FESTIVAL REPORT: Elevate 2015

Tristan Bath heads to Graz for the eleventh Elevate festival, and spends a weekend in at the frontlines of experimental music, political discourse, and Central Europe.

Quietus Live: My Disco, PTTRNS, Factory Floor DJ LISTEN Here

Plus! PTTRNS & Factory Floor DJ set

Peer Review: Robert Macfarlane Interviews Hayden Thorpe… And Vice Versa

We left musician Hayden Thorpe and the writer Robert Macfarlane alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked

Enter, Stranger – Darran Anderson On Kids’ TV Show Knightmare

In the second of our subscriber-exclusive Low Culture essays, author Darran Anderson talks about the fantasy show that created a semi-magic-realist escape from a childhood in Derry during the Troubles

A Protest Against Bullshit: Irmin Schmidt On All Gates Open – The Story Of Can

With the publication this weekend of Rob Young’s book All Gates Open: The Story Of Can, Sean Kitching chats to Irmin Schmidt about the development of the book, the origins of the band, and the surprising tenderness of Mark E. Smith

Ryuichi Sakamoto To Score New Short Film

The Japanese composer will provide the soundtrack to Luca Guadagnino's latest feature, 'The Staggering Girl'

A Disappearing Art: Exploring the Magic Postmodernism of MacGillivray

Ahead of a show at this year’s Sensoria Festival in Sheffield Kirsten Norrie, aka MacGillivray, talks to John Doran about her elemental multi-disciplinary practice drawing together folklore, poetry, music and film making. Main portrait by Zanne Chaudhry

Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Pigs Share Donna Summer Cover

The band have taken on Summer's 1979 classic 'Hot Stuff', which they discuss in more detail below

LISTEN: New Floating Points

The producer reveals a second track from his forthcoming debut album; listen to the track below

RM Hubbert

Breaks & Bone

WATCH: British Sea Power – Loving Animals

Sussex six-piece British Sea power in new Crypt Sessions video

Reissue Of The Week: Three Albums By Dickie Landry

The reissue of three albums by Dickie Landry vary wildly in their concepts and aesthetics, yet share glimpses of a singular vision; they are the perfect introduction to one of the overlooked jazz greats, says Antonio Poscic

Actress Self-Releases New Track, ‘Jimmy’

The loop-based cut samples Bronski Beat's 'Smalltown Boy'

When A Sound is Just a Sound: Absolute Music at Venice Music Biennale

At this year's Venice Biennale Musica, tQ's Robert Barry wonders what we might gain when we pretend, if only for a moment, that it really is all just about the music

Dying Of Firth: Kingsman: The Secret Service Reviewed

Mat Colegate reviews spy caper, Kingsman. But will he form a solid Bond or will it leave him Napoleon So-low? (Slight Spoilers)

Tanked Up in Berlin: Eros Interviewed

Heavy industrial electronic collaborators Karl O'Connor, Liam Andrews and Boris Wilsdorf speak to Luke Turner about how a surrendering of ego in a magical studio were the vital ingredients to making new Eros album, Your Truth Is A Lie.