With 1993’s The Very Crystal Speed Machine set to get its first UK release as part of their Righteously Remastered box set, reunited rock & roll preachers Thee Hypnotics tell Julian Marszalek about the album that should have made them but instead wore them down
Nashville-via-Brooklyn musician Mackenzie Scott's second album Sprinter is a bracingly honest and diverse record, which moves from howling rock grind to fractured introspection in addressing themes of mortality and loss. On her recent stop in the UK, she traced its roots with Alex Robert Ross
As he releases new Magnetic Fields album 50 Song Memoir, Stephin Merritt doesn't delve into the past for his Baker's Dozen list but instead gives tQ an A-Z of some contemporary favourites, from Japan to Marc Almond, bawdy cockney songs and the BBC Radiophonic Workship. Pic by Marcelo Krasilcic
With Where You Stand, their seventh album – and first for five years – due out this summer, frontman Fran Healy joins Wyndham Wallace to buy dinner, quote Seamus Heaney and discuss why, despite so many people loving them, they provoke such fiercely negative reactions…