Stephanie Sy-Quia

The Unstageable Staged: Stockhausen’s Mittwoch Aus Licht Reviewed

Karlheinz Stockhausen's Mittwoch aus Licht was supposedly too grandiose to stage, and has been used as a 'pretentious' stick to beat him for years. Leo Chadburn witnesses that refuted in a very human performance in Birmingham. Pictures by Katja Ogrin

Arts Foundation Awards Winners Announced

Rie Nakajima, Leah Capaldi and Julia Lohmann among Award winners

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Manic Street Preachers Photography Book Planned

Photographer Tom Sheehan collects 200 photos of the band in new book

Metallica – Death Magnetic Reveiwed Track By Track

So, after all the fussing and fighting, we finally get to hear Metallica's tenth album. Was it worth the wait? Yes, says a surprised and pleased John Doran

Where I’m Coming From: Visionist’s 13 Favourite Albums

From a love for choral music inspired by his grandmother, to discovering Steve Reich at school, setting up a label just to release SD Laika and seeing Cocteau Twins on Top Of The Pops 2, Visionist picks the thirteen albums that made him the artist he is today

Heading To The West Coast: Susanne Sundfør’s 13 Favourite LPs

The Norwegian pop star made one of 2015's best albums in Ten Love Songs, but her Baker's Dozen reflects that synthpop was never where her heart lay

Who I Turn To: Keeley Forsyth’s Baker’s Dozen

From classic Broadway soundtracks and music as a visual medium, to the eternal inspiration of Scott Walker, Keeley Forsyth takes tQ through the thirteen albums that have defined her life and career

The World, The Flesh, And The Dancefloor: Karma And Desire By Actress

A welcome addition to Actress’s spiralling discography brings a newfound bodily urgency to the work of the Wolverhampton-born producer, finds Kashif Sharma-Patel

Columnus Metalicus: June’s Heavy Metal By Pavel Godfrey

Fire up the BBQ and crack open a beer, Summer is here and it's time for Death Fortress, Jute Gyte, Kvelertak and Nails, says Pavel Godfrey

Artist Run: A New Quietus Arts Feature – Inside No.w.here

For the first in a new regular series exploring independent project spaces and artist-run initiatives, tQ's Robert Barry explores No.w.here, a centre for film in East London set up by Karen Mirza and Brad Butler

Party Pieces: Andy Burnham’s Favourite Albums

The Mayor of Greater Manchester takes Fergal Kinney through 13 records that shaped him, via his days as a Hacienda regular and his children introducing him to Big Thief

Licence To Sing: Afrodeutsche’s Favourite Albums

From a childhood spent dancing to Top Of The Pops, a complicated relationship with Michael Jackson and the tragic loss of her tape collection, Afrodeutsche takes Manu Ekanayake through the thirteen albums that changed her life

Beautiful Artefacts: Jon Spencer’s Favourite Albums

The Blues Explosion frontman whittles down his favourite albums to a mean 13

Seeing Voices: Will Ashon On The Influence Of Cornelius Cardew On His New Book

Stuck for a way to structure the panoply of voices in his new book *The Passengers*, author Will Ashon turned to a half-century old graphic score by one of Britain’s most radical mid-century composers

Time May Change Me: David Bowie, Blackstar & Mortality, by Chris Roberts

He was born David Jones but he died David Bowie and by the end the transformation was complete. Chris Roberts reflects on heaven, hell and mortality in forty years of Bowie magick