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Low Culture Podcast: Dale Cornish On Soft Cell’s This Last Night In Sodom

We slip furtively down a dank London alley this week as Dale Cornish comes on the podcast to discuss Soft Cell's finest album

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: May 2021

For tQ subscribers, here's all the ace new music we've covered on the site this May, compiled into one handy mega-playlist!

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Low Culture Podcast: Jeanie Finlay On Lola Montes

It's a cinematic Low Culture podcast this month as Jeanie Finlay speaks to us about Max Ophüls' 1955 film Lola Montes

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: March 2021

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TQ Sound + Vision Subscribers Get Debut VÄLVĒ LP Geography

The Vernal Equinox is here and we're marking it with the release of the sumptuous, beautiful, resonant debut LP by VÄLVĒ for tQ Sound + Vision subscribers

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: July 2021

For tQ subscribers, here's all the ace new music we've covered on the site this July, compiled into one handy mega-playlist!

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Low Culture Podcast Six: Nadine Shah On Robert Palmer

The sixth in our series of subscriber-only podcasts features Nadine Shah talking about how Robert Palmer's 1994 album Honey helped through her Mum's illness and, as unlikely as it sounds, how it has influenced her music

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Low Culture Essay

What I Learned From Christian Jankowski About The Art Of Bizarre Moments

A chance encounter on an otherwise dry BBC art documentary took Oobah Butler down a revelatory rabbit hole peopled by Polish weightlifters, fake Jesuses and irate fortune-tellers

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2021

For tQ subscribers, here's all the ace new music we've covered on the site this April, compiled into one handy mega-playlist!

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Death, Angels & Magic: Daniel Spicer On Elvis Presley’s Way Down

In our monthly subscriber-only essay Daniel Spicer has a Proustian rush listening to Elvis Presley's career concluding single Way Down, is reminded of the fragility of existence and is catapulted back into a childhood of ageing teds, biker gangs and wyrd Cornish magic...

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Low Culture Podcast 12: Nicky Wire On Echo & The Bunnymen

To celebrate the end of the first year of our subs system and the Low Culture podcast we invited Manic Street Preacher Nicky Wire to share his musings on Echo And The Bunnymen

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Low Culture Podcast 13: A tQ Birthday Special!

It's a tQ birthday podcast special covering Live Aid and Guns n'Roses in which John Doran reveals a hitherto unknown love of... Bono!

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The Rock & Roll Of Clubs: Tracing The Wyrd History Of Accrington Stanley FC

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By All That Is Holy: David Keenan On Arthur C Clarke’s Mysterious World

In our monthly subscriber's only essay, author David Keenan traces most of his adult obsessions back to a mind-expanding book, gifted to him by his Dad

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Low Culture Podcast Seven: Mariam Rezaei On Turntablism

The seventh in our subscriber only series of podcasts features Mariam Rezaei talking about the often misunderstood art of turntablism and the pros and cons of having one foot in the hip hop camp and one foot in the world of experimental music

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