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Well-established left field festival in Salford with strong emphasis on diversity returns this September
Cursed at the time of its released, Mohammad Reza Aslani's film The Chess of the Wind is now recognised as one of great Iranian films of the 1970s. Its soundtrack may be even better
Upon the release of Sumac’s new album The Healer, Aaron Turner speaks to Jon Buckland about creating communities, having a good lie down, and the 13 records that shaped his life
In his latest dispatch from the French fringes, David McKenna reports on how a new generation is reshaping French folk ‘balls’, and surveys the best new releases from the past few months.
Lori Goldston has just released a lowkey but wonderful album of cello improvisations recorded on the road in the RoI; she talks to Stevie Chick about her love for the instrument and the joy she felt playing live with Nirvana and Earth
In this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!)
In the inaugural edition of a new quarterly column, Patrick Clarke explores the resurgence of folk in left-field, experimental and underground music, speaks to two of the artists questioning diversity in traditional spaces, and rounds up ten essential new releases
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Visit Subscriber AreaIn this month's subscriber essay, Manu Ekanayake revisits the BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy to explore ideas of Englishness and patriotism corrupted by the Establishment and private school system (note – contains spoilers!)
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Ned Raggett remembers the audacity – the white heat – of a first encounter with the OST in 1984. This feature was first published on 25 June 2014
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
Explore The PortalJesse Bernard spots Detroit rapper Danny Brown at an Arsenal match, sees him play live in Shoreditch, and then interviews him about just how deep his love for grime goes (and his recent experiences in and out of rehab and one of last year's finest albums, Quaranta). All photographs by Peter Beste
Anthony Galluzzo's new book Against the Vortex uses John Boorman's cult sci-fi film as the starting point for exploring a neglected strand of '70s thinkers and artists whose ideas propose a radical degrowth utopia as the horizon to which our politics should be oriented
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