Reviews

Laurel Halo

Quarantine

Bitchin Bajas

Bajas Fresh

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

Michael Head & The Red Elastic Band

Adiós Señor Pussycat

From dearly beloved Mick Head, the first new songs in more than a decade and the first album with his excellent new band

Crass Release Remasters Of Three Classic LPs

Punk collective Crass are reissuing and remastering a number of their old albums

Across The Tracks: Oxmardyke By Philip Jeck & Chris Watson

The final album from the late Philip Jeck is a touching collaboration with master field recordist Chris Watson, focused on a level crossing near Hull

RIP Dieter Moebius

Towering figure in electronic music passes away

Beat Codes: Spoek Mathambo’s Favourite Albums

Spoek Mathambo gives Lior Phillips a tour of his record collection, crossing continents between the music of his South African homeland, American rap, and British new wave

Never Mind The Mercury! It’s The Jovian Bow Shock Prize 2012

After literally four people complained about our alternative to the Mercury Prize not running last year we decided to revive it, and not a moment too soon, it seems…

Among The Rocks And Roots

Pariah

Richmond, Virginia duo take post-metal and hardcore aggression to rapturous new heights, finds Antonio Poscic

Re-Thinking Copyright At Right The Right

Robert Barry goes to Berlin for a festival which generates radical ideas for how the entire structure of copyright legislation and property laws could be rewritten

13 Steps To Perfection: El-P’s Favourite Albums

The rapper, producer and Definitive Jux head honcho rifles through his racks and picks out his top 13 records

Music Is My Saviour: Melanie C’s Favourite Albums

Melanie C guides Emma Garland through 13 favourite records in Bakers' Dozen stories from being blessed by Keith from the Prodigy to stage invading a Blur gig, with love for Madonna, Oasis, Fiona Apple and much more along the way

Laurence Pike

The Undreamt-of Centre

With warm electronics and thumping drums, the latest from the Australian drummer-composer is the post-Covid requiem mass you’ve all been waiting for

Music and Wartime in Ukraine, Part Two: Our Choice, Our Future

In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk continues her inquiry into the war's cultural front, and looks ahead to an uncertain and dangerous future

RIP Florian Schneider: A Kraftwerk Baker’s Dozen Special

Following sad news that Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died, we present a specially compiled Baker's Dozen of artists including Michael Rother, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marie Davidson and Mark Lanegan on their favourite music by the _kosmische musik_ masters

Learning Through Listening: Shabaka Hutchings Favourite LPs

In anticipation of the release of Sons of Kemet's latest LP, Your Queen Is A Reptile and their appearance at this year's Field Day Festival, saxophonist Shabaka Hutchings detailed the thirteen albums that shaped his experiences as both a man and a musician to Olamiju Fajemisin