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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
US composer and voice artist Joan La Barbara has pioneered experimental multiphonics, circular singing, ululation and glottal clicks over the past five decades. Ahead of her performance at LCMF this weekend, she spoke to Louise Gray about infanticide, vocal fry and moving beyond the mask.
Strange and brilliant music scenes are thriving in fecund pockets of creativity across the UK - especially outside of London, where costs are lower, gentrification is slower and networks are stronger. Ahead of our tQ Future Forum panel this Thursday, Daniel Dylan Wray talks to musicians and industry stalwarts about surviving and thriving in the provinces.
Ahead of his appearance at Unsound Adelaide, German dance music producer Erik Wiegand talks about pulling song titles from articles on dating sites, sculpting hyperbolic sounds and his first new solo album in 13 years, Superlative Fatigue
On the launch of their third LP, the ironically titled Jolly New Songs, Brendan Telford speaks to Polish avant-punks Trupa Trupa’s Grzegorz Kwiatkowski about forsaking democracy for collective creativity, dark histories and the disconcertion of happenstance
They may be better known these days for in-fighting and taking each other to court, but most of the surviving members of the Wu-Tang Clan have reunited for a better-than-you-might-expect LP. Interview by Angus Batey
Ahead of an appearance at Portugal's Semibreve Festival later this month, as well as the release of an upcoming mini-album, Christian Eede speaks to Visible Cloaks' Spencer Doran about fourth world concepts in music and the influence of Japanese ambient and Italian minimalism
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