The Sencha-style green tea is a collaboration with Dragonfly Tea

Pulp have launched their own limited-edition blend of tea.

The Sencha-style green tea has been created in collaboration with Dragonfly Tea, with testing by the band’s own tastebuds. Announcing the new product, frontman Jarvis Cocker said: “Whether it’s a Monday Morning, a Good Night or an Acrylic Afternoon, Pulp Green Sencha tea gets me centred and stimulated enough to deal with it. Get the kettle on!”

Dragonfly Tea commented: “We’re proud to introduce our latest limited-edition collaboration with British pop icons Pulp, a fresh fusion of evergreen cool and green tea clarity, created to celebrate the release of their new album, More. Together with the band, we’ve crafted a Sencha-style green tea that’s clean, bright and…

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It features music by Nighmares On Wax and Aphex Twin under his Caustic Window moniker

A new compilation highlighting the influence of seminal 90s London afterparty Telepathic Fish is due to be released.

Spanning 10 tracks, Telepathic Fish: Trawling The Early 90s Ambient Underground features some of the defining tracks from one of the parties which came to define post-rave chill-out events in 90s UK rave culture. Among the featured artists are Nightmares On Wax, Aphex Twin (under his Caustic Window alias), Global Communication and Mixmaster Morris (as Irresistible Force).

Physical copies of the release will come with a 20-page booklet documenting the history of the parties, and taking in photos, artwork and various other visual memorabilia.

Telepathic Fish was founded in London…

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It stars actor Saoirse Ronan and has been released to mark 50 years since the band’s first live show

Talking Heads have shared the first-ever music video for their classic single ‘Psycho Killer’.

Starring actor Saoirse Ronan, the visual for the 1977 cut was directed by filmmaker Mike Mills. It has been produced and released to mark 50 years since the band’s first live show, when they opened for the Ramones at CBGB on June 5, 1975.

In a collective statement, the band said: “This video makes the song better. We LOVE what this video is NOT – it’s not literal, creepy, bloody, physically violent or obvious.”

Ronan added: “To simply be mentioned in the same breath as Talking Heads is hands down one…

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DJ Anderson do Paraíso and Piezo are among the final additions to the bill

Lorenzo Senni

Terraforma Exo has shared the full programme for its upcoming Milan event.

Taking place across the final weekend of this month, this year’s event will get underway with a new project by Lorenzo Senni, called ‘EUREKA! (Mix Legacy 2011-2025). It will be presented three times across the day on June 28 at Milan’s Torre Branca, with a lecture by Senni himself taking place early in the day.

On the same day, Florian Hecker will present a show called ‘FAVN’, while Heith, james K and Günseli Yalçinkaya will combine for their audiovisual show, ‘The Talk’.

The day will be rounded out by a collaborative performance called ‘The Drum And…

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The Weather Station and Joan As Police Woman have also joined the bill

Tortoise

EFG London Jazz Festival has added a second wave of acts to its 2025 lineup.

Following the recent release of their first new music in almost a decade, Tortoise are lined up to play at the Barbican during the festival, marking a rare UK appearance for the band. They will be joined on the night by synthesist Jeremiah Chiu and violinist Marta Sofia Honer, who will open the gig.

Brazilian multi-instrumentalist will also play at the Barbican for what will be his final UK show at the age of 88.

Dalston’s EartH will host The Weather Station, who will be joined by a London string quartet in a special one-off…

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Ben LaMar Gay

Yowzers

The Chicago cornet player and composer smashes open contemporary jazz, pouring in a host of different styles, from samba to the blues

Yowzers by Ben LaMar Gay

The music of Ben LaMar Gay is sublimely ephemeral, as if made elusive by design – meant to be absorbed in the dynamic now of physical spaces rather than enjoyed in stasis via recordings. The Chicago cornettist’s 2018 debut Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun suggested as much. Ostensibly a greatest hits compilation, the album collected a disparate canon of pieces that had previously escaped capture, but still appeared constrained by the format. Seven years and two studio albums later, Gay feels more comfortable in the role of a traditional recording artist;…

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Of course Pete Shelley’s ‘Homosapien’ was radically queer when it came to politics, but don’t forget how queer it sounded as well, says Toby Manning

The hilarious thing to do in schoolyards in Britain when ‘Homosapien’ came out in 1982 was to sing its title line as “you’re homosexual too”. Yet former Buzzcock Pete Shelley was way ahead of the mockers and rockers on this synth pop venture, ‘Homosapien’ being far queerer than playground masculinity patrollers – or the banning BBC – could imagine. It’s not just the lyric’s double entendre, “homo superior, in my interior” but the song’s expansion from the personal to the political: “I just hope and pray that the day of our love is at hand”. A love song hence…

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Sly & The Family Drone, UKAEA, Stef Kettt & more for Harringey weekend weirdout with bands and DJs

Favourites of this site such as the mighty Sly & The Family Drone, UKAEA (in DJ mode), Phil MFU and many others are playing at ZXFU at New River Studios, Haringey, London this weekend.

Things kick off today with a line up that includes Eel Men and Jonny Halifax, and things continue tomorrow with Morreadoras, Nothingheads and Cephalophore Vision Suppressant (which may be tQ Editor John Doran messing about with samples from the film Stalker).

Festival organiser Zoo tells us: “It’s an excellent collection of actual underground music that is definitely not funded by the arms trade, the American military, banks, dickheads, culture-washing…

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Pulp are back with their first new album in nearly a quarter of a century; Jarvis Cocker joins us to talk about More, but also outsider art in America, an attic full of wonder in London and revolution versus violence in Sheffield. Words by Darran Anderson. All portraits by Tom Jackson

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Pulp have always been the exception. Even at the height of Britpop, they were the misfit’s misfits. They demonstrated the power that could attend not fitting in. One of the canniest writers on class, alienation and desire, Jarvis Cocker brought a subversive eye, via Gainsbourg and Brel, while the band brought sex and the autodidact North to a cultural scene that badly required all of the above. Their…

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Ahead of a new Sunday show on BBC 6 Music and an appearance at MIF, the broadcaster and DJ shares some ideas about process, work ethic and a formative year spent living on a bus. Words by John Doran. Main portrait by Brett Walker

There are plenty of lessons to be learned from an adult lifetime spent holding a tape recorder and an A4 sheet of questions. Prime among them should be how to become the perfect interviewee, without actually giving up much of the control you’ve grown used to wielding as an interviewer. Fully formed narrative arcs can be presented either covertly or in a helpfully overt manner; perfectly crafted sentences that scream for rendering as a 24-point-font-size pull quotes…

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