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A History Of Grime In Three Objects: Music, Memories And Everyday Life

In this month's subscriber only essay, academic and author Joy White uncovers the forgotten stories and continuing vitality of grime through a deep delve into her personal archive

TQ Sound & Vision Presents: Roger Robinson & Richard Skelton

The winter solstice is here and we're marking it with a world exclusive: an EP of new music by Roger Robinson and Richard Skelton, available immediately to Sound & Vision subscribers. Darran Anderson talks to the artists about their unique collaboration

Hack The Matrix: How Johnny Mnemonic Predicted 2021

One of the most notorious flops of the 1990s, Johnny Mnemonic somehow predicted where we are today – and there's no better time to revisit it than before Keanu Reeves' return in The Matrix Resurrections, finds David Robb

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: November And December 2021

Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month and a half, compiled into one handy playlist!

Little Glitches: Laurie Anderson’s Big Science

In an exclusive extract from his new book for Oxford University Press, *Laurie Anderson's Big Science*, Alex Reed looks back at the moment performance art collided with the pop charts

Possible Worlds: The Broad Thinking Of David Graeber & David Wengrow

Zach Lewis reviews the final work of activist and theorist David Graeber (written in collaboration with David Wengrow), *The Dawn of Everything*, not so much a general history as a call to think more broadly

Teenage Kicks: Sue Webster’s Banshees Obsession

In a whirlwind of spectral paints and shocked black wigs, London artist Sue Webster watched as her obsession with Siouxsie Sioux sprang to life

Quietus Tracks Of The Year 2021

These are our favourite ABCs and RLSAGs of the last 12 months. (Anthems, Bangers, Classics & Really Long Songs About Geese)

Reissue Of The Week: Killing Joke By Killing Joke

Not only is it the apocalyptic post punk band's finest moment, Killing Joke showcases Dave Grohl at the height of his powers, says Jeremy Allen

Cr-ow-Tr-io

Hold Music

The debut recording by this London experimental improv trio featuring Cath Roberts, Otto Wilberg and Tullis Rennie is both fun and focused, finds Dustin Krcatovich, though his mother might not agree

New Weird Britain: The UK’s Best Underground Music Of 2021

Mario Batkovic

Introspectio

It's an album of accordian music, Jim, but not as we know it…

Organic Intelligence IV: Global Christmas

The Low Culture Organic Intelligence newsletter is back, this time with Finders Keepers' Andy Votel sourcing those ear-boggling Christmas hits that never were

Eli Keszler

The Scary of Sixty-First OST

Percussion virtuoso provides an unsettling score to a disturbing movie

Tomutonttu

Hoshi

Multi-disciplinary artist Jan Anderzén makes unconventionally beautiful electronic music, finds Sean Kitching

Rum Music: The Best Out Music Of 2021

Jennifer Lucy Allan looks back at a stop start year and rounds up a grab bag of feral favourites from The Zone

Kineograph

Capricorn

Mark Waldron-Hyden of The Sunshine Factory goes solo with a suite of suite of cosmic freak-outs and lulling ambience

Liza Lim

Singing in Tongues

The music of Australian composer Liza Lim turns opera on its head, finding thrilling new paths for contemporary vocal music, finds Antonio Poscic

Columnfortably Numb: The Best Psych Rock Of 2021

After a quick reflection on the madness of "pedalgate", JR Moores runs us through his favourite psych and noise rock records of the year

A Fucking Nightmare: DIY Artists On Living With Post-Brexit EU Rules

Daniel Dylan Wray talks to numerous DIY label bosses, record store owners and artists about a specific, career-wrecking aspect of Brexit

Richard Skelton

A Guidonian Hand

Richard Skelton turns lead into gold on an album that sounds more forged than formed, finds Daryl Worthington

Not ‘They’ But ‘We’: Music Of The World’s Peoples At 70

The Folkways anthology of 'world music' was now released a lifetime ago but, says Darran Anderson, there is plenty we could still learn from it

Hyperspecific: The Best Dance Music Of 2021

Jaša Bužinel shares his observations on certain trends in electronic dance music in 2021 and provides you with a list of 30 certified bangers for the holiday season

The Woman With The Sun In Her Head: Nancy Holt’s Mirrors Of Light

John Quin shines a light at the late Nancy Holt’s work currently on show in Berlin

Home Is Where The Horror Is: The Uncanny Tales Of Adam Nevill

With his second screen adaptation, No One Gets Out Alive, recently added to Netflix, plus a new novel, Cunning Folk, Adam Nevill brings the eerie to our most intimate spaces, finds Sean Kitching

I Should Have Been There: Depeche Mode’s 101 Revisited

As Depeche Mode reissue the film and live album documenting the 101st and final show of their colossal 1988 tour, Ned Raggett reflects with regret on how he turned down the opportunity to see the gig in person, and revisits it on Blu-Ray 33 years on

Reissue Of The Week: Doug Carn & Black Jazz Records

With the Real Gone reissue of the excellent Adam's Apple released today, Daniel Spicer takes a look at the history of artist-run, independent label Black Jazz Records

Hen Ogledd

No Wood Accepted

Dawn Bothwell, Rhodri Davies, Richard Dawson and Sally Pilkington roll around getting filthy, but still manage to leave Johny Lamb wanting more

Performing Beauty And Charm In Suspicion At 80

Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion might have turned 80 this year, but remains as relevant as ever regarding star image and the danger of male beauty and charm, finds Gabriela Almeida

Spool’s Out: The Best Tapes Of 2021

Daryl Worthington looks back the year in cassettes, and finds the underground in buoyant, triumphant, monolith smashing health

The Blood Of Songs: Jamire Williams’ But Only After You Have Suffered

Having previously collaborated with Solange, Jeff Parker, and Blood Orange, drummer-composer Jamire Williams steps to the fore with a searing solo album of soulful poetics