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Inner Ear: Serbian Music for April by Jakub Knera

In his latest deep dive into the music scenes of Central and Eastern Europe, Jakub Knera explores how Serbia's artists are responding to a climate of increasing political tension, profiles the forward-thinking figures at the heart of the country's underground scene, and reviews a slew of key Serbian releases

Ian Brown’s Brown Note: Mr Agreeable On Rock’s Covidiots

As Ian Brown and Van Morrison release Covid sceptic songs and Noel Gallagher says he won't wear a mask, shielding sot Mr Agreeable has a word

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: November And December 2020

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!

Laibach Announce Collaboration With Iranian Composers

'Alamut' will be debuted in Slovenia this autumn

Organic Intelligence XXXIV: Tromsø Techno

In this month’s antidote to the algorithm, Jeremy Allen takes us up to the far north of Norway and the emergence of the country’s techno scene

LIVE REPORT: The National

Paul Smith finds the National by turns sublime and squalid at their recent Roundhouse show. Photographs courtesy of Valerio Berdini

Shortparis Play Live In Rotterdam

Oh... those Russians

Record Label Blue Note To Open Pop-Up Shop

The London shop marks 80 years of the much-loved jazz label

Bitchin Bajas

Bajas Fresh

Chicago’s answer to Pink Floyd? Maybe, kinda.

Wok Ethic: EXEK interviewed

Albert Wolski's EXEK take the production burnish of early Eno, the invention of This Heat and the medicated funk of ESG as a starting point, says Cal Cashin, before heading off into psychedelic territory

Celebrating The 30th Anniversary Of Glassworks By Philip Glass

Erin Lyndal Martin looks back at a bizarre but successful attempt to combine classical and pop... for the Walkman

COMPETITION: Win The Devils On DVD

Forever controversial Ken Russell picture up for grabs!

Life Before Alice: Andrew Eldritch, Leeds & The Birth of The Sisters of Mercy

Mark Andrews speaks to Andrew Eldritch, Jon Langford of the Mekons and various faces from the Leeds post punk scene about the tortuous birth of the Sisters Of Mercy

Abject Luxury: The Legacy Of Martin Margiela

Two shows in Paris dedicated to the the Belgian fashion designer reveal an artist of consistent theoretical depth

“Where Was My Mind?” Jenny Hval’s ‘Favourite Albums’

We asked Jenny Hval to pick her 13 favourite LPs, which she didn't, because she thinks that's a "horrible" task. Fair enough, said JR Moores, so here, instead, are 13 underappreciated records she's hoping you'll go out and enjoy