Zachary Lipez

Reissue of the Week: Billy Woods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing

As it receives a new 10th anniversary release, Zachary Lipez delves back into the metafiction, self-interruptions, complexitiesm digressions and inversions that made Billy Woods' Today, I Wrote Nothing a masterpiece

Black Sky Thinking

Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black

Zachary Lipez puts on his his tightest pants, casts "'n' Roll" to one side and hails the unbeatable trinity of 20th century rock music. All photographs by Maria Jefferis. Thanks to Matt Ducker

Reissue of the Week

Reissue of the Week: TV on the Radio’s Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes

As it receives a 20th anniversary reissue, Zachary Lipez re-examines TV On The Radio's formative debut as the shape of indie yet to come

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Bill Laswell

From making groundbreaking electro to working with Whitney Houston via boozy sessions with Motörhead, plus avant explorations of thrash, drum & bass, grindcore, gnawa and disco, Bill Laswell has been on more great records than you've had hot dinners. Zachary Lipez offers ten points of entry to his bewilderingly vast back catalogue

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Festival Report: Unsound New York

Zachary Lipez heads to the pay-what-you-want New York incarnation of Unsound for three nights of music from the likes of Moor Mother, The Caretaker, Robin Fox, Raphael Roginski, Martyna Basta and more. Photos by Lawrence Sumulong / © Lincoln Center

Baker's Dozen

Origin Story: Billy Woods’ Favourite Albums

As he releases acclaimed new album Maps alongside Kenny Segal, underground hip hop mainstay Billy Woods takes tQ through the thirteen records that have defined his life, from Goodie Mob to Ghostface Killah

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RIP Mark Hollis

Mark Hollis has died aged 64

Baker's Dozen

RIP Florian Schneider: A Kraftwerk Baker’s Dozen Special

Following sad news that Kraftwerk co-founder Florian Schneider has died, we present a specially compiled Baker's Dozen of artists including Michael Rother, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Marie Davidson and Mark Lanegan on their favourite music by the _kosmische musik_ masters

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Zachary Lipez

Reissue of the Week: Billy Woods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing

Reissue of the Week: Billy Woods’ Today, I Wrote Nothing

Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black

Three Album Run: How Rock Music Never Bettered AC/DC’s Powerage, Highway To Hell & Back In Black

Reissue of the Week: TV on the Radio’s Desperate Youth, Blood Thirsty Babes