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Ethan Miller, key cosmonaut with Comets On Fire and lead grizzly dreamer in Howlin’ Rain, recounts his path to neo-psychedelic nirvana to Stevie Chick, taking in feral punk rock, doomy folk and feedback-soaked poetry readings along the way

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Ascent Is Immanent: The Strange World Of Ben Chasny

Ben Chasny is an outlier in the world of psychedelic music, going deeper and further than any of his contemporaries in the field. Danny Riley caught up with him talk about his idiosyncratic vision

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Hazy Debauchery: Comets On Fire Interviewed

Ahead of their set at the final ATP holiday camp festival this weekend, Californian noise rockers Comets On Fire tell Colm McAuliffe about reuniting, psychedelic "secret handshakes" and memories (or what's left them) of holiday camp weekenders past

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LISTEN: New Bums – Black Bough

First taste of debut album from Ben Chasny/Donovan Quinn collaboration

Comets On Fire Announce Live Shows

Pioneering Californian noise rockers announce three upcoming dates

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Mogwai to close festival in December

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Our man in Orange County, Ca, Ned Raggett talks to the Six Organs Of Admittance guitar savant

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In an exclusive extract from his new book, Flower Factory, Richard Foster recalls the reaction of Dutch workers to tragic events across the Atlantic

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INTERVIEW: Luke Abbott

Border Community producer answers questions ahead of his appearance at Portugal's Semibreve Festival later this week

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Underworld Detail New Album, ‘Strawberry Hotel’

It's the UK duo's first full-length studio record since 2019

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Tanked Up in Berlin: Eros Interviewed

Heavy industrial electronic collaborators Karl O'Connor, Liam Andrews and Boris Wilsdorf speak to Luke Turner about how a surrendering of ego in a magical studio were the vital ingredients to making new Eros album, Your Truth Is A Lie.

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tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: May 2024

Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist!

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LISTEN: Percussive Techno From Ploy

'Bad Seed' is one of four tracks on the producer's new record for Bristol's Timedance label

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Doc’n Roll Film Festival 2025 to Screen Films on Coil, Butthole Surfers and More

The lineup of movies will screen in cinemas across London, Dublin and Brighton

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Stephen Malkmus and Emmett Kelly speak to Brian Coney about how how a Magma belt buckle helped form the genesis of their new band with Matt Sweeney and Jim White, and whether they're the 'anti-Them Crooked Vultures'

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To Chop And Change: Pavement’s Wowee Zowee 30 Years On

Lesley Chow dissects the (semi-) serious intent behind Stephen Malkmus' nonsensical rhymes on Pavement's 3rd album which was positioned as the "logical end-point of rock". This feature was originally published in 2020 to mark the album's 25th anniversary

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Beatrice Dillon Shares New Music and Launches Label, HI

The new imprint's inaugural release, Seven Reorganisations, is out next month

Baker's Dozen

The Hills Are Alive With The Sound Of Music: Benjamin Myers’ Favourite Music

Music journalist-turned-novelist Benjamin Myers shares the music that made him a writer from The Slits to Slipknot – and why almost all of it is impossible to write to…

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Cerebral Assassination & Physical Hits: The Bug Interviewed

With Kevin Martin's new album as The Bug released this week, he meets Luke Turner in Berlin to discuss how both personal and political concerns have fed into the fierce and fiery Angels & Devils. Photo by Morisa Tamaki

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Howlin’ Rain The Russian Wilds

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