In this month’s edition of the podcast, Luke Turner and John Doran discuss the for-once-genuinely-iconic pop culture fashion must-have, the DM boot

“I’ve been wearing Dr Martens for so long,” says tQ co-pilot Luke Turner, “that I can look down at my feet and can connect with all these different bits of my past – it’s a lovely thing for a shoe to be able to do.” In this week’s podcast, Luke and John Doran eschew the usual album, book or film to discuss the enduring popularity of the Dr Martens boot. They’ve both been wearing this distinctive leather footwear since their tender teenage years, when the hard leather of the OG Dr Martens boot would tenderise their feet while being worn…

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AVTT/PTTN

AVTT/PTTN

A collaboration between former Faith No More vocalist Mike Patton and billion+ streamers The Avett Brothers proves rather less than the sum of its parts, finds Jon Buckland

AVTT/PTTN by AVTT/PTTN (The Avett Brothers & Mike Patton)

You might have heard of Mike Patton. Primarily known for his work in Mr Bungle, Faith No More, Fantômas, and Peeping Tom, his career is a record of boundaries pushed and sonic expectations subverted. Through his dynamic, ear-shredding vocal techniques he’s worked with everyone from Sepultura, Merzbow, and Laurie Anderson to Eyvind Kang, Björk and Kool Keith. He’s been deeply embroiled in the avant-garde music scene and famously laughed off offers to join INXS and the Guns ‘n’ Roses spin-off band, Velvet Revolver. He runs Ipecac…

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Two decades and 150 releases since their formation in the Porto underground, Lovers & Lollypops has grown into one of Europe’s most vital connecting points for DIY culture. Anu Shukla charts their story so far via 10 key releases, from early makeshift gigs with battered soundsystems to the thriving community of today

Cobrafuma, photo by Renato Cruz Santos

It only took Lovers & Lollypops co-founder Joaquim Durães a decade to clock what had happened: the defiant DIY label he and Márcio Laranjeiras had spawned in Porto’s abandoned corners had grown into a gravitational force in Portugal’s alternative underground. The name itself comes from a documentary Durães watched at school, featuring a class of first graders in which one had graffitied the…

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The Final Age

New Hallucinations

A true ‘drummer’s album’, from one of the drummers in Gnod plus guests from the Bristol scene and beyond, that doesn’t skimp on atmosphere

The Final Age- New Hallucinations by Tesla Tapes

Jesse Webb is the kernel of The Final Age, with New Hallucinations his second album under this name. A drummer of renown in various pockets of the UK musical underground since the decade before last, with much of his reputation forged in Bristol (he now lives in Hebden Bridge), in this guise he proves himself very able to commandeer a project, with this record’s nine songs featuring the input of twelve other musicians.

It’s a great and tangible ‘drummer’s album’, more so than the previous Final Age LP…

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Claire Rousay

A Little Death

The third part of Claire Rousay’s experimental trilogy may give you the fear at first, but persevere – and it’ll reward you with a journey from homesickness to homecoming

a little death by claire rousay

It takes skill and artistry to recast everyday sounds from mundane to deeply sentimental. On this album, named after a wine bar rather than a sexual metaphor, while the Canadian-American composer Claire Rousay foregrounds acoustic piano, guitar and strings, the recorded sounds of her kitchen, passing cars and snippets of conversation punctuate the music’s sleepy tone in such a way as to gently enmesh it with an entrancing world.

One of the pieces, ‘Night One’ epitomises this relationship between the different forms of instrumentation, in…

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To the sound of cumbia rhythms, noisy bass tremors, frantic violin phrases and spectral electronics, the Peruvian-born artist creates a moving meditation on home and homeliness, from the unconscious desires buried in the basement to the hopes and dreams spiralling from the attic room

What is a home? Is it a house, a place of belonging, a shelter for our loved ones, or an abstract space we construct to seek comfort? One can imagine that this question has haunted humankind since nomadic tribes first settled in permanent dwellings. Yet, no one had articulated the phenomenology of homes as vividly as French philosopher Gaston Bachelard. The house, he writes in the 1958 book The Poetics Of Space, is “a topography of our…

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Our folk columnist Patrick Clarke returns with 10 crucial new releases from the artists pushing traditional music into strange new climes, plus reflections on an epic multi-generational tribute to Martin Carthy

Marry Waterson performs at a tribute to Martin Carthy at London’s EartH Theatre, photo by Patrick Smith

The room that is now Dalston’s EartH Theatre first opened as a cinema in 1936, five years before the birth of Martin Carthy. In the decades since both man and room have endured swings in fortune. One of the most innovative guitarists and influential performers of the 1960s folk scene, Carthy spent the years that followed shapeshifting across all manner of collaborations – The Watersons, Steeleye Span, The Albion Band, Brass Monkey – to…

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As he releases his uplifting new album about weathering tough times, the rule-breaking drummer and composer shares the records that have shaped his life – spanning Grace Jones, Thelonious Monk, Slayer and more

For Seb Rochford, among the most admired drummers of his generation, it has been a tough road to new album Finding Ways. Since losing his father in 2019, the subject of 2023’s A Short Diary in collaboration with pianist Kit Downes, he can scarcely talk about the past several years, other than to declare them “the most challenging of my life.” 

This is no small statement. When he was 18 Rochford lost his mother, who had shaped and encouraged his early passion for music, then had those ambitions coldly…

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Oneohtrix Point Never

Tranquilizer

Sifting through the sands of long-forgotten 90s sample packs, has Daniel Lopatin struck some ghostly yet ecstatic gold?

Tranquilizer by Oneohtrix Point Never

They’re building a vault in Norway, deep within an Arctic mountain. The Global Music Vault, as it is known, follows in the footsteps of the Arctic World Archive and Global Seed Vault before it: an attempt, in a precarious world, to do for music what has been done for art and plants, and protect selected pieces from whatever fate awaits the world around it. Kept on silica glass, the most robust means of sonic preservation in the world, these recordings are intended to outlive our grandchildren, and their grandchildren too. It’s an evocative, dramatic enterprise, but one…

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The film was commissioned by Mary Anne Hobbs and Anna Phoebe as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival. You can view it first via tQ below

Conceived by Mary Anne Hobbs and Anna Phoebe as part of this year’s Manchester International Festival What Do You Want? is a project in three parts.

The first was a public artwork, a billboard in the centre of Manchester inviting passers-by to answer the question ‘What do you want’?, either by writing directly onto the billboard or dropping a private message into a postbox. Tellingly, the billboard became a chaotic and messy sprawl of outward-looking messages, while inside the postbox were private, intimate and personal notes.

The second was a live performance, with Hobbs blending music…

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