The Seattle-based four-piece's singer and guitarist Julia Shapiro talks to Anna Wood about the underuse of the word labia, calling out mansplaining and taking lyrical inspiration from John Carpenter's 1982 cinematic masterpiece
Over twenty years of creating immersive soundscapes and joining forces with the finest musicians and composers across the globe, Lawrence English shows no signs of slowing down. He speaks to Brendan Telford about the aural ley lines that have led him on this journey
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