Jamaican music industry, with the Casio tones of Wayne Smith’s ‘Under Mi Sleng Teng’ seeing every producer reaching for a synth and drum machine, leaving the island’s grass roots musicians in a panic ...
I’ve been wearing Dr Martens for so long,” says tQ co-pilot Luke Turner, “that I can look down at my feet and can connect with all these different bits of my past – it’s a lovely thing for a shoe to ...
A collaboration between former Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton and billion+ streamers The Avett Brothers proves rather less than the sum of its parts, finds Jon Buckland ...
It only took Lovers & Lollypops co-founder Joaquim Durães a decade to clock what had happened: the defiant DIY label he and Márcio Laranjeiras had spawned in Porto’s abandoned corners had grown into a ...
The room that is now Dalston’s EartH Theatre first opened as a cinema in 1936, five years before the birth of Martin Carthy. In the decades since both man and room have endured swings in fortune. One ...
The third part of Claire Rousay’s experimental trilogy may give you the fear at first, but persevere – and it’ll reward you with a journey from homesickness to homecoming ...
New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed.
Sifting through the sands of long-forgotten 90s sample packs, has Daniel Lopatin struck some ghostly yet ecstatic gold?
A true 'drummer's album', from one of the drummers in Gnod plus guests from the Bristol scene and beyond, that doesn't skimp on atmosphere ...
To the sound of cumbia rhythms, noisy bass tremors, frantic violin phrases and spectral electronics, the Peruvian-born artist creates a moving meditation on home and homeliness, from the unconscious d ...
The four days of Le Guess Who? in Utrecht have become a vital gathering, a fruitful connection point for the wider alternative music community in times of fragmentation, confusion, and restriction.
Hannah Pezzack looks back half a century to Patti Smith's Horses and finds an album pulsating with erotic energy ...