA

Reissue Of The Week: Monster Magnet’s Test Patterns Vol. 1

Plaid Feorm Falorx

Low Culture Essay: Ryan Diduck On The Larry Sanders Show

Thorn Valley Various

Songs Of The Earth: Duval Timothy’s Meeting With A Judas Tree

Darren Hayman You Will Not Die

Ridiculous / Sublime: An Interview With Lunch Money Life

The Perfect Sentence: Tariq Goddard’s Favourite Storytelling Songs

Multisensory Essence: Lunchmeat Festival 2022 Reviewed

Fenella The Metallic Index

Reality Check: An Interview With Richard Dawson

Zos Sounds: The Musical Adventures Of Austin Osman Spare

Accept The Unknowable: Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 Revisited

Village Music: An Interview With Naphta

Ebe Oke SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Life Lines: Benjamin Owen’s New Vocal Club

Through Thick And Thin: Miki Berenyi On Lush And Loss

Rage Was Always the Virus: 28 Days (And 20 Years) Later

Dry Cleaning Stumpwork

A Sticky Sense of Fun and Daring: Ride’s 4 EPs

Welcome To Wakaliwood: Africa’s Almighty Filmmakers

Low Culture Podcast: An Eerie November Edition

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A Cave of Wonders: Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten on the Record Shop that Made Him

Feedbacker: Rock Music for March by JR Moores

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Alice Coltrane and Eternity in 1976

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Eliza Carthy And The Restitution
Queen Of The Whirl

Shake Chain
Snake Chain

Plaid
Feorm Falorx

Thorn Valley
Various

Darren Hayman
You Will Not Die

Fenella
The Metallic Index

Ebe Oke
SPECIES LP1 & LP2

Dry Cleaning
Stumpwork

Kim Gordon
Play Me

Simo Cell & Abdullah Miniawy
Dying Is The Internet