North Sea Radio Orchestra

Birds

Klara Lewis & Simon Fisher Turner

Care

An extraordinary, moving montage of field recordings and electronics

Productive Pleasure: Alfie Bown’s Enjoying It Reviewed

Looking at psychological and social power structures and stark capitalist reality through the lens of Candy Crush and YouTube wormholes, Joe Kennedy considers the ideas of productive and unproductive pleasures and sympathy with pretentiousness via Alfie Bown's Enjoying It

It’s Art, Darling: Kate Bush, Duckie & Loyalty In The Wilderness Years

Fame and favour are fickle, but some artists are forever in your heart and your record box, even if they have made an album with Lenny Henry. Here Mark Wood, aka The Blonde One of Duckie resident DJs The Readers Wifes, explains how a love for Kate Bush is what launched their two decades of dancefloor drama and mayhem

TootArd

Migrant Birds

Armed with a Yamaha PSR-62 synthesizer, TootArd's second album creates dreamlike effects, finds Richie Troughton

Helen Money

Become Zero

Music, Magic and Mystery: 25 Years of D’Angelo’s Voodoo

A quarter of a century ago, a constellation of stellar artists performed a kind of musical alchemy in a fabled New York studio. Voodoo has lost none of its allure and retains all of its impact 25 years on. How did they do this, a still dumbfounded Angus Batey asks

Beverly Glenn-Copeland Details First Album In Almost 20 Years

'The Good Ones' will be released in July

Elias Rønnenfelt Of Iceage & Marching Church’s Favourite LPs

Ahead of Marching Church's appearance at Roskilde Festival later this year, Elias Rønnenfelt guides Daniel Dylan Wray through his favourite 13 albums

Akke Phallus Duo

Terroir/Pissoir

Blood Music

Go Off, M8

Blood Music brings the drums to center stage, leaving everything else in the wings to fine effect

Social Media, Spotify & Why YOU Are The Product

We might get annoyed about Spotify and Facebook offering our information to all comers... but what do we expect, asks Robert Barry

TUSK Festival Launches Monthly Online TV Show

Tomaga percussionist Valentina Magaletti and tQ contributor Jennifer Lucy Allan will feature on next month's inaugural TUSK TV, while there's also a digital label being launched

Dan Hayhurst

Critter Party

Craft/Work: Welcome To Our New Art Section With Bobby Barry

Bobby Barry introduces us to tQ's new art section and provides a gallery round up featuring an installation in a vintage arcade machine, a reinterpretation of Enter The Dragon and a micronation founded by an ex-magician in an artist’s studio in Bristol

Hamburg Club Golden Pudel To Reopen

Hamburg institution Golden Pudel will reopen its doors 18 months after a fire destroyed the building