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Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums

The Mayor of Greater Manchester takes Fergal Kinney through 13 records that shaped him, via his days as a Hacienda regular and his children introducing him to Big Thief

ScHoolboy Q

Oxymoron

Benefits

Nails

On their debut album, Teesside’s Benefits explore how nationalism, apathy and deception have corroded Britain’s agency in its own future. The result is a work of volatile physicality, and penetrating sincerity, finds Alastair Shuttleworth

Roly Porter

Third Law

KPM Library Albums To Be Reissued

Reissue label Be With Records will oversee the re-release of 10 library albums from the KPM series

Zac Pennington Of The Parenthetical Girls On Being Buried Alive

Written by Zac Pennington

LIVE REPORT: Jack White

Jack White doesn't just fire his mighty Blunderbuss at his much-anticipated London Forum gig - White Stripes songs are aired too, as Julian Marszalek discovers. Photographs by Valerio Berdini

Paul Ferris

Witchfinder General OST

Call The Police! – Terry Bickers’ Favourite Albums

One of 80s indie's defining guitarists talks us through his 13 albums – and risks the ire of purists everywhere by insisting that sometimes compilations are best

Gary, Indiana Share New Track, ‘Nike Of Samothrace’

They've also signed to Fire Talk Records

Let It Happen: Paddy Shine’s Baker’s Dozen

Paddy Shine is one of the most relentless instigators in the underground, both as part of Gnod and in myriad other projects. Ahead of the release of the debut album by his weird folk group Moundabout alongside Phil Masterson on Rocket this summer, he guides Harry Sword through 13 vital slabs

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of May 2024

From Beak > to Broadcast, and Eric Chenaux to Ex-Easter Island Head, this is tQ's favourite music of the last four weeks

Richard Pinhas & Oren Ambarchi

Tikkun

Mystery Music: Investigating Utrecht At Le Guess Who Festival

The Utrecht music scene was born in the city's squats. But, finds Evan Harris, this counter culture is under threat

LISTEN: New Black Country, New Road

Speedy Wunderground gets 2019 rolling with the first proper single from Black Country, New Road

An Altamont for Rock Music’s Imperial Period: June 1, 1974 Half A Century On

The diaristic title of the Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico's live record demands it be put into some kind of historical context. Michael Bellis looks at a highly unusual album released in a time of great cultural and social change