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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

Glasto Reminded Me How I Hate People, But Not As Much As I Hate Myself

Marc Burrows would have had a lovely time at Glastonbury were it not for the tens of thousands of other people and their flags and the reminder that snobbery often comes from self-loathing

Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin & Je T’aime By Sylvie Simmons

Sylvie Simmons' excellent biography, Serge Gainsbourg: A Fistful Of Gitanes is back in print and now available electronically. Here is an extract about the song that made him. Portrait courtesy of Patrick Duval

LISTEN: New Membranes

Membranes singer John Robb discusses the band's new album and why he's moved into perfume as well as post punk, alongside a premiere of a new track

Noel’s Straight Hedge: Your Punk & Hardcore For October

This month: Nazi Killer, Constant Mongrel, Vanilla Poppers, Black Mold, energised thrash, and hardcore of the blown-out, tone-filthy variety. Come hither and enjoy

Bring in the Darkness: An Interview with Norman&Corrie

Norman Willmore and Corrie Dick speak to Gail Tasker about the unique weirdness of Shetland's folk music, and how experiments with archival sources produced their debut album Twa Double Doubles

tQ’s Exclusive Monthly Round-Up Playlist: April 2022

Here's hours upon hours of the brilliant new music we've covered here at tQ over the last month, compiled into one handy playlist!

Getting Closer: Jeremy Allen Reports From Paris

tQ writer Jeremy Allen was at the Stade De France on Friday night. He reports from Paris on the recent terror attacks. Photographs by author

The Strange World Of… Don Cherry

From pocket trumpet to donso ngoni, sharp suits and jazz clubs to communal utopias, Jennifer Lucy Allan immerses herself in the world of the American trumpet player and composer

New Music Biennial Festival In Coventry This Week

Arts festival celebrates ten years with two-legged bash

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

Master Blaster: Kevin Richard Martin’s Baker’s Dozen

The artist also known as The Bug talks to Jennifer Lucy Allan about the records that changed his life, from anxious encounters with African Head Charge in Weymouth to being blasted by Swans at the ICA

Summon The Clowns: Gentle Stranger Interviewed

Ahead of their Quietus Social show in support of Alexander Tucker, Eden Tizard speaks to Gentle Stranger about audience responses, the dialogue between a musician and non-musician approach, and their own post-clown ethos. Pictures by Daniel Gatenio

An Intuitive Place: Yvette Interviewed

With the bludgeoning guitar noise of their debut album Process out this month, Suzie McCracken catches up with Brooklyn duo Yvette to discover how they've channeled present-day societal dread into music that pummels like a breezeblock

Wick Reeves’ Big Fight Out: John Wick Chapter 2 Reviewed

Ben Rabinovich watches things go BOOM in the sequel to the immensely entertaining John Wick

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