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Definitive conversations with our favourite artists
Vinny Moonshine's Kevin McGorey talks to his friend and label boss Bernie Brooks about the eight year journey that brought him to his second album, Mass Extinction Fairy Tale, streaming in full ahead of release with tQ below
Ahead of their appearance at Le Guess Who? Festival next month, Jakub Knera speaks with Baltimore quartet Horse Lords about their new record, politics and architecture in their music and how the pandemic changed the way they play
As they prepare to release their ambitious third album Tableau, The Orielles speak to Fergal Kinney about how Greater Manchester’s underground culture, putting faith in a first-time producer, and cooking each other’s tea inspired a major creative leap forward
Ahead of the carbon-negative Currents Festival held in a reactivated German power station, curators Khidja as well as the venue’s curator discuss the many lines they hope to draw with their artistically and environmentally ambitious first edition
In the first of a new series of essays on non European cultural influences on experimental music, Seymour Wright of improvisational group أحمد [Ahmed] writes on the constant inspiration of Ahmed Abdul-Malik
As Suede release new album Autofiction, Luke Turner speaks to Brett Anderson and Mat Osman about being reborn as a brand new band. and the complex transactional relationship between artist and audience. Suede portrait – Dean Chalkley, live – Paul Khera
Lancashire rapper and dancer Blackhaine explores class, mortality and ennui through an unorthodox take on UK drill. Ahead of his performance at WOS Festival, he speaks with Alastair Shuttleworth about the world-building across his records to date
As they prepare to release one of the year’s most sonically ambitious albums in the form of their debut I Love You Jennifer B, Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye of Jockstrap discuss emotional catharsis, ambitious homemade visuals, sexuality, classical music and Kanye West
Upon the release of her new album Broken Gargoyles, Diamanda Galás discusses her unflinching exploration of soldiers mutilated by war, the album's roots in the poetry of Georg Heym and the photos of Ernst Friedrich, and why the pandemic was a prompt to live in the moment
Combining classical music, metal, and hand-built instrumentation, Sarahsson’s wildly inventive debut album The Horgenaith explores femininity, bodily transformation and nature via Cronenbergian horror. An exciting new force in Bristol’s thriving avant-garde, the composer speaks with Alastair Shuttleworth in her first ever interview
Elizabeth Aubrey speaks to longstanding techno masterminds Pär Grindvik and Peder Mannerfelt about their ambitious pop project Aasthma, plus the first listen of their new single 'Soulhack' and a chance to win debut album Arrival on vinyl!
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