Q's staffers welcome in a new year of music with their favourite albums and tracks released in 2025 so far It used to be that ...

The road to The Specials' first number one was long but they blazed a trail in finally getting Too Much Too Young to the top ...

The third and final part of the Polish artist's "alchemical trilogy" feels increasingly confined by its own concept, but ...

After cheering up the nation with her lockdown kitchen discos, Sophie Ellis-Bextor takes Fergal Kinney through her 13 favourite albums, from Blur to Madonna, Paul Simon and Fleetwood Mac and musicals ...

After a period of personal tragedy and physical rehabilitation, Gum Takes Tooth’s Jussi Brightmore celebrates life with his ...

Coil's first album proper is an alchemist's mix of synth pop, industrial, avant garde, rage, humour and transgression ...

Joy Orbison has shared a new standalone single, titled ‘Bastard’. Taking in vocals from London-based vocalist Joe James, the new cut shares sonic headspace with the more introspective qualities of his ...

Room40 boss calls in a cavalcade of collaborators – including Jim O'Rourke, Claire Rousay, and The Necks' Chris Abrahams ...

The Manics have abandoned the ideologies and cultural touchstones that once defined them, and approached their fifteenth ...

Angherr Shisspa by Kōenjihyakkei is 20 years old, has just been reissued and is arguably the greatest Zeuhl album of all time ...

In his Baker's Dozen, the Circle frontman talks about converting people to the Dead; why Pori might have the highest concentration of Cardiacs fans in Europe, and what he learned from Faust's ...

In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing ...