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Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence XXXVII: Trash Electroclash Bangers
It's back nearly a quarter century in this month's antidote to the algorithm as Luke Turner revisits the heady Monday nights at Trash, where the arch and exotic rhythms and deadpan chat of electroclash soundtracked cheap booze and rent of early 21st century London
Organic Intelligence
Organic Intelligence XXXVII: Trash Electroclash Bangers
It's back nearly a quarter century in this month's antidote to the algorithm as Luke Turner revisits the heady Monday nights at Trash, where the arch and exotic rhythms and deadpan chat of electroclash soundtracked cheap booze and rent of early 21st century London
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast: Grace Jones’ Private Life – The Compass Point Sessions
In this month’s podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran sing the praises of this collection of songs both original and covers, from Grace Jones’ artistic imperial phase, recorded at Nassau's Compass Point Studios in the early 1980s
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast: Grace Jones’ Private Life – The Compass Point Sessions
In this month’s podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran sing the praises of this collection of songs both original and covers, from Grace Jones’ artistic imperial phase, recorded at Nassau's Compass Point Studios in the early 1980s
Baker's Dozen
Unshakable: Nonpareils’ Aaron Hemphill’s Favourite Albums
From underage drinking soundtracked by Germs to the ton-of-bricks hit of Prince And The Revolution, via classics in hip hop, goth, easy listening and metal, former Liars and current Nonpareils musician Aaron Hemphill takes Luke Turner through an eclectic Baker's Dozen
Baker's Dozen
Unshakable: Nonpareils’ Aaron Hemphill’s Favourite Albums
From underage drinking soundtracked by Germs to the ton-of-bricks hit of Prince And The Revolution, via classics in hip hop, goth, easy listening and metal, former Liars and current Nonpareils musician Aaron Hemphill takes Luke Turner through an eclectic Baker's Dozen
Listen Here
Lakeland Echoes: Wind, Rock, Fell, Rain & Sea Power’s Krankenhaus
In the latest edition of our new column, Luke Turner reflects on the connection between Sea Power and the music of the landscape that surrounds their Krankenhaus festival. Photos by Paul Hudson of Down At The Front except Esk pics by Luke Turner.
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Lakeland Echoes: Wind, Rock, Fell, Rain & Sea Power’s Krankenhaus
In the latest edition of our new column, Luke Turner reflects on the connection between Sea Power and the music of the landscape that surrounds their Krankenhaus festival. Photos by Paul Hudson of Down At The Front except Esk pics by Luke Turner.
Art
Beryl Cook, Tom of Finland & The Horny Complexity of the Bisexual Gaze
The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
Art
Beryl Cook, Tom of Finland & The Horny Complexity of the Bisexual Gaze
The ribald, hot and at times hilarious art of Tom of Finland and British artist Beryl Cook are currently part of a joint exhibition at London's Studio Voltaire. In an essay originally presented as an reading at the gallery, Luke Turner explores how their work relates to the assumptions, fantasies and at times harsh realities of his bisexual identity.
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast: Eurythmics’ 1984 Soundtrack
We love it when our subscribers send in suggestions of things for us to talk about – but do we love what they’re suggesting? Is Eurythmics’ soundtrack to the 1984 film 1984 doubleplusgood or does it send John Doran into his own personal Room 101? Find out here.
Low Culture Podcast
Low Culture Podcast: Eurythmics’ 1984 Soundtrack
We love it when our subscribers send in suggestions of things for us to talk about – but do we love what they’re suggesting? Is Eurythmics’ soundtrack to the 1984 film 1984 doubleplusgood or does it send John Doran into his own personal Room 101? Find out here.
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The Quietus International
The Quietus International: Chilean Music Reviewed by Álvaro Molina
In the latest edition of our journey through the global underground, Álvaro Molina examines the steadily-diversifying sounds of Chilean DIY, from abstract hip hop to ambient deep listening, and picks out five crucial new releases
In Conversation
Giallo Can You Go? Talking Italian Horror With Spector
You might not guess it from his besuited and bespectacled exterior, but Spector singer Fred Macpherson is a devotee of Italian horror cinema. The BBC Sound Of 2012 nominee reveals more in conversation with Dario Argento biographer James Gracey. Photo by Joe Tovey Frost
Rum Music
Soundheads vs Syn-aesthetes: August’s Rum Music by Russell Cuzner
A wave of synaesthesia leaves Russell Cuzner’s senses working overtime as he reads, sees, feels and is touched by the latest in outsider audio from David Toop, Valerio Tricoli, Andrew Liles, Claire M Singer and more. Homepage photo courtesy of Fabio Lugaro
The Quietus International
Complete Communion: Jazz For November Reviewed By Peter Margasak
Newly unearthed archival recordings of live dates from the 1960s, a profound homage to the swing-and-drag aesthetic of drummer Paul Motian from former collaborators, a new quintet from the veteran Swedish drummer Sven-Åke Johansson, and a thrumming quintet session from drummer Tom Skinner of The Smile are featured in Peter Margasak’s latest round up of jazz and improvised music
Music Downloads
tQ Subscriber Release: Jack McNeill’s Chamber Cairn
Serial collaborator and Propellor Orchestra leader Jack McNeill's long-awaited debut solo album is released today exclusively for tQ subscribers, a record that draws deep on his surroundings in Cumbria, but subverts our expectations of the clarinet as an instrument that hymns the pastoral
Black Sky Thinking
The Greatest Guitar Riffs In The World (Better Than Sweet Child O’Mine)
Profoundly depressed by a new poll which supposedly “reveals” the nation’s taste in rock riffs, Joel McIver – who is such a guitar geek that he wrote a book last year called The 100 Greatest Metal Guitarists – provides 20 far more interesting alternatives
