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A Baker’s Dozen Special! Acid Arab’s Guide To MENA Bangers

Jeremy Allen sits down with Acid Arab for a whirlwind tour through their essential belters from the Middle East and North Africa

LISTEN: Holly Herndon & Mat Dryhurst

Give Recruit, the first new track of the year from the experimental composers, a play below

Critic’s Round-Up: Mark Kermode’s Favourite Albums

The film critic, television presenter and skiffle bassist sets aside his DVD stack to talk top records with Marc Burrows

DRILL:LONDON – Cafe Oto Preview

What's going on on Friday night from Scanner, Gazelle Twin, Land Observations, Graham Lewis and Klara Lewis

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Super Sonics: Lisa Meyer’s Bakers Dozen

From bar room brawls at SXSW to seeing giant legs of ham being smashed onstage in Barcelona, artistic director of Capsule and founder of Britain's best underground music festival Supersonic, Lisa Meyer, takes Stephanie Phillips through the records that have shaped her

Box Fresh Election Special On Twitter

Join our Box Fresh TV columnist John Tatlock tonight as he takes over our Twitter account to comment on the TV coverage of the UK's General Election results

Heading To The West Coast: Susanne Sundfør’s 13 Favourite LPs

The Norwegian pop star made one of 2015's best albums in Ten Love Songs, but her Baker's Dozen reflects that synthpop was never where her heart lay

No Boundaries: Dennis Bovell’s Baker’s Dozen

From his time working on classics like The Pop Group's Y, The Slits' Cut and Janet Kay's Silly Games, to the inspiration of Jimi Hendrix and The Beatles, Dennis Bovell takes Neil Kulkarni through his thirteen favourite records

Low Culture 16: Law & Order And Television As Prophecy

Andrew Walker celebrates a TV show which is often easily dismissed as a poor cousin of The Wire or NYPD Blue because in it he sees an unusual amount of prescience...

Organic Intelligence XLIII: South African Mbaqanga Girl Groups from the 60s and 70s

In our latest antidote to the algorithm, Stephanie Phillips guides us through the South African girl groups who resisted apartheid oppression through the joy of their song

Drew McDowall Details New Album, ‘Agalma’

Caterina Barbieri, Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe and more feature

Magical Cuts: Anthony ‘Surgeon’ Child’s Favourite Music

With the new Surgeon album one of the highlights of 2023 so far, Anthony Child guides Luke Turner through a psychedelic journey that takes in The Cure, King Tubby, Sylvester and Alice Coltrane, and John Taverner’s quest for the sonic divine

When A Sound is Just a Sound: Absolute Music at Venice Music Biennale

At this year's Venice Biennale Musica, tQ's Robert Barry wonders what we might gain when we pretend, if only for a moment, that it really is all just about the music

Noel Gallagher Injury Eats Into Euro Tour

Three Oasis dates cancelled