Max Loderbauer

In The Field: The Transatlantic Folkways of Shirley Collins

Shirley Collins’ reminiscences of a journey through America with Alan Lomax provide an education in folk music for Jim Hilton

Seasick Steve

I Started Out With Nothing and I Still Got Most of it Left

Go With The Lugaflow: Yallah Beibe By MC Yallah

MC Yallah has helped foster the African experimental electronic vanguard as a long time Nyege Nyege labelmate - now, she's ready to take on the world, finds Alex Rigotti

The Jesus And Mary Chain

Upside Down

Could’ve Been A Disaster: A Conversation With Hey Colossus

Chris Summerlin and Joe Thompson of Hey Colossus talk to Bernie Brooks about their marathon cover version of a Patrick Cowley and Jorge Socarras original

Picture This: Blondie’s Chris Stein Snaps Downtown New York

The co-founder of the iconic pop group chats about his new book Point Of View to David Chiu, which features photos he took of his hometown and its denizens from nearly 50 years ago

Lead Review: Lauretta Charlton On Blood Orange’s Freetown Sound

In Dev Hynes' third album as Blood Orange, Lauretta Charlton finds the adoptive New Yorker in fine cosmopolitan form, the free-flowing quality of his music celebrating a parallel sense of fluid identity and of freedom to be — to construct our own selves, in whichever way we choose

Blondes

Blondes

Shakedown The Breakdown: Girl Band Get Serious

Ian Maleney talks to the Irish noiseniks about drinking Dave Grohl's ale and the serious story behind their surreal lyrics

The Quietus’ Albums Of The Year 2022 Playlist

Exclusively for tQ subscribers, here are our top 100 albums of the year, compiled for your listening pleasure as Spotify, Apply Music and TIDAL playlists

Into A Time Slip: The Rocky Horror Picture Show Turns 45

As The Rocky Horror Picture Show reaches its 45th birthday, Simon Price looks at the cultural history of the film, the stage show and the cult that's grown up around it, and asks the crucial question: strip all that baggage away, and is it any good?

Beck

One Foot In The Grave

I Need A Double Dozen: Chris Corsano’s Favourite Albums

As he releases two new albums, the prolific drummer, improviser, and serial collaborator Chris Corsano takes Stewart Smith through 13 favourite records, from punk to jazz to his year spent listening only to Curtis Mayfield

Circuit Des Yeux

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Joy and grief commingle on an album of stripped back avant-garde pop songs from Circuit Des Yeux

The Cost Of Living: Pyrrhon, Skepticism And The Abscess Of Capitalism

New York extreme metallers Pyrrhon have released a new album that eviscerates our current way of living. When the alternatives are insanity and death, perhaps the ancient philosopher the band is named after offers a way forward. Dan Franklin investigates, with a little help from Professor Richard Bett and Travis Bickle

Flaer

Preludes

The instrumental first release on the Leaf Label’s new cartographically-inclined offshoot label is as evocative as it is tender, finds Tom Bolton