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James Blake Wins 2013 Mercury Prize

London electronic artist takes home prize for Overgrown

Italy’s ROBOT Festival Announces First Acts Playing 2024 Event

Kali Malone, Marie Davidson and more will play the Bologna festival this October

Junk Shop Classical On Decca & EMI: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

In 1958, Decca Records audaciously began to record Wagner’s epic, 15-hour Ring Cycle. As Phil Hebblethwaite explains, there was more at stake than art. Decca was a classical music underdog determined to land a knock-out punch on arch rival EMI

Rediscovering Mystery: Neko Case’s Baker’s Dozen

With her ninth full-length album set for release at the beginning of next month, Neko Case takes Emma Madden on a trip from The Cramps to Joanna Newsom, as she calls at 13 ports of strangeness for her Baker's Dozen.

Normil Hawaiians

More Wealth Than Money

A killer slice of freeform raging post-punk, rescued and reissued by Upset The Rhythm.

Straight Hedge! The Best Punk Of 2021

Noel Gardner looks back over 2021 and selects ten albums from his tQ column, plus another ten that got away

Heart Beats: Stuart A Staples On The Music That Inspired Arrythmia

From Linton Kwesi Johnson to Laurie Anderson, Kendrick Lamar to Robert Wyatt, Miles Davis and Insecure Men - Tindersticks vocalist Stuart A Staples selects the music that shaped his brilliant new solo album, Arrythmia

Lustmord

The Word As Power

Redemption In Crapness: Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson’s Inspiration LPs

As Sleaford Mods release new album English Tapas, Jason Williamson guides Hazel Sheffield through the records that inspired him, from Wu-Tang to The Meteors and RZA to The Meteors

Various Artists

Pied Piper: Follow Your Soul

For Entertainment Purposes: An Interview With Sheila Heti

Emily Berry speaks to the Canadian author about her latest novel, How Should A Person Be?, criticism and praise for her work and the role of shame in her writing

Fever Ray Is Teasing Something

The Swedish artist has shared a brief teaser video for a new project via social media

Venetian Snares

My-So-Called-Life

LIVE REPORT: The Moonlandingz

Anna Wood heads to Oslo, Hackney to catch the final night of The Moonlandingz' short and magnificent Ultimate Realism tour. All photos courtesy of Holly Whitaker

Prole Art Treat: East Man Selects 13 Visionary Releases

From Kate Bush and The Fall to Mobb Deep and Vybz Kartel, Anthoney Hart, the man behind Basic Rhythm, Imaginary Forces and most recently, East Man, selects the 13 albums that helped steer his art

Reigning Sound

Love And Curses