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tQ’s Reissues Etc. Of The Year 2023 (In Association With Norman Records)

These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes, OSTs and etceteras of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers

You Have To Fight For Change: Algiers Interviewed

Politicised trio Algiers come roaring out of the American South with a righteous and heady mix of gospel, Rowland S Howard guitar noise and a drum machine. They speak to Luke Turner about the cultural void of Atlanta, colonialism, racism and the apathy of their peers

Hajar Press: The Indie Publisher With Anti-Racism At Its Core

Hajar Press is an independent political publishing house run by and for people of colour, with new books either recently published or soon to come from Sarah Lasoye, Jamal Mehmood, Heba Hayek, Yara Hawari, Cradle Community & Lola Olufemi. Tope Olufemi talks to founders, Brekhna Aftab and Farhaana Arefin

Washed Out

Paracosm

Exclusive Mark Dicker/Left Hand Cuts Off The Right Stream

A new split cassette release from Mark Dicker and Left Hand Cuts Off The Right will be celebrated with an all-dayer in London.

Noel’s Foul House: New Weird Britain for March

Happy birthday to our New Weird Britain column, which is one year old and still mewling and puking in our grateful arms. This month: Wart Biter, Cysta Cysta, DJ Ford Foster, White-fawn and more

WATCH: New Membranes Video

Membranes return with their first new album since 2015, and a video for new track 'A Strange Perfume'

INTERVIEW: Plex Talk Basement Sessions

As London techno promoters Plex gear up for the second of their Basement Sessions tonight - with some secret special guests in tow - they tell us a bit about the ethos behind the night, and choose a selection of hard-nosed techno favourites to give your Friday a little extra OOOF

Two Poems By: Lucy Tiven

In a welcome measure of variety, coming from West Coast USA, this week's new writing takes the shape of two new poems by Lucy Tiven

Filmworker: The Story Of Kubrick’s Right Hand Man

Tony Zierra’s documentary about Leon Vitali, factotum to Stanley Kubrick, is a fitting tribute to a man who gave everything in the service of another’s art

LIVE REPORT: Om

Tristan Bath achieves enlightenment through the San Francisco trio's doom metal incantations at the Village Underground in London last night

RIP Isao Takahata

Studio Ghibli co-founder Isao Takahata has died aged 82

LISTEN: New Military Genius

Bryce Cloghesy, who makes up part of acts such as Crack Cloud, NOV3L and Blanka, debuts his new solo project

Free MP3: Foals Remix The Field

A gift from Kompakt and the Quietus

Columnus Metallicus: September’s Metal Reviewed By Kez Whelan

Kez Whelan is here with the rights and wrongs of metal from Ghold and Witch Vomit to Tool and Slipknot

Joseph Burnett On Shackleton’s Sferic Ghost Transmits

In Sam Shackleton's latest offering, Joseph Burnett finds a record occupying two spaces simultaneously – pushing both the legacy of Coil's post-industrial pagan folk tradition and testing a sense of "what might have been" for mid-to-late 00s dubstep