Playlists

At Breaking Point: Black Sabbath’s Sabotage Revisited

50 years on, Joe Banks examines the point at which everything started to go wrong for Black Sabbath... even though they were still getting it right. This feature was originally published on 7/6/2015

Inner Ear: Czech Music For October Reviewed by Jakub Knera

In the fourth part of his report on the contemporary music of Eastern and Central Europe, Jakub Knera digs into the Czech Republic's experimental and avant garde music scene and finds a creative community alive with psychedelic sounds

tQ Subscriber Release: New Sonic Rites With Runesine

Rúnesine pen a special text for tQ on the historical and magical currents running through their new release Futhorc: New Sonic Rites For The Old English Rune Poem, released exclusively for tQ subscribers

Working With The Weapons At Hand: JG Thirlwell Of Foetus Interviewed

In a wide-ranging interview, Mark Emsley talks to Jim Thirlwell about his work including Foetus, Manorexia, and soundtracking Adult Swim's The Venture Bros. Photo by Marylene Mey

Organic Intelligence XXVII: A Psych Rock Christmas

In this month's antidote to the algorithm cosmic Santa JR Moores rides his riffin' reindeer around the globe to bring you a selection of seasonal psychedelic rock treats

Steve Albini Gets Chicago Street Named After Him

A block which houses the late artist's Electrical Audio studio will now be known as Steve Albini Way

Reissue of the Week: Butthole Surfers Live At The Leather Fly

Austin, Tx's Buttholes were notorious for any number of reasons, but, says Ned Raggett, why not think of them first and foremost as an inspired and shit hot rock group?

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews for May by Daryl Worthington

Retching punk, ecstatic pummelling, rhythms made from paper and VCRs, time-bending loops and a wonderfully off-piste post punk reissue – Daryl Worthington peaks into May’s cassette releases

Reissue of the Week: Coil’s Black Antlers

Luke Turner revisits Coil's penultimate album, currently being re-released by Dais, and finds it a potent listen haunted by the premature death of John Balance.

The Horrors’ How-It-Was-Made Guide To Skying

A couple of weeks ago, Luke Turner went to The Horrors' studio in Hackney to get the low-down on how they put together ace new LP Skying. Dave Ma was on hand to take the exclusive studio photos

Community in the Ukrainian Underground, Part One:  “Nyzhnoyurkivska”, 20 Ft Radio and The Module Project 

In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk and Kseniia Yanus examine the radio stations, small events and music schools that are forming the heart of Ukraine’s underground music communities

A classic Metallica interview

Fuck Those Allies: An Interview with DJ Haram

As she shares new track 'Distress Tolerance', DJ Haram speaks to Jesse Dorris about her roots in New Jersey clubs and the Philadelphia underground, the complexities of DJing and identity, and charting her own path on debut album Beside Myself

One Small Node Of Reality Left: Applied Ballardianism

The new book by Simon Sellars is a "memoir from a parallel universe", a hybrid theory-fiction litcrit-cum-SF novel. Speaking to the author, we enter the strange world of Applied Ballardianism…

Reissue of the Week: Henry Badowski’s Life Is A Grand

Travis Elborough hails what he considers one of the greatest lost albums of all time

The Strange World Of… The La’s

Forty years on from their formation, The La’s remain misunderstood due to a flawed studio album. Will Ainsley suggests that it’s in the group’s extensive network of alternate takes, demo recordings, live sessions, and ‘lost’ tracks, though, that their timeless quality can be best appreciated