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Beauty. Pain. Catharsis. Whatever: Nirvana do MTV Unplugged

Thirty years after the release of the band's Unplugged in New York album, Marc Burrows explores the fraught session that saw Nirvana go acoustic before an audience of friends, peers, and, for some reason, Kate Moss

Electronic Explorations Goes Warehouse

OOOF! Rob Booth's excellent, long-running podcast series puts together a series of mixes celebrating the joys of a good old-fashioned knees-up in a grubby industrial space

Things Learned At: Red Bull Music Festival New York Week 2

Adventures into Dream Music, the sticky power of Fever Ray, the unsung talents of Jada Pinkett Smith: RBMF sprinkles good stuff across New York

Feel What You Don’t Know: Mabe Fratti’s Favourite Albums

Following new album Sentir Que No Sabes and ahead of her guest curation at this year’s Le Guess Who?, Mabe Fratti takes Laura Snapes through thirteen favourite records spanning her Central American adolescence, cult dream pop and French post-punk Zeligs

tQ Subscriber Release: Spykidelic’s Nyabinghindustrial II Mix

Tony F Wilson – a lifer's lifer. His Quietus subscribers' mix comprises a depth charge exploration into an underground catalogue that dates back to the mid 90s. Chopped, screwed and spat back up with added venom. Harry Sword gets the (sub) low down. 

They Do Like It Up ‘Em: Fisty Fun & Queer Bangers With Furfriend

On the surface, mysterious Electronic Bumming Music duo Furfriend appear to be a carnal celebration of the squelchier end of sexual practice. Yet, as Luke Turner discovers, their new EP for Perc Trax reveals that they're LGBT activists, as well as just 'active'...

Dream Story: Jenny Hval’s The Long Sleep

Vast and delicate, cosmic and prosaic, full of reprises and repetitions, this four-track EP is a gorgeous exploration of unknowns

The Necks

Bleed

After thirty-five years the Australian improvising trio are still pushing forward into strange new territories, finds Levi Dayan

Notions of Decadence: Half a Century of Bowie’s Station To Station

Ben Graham takes a detailed look at the decadent path trod by David Bowie during the creation of Station To Station

Katie Gately: New Lathe & Pipes Reissue

The experimental vocalist announces split EP with Prayer

Wider Future: An Interview With Osheyack

Shanghai-based producer Eli Osheyack speaks to Alex Rigotti about the fluctuating fortunes of the city's fertile underground electronic scene, and exploring the relationships between artists and community on new album Intimate Publics

Skaņu Mežs Adds Smerz and More to 2026 Lineup

The Riga festival takes place across two days this October

“We Get Ear Worms, But Do We Get Eye Worms?” An Interview With People Like Us

Ahead of the premiere of her new work, ‘Gone, Gone Beyond,’ Vicki Bennett, aka People Like Us, talks to Daryl Worthington about composing in 3D and collaborations across time and space

Things Learned At: Haldern Pop

Richard Foster heads to Haldern in Germany for a weekend of pop, panels and Patti. Photos by Damian Leslie.

Posthuman Behaviour: Alexander Tucker On Microcorps

With his new modular project Microcorps, Alexander Tucker blurs the lines between human and humanoid as he investigates how language can shift our perception. He tells Patrick Clarke the story of new album XMIT