Lottie Brazier On Gaye Su Akyol’s Hologram Ĭmparatorluğu

In Turkish punk singer Gaye Su Akyol's second album, Lottie Brazier finds both a nod to the country's distinct classical musics and a force for resistance against cultural conservatism

LISTEN: New The Poisoned Glass Album

And a quick Q&A with the band, no less

Short Fiction By: Richard Owain Roberts

Short fiction from Richard Owain Roberts' new, Parthian-published book — All The Places We Lived — provides this week's instalment of new writing on tQ

Mica Levi

Jackie OST

Metal Machine Music: A Persher Baker’s Dozen

Electronic producers but longtime punk, hardcore and metal heads, Blawan and Pariah take Patrick Clarke through the thirteen records that shaped their swerve into heavy music as Persher, from Meshuggah and Napalm Death to Converge and The Dillinger Escape Plan

London Film Festival Preview: Zaytoun

Basia Lewandowska Cummings watches Eran Riklis' war-torn buddy movie, screening at the 56th London Film Festival

The ERC Sign To The Fat Whites’ Label

Sheffield's finest join Without Consent for "fictional outsiders supergroup" EP, followed by album featuring Maxine Peake and Fat Whites' Lias and Saul, due early next year

A New England: Gareth Southgate, Cultural Revolutionary

"30 years of hurt" has often felt like it applied to the bombastic jingoism related to England, but all that is changing with Gareth Southgate's diverse, intelligent team and their rise to the finals of the Euros, argues Tim Burrows. Image: Catherine Ivill/Getty

I’m A Freak Baby

Various

Flying Through The Universe: Annie Hogan’s Favourite Music

Facilitator for some of the most influential names in music, and one of the most overlooked forces in left-field British sound, Annie Hogan picks out the seven-inch records that shaped her childhood, and sowed the seeds for a remarkable career

Thirsty For Song: James Johnston Of Gallon Drunk’s Favourite LPs

As well as being the lynchpin of suited rock howlers Gallon Drunk, James Johnston has played with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and PJ Harvey - but we're not going to hold the fact that he's picked both of them for his Baker's Dozen against him. Portrait by Steve Gullick.

The Beat Goes On: Kid Millions’ Favourite LPs

We look forward to Man Forever's gig with My Disco by getting the Baker's Dozen business from the gentleman Kid Millions

Crowdfund To Soundproof Barca Venue

Barcelona venue, record label and creative collective Màgia Roja are calling on the public to help soundproof their HQ

Weird Still Spills: Stella Mozgawa Of Warpaint’s Favourite Albums

The Warpaint drummer and prolific collaborator goes from Pharoah Sanders to Joni Mitchell via Steely Dan, Chaka Khan and Primus in collecting her top 13 albums, choosing those that "had altered the course of my life"

LISTEN: Wattville (Archie Pelago Overdub)

Stream a track from the upcoming second release through Sonic Router Records, plus launch party details

Happy Birthday Conan The Existentialist, By Stewart Lee

Stewart Lee, described by himself as writer/clown, described by us as gentleman of taste and wit, gets to grips with Robert E Howard's evergreen tale of a lugubrious brawler in animal skins