Fred Macpherson

WIN: The xx Night + Day Fest VIP Tickets

We've got four pairs of VIP tickets to give away to the festival featuring The xx, Jon Hopkins, Solange and more

Punk Band’s Music Mistakenly Pressed On Beyoncé Vinyl

Due to a pressing error, music from Candian punk band Zex recently found its way onto vinyl copies of Beyoncé's Lemonade

LIVE REPORT: Blood Sport

Josh Gray reports from Cafe Oto in London

Krokodil

Nachash

Peer Review: Rachel Cantor & Jeremy P. Bushnell On Their Debut Novels

In a head-to-head interview, Rachel Cantor and Jeremy P. Bushnell - candidates, even at this early stage, for producing two of the most exciting novels of 2014 - discuss their own, and each other's mind-bending new books

Last Thrash: Metallica’s Master of Puppets Revisited

John Ridpath re-assesses Metallica's finest fifty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds

Not All Men: Sex And Power In Last Night In Soho

Edgar Wright centres women for the first time in his ode to 1960s London, but maybe he shouldn't have – this feminism is bleak and insulting, finds Ella Kemp

Roll With It: Sir Bradley Wiggins On His Life In Music

Luke Turner was unable to convince Sir Bradley Wiggins that Kraftwerk were synth-wielding mods, but here the Tour De France and Olympic cycling champion talks about his love of music, and how Liam Gallagher inspired him in his youth

You Don’t Have To Rob A Bank: The Roots Of Peter Rehberg

By the time the late Peter Rehberg was at secondary school, his appetite for noisy mischief-making was already well established. John Eden, who was in the year below, remembers his youthful guide into far-out sounds

Complete Communion: Jazz For September Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Peter Margasak reviews this month's most notable jazz releases while noting that many of this music's finest practitioners are increasingly rejecting this genre tag as a racist mechanism designed to keep them in a fixed place

Martin Duffy’s Son Criticises Primal Scream In Inquest Letter

Keyboard player Duffy, who died in December, was "not able to cope" after being cut out of rights deals and tours

Radio-Activity V: In Praise Of Mary Anne Hobbs

Jude Rogers tunes in to the new weekend breakfast show from Mary Anne Hobbs, and finds a wonderful antidote to the blokey shouting of weekday mornings

Melody’s Echo Chamber

Bon Voyage

Melody Prochet returns to music with a collection of widescreen, windswept psychedelia

The Gallows Pole By Benjamin Myers: A Playlist

With his alternative history of the North out in shops now, author Ben Myers puts together a sonic accompaniment for the dark and sprawling wilderness he has conjured and reflected in The Gallows Pole

My Music Is Whatever People Want To Call It: Loraine James Interviewed

“Just out on the street, my partner’s having to act like she’s not my partner. It isn’t fun.” Elizabeth Aubrey meets Loraine James, the creator of For You And I, tQ's album of the year

Collision Course: Karl D’Silva Interviewed

Ahead of his Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker (Grumbling Fur), Michael Brooks talks to multi-instrumentalist/composer Karl D’Silva about his new solo work, his formative musical experiences, and what it was like performing with the likes of Thurston Moore and GNOD