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Ahead of a double shift at Krankenhaus Festival, Adrian Flanagan releases new music today on Golden Lion Records
Listen Here is an anthology of sounds. This month John Doran is challenged & invigorated by the things he hears on an inspirational trip to Prague. Portrait by Al Overdrive, design courtesy of Daniel Hall
The Polish sound artist's latest album evokes strange hypnagogic states formed from zithers, ocarinas, bamboo flutes, and whistles
We love it when our subscribers send in suggestions of things for us to talk about – but do we love what they’re suggesting? Is Eurythmics’ soundtrack to the 1984 film 1984 doubleplusgood or does it send John Doran into his own personal Room 101? Find out here.
Noel Gardner delivers ten more frowning bales of intemperate earslaughter, including the perfectly executed anarcho punk of Subdued, the oppressively fucked sound of rising Leeds teenagers Narkotyk, and the feral, bare-brick recordings of Vancouver's Bootlicker
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Visit Subscriber AreaWe love it when our subscribers send in suggestions of things for us to talk about – but do we love what they’re suggesting? Is Eurythmics’ soundtrack to the 1984 film 1984 doubleplusgood or does it send John Doran into his own personal Room 101? Find out here.
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Unlike 80s pop’s synthetic bombast, says Toby Manning, some of the era’s best music was defined by a sophisticated smoothness whose ambivalence captured the period’s contradictions
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 PortalWhile there's nothing wrong with a Prince hits anthology or two, this doesn't even begin to tell the story. Petra Davis, Joe Stannard, Al Denney, Wyndham Wallace, David Moats and John Tatlock choose their favourite non-single tracks... (republished 21st April 2016 - RIP Prince)
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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