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Total Fucking Amnesia: Silverfish Interviewed
At the start of the 90s the astounding noise rock band Silverfish were everywhere – their shows nearly as ubiquitous as their Hips Tits Lips Power T-shirts – but since then they seem to have fallen irrevocably (and unfairly) down the memory hole. Keith Kahn-Harris catches up with band members today and asks: What happened?
Black Sky Thinking
25 Years After Its Imperial Phase: Who Killed Shoegaze?
With the release of MBV's Loveless, 1991 marked the high water mark for shoegaze before the music press turned its back with a nose-high snort of derision. Ben Cardew looks over the history of the genre and asks if its decline was simply because the music just got boring
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Sonic Router 027: Clouds Balance Nothing & Everything
Finnish duo Clouds have emerged from the dubstep diaspora with a unique sound hinged around balances: between organic and synthetic, between space and density. They speak to Sonic Router's Oli Marlow about their working process, plus listen to an exclusive mix below
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Supersonic 2010: Michael Gira Talks About Swans And Hair Shirts
Michael Gira says that being in Swans used to be like "trudging up a sand hill wearing a hair shirt, being sprayed with battery acid, with a midget taunting you". In which case, why has he resurrected the project, asks Frances Morgan
Opinion & Essays
Music and Wartime in Ukraine, Part Two: Our Choice, Our Future
In the latest edition of New Voices Ukraine, tQ's new collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Yaryna Denysyuk continues her inquiry into the war's cultural front, and looks ahead to an uncertain and dangerous future
