Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
He’s country but he’s almost proto-outlaw country, although that hadn’t really happened yet. He’s talking about the beautiful losers, the down-and-outers at the bar and he’s very poetic and very relatable to me. He was kind of a country guy who was cool as shit and you’d like to hang out with…I mean I love Johnny Cash, I like the outlaw country thing with Waylon Jennings and John Prine. A lot of them were speed freaks! I like a lot of country.
Following the publication of his goth chronicle and ahead of a new album with Budgie and Jacknife Lee, The Cure's founding drummer Lol Tolhurst takes Julian Marszalek through his favourite records, from Jimi Hendrix to Low via the wonders of Trout Mask Replica
From the 'uniquely identifiable sonic fingerprint of Elvin Brandhi to the double bass and field recordings improv of Imanishi and Serrato via Massimo Pupillo's debut solo album, here are the cream of this month's cassette crop reviewed by Tristan Bath
From London, tQ favourite Kemper Norton and Thomas Bloch will be linking up with a disused silo-turned-musical instrument in a Californian dry lake for an intercontinental collaboration as part of the SAISONSCAPE series tomorrow. Intriguing, eh? Ned Raggett talks to LA visual artist Lauren Bon and Art Assembly director Julia Dempsey about the project
To understand Lou Reed, we must start with the world in which he grew up, one he was always looking back to and never really wanted to entirely escape, says Darran Anderson, on the release of a set of previously unheard 1965 reel to reel demos
From bar room brawls at SXSW to seeing giant legs of ham being smashed onstage in Barcelona, artistic director of Capsule and founder of Britain's best underground music festival Supersonic, Lisa Meyer, takes Stephanie Phillips through the records that have shaped her
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