Jason Watkins

Complete Communion: The Best Jazz Of 2016 With Stewart Smith

Sailing a ship through post-Brexit waters, Stewart Smith reflects on the year in jazz and improvised music, and presents his top ten releases of 2016

Women In Punk Double Bill At The Phoenix

We Are The Best! and The Punk Singer screening in East Finchley this Sunday, plus Helen Reddington talk and sets from The Exhausts and DOE

Christina Vantzou

No. 4

Missouri-born, Brussels-based maths teacher and composer makes another dense, involving and rewarding album for Kranky Records

It Ain’t That Deep Either Way: A New Pop Column With Anna Cafolla

Cardi B is on top, Kelela is industrial, Nadine Coyle is meme-able, and Anna Cafolla is here with her first, fabulous tQ pop column

“Yes It’s F*cking Political!”: Skin’s Favourite Albums

Skunk Anansie vocalist Skin guides Louise Brown through 13 favourite records, from Holst to Nina Simone, Everything But The Girl, Sepultura and Amy Winehouse

Songs Are Powerful Things: Marry Waterson’s Baker’s Dozen

Marry Waterson might have been born into a folk dynasty but that didn't stop her becoming a biker. With a new LP out and her mother and uncle's Bright Phoebus LP recently reissued, she guides Jude Rogers through 13 favourite LPs from The Beatles to The Band and Billie Holiday

None More Bleak: Hu Bo’s An Elephant Sitting Still

In a late entrant for contention as a possible film of the year, Hu Bo’s An Elephant Sitting Still draws its audience into a world of pain over four brilliantly captured hours of cinema

Pitch Perfect: Pat Nevin’s Favourite Music

Footballer, DJ and now writer, Pat Nevin talks Richard Foster through his 13 favourite records, including the time he got the fear from Delia Smith being at John Peel's birthday party, and being asked to write lyrics for Vini Reilly

Noel’s Foul House: Your New Weird Britain for July

Bristolian screwjobs, rattling bootlegs retooled in Sheffield and London's most extreme outliers - our bi-monthly round-up of the real stuff returns

DOWNLOAD: Fat White Family

Get hold of new single Cream Of The Young, released today, below

Warping The Landscape: Laurie Anderson’s Big Science Revisited

40 years on from Big Science, Mat Colegate recalls his teenage misunderstanding that Laurie Anderson was a West Country folk singer, and the discovery of a record that only rewarded that mistake

Charlotte Church

THREE

Calvin Harris

Ready For The Weekend