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Making Bank: Art Galleries Get Their Home Work Marked

An exhibition at Berlin’s Neu Galerie explores the notorious ‘Fax-Baks’ of British collective, BANK

INTERVIEW: Loop’s Robert Hampson

The Loop frontman sits down with tQ to discuss his band’s reformation, the new EP and Loop's live show.

‘Noise Is Japanese Blues’: An Interview With Boris

With the Japanese shapeshifters' nineteenth album Noise released this month, Tristan Bath meets the mighty Boris in London to discuss the background noise of life, their many collaborative projects and, of course, guitar feedback

Mark Linkous Remembered By The Artists Who Knew Him

Ahead of the release of the posthumous Sparklehorse album, Bird Machine, David Lynch, Steve Albini, John Parish, Angela Faye Martin and Jason Lytle talk to Brian Coney about the rewarding and often joyful experience of working and being friends with Mark Linkous

The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis

In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory

Gangster Trippin’: Ice-T Interviewed On Music, Films & America

Twenty years after his best album, O.G. Original Gangster, and his best film, New Jack City, Ice-T tells Joel McIver that things just ain't what they used to be

“One Last Midnight”: Why You Should Be Watching True Detective

Sean Kitching urges those currently in the dark to immerse themselves in the even darker and check out True Detective, currently showing in the UK on Sky Atlantic. Contains mild spoilers

LISTEN: Jenny Hval – That Battle Is Over

New album Apocalypse, girl's first single - give it a play below

The Absence Of Alice Coltrane – Reflections On Spiritual Eternal

In 1975, Alice Coltrane left the Impulse label and moved to less-jazzy more-rocky Warner Bros, where she made three studio albums in three years – Eternity, Radha-Krsna Nama Sankirtana and Transcendence – just remastered and reissued all together as Spiritual Eternal. They mark a key turning point in Coltrane’s journey away from jazz and the music industry – except Alice Coltrane never moved on from anything, she just kept on going and growing

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Home Counties

Honour The Darkness: An Interview With NYX

NYX drone choir founder Sian O’Gorman speaks to Harry Sword about the Deep England project, Gazelle Twin and their hypnotic, transcendent choral reimagining of Pastoral

I Can See You Still: Richard Thompson’s Across A Crowded Room at 40

40 years on from its release, Wayne Gooderham revisits the second album Richard Thompson recorded in the wake of his split from wife Linda, and finds a subtle, off-kilter – and unfairly overlooked – mid-career masterpiece (and an utterly essential live sister album)

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Ein Zei Bri Here: Lightning Bolt Interviewed

Brian Chippendale and Brian Gibson are back with their sixth album as Lightning Bolt (and their first for Thrill Jockey, recorded after a break of five years). Suzie McCraken is on hand to ask the questions

Inner Ear: The Best Central and Eastern European Music of 2025

Jakub Knera rounds off the year in Central and Eastern European music with a reflection on how the region's complex ecosystem is reflected in its cultural output, and a selection of 2025's key albums and reissues

If Only You Knew: Grime & Drill For June Reviewed By Aaron Bishop

Aaron Bishop selects his highlights from the UK underground scene including projects and singles from names such as Little Simz, Wretch 32, Meekz Manny and A2