Hay no banda! There is no band… just two fine looking gentlemen of a certain age resplendent in their seasonal knitwear. John ...

As is now traditional on tQ, we combine our round-ups of the last two months of the year into one playlist and feature, to ...

Following 2018’s Booker longlisted *The Water Cure* and 2020’s *Blue Ticket*, Sophie Mackintosh’s latest book marks the author’s first foray into historical fiction. In an interview with Miles ...

With its ecstatic chorus resembling ‘Crimson and Clover’ by Tommy James & the Shondells, ‘Alien’ is a charming account of stalking an object of desire. “I see you cry, see you trying to boil an egg, ...

The penultimate track on Kibrom Birhane’s Lisané Bahir, ‘AMEN’, has the voices of Ethiopian elders giving blessings over a slow swinging drum machine. A sequencer bubbles out a rubbery pattern beneath ...

Klein has a new mixtape on the way. Titled Sleep With A Cane, it features 14 tracks, one of which is a collaboration with Space Afrika. It’s Klein’s second full-length release of 2025, following ...

Spooky season is upon us, and The Plan have made an album filled with songs suitable to soundtrack a B-horror film. Returning almost a decade after the Rebecca Gillieron-led project’s warmly received ...

Heaters, belters, tunes, no matter what you call them, the humble dancefloor banger has fed generations of electronic music lovers going back decades. As house and techno have given rise to myriad ...

Doc’n Roll Film Festival has confirmed the lineup of movies screening for its 2025 edition. This year’s scheduling will take place at venues such as London’s Rio Cinema, Hackney Picturehouse, BFI IMAX ...

Nazar is releasing a new album through Hyperdub, titled Demilitarize. Coming five years on from the Angolan kuduro producer’s debut album for the label, Guerilla, the 10-track record was produced ...

Charles Babbage is best known as the father of the modern computer, but he had other ideas, too. In 1838, the mathematician and mechanical engineer wrote about what we would later call “place-memory”, ...

For Berlin-based, Syrian musician Khaled Kurbeh, the vast tapestry of everyday life, with all of its chaos, routines, bureaucracy, and (mis)fortune, can be experienced through the application of ...