Annette Barlow

Blood, Bread & Bros: Sam Herlihy On The Dude Burger

Our mighty (white) food writer Sam Herlihy is back! WARNING LACHRYMAL READERS! Contains heartbreaking scene where the Pillsbury Doughboy cradles dying gun shot victim. DON'T SAY WE DIDN'T WARN YOU!

Ben Lerner, 10:04 & The Death Of “Silence”

Tom Evans considers the concept of silence, the relationship between artist and audience — author and reader — and the notion of collectivity, through the lens of Ben Lerner's 10:04. (Image: 'White Cube' — Ryohei Kan)

Africa Express To Tour Britain By Train

Host of African and Western musicians will take to the tracks for week-long musical train journey

Noel Gallagher Selects His Thirteen Favourite Albums

While there's nothing unexpected about Noel Gallagher's Bakers Dozen selection, John Doran salutes his unique perspective on The Canon

The Wedding Present

Valentina

Nazi Rhetoric & The Dangerous Power Of The Waning Sun

Battered by Leveson and out of place in a swiftly-changing era of British politics, The Sun is arguably a lesser force than once it was. Yet, argues Joe Kennedy, Katie Hopkins' reprehensible comments on immigration and the complicity of newspaper staff who employ her suggest that as it declines the tabloid is lashing out with increasingly dangerous views

There’s A Certain Satisfaction In A Little Bit Of Pain: Thirty Years of Madonna’s Erotica

30 years on, Matthew Barton explores how Erotica changed the game for mainstream pop stars, an album that traded Madonna’s imperial pop for deep bass, vinyl crackles, chilly house and spoken word

Low Culture Podcast Seven: Mariam Rezaei On Turntablism

The seventh in our subscriber only series of podcasts features Mariam Rezaei talking about the often misunderstood art of turntablism and the pros and cons of having one foot in the hip hop camp and one foot in the world of experimental music

Falling Down The K-Hole: Art And Virality At The Frieze Art Fair

A discussion between Generation X author Douglas Coupland and artist-trend forecaster Emily Segal sends tQ writer Robert Barry deep into the art fair sublime

Young Thug & Bloody Jay

Black Portland

Submarine Director Richard Ayoade Interviewed

The Quietus' Daniel Nixon speaks with the charmingly modest Richard Ayoade, of The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi fame, whose directorial debut Submarine is out on DVD this week

LISTEN: Divorce’s Debut Album Sampler

Selt-titled LP gets released in September