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Low Culture 1: The Velvet Underground Live In 1969

Low Culture is a new series where tQ writers use lockdown time to pull some of their favourite music, films, games and books off the shelves in order to tackle an idea that's been bugging them for a long time. In the first instalment John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale

Low Culture Podcast: Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom

In this month's Low Culture podcast John and Luke discuss 1960 film Peeping Tom which, while controversial in its day, has an entirely moral contemporary resonance

Tape Adapter: April’s Hip Hop Mixtapes Reviewed

In the first of a new ongoing column covering each month's most interesting (for both positive and negative reasons) hip hop mixtapes, Gary Suarez takes you on a whistlestop tour from echo-chamber halfstep to baseless swagger blather

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Raw Power in Contemplation: Gnod’s Spot Land Reviewed

Gnod's new album is reminiscent of anything from Popol Vuh to Coil but, says Luke Turner, this isn't a contrary change in direction, but a sumptuous re-examination of what makes them so great

Junk Shop Classical On Anja Thauer: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

After a gifted German cellist called Anja Thauer took her own life in 1973, her story all but disappeared. Why? While making a Radio 3 documentary, Phil Hebblethwaite discovered that it may have been intentionally kept from the history books