As they prepare to release their ambitious third album Tableau, The Orielles speak to Fergal Kinney about how Greater Manchester’s underground culture, putting faith in a first-time producer, and cooking each other’s tea inspired a major creative leap forward
In this month's Low Culture Essay, author Audrey Golden explores Factory Records film The Mad Fuckers, which could have been the UK's answer to Pretty In Pink but ended up as one of the label's great ideas that never was – though it did inadvertently give the world Madchester
All four members of cult stoner quartet The Heads talk to Tristan Bath about their "sloppy magnum opus" Everybody Knows We Got Nowhere (currently riding high in tQ's reissues of the year chart) and how releasing a record is like taking a big shit