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Embrace the Black Box: Duet Emmo Interviewed
43 years since their sole record Or So It Seems, Daniel Miller, Graham Lewis and Bruce Gilbert will be reforming Duet Emmo for the band's first ever live performance. Speaking to Kiran Sande, they look back to tell the story of a cult classic, and forwards to a show that won't just see them trying to emulate what's come before
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Pet Shop Boys
A Man From the Future
Chris Lowe and Neil Tennant rework their 2014 BBC Proms performance about Alan Turing into a tighter, more album-shaped package, with the voices of Juliet Stevenson and Gordon Brown
Low Culture Podcast
The Low Culture Podcast: Godzilla
In this month’s edition of the pod, John Doran and Luke Turner face a terrifying beast of the atomic age
Album of the Week
Move Any Mountain: Ako Akas by 10LEC6
Eight years after Bone Bame, the Paris collective return with a record named after a Cameroonian mountain that traps walkers in a dance they cannot quit. The reason they chose that story is more pointed than the sleeve lets on
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Rum Music
Rum Music for October Reviewed by Kate Molleson
With our regular columnist Jennifer Lucy Allan on sabbatical, we're leaving Rum Music in the capable hands of broadcaster and journalist Kate Molleson. Here she presents her favourite new discoveries, from deconstructed tropicália to a crystalline performance of a 400-year-old masterpiece via sung quotes, gamelan and more
The Quietus International
Rockfort! French Music for September, Reviewed by David McKenna
In his latest guide to the best new music coming out of France, David McKenna considers the relationship between regionalism and nationalism, and reviews essential new records, from a mutant club masterpiece to a brilliant prog pop swansong, via Sourdure, Brama and more
Baker’s Dozen
Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Concrète Dschungel: Einstürzende Neubauten’s Kollaps At 45
Neubauten's uncompromising debut album ‘Kollaps’ is 45 years old. Jeremy Allen explores the bombed-out terrain of their West Berlin and wonders if, despite the penurious conditions, it was easier to make art then
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Explore 15 Years Of Cultural Wayfinding
Each week we conjure up a miscellany of tQ writing from the mists of time for you. Most often random. Sometimes themed. Always enthralling.
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Rock's Backpages
“Wit, Style, Humour, Even Music Hall”: Neil Tennant & Brett Anderson On Noel Coward
Today from the Rock's Backpages archive, an archive piece from 1998 where Suede's Brett Anderson and Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant (with interjections from Vic Reeves) sat down to discuss the legacy of Noel Coward and changing attitudes to sexuality
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