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Just Another IDM LP? Squarepusher’s Dostrotime, Continuity & Modernism

Squarepusher's new album is a palate-cleansing summary of work to date displaying an admirable breadth of technique with some amazing peaks, says John Doran, but as a continuity LP it points more clearly to a crisis in criticism rather than IDM

Hyperspecific: Electronic Music for August Reviewed by Jaša Bužinel

This month, Bužinel salutes the anonymous YouTubers uploading the rarities from their personal vinyl collections, and presents his top ten picks from July and August, including new releases from Pavel Milyakov, Hassan Abou Alam, and CCL & Ciel

BEAK> Announce Split EP With Themselves

Patti Smith to Publish New Memoir, ‘Bread Of Angels’

It touches on her childhood in working class Philadelphia and South Jersey, as well as her marriage to guitarist Fred "Sonic" Smith

Fire Up The Versificator! How The Year 1984 Changed Pop

Too late for post-punk too early for acid house, but might 1984 have been the crucial pivot point around which the history of British pop revolves? David Elliott, author of the new book *1984: British Pop's Dividing Year*, investigates

Supersonic 2012: This Little Girl Ain’t Afraid Of Nobody – Dope Body Interviewed

B-More’s Dope Body have fixed you up a speedball of dirty noise punk and radio friendly alt. rock, which you can mainline at Supersonic 2012 next month

The State Of The 808: Paranoid London Interviewed

Kris Needs speaks to Quinn Whalley and Gerardo Delgado of Paranoid London about getting back to the sleazy, tough, party-starting basics when it comes to dynamic hardware-driven acid house. Portraits by Kate Green

Sonar Live Stream From Thursday

RBMA Radio will stream a number of sets from this year's Sonar Festival

Michael Berdan of Uniform on Living with an Eating Disorder

On the release of a new Uniform single and video for 'Permanent Embrace', Michael Berdan writes about the harsh realities of bulimia nervosa. CW: some readers may find this article disturbing. Band portrait by Joshua Zucker-Pluda & Sean Stout

The Strange World Of… Maher Shalal Hash Baz

Ahead of Counterflows festival, Jennifer Lucy Allan speaks to Tori Kudo to offer ten points of musical entry to his extensive back catalogue. Well, nine points of musical entry and one pair of ceramic shoes

Music of the Month(s): The Best Albums and Tracks of June and July 2024

In a double-edition of our regular roundup, tQ's staffers select the very finest new albums and tracks released so far this summer

Forever Moving On: An Interview with Richard Youngs

With a catalogue numbering in the hundreds, Richard Youngs joins the dots between Galaxie 500 and Pink Floyd, Jandek and Robbie Williams (no, really). ‘I’m still messing about, really,’ he tells David Peschek