Noel’s Straight Hedge: Punk & Hardcore In Review For October

Noel Gardner is back once more with all that is belligerent, resonant, caustic and pummelling in the righteous world of punk, hardcore and beyond. (Those who hate metal should tread cautiously...) High Command portrait by Bill Shaner

Oneida

Absolute II

A Record Shopkeeper Writes: Why Record Store Day Must End

As Record Store Day 2016 approaches, Phil Harding, the boss of Taunton's Blackcat Records, argues that the event has lost its way - and is even harming the independent operations it was set up to help

Cloudy With A Chance Of Glowsticks: Kate NV’s WOW 

The latest collection of oddities from electronic-pop artist Ekaterina Shilonosova explore a deep inner world, writes Skye Butchard

LISTEN: Stream Adrian Utley’s In C In Full

Exclusive stream of the album; plus, we talk to the Portishead member about recording Terry Riley's seminal piece with his Guitar Orchestra

Xam

Tone Systems

We’re Only Gonna Die: Bad Religion And The End Of The World

Who better to spend the 21/12/12 Mayan Apocalypse with than Bad Religion frontman and evolutionary biologist Dr. Greg Graffin, PhD? Alex Burrows takes notes at the end of days

The Drop Cord: Thou on one of 2024’s Best Metal LPs, Umbilical

Thou’s new album takes a brutal back-to-basics approach, all under the ruthless glare of frontman Bryan Funck. Dan Franklin speaks to him and guitarist Andy Gibbs about holding their feet to the fire, roughly dispensing with melody and, most surprisingly, The Mighty Boosh. Main picture of Thou live by Mae Cravotta

Revenge Of The Synth: Benge Interviewed & Synth Porn Photo Gallery

Ben 'Benge' Edwards has recorded a beguiling album in Twenty Systems which traces the history of the analogue synthesizer. John Doran chats to him and Lucy Johnston creates a gallery of vintage synthesizer porn.

Liturgy

The Ark Work

Man Of God: Jim James Of My Morning Jacket Interviewed

INTERVIEW: Sandunes On Different Trains 1947

Sanaya Ardeshir, aka Sandunes speaks to tQ about her involvement with the Different Trains 1947 project, which marks 70 years since The Partition of India, and how she drew on her own family's history

Peer Review: Against Art On Autopilot – Jeff Jackson Interviewed

Speaking to Eric Obenauf, his publisher and editor at Two Dollar Radio, Jeff Jackson discusses conservativeness and convention in fiction-writing, pop-culture consumption and his LA Times Book Prize-finalist novel Mira Corpora

LHF

Keepers Of The Light

Paul Morley Interviewed: The Rise Of Zang Tuum Tumb, And The Fall Of ZTT

In an extensive interview, Paul Morley tells David McNamee a personal history of his involvement Zang Tuum Tumb label

“We Are Quite Savage Islanders” – Ben Wheatley Interviewed

Ben Wheatley chats to Stephen Dalton about the savagery of modern Britain, soundtrack choices and his blackly comic third feature Sightseers, which goes on nationwide theatrical release at the end of this month