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Pedal Off The Metal: Backxwash Interviewed

Ahead of a much-anticipated slot at this year’s Supersonic Festival, the Canadian-Zambian rapper speaks to Alex Rigotti about her pivot away from industrial beats, the end of her award-winning album trilogy and an embrace of considered craftsmanship on Only Dust Remains. Content warning: this article contains discussions of suicide.

In Conversation

Peer Review: Algiers Interview Backxwash… And Vice Versa

As Algiers prepare for the release of their new album SHOOK, tQ invited them and one of the album's collaborators Backxwash to interview one another about metal, rap, gospel, cage fighting, cocktails and more

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An Ocean of Atoms: Lord Spikeheart’s Baker’s Dozen

The experimental metal master guides Alex Rigotti through his thirteen favourite albums that explore heaviness, spirituality and love, and that shaped both him and his debut solo album The Adept

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Supersonic Festival Reveals First Acts for 2025 Edition

Richard Dawson, Backxwash and Moin are among the acts playing the Birmingham event this summer

Backxwash Unveils New Album, ‘Only Dust Remains’

The new record is set for release in March

Supersonic Adds Deerhoof And More To 2023 Lineup

Canadian rapper Backxwash is also set to play her first-ever UK show at the festival

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You Leave Me Hanging: Time And Music In Hitchcock’s Vertigo

As its 60th anniversary sees it returning to British cinema screens, Adam Scovell dissects Hitchcock's use of time and repetition in his brilliant 1968 film, Vertigo

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Bloodsuckers: Vampires, Antisemitism And Nosferatu At 100

Bram Stoker's antisemitism is well documented, but the villainous image of the outsider, deviant, Jew vampire has been reworked in the 100 years since Nosferatu was released, finds Noah Berlatsky

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In 1981, Raiders of the Lost Ark seemed like mindless entertainment – but its legacy as an antifascist statement has only grown stronger in the last 40 years, finds Steve Erickson

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Dream A Little Dream: Beautiful Thing, Pride And Thatcher’s Shadow

Hettie MacDonald's 1996 coming-of-age film Beautiful Thing does a rare thing: it gives a gay couple a happy ending. Matt St. Clair writes on the film's enduring bravery

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Indie Auteur: A Conversation With Joe Swanberg, ‘Mumblecore’ Lynchpin

Chicago-based indie filmmaker and key figure in the regrettably named 'mumblecore' movement, Joe Swanberg discusses physics, graphic novels and working with non-actors to The Quietus as two of his films, _LOL_ and _Hannah Takes the Stairs_, are released in the UK by ICA films

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Pedal Off The Metal: Backxwash Interviewed

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Supersonic Festival Reveals First Acts for 2025 Edition

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