This week the Portal celebrates some of the biggest shows that tQ has ever attended – the good, the bad and the very ugly.

Mat Colegate mourns the passing of Michael Madsen by looking back three decades to Species which asks an unthinkable ...

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Look! There he is! Cuthbert the horn-blowing turnip, back again with another gigantic playlist for our subscribers who make ...

An album of experimental music made by Todmorden school children evokes The Necks, Godspeed You! Black Emperor and a series ...

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Black Sky Thinking The Wheal Thing: Aphex Twin’s Alternative Cornish Language From the myth of the methane princess to a reflection of Cornwall's rich history of radiocommunications, his home county ...

In an exclusive edited extract from Niko Stratis’s new book The Dad Rock That Made Me A Woman, the award-winning Canadian ...

From murderous yoghurts to zombie serial killer policemen, Larry Cohen's films always had a serious satirical point at their ...

Sunshine cynicism from mid-70s Nigeria, The Lijadu Sisters deliver sharp political commentary in a soulful voice ...

Noel Gardner delivers another guide to the sound of New Weird Britain, taking in 16rpm street soul, the dub/folk connection, ...

Stevie Chick offers ten points of entry into the heaviocious back catalogue of South London rock destroyers Part Chimp ...