Joseph Flaig

Peer Reviewed: Wacław Zimpel Interviews James Holden… And Vice Versa

Polish jazz musician Wacław Zimpel speaks to British electronic producer James Holden in an exclusive two-way interview that gets to grips with practice and inspiration, speaking from one artist directly to another

Papa M

Highway Songs

Rum Music For March Reviewed By Jennifer Lucy Allan

Jennifer Lucy Allan digs a big hole and flits around new releases that take in short locked grooves and extended multiphonic drones in this month’s letter from The Zone

The Story Of This Is The Sea: An Interview With Mike Scott Of The Waterboys

Wyndham Wallace talks to Mike Scott of The Waterboys about his classic album This Is The Sea, 25 years on from its release…

The Quietus Albums of the Year So Far 2024 (In Association With Norman Records)

As we reach the halfway mark of 2024, we polled tQ staff to compile our top 100 albums released during the first six months of the year

Get In The Back Of The Van! Parts & Labor vs Teeth Of The Sea

As Teeth Of The Sea prepare to support Parts & Labor on their UK tour, the two bands discuss the myths, perils, and joys of life on the road

Junk Shop Classical On Glenn Gould: Music Stories Told £1 LP By £1 LP

Perhaps no one has ever made old music sound more bracingly modern than wunderkind pianist Glenn Gould, and for his third column on a classical music record bought for a quid in a charity shop Phil Hebblethwaite finds the nutty Canadian polymath going way back in time – to some English music of the Renaissance

LISTEN: Minor Science Remixes Scott Walker

Download free EP, Train Window Girl, featuring remixes of a number of Walker tracks

Sound And Fury: The Trouble With The Man Booker Prize

Joe Kennedy is suspicious about the literary prize's recent embrace of left field and independent fiction

No Wave Mainstay James Chance Dead at 71

The NYC saxophonist, composer, bandleader of The Contortions and member of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks passed away on Tuesday following an unspecified illness

A New Branch: Paul Purgas’ We Found Our Own Reality

Following on from his discovery of extraordinary proto-electronic music from India’s National Institute Of Design, Paul Purgas’ presents a detailed and immersive new installation of forgotten composers’ work

Down The Rabbit Hole: Will Sergeant’s Favourite Albums

Echo & The Bunnymen’s Will Sergeant takes Richard Foster through thirteen favourite albums from The Residents to Love, recalls making records with his dad’s electric shaver and a stringless guitar, explains why it’s time to stop bashing prog rock, and much, much more

How Do I Listen To This? Tyondai Braxton’s Favourite LPs

As he prepares to to play London's Convergence Festival and other UK venues, Tyondai Braxton guides Lottie Brazier through 13 key records, from Brian Eno to Mark Fell, Autechre and Florian Hecker

Organ Heritage: Anna Von Hausswolff Interviewed

Anna von Hausswolff tells John freeman how her extraordinary third album, The Miraculous, was inspired by a mystical family retreat and created on the mighty Acusticum Pipe Organ of Piteå

Total Sensory Embrace: Hofesh Shechter & Antony Gormley’s Survivor

Joseph Burnett is moved by a collaboration between sculptor Antony Gormley and choreographer Hofesh Shechter at the London Barbican

A Controlling Cacophony: Dan Deacon’s Favourite Albums

With his fourth album Gliss Riffer released earlier this year and a European tour just started, the Baltimore electronics wizard tells Dom Smith what the gems in his record collection have given to his own musical creations