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The Kooks To Play Strummerville Benefit Gig

Band playing this Friday

What Foul-Mouthed Singer Kunt & The Gang Tells Us About Offence in 2021

Kunt & The Gang's offensive attack on Boris Johnson was one last year's top-selling singles. Tim Burrows looks at the work of the Essexploitation songwriter and argues that there's still an important place for his brand of offensive pop in 2021

Let The Music Play: Six Steps In The Evolution of New York House

Henry Kronk, co-author with DJ Disciple of new book *The Beat, The Scene, The Sound*, guides us through a half-dozen cuts that defined the origins of house music in New York

Uncle Agony Aidan Moffat: Prophylactic For Your Conjugal Woes

Aidan Moffat's back from holiday to solve more of your depraved and peculiar carnal habits

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

Vicki Bennett To Tour New Project, ‘Gone, Gone Beyond’

The artist's new project is comprised of a 10-screen, six-speaker piece, with wrap-around projection and spatialised soundscape where the audience sit inside

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Quarter Turns Over A Living Line

The Perfect Sentence: Tariq Goddard’s Favourite Storytelling Songs

Novelist and publisher Tariq Goddard chooses thirteen songs that have defined his life, with a focus on the musical storytellers who inspired him to tell tales of his own from The Kinks to Ice T

Social Media Myth: Why Facebook Hasn’t Stolen Your Friends

Over the past few months, Facebook has been heaving under panic postings from bands and so on claiming that their posts were being hidden in a Zuckerberg quest for cash. Not so, says Charles Ubaghs, head of social media for a major radio group

The xx Tease New Music

Trio share mysterious uncredited clip; listen below

Psychedelic Meditation: Kurt Vile’s Favourite Albums

As he starts the UK leg of touring b'lieve i'm goin down…, the Philadelphian singer-songwriter goes from live free jazz to dry-humoured piano sketches in picking 13 albums that steered the sound of his sixth album

Reissue Of The Week: Alice Coltrane & Spiritual Jazz

"What in the name of Lester Young's pork pie hat is spiritual about most music currently labelled spiritual jazz?" asks Daniel Spicer in this week's reissue feature

Full House: Richard Thompson’s Favourite Albums

As Fairport Convention alumnus and folk rock hero Richard Thompson tours his new album he speaks to Jude Rogers about 13 favourite records, from The Watersons to Squeeze, Moby Grape, Offa Rex, Marissa Nadler and Crowded House

Bryan Ferry On Alt J, Warhol And Air Rage

Watch video of tQ's John Doran interviewing Ferry for Noisey

Music Of The Month: The Best Albums And Tracks Of August 2020

2020 limps on, but the music remains amazing. Here's August's very best music to see you through, selected by tQ staff

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For August By Daryl Worthington

Pastoral motorik masterpieces from France, field recordings from a volcanic island and a cybernetic solo percussion album, Daryl Worthington finds tapes contain lots of ways to drown out the modern nightmare this August