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Take It From The Man! Anton Newcombe’s Favourite Tracks

With The Brian Jonestown Massacre's UK and Ireland tour in support of recent LP Revelation starting in Brighton on Saturday, the band's frontman shirks the album rundown request, opens up his DJ bag and gives Julian Marszalek a top 13 songs mixtape

The Strokes

Comedown Machine

The Lead Review: Rory Gibb On Fatima Al Qadiri’s Brute

The explorations of police brutality and state oppression on Fatima Al Qadiri's second album for Hyperdub are most effective when they're at their most subtle, writes Rory Gibb

The ERC Sign To The Fat Whites’ Label

Sheffield's finest join Without Consent for "fictional outsiders supergroup" EP, followed by album featuring Maxine Peake and Fat Whites' Lias and Saul, due early next year

A Special Moment In Norwegian Music: Vriompeis 2021 Reviewed

Joost Heijhuijsen travels to Oslo for the 2021 edition of Vriompeis and reflects on how a unique musical scene can quickly recover from the effects of the pandemic... thanks to a radical DIY approach and some smart state spending

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: January 2022

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!

Reissue Of The Week: Lou Reed’s Words & Music, May 1965

To understand Lou Reed, we must start with the world in which he grew up, one he was always looking back to and never really wanted to entirely escape, says Darran Anderson, on the release of a set of previously unheard 1965 reel to reel demos

Verfreundungseffekt: Once More with Feeling — Sophie Collins’ Currently & Emotion

One of the TLS' books of the year, Jen Calleja explores Sophie Collins' translation as activism through her recent Test Centre anthology, Currently & Emotion, and discusses contemporary translation, readership and the pleasures and pains of putting together a book. (Portrait of Vahni Capildeo by Richard Phœnix)

Field Day 2014

Ahead of this year's festival, the Quietus collect all their features with the artists and bands appearing at Victoria Park, London on June 7-8