From pubs to festivals to arenas, out and about with tQ
Esme Bennett presents her picks from the performances at this year's Heroines Of Sound festival in Berlin, dedicated to experimental and multifaceted works of the world's most forward-thinking female and non-binary composers. Photos by Ulla C. Binder
From a broad-ranging celebration of Meredith Monk’s genius to a mind-melting show from Mabe Fratti, and stellar performances from Circuit Des Yeux, aya, Caterina Barbieri and more, this year’s Rewire showed Richard Foster and Jasper Willems glimpses of a better possible world
Tim Burrows leaves his cynicism about the Bard of Barking at the door when attending a gig that's a kind of homecoming and finds a new sense of regret at ignoring one of the greatest songwriters of the past 40 years
Joost Heijhuijsen travels to Oslo for the 2021 edition of Vriompeis and reflects on how a unique musical scene can quickly recover from the effects of the pandemic... thanks to a radical DIY approach and some smart state spending
We left two of our favourite musicians, Gazelle Twin and Gary Numan, alone to answer the kind of questions they wish they were always asked, talking ghost encounters, weirdness in pop music, parenthood, the end of humanity and more
Elizabeth Aubrey takes a trek across Manchester with Gareth Smith, aka Vanishing, as he talks about the future of the city and his brand new album, Shelter Of The Opaque, released exclusively to our Sound & Vision subscribers. All Vanishing portraits by Der Fotoautomat, photographs of Manchester by Elizabeth Aubrey