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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 ...

The Cult will tour the UK next year and have released new material earlier this month. Our man John Robb spoke to singer Ian Astbury about the history of The Cult, working with Boris and how the ...

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Nearly forty years since his first solo album, the Wire bassist/vocalist might just have released his best work to date, ...

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Payola in the music industry has always had a PR problem. For some reason, the many different forms it has taken over several ...

In the final part of tQ's collaboration with 20ft Radio, Neformat, the British Council and Ukrainian Institute, Anton Shmarhovych offers a comprehensive overview of some of the wonderful music to come ...