I’m penning this introduction to our latest best of the month chart beneath the blazing heat of May Day. It’s a date that I’ve noticed is being marked more and more within the music scene – I’ve had ...

An exploration of how a Masta Ace "compromise album" bridged East/West hip hop styles just as hip hop’s coastal divide escalated ...

Long-time fan Sean Kitching celebrates the legacy of a true ‘Crocus Behemoth’ of the avant garde, post punk, underground rock and pop Americana, David Thomas, who passed away yesterday after a long pe ...

Gryphon Rue’s new LP creaks and grumbles and hums with subterranean and oceanic immensity, singing in voices both animal and botanical, says Bernie Brooks ...

Pop! The First 20 HitsGreatest hits album, 1992 The best songs write themselves. For me, I would say ‘Oh L’amour’, ‘Sometimes’, ‘Victim Of Love’, ‘Ship Of Fools’, ‘Chorus’, ‘Love To Hate You’ just ...

On their nineteenth album, the San Francisco quartet show no signs of letting up their brutal assault on pop music conventions ...

From mangled folk music to ever-evolving electroacoustic techno jams inspired by Hackney Marshes, Noel Gardner delivers his latest guide to the sounds of New Weird Britain ...

As Hieroglyphic Being, Chicago’s Jamal Moss has long fused house, industrial and jazz into a mutant strain of proto-club futurism. Dance Music 4 Bad People, his first album for Smalltown Supersound, ...

Jennifer Lucy Allan finds some gems on a frustratingly patchy and difficult to navigate compilation of Japanese soundtrack music ...

Matmos has shared a video for their recent single ‘Changing States’, which is premiering exclusively via tQ. The song is set to appear on the duo’s forthcoming album, Metallic Life Review, which was ...

Northamptonshire electronic music legend Anthony Child taps deep into the essence of techno to find a core of swirling psychedelia ...

Lately, Tunde Adebimpe’s been thinking a lot about mixtapes. “They’re pretty much how I got into music, these mixtapes full of lots of different kinds of music that my friends would give me,” the TV ...