Javier Calderon

Tin Man

Vienna Blue

Arcane Lore: Alasdair Roberts’ Favourite Albums

The Scottish folk artist picks out his top LPs, going from Bach to Kraftwerk by way of Bahamian field recordings and 14th-century French polyphonic classical music

Drumroll Please: Jim White’s Baker’s Dozen

From hearing a drumroll so good he dropped out of university, to the links between Iggy Pop and Lana Del Rey, the much-lauded percussionist Jim White speaks to Julian Marszalek about the 13 albums he loves the most

“Shy People Telling Small Stories, Quietly”: Jeanie Finlay’s Favourite Films

Jeanie Finlay, director of Sound It Out and The Great Hip Hop Hoax picks her favourite films, and talks about the final days of fundraising on her next documentary, Orion

Game Of Thrones Season 7 – Falling At The Final Hurdle?

Game of Thrones returns, with all of its grandeur intact, but its grace increasingly absent. ***Contains mild spoilers***

Grit In One’s Third Eye: Robyn Hitchcock’s Baker’s Dozen

English songwriter and frontman of The Soft Boys, The Venus Three and The Egyptians, Robyn Hitchcock leads Julian Marszalek through his most played LPs

Certified Gold: Joshua Minsoo Kim Reviews International Pop Music For August

Virginal Korean R&B from pH-1 & Jamie, a Jamaican paypig anthem from Konshens and Spice, hyperpop from Spain and Russia, and more of 2021’s vital international pop music thus far, according to new columnist Joshua Minsoo Kim

Karl Smith On Siavash Amini’s TAR

Having taken the slightest of left turns, adding bleak and sheering noise to familiar ambient fields, Siavash Amini's latest record is a timely exploration of our self-inflicted wounds as a species – and their failure to heal

I Came, I Saw, I Rolled My Suitcase: A Land Observations Essay

Land Observations comes to the Kingsland Road on Friday for a set at Drill:London. Here, writer Roads Martin Holman muses on the roads that the Romans built in Florence in an essay to be read as you listen to the Land Observations LP

Rudi Zygadlo

Great Western Laymen

Survival Songs: John Grant’s Baker’s Dozen

John Grant takes tQ through the 13 albums that have defined his life and guided him through tough times, from the beauty of Fad Gadget to the joy of Bernard Fevre, via Ennio Morricone, Kate Bush and more