Music of the Month
Music of the Month: The Best Albums and Tracks of March 2026
tQ's staffers select the best songs and records that have soundtracked the long-awaited beginning of spring
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The Strange World Of… Ladytron
With their eighth album Paradises out this week, Simon Price asks Ladytron founder Daniel Hunt to shed some light (and magic) upon ten entry points into the Scouse-based synth lords' (and ladies') pristine body of werk. And for top tier subscribers revelation is at hand via an essential playlist
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Reissue of the Week: Fall Heads Roll by The Fall
A new four CD reissue package, including fabled lost album reveals a triumphant portrait of the gruppe, says Alastair Shuttleworth, no matter how short-lived
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Iztok Koren & Raphael Rogiński
Nocturnal Consolations
Širom’s banjo and balafon player joins the Polish guitarist and composer to create a map of the folk unconscious, treating tradition as a field of forces in which sound drifts between memory, matter, and imagination
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Rockfort! French Music for March, Reviewed by David McKenna
In his latest missive from the French fringes, David McKenna digs into the archives of the Sonic Protest festival and a recent book on the post-68 French underground, and reviews new noise, folk, rap and indie pop releases
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Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives
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Strange World Of...
The Strange World Of… Ladytron
With their eighth album Paradises out this week, Simon Price asks Ladytron founder Daniel Hunt to shed some light (and magic) upon ten entry points into the Scouse-based synth lords' (and ladies') pristine body of werk. And for top tier subscribers revelation is at hand via an essential playlist
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Outside the Box: Sarah Nixey’s Favourite Albums
In her Baker's Dozen, self-penned between the release of her latest solo album and the return of her much-loved band Black Box Recorder, Sarah Nixey charts her life in listening from Carpenters to The Cure, via encounters with David Bowie and more
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Judas Priest, Sad Wings Of Destiny & The Birth Of Modern Metal
Half a century ago – between the release of Sad Wings Of Destiny and Sin After Sin – Judas Priest were engaged in a revolution of image and sound... one that would cement the heavy metal aesthetic for good
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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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Jet Propulsion Laboratory: Ben Cardew on The Pivotal Role of Stereolab’s ‘Super-Electric’
Ben Cardew's new book, Space Age Batchelor Pad Music: The Story Of Stereolab In 20 Songs, recounts the tale of Stereolab in 20 songs that represent certain vital aspects of the band’s make up (from romance, to collage and repetition). In this extract, he looks at the idea of 'propulsion', as it relates to ‘Super-Electric’, the title track of the band’s second EP
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A Cave of Wonders: Alexander Hacke of Einstürzende Neubauten on the Record Shop that Made Him
The Neubaten guitarist (later bassist) and collaborator with Phew, The Tiger Lillies and many more opens up about days wiled away in a seminal Berlin record shop, in an exclusive extract from his new book, Blast: Distorted Memories
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More than Theoretical Girls: Adele Bertei on the Women of No Wave
From working with Brian Eno to playing with The Contortions and The Bloods, Adele Bertei had a front-row seat to New York's infamous No Wave scene. She talks to Elizabeth Wiet about noise, melody, and why the fertile ecosystem of Downtown NYC couldn't come about today
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