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Q's staffers welcome in a new year of music with their favourite albums and tracks released in 2025 so far It used to be that ...

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In his Baker's Dozen, the Circle frontman talks about converting people to the Dead; why Pori might have the highest concentration of Cardiacs fans in Europe, and what he learned from Faust's ...

Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression ...

In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing ...

The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth ...

After a period of personal tragedy and physical rehabilitation, Gum Takes Tooth’s Jussi Brightmore celebrates life with his ...

Joy Orbison has shared a new standalone single, titled ‘Bastard’. Taking in vocals from London-based vocalist Joe James, the new cut shares sonic headspace with the more introspective qualities of his ...

Kelela is set to release a new live album, titled In The Blue Light. Spanning 12 tracks, the recordings featured on the LP ...

The third and final part of the Polish artist's "alchemical trilogy" feels increasingly confined by its own concept, but ...