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Oda To Joy: The Stereo System Bringing Terry Riley To Your Living Room

tQ is in partnership with Oda, a new speaker system that allows artists to broadcast directly into your home. With Laraaji, Madlib, Terry Riley, Mt Eerie, Arca and more already signed up for their first season, Jennifer Lucy Allan explores what this means in our current gigless crisis

Why AI Pop Stars Are Even More Real Than The Real Thing

Pop has always dealt in artifice and contrivance, but new AI and virtual stars are pushing the unreal to new extremes. Are these artists of the digital age actually more real than the real thing, asks Annie Lord

Phoebe Bridgers

Punisher

With her second album, Punisher, Phoebe Bridgers expands her sonic palette and sharpens her lyrical knives, finds Ella Kemp

To Infinity & Beyond: Art In The Planetarium

John Quin tries to catch the buzz at the Zeiss-Großplanetarium, Berlin, with work by Bill Ham, John Whitney, Actress, and Kara-Lis Coverdale

Noel: ‘I’ve Never Used A Computer’

Award-winning blog done by text, apparently

Enjoy The Silence: Michael Rother On The Joy Of Quiet

Ahead of his set of Neu! material at Focus Wales this weekend, Michael Rother talks to Jude Rogers about avoiding sensory overload, the meditative qualities of watching snooker and why total silence would be torture

Live Report: Lunchmeat Festival

In Prague, this electronic music festival looks as good as it sounds, with AV shows from Demdike Stare, Lee Gamble, Amnesia Scanner and Eomac

Music For A Purpose: KPM And The History Of Library Music

It's the music we hear more than nearly anything else, but rarely know who made it. Bobby Barry tracks down some of the people who made the library music that became some of our favourite TV and film themes

Smashing Pumpkins $ For Old Rope Shock

Daughn Gibson

Me Moan

Select Few: Kim Wilde’s Favourite Albums

Singer-songwriter, broadcaster and award winning horticulturalist, pop icon Kim Wilde is a true connoisseur of vocal arrangements as Alex Burrows discovers from a Baker's Dozen that ranges from The Beach Boys to Prefab Sprout

Empathy On The Barricades: Billy Bragg Live

Tariq Goddard watches Billy Bragg live, and argues that you don't need to choose between the songs of love and songs of politics. Photos by Valerio Berdini.

WATCH: New Robyn Hitchcock

Watch new visuals from The Soft Boys singer's upcoming self-titled solo album below

Soft Cell Release New Single, ‘Bruises On My Illusions’

It's the second song to be unveiled from forthcoming album '*Happiness Not Included'

Powell Wants You To Get In Touch

Producer shares email address on billboards in New York and London

Family Strife: The Trouble With The Kennedys

As The Kennedys comes to the BBC, Terry Staunton looks at the Stateside flop and finds a "scattergun mosaic of hearsay and half-truths with all the gravitas of a mid-market soap"