The ban set by the government means they have been forced to cancel their appearance at Budapest’s Sziget Festival

Kneecap have been banned from entering Hungary for three years, government spokesman Zoltán Kovács has revealed on X.

Outlining the reasons for the ban, Kovacs said the Irish rappers had “repeatedly engaged in antisemitic hate speech supporting terrorism and terrorist groups”. He also said that the trio’s planned performance at Budapest’s Sziget Festival, which has now been cancelled, “posed a national security threat”.

Responding to the ban, Kneecap apologised to their fans who would no longer be able to see the play live at Sziget, and described the country’s government, led by Viktor Orbán, as “authoritarian”. They also called out his decision to host Israeli leader Benjamin…

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Daryl Worthington looks back three decades to the release of the ambient duo’s spellbinding debut, now reissued by Artificial Pinearch Manufacturing

A twenty-minute video filmed at Other Music, a record store in New York, captures Stars Of The Lid live in 1996. Shot on a camcorder, the duo, the late Brian McBride and Adam Wiltzie, are playing in a seemingly ad hoc space. While the latter stands next to a bookcase and a ladder, the former is perched left of frame by a door opening onto a packed closet. They tune up and chat, a guitar chord hits a longtailed delay and starts looping. The point where the banter stops and performance starts isn’t clear cut.

In terms of video, it captures…

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Pharaoh Overlord

Louhi

Go loud or go home – the blistering Finnish rock band are back. Get ready for some weaponised phlegm and stoner-kosmische

Louhi by Pharaoh Overlord

Like sister band Circle or Japanese outliers Boris, Pharoah Overlord occupy a singular space: it doesn’t much matter who’s involved or what kind of music they’re making – stoner rock, scratchy jazz, endless Italo-disco – somehow it is, and will always be, them. 

Over the course of 25 years and 20+ releases the band have charted a course that might seem odd at first glance but, viewed from on high, reveals itself to be a wide and eminently logical ellipse. If Louhi doesn’t find them back exactly where they started it’s certainly a variation on a theme…

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ODA Louise and Eliade Krön sit down with Alex Walden to talk about how a chance encounter with a disobedient dog set them on the journey of growth that culminated in new collaborative EP Nowhere Left

You’d be surprised at how many huge songs have been inspired by the simplest events. Van Halen’s ‘Jump’ originated from frontman David Lee Roth just watching the news, while Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ came after Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna spraypainted the phrase “Kurt smells like Teen Spirit” on a wall in reference to the deodorant used by his girlfriend at the time. Every now and then a select few are able to craft entire worlds within music from what initially appear to be rather…

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Forth Wanderers

The Longer This Goes On

After seven years, the New Jersey quintet return older, wiser but just as rough and ready, finds Archie Forde

The Longer This Goes On by Forth Wanderers

Lauded as talented upstarts by everyone from Lorde to The New Yorker, Forth Wanderers were one of those bands that never got as big as they should have. Just before the American tour for their first album, the group disbanded after lead singer Ava Trilling shared that she’d been diagnosed with a mental health issue and would be stepping away from music.

This month, the New Jersey Indie outfit return after seven years, breaking their radio silence with a third studio album, The Longer This Goes On, released on Sub Pop….

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Orange Milk founder Keith Rankin spins chopped up bits of t.A.T.u. and Selena Gomez into a thrilling invocation of a gaudy, unliveable present, finds Claire Biddles

From Sunik Kim’s dense noise monoliths to aya’s 4am horror stories, much of the best contemporary electronic music embodies the inherent chaos of life in 2025. This music is often intimidating, jarring, or straightforwardly unpleasant, born from circumstances that Brady Corbet’s Vox Lux snappily termed “a gaudy, unlivable present” – or, in other words, a Decadent Stress Chamber.

But despite this ominous title, Keith Rankin’s fifth album as Giant Claw represents a heel turn from the nihilistic excess of the zeitgeist. Decadent Stress Chamber is maximalism of possibility: a commingling of worldly frenzy and human warmth…

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In this month’s subscriber essay, Ian Wade writes on how pioneering British gay drama Queer As Folk, screened by Channel 4 in 1999, reflected a generation’s experiences of coming out and discovering their identity

The late 1990s had seen a shift in what might be called ‘gay programming’, especially on Channel 4. There’d been the Red Light Zone, which started in 1995 and featured the likes of Robert Mapplethorpe and Tom of Finland documentary Daddy and the Muscle Academy which, well, let’s just say I’ve since replaced it on DVD. The news that the station had commissioned a ‘gay drama’ was seen as par for the course of its then boundary-pushing remit. 

Queer As Folk, which was first broadcast on 23 February 1999, was based…

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The 1973 album has been remastered and will be made available on digital streaming platforms for the first time

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Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham’s classic joint album Buckingham Nicks is getting a long-awaited official reissue for the first time.

Marking the first time that the record will be made available on streaming platforms, the 1973 album has been newly remastered for its updated release, and will additionally be pressed to vinyl. Listen to a newly remastered version of album opener ‘Crying In The Night’ below.

Fleetwood Mac fired Buckingham, who had been the band’s lead guitarist and co-vocalist, in 2018. This resulted in him suing the band for breach of contract, and he further blamed Nicks for the firing. The lawsuit was settled that same year. In a statement shared in…

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The remastered part-studio, part-live album is due out in September

The Fall’s 1989 record Seminal Live is being reissued.

Set to be made available on yellow vinyl and digitally, the half-studio, half-live album has been newly remastered for the updated release. The physical release will come with reimagined artwork and new sleeve notes.

Seminal Live was the first of many live and semi-live albums across The Fall’s catalogue. Its release marked the end of the band’s prolific Beggars Banquet era, which had began in 1984. The studio recordings on the record were all new songs and make up the first side of the album, while the live recordings on side two were all versions of previously-released tracks.

The reissue can be pre-ordered here.

Beggars Arkive will release…

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It’s the group’s second release of 2025

Factory Floor have released a new track, ‘Tell Me’.

Out now, the new cut follows on from previous single ‘Between You’, which the group released earlier this year to mark their first release of new material in seven years. They returned from hiatus last year to perform a show at MUTEK in Montréal.

‘Tell Me’ was recorded by Factory Floor’s current lineup of Gabe Gurnsey, Nik Colk Void and Joe Ward, while New Order’s Stephen Morris provides additional drum tracking on the song. You can listen to the track in its edited and extended form below.

Read tQ’s 2024 interview with Factory Floor, which marked their return from hiatus, here.

‘Tell Me’ is out now on Phantasy.

Tell Me…

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