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As he releases two new albums, the prolific drummer, improviser, and serial collaborator Chris Corsano takes Stewart Smith through 13 favourite records, from punk to jazz to his year spent listening only to Curtis Mayfield
Stewart Smith celebrates working-class creativity, James Joyce, free jazz, hardcore punk, anti-imperialism, and all of the other ingredients that went into Minutemen's double classic
J.R. Moores speaks to Mark Pilkington and DORANBOT-3000 (in place of our own John Doran) of Hitiloma about this month's tQ subscribers release – a collaboration with the mighty Nat Sharp recorded live at this year's Acid Horse
Extreme metal choirs and imagined protest songs, electro-medieval kosmiche and footwork experiments plus the return of Moth Cock in this bi-month’s dive into the world of cassettes
22 years into their career the perennial outsiders of 21st century queer American art rock have announced a potentially game-changing album in the shape of 13" Frank Beltrame Italian Stiletto With Bison Horn Grips. Words by Natalie Marlin. All pictures by Eva Luise Hoppe. Contains video arguably NSFW
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Visit Subscriber AreaStewart Smith celebrates working-class creativity, James Joyce, free jazz, hardcore punk, anti-imperialism, and all of the other ingredients that went into Minutemen's double classic
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 PortalIn the game of folly versus lolly David Lynch's version of the Frank Herbert science fiction novel Dune played and lost. Now revived as part of a BFI Southbank retrospective on the director, it is often regarded as a patchy, incomprehensible failure. Andrew Stimpson challenges this consensus
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