“Where Was My Mind?” Jenny Hval’s ‘Favourite Albums’

We asked Jenny Hval to pick her 13 favourite LPs, which she didn't, because she thinks that's a "horrible" task. Fair enough, said JR Moores, so here, instead, are 13 underappreciated records she's hoping you'll go out and enjoy

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

Quietus Competition: WIN AC/DC Live DVD

We have three copies of Live At River Plate to give away...

Morrissey & Marr: 25 Years Since The Alliance Was Severed

This year sees the 25th anniversary of the split of The Smiths. Johnny Rogan's masterful book The Severed Alliance has itself just had a 20th anniversary reprint by Omnibus. Here, reprinted in full, is the chapter that deals with the band's last few weeks

Mogwai To Release New Remixes LP

A Wrenched Virile Lore currently being assembled; download Xander Harris remix now

Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite For Destruction – 25 Years On

Jimmy Martin examines the perfect storm of raunch, repulsiveness and riffs that went into "the greatest hard rock record of the 80s"

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music: Benjamin Myers’ Favourite Music

Music journalist-turned-novelist Benjamin Myers shares the music that made him a writer from The Slits to Slipknot – and why almost all of it is impossible to write to…

Art Brut On Black Francis-Helmed Album

Title and tracklisting revealed

INTERVIEW: Clarence Clarity

tQ phoned up electro-funker Clarence Clarity to discuss his persona, his music and how he's translated his album to a live setting

Grumbling Fur: New Album Details

Experimental duo set to be releasing Glynnaestra through new label Thrill Jockey; tour dates below

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Aspirational Music: Hiro Kone’s Favourite Tracks

From the duduk to spiritual jazz, Hiro Kone's Nicky Mao guides Bernie Brooks through a selection of thirteen tracks that informed and inspired her latest LP, Silvercoat The Throng

Nkisi, Karen Gwyer & More Feature On New Tape Series

Berlin's Climate Of Fear presents 12 set recordings from parties put on over the last couple of years

Mighty Lord Deathman & UKAEA May Tour

Double-header of electronic argy-bargy coming your way (if you live in Bristol, London or Brighton)

LISTEN: New Dave ID Album

Three tracks from Response available here

Hedvig Mollestad Trio

Black Stabat Mater