If you read something you love on our site today, please consider becoming a monthly or annual tQ subscriber – our journalism is mostly funded this way. We’ve got some bonus perks waiting for you too.
After seeing Bruce Springsteen at Wembley, Michael Hann writes a deeply personal essay about the power of live music, not as redemption or catharsis, but as a unique and potent force that reflects who we are when we encounter it
After seeing Bruce Springsteen at Wembley, Michael Hann writes a deeply personal essay about the power of live music, not as redemption or catharsis, but as a unique and potent force that reflects who we are when we encounter it
With the UK and much of the rest of the world currently under lockdown due to COVID-19, Tim Burgess' nightly Twitter listening parties have provided a much-needed sense of relief to many social media users in recent weeks, as Michael Hann writes
With the UK and much of the rest of the world currently under lockdown due to COVID-19, Tim Burgess' nightly Twitter listening parties have provided a much-needed sense of relief to many social media users in recent weeks, as Michael Hann writes
Forty years ago this month, two British bands released albums that would set the course for metal over the following decade. But it’s not the similarities between Iron Maiden and British Steel that are most telling, it’s the differences
Forty years ago this month, two British bands released albums that would set the course for metal over the following decade. But it’s not the similarities between Iron Maiden and British Steel that are most telling, it’s the differences
Yes they probably invented folk rock but also, on their landmark third album, Fairport Convention, presented a view of England that has now been lost... one of violent division along lines of class and gender but one that was also positive and questing, says Michael Hann
Yes they probably invented folk rock but also, on their landmark third album, Fairport Convention, presented a view of England that has now been lost... one of violent division along lines of class and gender but one that was also positive and questing, says Michael Hann
The boomers celebrated Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest Beatles LP; the Britpoppers backed Revolver; but it seems like millennials are more smitten with Abbey Road. The changing consensus probably says more about generational shift than it does about the Fab Four, according to Michael Hann
The boomers celebrated Sgt. Pepper's as the greatest Beatles LP; the Britpoppers backed Revolver; but it seems like millennials are more smitten with Abbey Road. The changing consensus probably says more about generational shift than it does about the Fab Four, according to Michael Hann
Michael Hann talks to Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Cronos of Venom, Biff Byford of Saxon and more about the grassroots movement termed the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal which revitalised the genre and laid the foundations for extreme metal as we know it today
Michael Hann talks to Joe Elliott of Def Leppard, Cronos of Venom, Biff Byford of Saxon and more about the grassroots movement termed the New Wave Of British Heavy Metal which revitalised the genre and laid the foundations for extreme metal as we know it today
Ewan Pearson was the academic who became a remixer, the remixer who became a DJ, and the DJ who became a producer of some of the best-sounding records of recent years. But if it hadn't been for a ZX Spectrum he might still be listening to Rory Gallagher, says Michael Hann
Ewan Pearson was the academic who became a remixer, the remixer who became a DJ, and the DJ who became a producer of some of the best-sounding records of recent years. But if it hadn't been for a ZX Spectrum he might still be listening to Rory Gallagher, says Michael Hann
Sign up for a weekly delve into the tQ archives.
