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Pere Ubu

Drive, He Said (1994-2002)

Real Estate

In Mind

Manifest Proclamation: The Life & Opinions Of Power Trip

Riley Gale of Texan thrashers Power Trip tells Dan 'The Doom' Franklin about sleep paralysis, Plato's Cave and the work ethic of Thatcher-era UK punk bands

Show 32 – 16/03/2017

Out Of Character: Craig Finn Interview

Ahead of his gig at Ramsgate Music Hall on April 16, Craig Finn speaks to Michael Hann about his life post-Hold Steady as a solo artist

Extra-Auditory Adventures: Rum Music For March By Russell Cuzner

An officious and unwanted audit leads the Rum Music Library to finally articulate a clear and honest policy behind the magical sounds it seeks. Russell Cuzner lists potent sonic spells in the form of the latest releases from Unicazürn, Dave Phillips, Olivia Block, Mira Calix and Daniel Menche

Thirteen Albums I Currently Like, From A To M. By Stephin Merritt

As he releases new Magnetic Fields album 50 Song Memoir, Stephin Merritt doesn't delve into the past for his Baker's Dozen list but instead gives tQ an A-Z of some contemporary favourites, from Japan to Marc Almond, bawdy cockney songs and the BBC Radiophonic Workship. Pic by Marcelo Krasilcic

Ultimately Meaningless: Banksy’s Walled Off Hotel Is The Nadir Of Street Art

As spray can charlatan Banksy opens his Walled Off Hotel in Bethlehem, Bella Gladman argues that it makes for a naff and simplistic stunt devoid of political power or artistic merit

D. Glare

4 OSCILLATORS AND 130 SAMPLES AT 130 BPM

Dutch Uncles

Big Balloon

Intonation, Innovation, Interventions: An Interview With Horse Lords

Neither rock, dance, trance, noise or minimalism, Baltimore's Horse Lords are a great and hypnotic Other. Noel Gardner presses them on their process

No Sleep ‘Til Notting Hill: The Moonlandingz Interviewed

As The Moonlandingz prepare for the launch of their debut album, Patrick Clarke tracks down Valhalladale's finest to the depths of the Yorkshire moors to talk fact, fiction, and the end of the world

Columnfortably Numb: Psych Reviews For March By JR Moores

After the proto-dystopian arsestorm that was the last calendar year, JR Moores looks on the bright side of psych

Forget Lodger, Iggy Pop’s The Idiot Is The Last Piece Of Bowie’s Berlin Trilogy

Was David Bowie's trilogy actually a quadrilogy; heck, was it actually a pentalogy; or, asks Jeremy Allen, is Berlin simply a state of mind?

A Mixtape You Inhabit: All Channels Open At Wysing Arts Centre

At Cambridgeshire’s Wysing Arts Centre, a new audiovisual group show features work by Beatrice Dillon, Florence Peake, and Anne Tetzlaff, David Blandy and Larry Achiampong, plus Henna-Riika Halonen, Laura O’Neil, Evan Ifekoya, Lawrence Lek, Gary Zhexi Zhang, and Wojciech Kosma

Expressway To Your Eye: Suki Chan’s Lucida

Suki Chan's installation at Manchester's Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art is a confrontation with the process of seeing

Brexit-Is-Iccumen-In: The Wicker Man And Britain Today

With Brexit looming on the horizon like a, well, a massive wicker man, writer Adam Scovell, author of the forthcoming book Folk Horror: Hours Dreadful And Things Strange, looks back at Robin Hardy's 1973 cult classic and finds surprising parallels between it and our current political predicament

All Them Witches

Sleeping Through The War

JR Moores On Gnoomes’ TSCHAK!

In the pharmacologically sober follow-up to Ngan!, JR Moores finds that being forbidden from ingesting mind-altering substances hasn't neutered Gnoomes' ability to create joyful and inspiring Russian psych,

Show 31 – 09/03/2017

Embedded In The Skull: Colin Stetson’s Favourite LPs

As the experimental multi-instrumentalist prepares to release an envelope-pushing solo album and play the Quietus-partnered Big Ears Festival in Tennessee, he takes us through 13 LPs that have shaped the journey so far.

Power Trip

Nightmare Logic

The Strange World Of… Annette Peacock

Lottie Brazier talks to Annette Peacock about International Women's Day and her entire career as an artistic outlier

Redemption In Crapness: Sleaford Mod Jason Williamson’s Inspiration LPs

As Sleaford Mods release new album English Tapas, Jason Williamson guides Hazel Sheffield through the records that inspired him, from Wu-Tang to The Meteors and RZA to The Meteors

#BlackGirlMagic: Reclaiming The Beliefs Of The African Diaspora

On International Women's Day Zahra Dalilah explores the music of women who are re-engaging with the magical traditions of African culture, from Princess Nokia to Azealia Banks. (Images from Princess Nokia's 'Brujas' video)

Pagan Explorations: Children Of Alice Interviewed

Children Of Alice, a new trio consisting of Broadcast's James Cargill and Roj Stevens along with The Focus Group's Julian House, speak to Patrick Clarke about the paganism, surrealism and musique concrète that inspired their self-titled debut album.

Future

FUTURE / HNDRXX

A Blast From The Bass Panzer: Feeling Deep Vibrations In Miami

German artist Nik Nowak took a 4000 watt 'sound panzer' to Miami for a noise battle involving Infinite Livez and rare coral. Kristen Gallerneaux connects the rumbles through WWII bombing campaigns, hearing problems, new tech and heavy rhythms

“Everything Was In The Moment”: An Interview With Manuel Göttsching

As he prepares to take the stage at the Barbican for Convergence Festival, performing a special version of E2–E4 plus material from the Ash Ra Tempel albums Schwingungen and 7Up, Manuel Göttsching talks to Bobby Barry about free music, minimalism, and being the loudest band in West Berlin

Peter Silberman

Impermanence

The Homesick

Youth Hunt

Columnus Metallicus: February’s Heavy Metal By Pavel Godfrey

Pavel Godfrey is back rounding up Jan and Feb's best and most brutal metal from the likes of Immolation, Wiegedood and Horn