The dub producer will release new EP The Grand Designer next month

Adrian Sherwood has revealed his first new solo music since 2012 in the form of a four-track EP, titled The Grand Designer.

Due out next month, one of its cuts features Sherwood’s late friend and longtime collaborator Lee “Scratch” Perry, who passed away in 2021. The record forms the latest instalment of the UK dub pioneer’s long-running “disco plate” series, which he’s put out on his own On-U Sound imprint sporadically since the 80s.

Sherwood’s last solo release was the album Survival & Resistance. In the 13 years since it came out, he has worked with Panda Bear, Pinch and African Head Charge, among others.

Listen to The Grand Designer’s title track…

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Out in July, it features contributions from Moor Mother, Armand Hammer and more

DJ Haram has shared details of her debut album, Beside Myself.

Set to be released via Hyperdub, the 14-track record takes in contributions from the likes of her 700 Bliss collaborator Moor Mother, Cairo-based DJ and producer El Kontessa, and billy woods and ELUCID under their joint Armand Hammer moniker.

The album is said to explore themes of rage and grief, as well as the alienation of feeling out of step with the world. “This album is the antithesis to ‘joy is resistance’,” DJ Haram said in a statement. “I make the music that I need. No music has healed me yet. No music has healed the earth. No…

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The October gig will see original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder rework material from across the project’s discography

Cabaret Voltaire in rehersal room

Cabaret Voltaire are set to mark 50 years since their first live shows with a special performance at Sheffield’s Forge Warehouse this October.

Taking place as part of this year’s Sensoria Festival, the October 25 gig will see original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder rework material from across the project’s discography. This will include the group’s early work, releases on Rough Trade and Factory Records, their output on their own Doublevision video label, and later material made with producers such as Adrian Sherwood and Marshall Jefferson.

In a statement, Mallinder said: “The live set is built from scratch but…

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The sale featuring various synths, pedals and other equipment is taking place with the support of the late DJ and producer’s family

A collection of vintage synths and other studio gear previously belonging to Andrew Weatherall has been placed up for auction.

Taking place via Soundgas, an instrument resale platform, the auction has been organised with the support of the late DJ and producer’s family. Among the items that have been placed up for sale are a Sequential Circuits Pro-One, a Moog Rogue, and two Roland items: a Juno-60 and a Juno-106. There are also various drum machines, FX systems and pedals available.

In a note shared alongside the auction, Weatherall’s brother, Ian, wrote: “”We lost Andrew, totally unexpectedly, a little over five…

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As he prepares for the release of his debut solo album Happy Birthday, the Stranger Things star speaks to Alex Rigotti about the 13 albums that formed his taste

Photo by Emilia Voudouris

The leap from mainstream actor to indie musician is a precarious one. A few stick the landing, but art in general requires a certain hunger, which often seems to dissipate upon tasting your first million dollars in Hollywood. Maybe the music’s perfectly nice, but ultimately placid (Michael Cera). Perhaps it’s offensively overproduced (Jeremy Renner). Or maybe you go the Corey Feldman route (an ego trip gone horribly wrong). 

But when I heard Finn Wolfhard was releasing his solo debut album, I stifled the yawn. Alongside starring as Mike Wheeler in…

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Cole Pulice

Land’s End Eternal

Bon Iver’s sax man goes it alone with an album of fluttering ambience and uncanny cyborg systems

Land's End Eternal by Cole Pulice

Moments of bliss and wonder swirl like flecks of rain on a cold, bright morning throughout the third solo album by experimental saxophone player Cole Pulice. Melodies flutter in and out of focus, veiled by rising gusts of distortion. As wayward as the weather, the LP’s seven tracks morph and elongate constantly. Late in, a human voice is added, ascending through the mists like whale song from the depths. 

Suffused in a drowsy ache, Land’s End Eternal is frozen in that eternal moment of calm before the storm – it comes as no surprise that one of the…

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Our dance music editor wonders whether club culture has lost its potential for providing radically transformative experiences, and reviews a new batch of cutting-edge releases, including trailblazing Bangladeshi dub and jungle mutations, UK techno epics, spectral dub techno, neo-devotional music from Egypt and a cult PS1 soundtrack.

Yunis

Every few days we get a new headline discussing the fate of club culture, (see here, here, here and here). It’s hard to argue against socio-economic factors and unstable politics, as scrutinised in such thinkpieces, as being among the main driving factors for clubs’ ongoing decline, but these articles often lack an important extra detail – the fact that contemporary club culture is also struggling to offer the truly transformative experiences that once defined…

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Performance in Sheffield this autumn

Early Cabaret Voltaire performance, by Pete Hill

Today, 13 May 2025, is the fiftieth anniversary of the first performance by Cabaret Voltaire, at Sheffield Students Union Refectory. This will be commemorated in October by a live collaboration by founding members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder. We’re told that “The intention for the performance in Sheffield is to curate this essential work and to acknowledge the timeless energy and to mark the continuing significance and power of what Cabaret Voltaire achieved. Original members Chris Watson and Stephen Mallinder are committed to stay true to the enduring vision of Cabaret Voltaire. The performance will cover the arc of their formidable output – from early experiments, and the first Rough…

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Billy Woods

Golliwog

The New York rapper’s latest is a return home, but the house is haunted, finds Francis Buseko

GOLLIWOG by billy woods

At nine, Billy Woods was already creating worlds; he penned a story about an evil golliwog. His mother, a Jamaican professor of English literature, described it as derivative. His father, a Marxist exile from Zimbabwe, carried the scars of political warfare. These ghosts aren’t just part of his past; they’re woven into the very architecture of his music. They don’t speak; they’re felt, haunting every line.

Here we are, decades later: older, sharper, more haunted, still in conversation with that shadow. Golliwog isn’t just a return to that early story; it’s a reckoning with the symbols we inherit and the selves…

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Live version of ‘Antidepressants’ online now

Suede live by Christophe Dehousse

Three years ago, Suede’s Autofiction was roundly praised as being the finest album of the band’s second incarnation, pushing the distinctive blueprint into grittier territories. On the evidence of the first non-live outing of new material, it seems that this might be a direction that the band are continuing in with what seems likely to be their tenth LP. ‘Antidepressants’ was recorded live at their triumphant Alexandra Palace gig in the summer of 2024, and can be heard below – tQ is excited to note that it at points has a heaviness that makes us think of The Fall group’s 2007 belter, ‘Fall Sound’. There seems to be a flash of…

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