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Opinion & Essays
Since Yesterday, and The Sororal Strength of Scottish Girl Bands
On the release of new documentary Since Yesterday: The Untold Story of Scotland's Girl Bands, Claire Sawers speaks to Sunset Gun's Louise Rutkowski and The McKinleys' Jeanette Gallacher to explore how sisterhood – in both a biological and symbolic sense – was both crucial to their creativity, and a cause for their dismissal by the wider music industry
Opinion & Essays
The Women Moving Ukraine’s Underground, Part 1: Metal, Mobilisation and Music
In the first instalment of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk of Neformat explores the role of women in the Ukrainian music scene during wartime
Album of the Week
Purple People Eater: DJ K’s Radio Libertadora!
With his bruxaria sound, DJ K is working at the very limits of Brazilian funk. Eden Tizard dives into his latest album RADIO LIBERTADORA!, exploring the symbolic resonance of the colour purple, new sonic thresholds to adapt to, and a project of revolutionary witchcraft
Low Culture Essay
The Velvet Underground Live In 1969 At 50
Half a century after the release of one of the all-time great live albums, John Doran argues that the Velvet Underground only really hit their true peak after they lost Nico, Warhol and Cale. This feature was first published on 2 April 2020
Listen Here
Lakeland Echoes: Wind, Rock, Fell, Rain & Sea Power’s Krankenhaus
In the latest edition of our new column, Luke Turner reflects on the connection between Sea Power and the music of the landscape that surrounds their Krankenhaus festival. Photos by Paul Hudson of Down At The Front except Esk pics by Luke Turner.
Low Culture Essay
Low Culture Essay: A Tale of Two Normans – Wrongtom On Beats International’s ‘Dub Be Good To Me’
In this month's Low Culture Essay, Wrongtom weaves the life of his jazz pianist grandad into his encounter with Norman Cook & co's 1990 hit single, and explores how it changed his own musical trajectory
