The Life and Songs of Martin Carthy is set for September

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The longstanding folk musician Martin Carthy will play a special show at London’s EartH on 27 September, alongside a number of guests including Billy Bragg, Graham Coxon, Peggy Seeger, Maddy Prior, Marry Waterson, and many more.

Titled The Life and Songs of Martin Carthy, the night will draw on Carthy’s enormous and influential back catalogue, including work in collaboration with Dave Swarbrick, as part of Albion Country Band, Steeleye Span, The Watersons, Brass Monkey, The Imagined Village, Waterson:Carthy and more.

It comes following the release of his latest album, Transform Me Then Into A Fish, this month, which marked his 84th birthday and saw him reinterpret music from his…

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A new compilation, Klubnacht 01, marks 20 years of the Berlin club’s in-house imprint

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Ostgut Ton has returned from a four-year hiatus with a new 18-track compilation, Klubnacht 01.

Marking the 20th anniversary of Berlin club Berghain’s in-house label, the release features new cuts from the likes of Steffi, Verraco, JakoJako, Fadi Mohem, Virginia and Efdemin. Its tracklist represents both the main Berghain floor of the club, and the house music-oriented Panorama Bar.

Founded in 2005, Ostgut Ton is one of the most influential and revered house and techno labels of the 21st century, having put out records from the likes of Ben Klock, Marcel Dettmann, Martyn, Barker, JASSS, Shed, Function and Luke Slater. Its last release before now was 2021…

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Here are the albums and songs from the last month that we think you should hear, as selected by tQ’s staffers

I spent most of May feeling disconnected from music, something that happens from time to time, usually in lockstep with cycles of overwork and burnout that have come to define the experience of most people I know who work within underground, DIY and experimental creative spaces. Then, when listening to the new These New Puritans record, it was as if the music arrived as a crack of light through the darkness, boring a hole through which the streams of sonic excellence I’d been resisting could pour.

You’ll find that album, as well as an imperious comeback LP from Stereolab, new…

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In 2014 Kendrick Lamar found himself in South Africa, an experience that helped to shape his third studio record, which is perhaps his most complex and enduring statement. Siobhán Kane revisits To Pimp A Butterfly

Kendrick Lamar’s third album was almost called To Pimp A Caterpillar, a title that would reference an acrostic touchstone (Tu-P-A-C), but the rapper’s own metamorphosis was, by this point, more butterfly than developmental stage. To become a butterfly, a caterpillar must pupate within a chrysalis for radical transformation. Lamar’s journey had been just as dramatic, with 2011’s Section.80 and 2012’s good kid, m.A.A.d. city announcing a new and singular sensibility. 

As a Gemini, duality and nuance is perhaps rooted in Lamar’s spirit, and To Pimp a Butterfly…

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This month’s exclusive tQ subscriber download is a storming set from the mighty Mohammad Syfkhan

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It’s been almost a decade since Mohammad Syfkhan, temporarily living in an Irish holiday camp having just arrived from Syria, chanced upon Lankum’s Cormac Mac Diarmada. Mac Diarmada was among a group who’d been asked to perform a few tunes there on Christmas Eve, and Syfkhan asked if he could fetch his bouzouki and join in. “When he played,” Mac Diarmada told us in a profile of Sykhan last year, “we were all totally stunned, he was unreal! I’ve seen him play a couple of times since and each time I’ve been absolutely entranced. He has a beautiful, melodic, driving style that weaves…

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Abul Mogard

Quiet Places

The latest from Guido Zen’s ambient alterego evokes the colourfields of abstract art, finds Aydin Khalili

Quiet Pieces by Abul Mogard

Using fictional characters as alter egos is nothing new among musicians. From Gorillaz to the late MF DOOM, many have adopted fictional personas, sometimes fully fleshed-out characters, to perform live or create within the studio. Once, Ghost Bath, a North Dakotan black metal project, even claimed to hail from China. Guido Zen, aka Abul Mogard, belongs to this tradition, too. For years, he released ambient drone material under the guise of a retired Serbian factory worker, a man with formal musical training who, in the silence that followed retirement, found himself longing for the clunk and clatter of the…

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Shackleton and Speedy J are among the acts rounding out the bill for the Canadian festival

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MUTEK has shared the complete lineup for its 2025 edition, taking place this August.

Returning this year for its 26th edition, the Montréal festival will newly take in two live sets from Shackleton: one solo and the other in collaboration with Wacław Zimpel and Siddhartha Belmannu. There are also newly confirmed sets from Speedy J, Topdown Dialectic, Valesuchi, Hodge, Al Wootton and Bergsonist, among others.

They all join the previously announced likes of Max Cooper, Slikback, Valentina Magaletti, Yu Su and many more on the bill for the festival.

MUTEK will take place from August 19 to 24, 2025. Find more information here.
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The newly remastered album will be released in various CD and vinyl editions with added bonus material

Talking Heads’ 1978 album More Songs About Buildings And Food is being reissued.

Due in July, the album has been newly remastered for its updated release, and will be made available in various CD and vinyl editions with additional unreleased studio and live recordings. A 3xCD super deluxe edition will also come with a Blu-ray disc featuring concert footage from a 1978 New York show, while a 4xLP edition will come with additional reissues of four 7-inch singles.

Pre-orders of the various formats of the reissue are live here.

To mark the announcement, Talking Heads have shared a previously unreleased alternate version of album track ‘Found A…

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It appears on the US artist’s upcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, compiling several albums’ worth of previously unreleased material

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Bruce Springsteen has shared a previously unheard track, called ‘Adelita’.

The song is lifted from the unreleased album Inyo, which the US artist recorded in the 1990s as a possible follow-up to The Ghost Of Tom Joad. Plans to release the record, however, were shelved until now as it’s set to appear on Springsteen’s forthcoming Tracks II: The Lost Albums box set, which compiles several albums’ worth of unreleased material recorded between 1983 and 2018.

‘Adelita’ is described as an ode to Mexico’s “soldadera” freedom fighters, with Inyo featuring contributions from several mariachi musicians. You can listen to…

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Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall have both been newly remastered for an updated release this August

The Sabres Of Paradise’s first two albums, Sabresonic and Haunted Dancehall, are to be reissued.

Due out in August, the two records have been newly remastered for the updated release, and will be made available in both CD and double-vinyl editions, as well as on digital platforms. The reissue is going ahead with the full collaboration of surviving group members Jagz Kooner and Gary Burns, as well as with the full support of the estate of the late Andrew Weatherall.

In a statement, Kooner said: “We just thought it’s time to go back and revisit this. To let people know that it was a pivotal moment in time,…

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