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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Richard Foster reports back from another stellar edition of the Utrecht Festival, where he finds equal space for spiritual nourishment gibbering wig-outs, courtesy of Valentina Magaletti, upsammy, EarthBall, The Fiery Furnaces and many more

Andriana-Yaroslava Saienko, photo by Lisanne Lentink

Le Guess Who? is a wonderful music festival. Perhaps – unwittingly – it also reflects the MO of Utrecht’s first bishop, the Northumbrian pilgrim Willibrord. These four days in Utrecht have become a vital gathering, a spiritual and practical connection point for the wider alternative music community in times of fragmentation, confusion, and restriction. 

Days play out in the manner of Courbet’s painting, The Meeting, where musicians from around the globe hook up, swap stories and make plans. No one really knows where…

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New York isn’t dead, says Maxelle Talena in the latest of tQ’s dispatches from the North American underground. It’s being killed. From jumpstyle to hardcore punk, from hip hop to garage rock (for those who can’t afford a garage), she introduces five key artists keeping the flame alive

Alex Walton, photo by Owen Lehman

It’s 2011, and luxury brownstone owner/avatar for everyman New Yorker Michael Rapaport (who will go on to campaign for disgraced former governor Andrew Coumo as well as disgraced outgoing mayor Eric Adams, both of whom oversaw massive waves gentrification) is wearing a T-shirt that reads ‘Brooklyn’, standing in an alley, providing the intro to the video for ‘What Happened?’ by NYHC-turned-pop-punk-turned-hardcore-again novelty act H2O. He wants you to…

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SML

How You Doing

Progressive, sprawling, and infinitely interesting trance-jazz from LA’s pre-eminent sideman supergroup

How You Been by SML

Currently the Los Angeles jazz scene is awash with talent built off the work of premier sidemen. Unlike yesteryear, where players would hold fast to their jazz roots, a swathe of Angeleno musicians are venturing into the worlds of indie, experimental music and pop, bringing a diverse sonic palette back to jazz.

LA’s SML embody these ideals. A supergroup consisting of bassist Anna Butterss, synthesist Jeremiah Chiu, saxophonist Josh Johnson, percussionist Booker Stardrum, and guitarist Gregory Uhlmann, the members have featured on records by artists ranging from Jeff Parker and Ariel Kalma to Perfume Genius and Phoebe Bridgers. On their latest release How You Been,…

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Roj Osa meets Rob Mazurek

Beton Kino

Croatian brothers Alen and Nenad Sinkauz meet the Chicago cornet player for some interstellar sonics played live in brutalist venues

BETON KINO by Roj Osa meets Rob Mazurek

Before even pressing play on Beton Kino, Danijel Žeželj’s cover draws you into the record’s crumbling post-industrial setting. The popping blood-red colour, angular lines of the title’s font and slabs of black-and-white concrete are so vivid you can almost hear them: grimy guitar riffs, arrhythmic percussion, oblique electronics and expansive trumpet yelps reverberating in abandoned brutalist architectures.

For the past two decades, Roj Osa’s bassist Alen and guitarist Nenad Sinkauz have been among the hardest-working musicians in the small yet solid Croatian outré music scene. Originally active through the noisy…

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“I feel so lucky to have been able to work with John on this song,” Charli says

Charli XCX and John Cale have released a video for gothic pop dirge belter ‘House’, written to appear on the soundtrack for Emerald Fennell’s forthcoming adaptation of Emily Brontē’s novel Wuthering Heights. On a social media post last week, Charli XCX spoke about how as a huge fan of The Velvet Underground, she was particularly inspired by Cale’s belief (expressed on Todd Haynes’ film about the band) that songs must be both ‘elegant and brutal’. “I got really stuck on that phrase,” she posted, “I wrote it down in my notes app and would pull it up from time to time and think about…

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Darran Anderson reflects on the work of the great Dennis Potter, an artist who saw the potential of television as medium, and a working class writer so “imaginative in the ways he defied containment”

Michael Gambon in Dennis Potter’s The Singing Detective

The idea of rock & roll being the devil’s music seems quaint now. The ‘Prince of Darkness’ recently passed away as a beloved uncle figure, and Satanic panic is distant in the rear-view mirror. It may be a sign of the cynicism of our age or the duplicity of earlier times but it’s music from before rock & roll that now seems uncanny, too innocent and smooth, and thus indicative of things not being what they seem, perhaps even secretly…

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Earth Ball

Outside Over There

Panicked beats and sparking guitars animate the latest record from the improvising Canadian quintet

Outside Over There by EarthBall

Based out of a similar neck of the Pacific Northwest’s woods that brought us Twin Peaks, Kelly Reichardt’s Old Joy and Mandy by Panos Cosmatos, Earth Ball navigate the lure of nature with a weird bit between their teeth. Less in that saturated, folk horror, zeitgeist-y way, more like they’ve been left to their own devices and have been experimenting without any overarching fear of judgement. They trust in their own intuitions, no matter how wild. These dialled-in instincts were showcased spectacularly on the double live album they released earlier this year.

Their studio follow-up, Outside Over There, doesn’t let the…

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Hannah Pezzack looks back half a century and finds a crucial album which is pulsating with erotic energy

A few years ago, I caught Patti Smith at Rewire, the Dutch experimental music festival. It was not my first encounter – I’d attended her concerts before, including in my hometown of Cardiff and once in Amsterdam, where she prowled into the front row, sermonising like a preacher, fierce and familiar. Then, as in this instance, I thought I knew what I’d find: her indomitable public persona – that New York drawl, the ragged poet brimming with gravelly charisma. But this time, it was different.

She stood in The Hague’s vast Amare dance theatre, together with her bandmates, the Soundwalk Collective, bathed in flickering…

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With the publication of his new book, Grime, Roony Keefe talks to Arusa Qureshi about Rhythm Division, Grime Gran and how he became the documentarian of the grime scene

When people talk about the early days of grime, they talk about MCs, pirate radio, and an innate energy that rewired British music. Behind the lens, however, shaping how we saw it all, were those that chronicled the scene and its most significant moments, ensuring a record was kept of the people and projects that set the tempo for those that came after. Roony ‘Risky Roadz’ Keefe – filmmaker, archivist, and now author – didn’t just capture grime; he helped define it. His new book, Grime: Documenting the scene’s rise and reign,…

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