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The Hunger & The Fight: Jesca Hoop Interviewed

Jesca Hoop's new album The House That Jack Built was informed by the recent death of her father, but still finds room to be playful with both sound and lyrical concerns. She tells John Freeman about how it came together, touring with Peter Gabriel and the compulsion to keep creating

Musicians Speak Out About Small Venue Closures

As live music venues are awarded £2.2m in emergency government funding, Fergal Kinney asks if it is enough and speaks to artists about the small venues that they love

Still Life, With Isoptera: Manny Faber’s Termite Art

Artist and critic Manny Farber once distinguished the big statement "white elephant art" from the more modest ambitions of "termite art". LA MOCA lets him put his money where his mouth is

Faith No More

We Care A Lot (Reissue)

Columnus Metallicus: The Best Heavy Metal Of 2022

tQ's metal specialist Kez Whelan selects his top twenty albums of 2022, and reflects on the last 12 months in heavy music

Disco Discharge: An Essay By Alan Jones & Horse Meat Disco Download

Harmless are gearing up to releasing four of the best compilations we've heard for ages: the Disco Discharge series. In anticipation look, listen and read. **Pictures are not work safe** . . .

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore Roundup For April

Scuzzy grind, squelchy wigout and molten-hot tech-grind queer trans anarchism with The HIRS Collective, Hank Wood & The Hammerheads, Geld, Unease, Bad Aura, The Snivellers and more

Bright Light, Dark Room: Anton Corbijn’s Depeche Mode Photobook

Depeche Mode by Anton Corbijn is a lavish collection of over 500 photographs documenting the Dutch film-maker/photographer's forty year relationship with the band. Ned Raggett dives in and finds plenty to get lost in

Pleasure In Suffering? The Problem With Death Grips Live, By John Calvert

A scholar of Death Grips, John Calvert expected to prostrate himself before the menace of MC Ride and Zach Hill. But is this the punk he was looking for?

Easy To Sing, Easy To Say: Bob Stanley On Pop’s Birth Pangs

In a revelatory volume on pre-modern pop, the music historian balances education with entertainment, finds Irina Shtreis

Disco On Demand: Al Kent Digs In The Crates

Disco don Al Kent talks us through some dynamite rarities from his epic set, The Best of Disco Demands

The Stands Of Time: Casual Culture On Display

An exhibition at Walker Art Centre explores The Art of the Terraces, through work by Steve Randall, Jamie Holman, Satch Hoyt and others

Raging Monster Movie Party: Akira 30 Years On

Akira was the film that brought Japanese pop culture to the world. Thirty years later, David Bennun wonders just what it was trying to tell us about Japan

Pere Ubu

Elitism For The People 1975 - 1978

Spool’s Out: Cassette Reviews For May By Tristan Bath

A series of dreamworlds populate May’s best cassette tape releases as picked by Tristan Bath, including Teleplasmiste's British ruralism, Merry Peers’ surreal trips, digital ayahuasca from Prague’s Izanasz, and a pair of anonymous untraceable synth tapes

Fuck This Font In The Face: The Hardcore Writing Of Sam McPheeters

Joe Thompson of Hey Colossus reviews the new book by Sam McPheeters of Born Against, Mutations - The many strange faces of hardcore punk