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“Settle For Nothing Less”: On Ann Quin By The Authors She Has Influenced

Contemporary authors Stewart Home, Isabel Waidner, Lee Rourke, Juliette Jacques, Stuart Evers, China Miéville, and Lara Pawson reflect on the work of English experimental novelist Ann Quin, whose collection The Unmapped Country has recently been published by And Other Stories

MUTEK Reveals First Acts Playing 2025 Edition

Slikback, Valentina Magaletti and more are heading to the Montréal festival this August

Phoenix

Bankrupt

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: October 2024

An audio catch up with everything we’ve been writing about on tQ – five hours of bangers and more!

Big Thief Drummer James Krivchenia Reveals Solo Album for Planet Mu

Performing Belief is out in May

Nematode Noise: An Interview With Hookworms

John Freeman meets Hookworms to find out how the Leeds group's debut album, Pearl Mystic, became a blast of rage and sadness, and why parents shouldn't be let loose on Facebook

Quincy Jones has Died, Aged 91

The widely revered musician and producer had a hand in records by the likes of Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra and Miles Davis

This Land is Death: Tobe Hooper’s Texas Chain Saw Massacre at 50

On the 50th anniversary of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Mat Colegate pushes back against the common consensus that its director Tobe Hooper spent the rest of his career merely failing to escape its shadow, and argues that he deserves just as much acclaim for the misunderstood filmography that was to follow

Subscriber Playlist: What we Wrote About in July

Catch up with the sweet, saucy and stern sounds of tQ's summer 2025

Autechre Share Live Recordings from 12 Live Shows Across 2023 and 2024

The recordings, which are available to download and stream, are lifted from performances in Paris, Barcelona, Sydney and elsewhere

Lawrence English

Even The Horizon Knows Its Bounds

Room40 boss calls in a cavalcade of collaborators – including Jim O'Rourke, Claire Rousay, and The Necks' Chris Abrahams – for a remarkably cohesive meditation on site and space

Album Of The Week: Rack by The Jesus Lizard

If you're going to come back, then come back at full strength, says Jon Buckland on listening to the band's vigorous and brilliant seventh album Rack

Reissue of the Week: The Three E.P.’s by The Beta Band

Darran Anderson hails the ramshackle and hypnotic power of The Beta Band, and hears a unique sound that benefited many other musicians but not themselves

Ozzy Osbourne’s Cause of Death Revealed to Be a Heart Attack

The news was confirmed via a death certificate that the late Black Sabbath singer’s daughter Aimee submitted in London

Warriors of the Wasteland: How Heavy Metal Survived 1995

30 years on, Keith Kahn-Harris tries to make sense of one of metal's most confusing years and considers what actually makes a genre

Stephen O’Malley, Oren Ambarchi and More Contribute to Creation of New Virtual Guitar

Various artists produced sounds for the virtual guitar, which is the work of sound design studio Slate + Ash