Mike Diver

Music From The Dolls House: Amanda Palmer’s Favourite Albums

Theatrical, glamorous, a glory of synths, saucy, dark... and Neutral Milk Hotel. Amanda Palmer talks Matt Evans through her favourite 13 albums

The Favourite Albums Of Cornershop’s Tjinder Singh

Celebrate Cornershop's appearance in our mid-year compilations chart with Tjinder Singh's Baker's Dozen

Unwound

Empire

Unknown Pleasures At 40: Our Favourite Artists On Joy Division’s Debut

As Joy Division's still-staggering debut album turns 40, we present a Baker's Dozen of Baker's Dozens featuring artists and writers who picked Unknown Pleasures among their favourites of all time

Björk To Publish Book Of Sheet Music

The book will feature arrangements from across her career

RIP The Chameleons’ John Lever

The cult post-punk group's drummer has died

Bob Stanley & Pete Wiggs Present the Tears of Technology / Tea and Symphony

Various

Two new comps on Ace Records, The Tears of Technology and Tea & Symphony – The English Baroque Sound 1968 -1974 , show the deft curatorial hand of St Etienne's Pete and Bob

Lessons Learnt: Joe Mount Of Metronomy’s Favourite Albums

As Metronomy reissue 'Nights Out' for its 10th anniversary, their frontman Joe Mount sits down with Patrick Clarke to pick his favourite records, and explain how they shaped him

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2025 (In Association with Norman Records)

As we reach the halfway mark of 2025, we polled tQ staff and columnists to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

Träum Weiter: Tangerine Dream at the Union Chapel

After 51 years, and some changes of cosmic address, Tangerine Dream are still Tangerine Dreaming. Jeremy Allen soaks up a rare, thrilling live show

REPORT: Festival No.6

Andy Thomas returns to the peculiar architecture of Prisoner village Portmeirion for music by the Manics, Temples, Gruff Rhys and more. Main photo and Temples shot by Kirsty Wright, other images by Vel Ilic

Call The Police! – Terry Bickers’ Favourite Albums

One of 80s indie's defining guitarists talks us through his 13 albums – and risks the ire of purists everywhere by insisting that sometimes compilations are best

LIVE REPORT: Mica Levi

Maria Perevedentseva reports from the Barbican in London

Minimalist Requirements: Gareth Jones’ Favourite Music

Pioneering producer and engineer Gareth Jones takes Ned Raggett on a journey through his thirteen favourite albums, from the elegance of Can to the wit of Karlheinz Stockhausen via Robert Wyatt, Wendy Carlos and more

Bob Cluness On Perc’s Bitter Music

The third album from Perc takes his brutalist techno sound and places it in the historicism of the machinic modernist utopias of the 20th Century. An era, argues Bob Cluness, that for all its chilling monstrosity, has now been usurped by a techno dystopia more terrifying

WATCH: Ride At Field Day

Watch the reformed shoegazers' full headline set recorded earlier this year at London's Field Day