Samuel A Smith

Spool’s Out: Tape Reviews By Tristan Bath For June

Tristan Bath chooses the best tape releases you should be spending your pocket money on this June. Kill Alters photograph courtesy of Kevin McGee

WATCH: Michael Rother & Cavern Of Anti-Matter In Berlin

Check out clips from Michael Rother and Cavern Of Anti-Matter's sets recorded at Synästhesie II. Homepage photo courtesy of Richard Gray

Miguel

Kaleidoscope Dream

Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of September 2024

tQ's staffers pick out their favourite albums and tracks of the last month, from glorious noise to tender melody

Radiohead Accused Of Copyright Breach

Family of Trumpton creator unhappy about Radiohead's video for 'Burn The Witch'

New Weird Britain In Review For March

Back once again with the swell behaviour, Noel Gardner takes us on a whistle stop tour of the UK's best underground DIY sounds

Things Learned At: Intonal Festival

Adam Quarshie headed over to Malmö to check out the fifth instalment of Intonal, an intimate festival committed to exploring music at the experimental fringes

Noise Is The Beauty: The Jesus & Mary Chain Live, By Simon Price

As The Jesus And Mary Chain bring their Psychocandy full­ album show to the UK, Simon Price sees their Troxy show, salutes the power of myth and ponders: is it about pop versus noise, or noise versus pop?

An Exchange Of Feelings: Felicia Atkinson’s Baker’s Dozen

Soon to play at Portugal’s Semibreve Festival with Violeta Azevado, Felicia Atkinson guides Alex Rigotti through thirteen eclectic albums that have informed her musical practise the most

Kasai Allstars

Beware The Fetish

Whirled Around: An Oral History Of Levitation

20 years ago, on the eve of their debut album's release, Levitation looked like they'd explode. Instead, a year later, they imploded. Wyndham Wallace invites those involved to share their cautionary tale…

Reissue Of The Week: Mogwai’s Young Team & CODY

Mogwai had to build a new world, apart from the mendacity of Britpop and the high postmodern sheen of New Labour, in order to create space for gestation. Their first two albums present a brilliant journey getting underway, says Danny Wright. Homepage portrait by Andy Willshire

Shearwater

Animal Joy

All In It: British Sea Power’s Scott Wilkinson On His Favourite LPs

Ahead of British Sea Power's soundtracking of Polish animation at the Barbican as part of Kinoteka Film Festival and the release of new album Let The Dancers Inherit The Party, vocalist Scott Wilkinson guides Richard Foster through his favourite albums, from War Of The Worlds to Mighty Sparrow, Pavement and more. Photo by Mayumi Hirata