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“Jamaica Has A Magic To It”: An Interview With Chris Blackwell

With the imminent publication of his autobiography (co-authored with Paul Morley), Island Records founder Chris Blackwell talks to Matthew Ingram about recording sessions with Grace Jones, the importance of good cover art, and the trouble with U2

INTERVIEW: Penny Rimbaud on Wilfred Owen

The artist, activist and Crass founder Penny Rimbaud speaks to Patrick Clarke on his powerful new album, setting the war poetry of Wilfred Owen to intense interpretative jazz

How A Brian Eno Documentary Has The Power To Change Film Making For Good

Using custom built software designed specifically for this project, film maker Gary Hustwit tells Daniel Dylan Wray, the film Eno will be different every time it is screened. Homepage portrait by Cecily Eno

Maximalism of Possibility: Giant Claw’s Decadent Stress Chamber

Orange Milk founder Keith Rankin spins chopped up bits of t.A.T.u. and Selena Gomez into a thrilling invocation of a gaudy, unliveable present, finds Claire Biddles

Avatars And Negation: Contemporary Artistic Identity At Flow Festival

At this year's Flow Festival in Helsinki, Lior Phillips finds artists who revel both in exaggerated forms of their personality and negated versions of themselves, negotiating between physical and digital realities

A Crushing Embrace With The Earth: Ecological Sound In 2015

Against the backdrop of climate and ecological crisis, argues Rory Gibb in our latest Wreath Lecture, much of this year's best music has deeply considered our complex relationships with our world and each other

The Strange World Of… Phew

Ahead of Phew's appearance at this year's Intonal Festival and the recent Mute reissue of Our Likeness, Jennifer Lucy Allan offers us ten points of entry into the back catalogue of the Japanese artist, aka Hiromi Moritani

Condemned To Vagrancy: The Strange World Of… Matmos

When you get that feeling, Matmos give you conceptual healing. Drew Daniel and Martin 'M.C.' Schmidt talk John Doran through the highlights of their career to date. Band portraits by Josh Sisk

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: March 2023

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!

Evil Blizzard/Mamuthones

Collisions Vol. 4

Vampire Weekend

Modern Vampires Of The City

God Tier: Tyler Hyde of Black Country, New Road’s Favourite Albums

As she moves up to co-lead vocal and songwriting duties for Black Country, New Road, Tyler Hyde selects 13 records that influence her craft, from Randy Newman to The Fall via Frank Ocean, "Blue" Gene Tyranny and more

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“Why Must Fireflies Die So Young?”: Isao Takahata’s Masterpiece 30 Years On

Studio Ghibli's co-founder Isao Takahata passed away on 5 April. Karl Smith commemorates the legendary director, screenwriter, and producer with a personal reflection on grief through Takahata's first film Grave of the Fireflies, released thirty years ago this year

Björk Produces Generative Score For NYC Hotel

'Kórsafan' takes in parts of 17 years worth of choral recordings made by the Icelandic artist

Impulse purchases: Oren Ambarchi Jazz (Fusion) Baker’s Dozen

The musician, label head and self-described record obsessive has eyes bigger than his stomach in his own Proustian boulangerie of jazz and fusion records. By Jennifer Lucy Allan.