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Kevin Morby is back, Bonnie "Prince" Billy's First & Best, Roundtable Podcast, Shabaka's Starting XI, the first ever SFA song, Curling (obviously)
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Dec 1, 2025
The Best Albums of the Century so far, Part 1
Dec 10, 2025
The Best Albums of the Century so far, Part 2
Dec 11, 2025
Seriously though, what is it that I’m not getting about Geese?
Dec 18, 2025 • Stuart Stubbs

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Roundtable podcast: Dry Cleaning, Tyler Ballgame, By Storm and David Bowie's Blackstar
3 members of the L&Q team discuss key albums from the last 30 days, and reassess one from 10 years ago
Feb 11 • Stuart Stubbs, Gemma Samways, and Sam Walton
Shabaka’s Starting XI
The fantasy team of artists who've meant the most to Shabaka Hutchings throughout his life and career
Feb 9 • Stuart Stubbs
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Double track of the week action, First & Best with Charlotte Day Wilson, Flying Lotus on the podcast, Soulwax will rave at Abbey Road, Melania IRL
Feb 6
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Podcast: Flying Lotus’ New Year’s resolutions
FlyLo just announced his new EP 'Big Mama'. Here's his first podcast interview about it.
Feb 5 • Stuart Stubbs

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The Drift: the month’s best in weird and experimental music
Our first look at the world’s best new weird releases, including atomic psych from Taiwan and flayed baile funk from Brazil
Feb 2 • Cal Cashin
Who lives in a house li... Prince! It’s Prince’s house!
Would you live in Paisley Park if you had to keep all the decor and furnishings?
Jan 21 • Stuart Stubbs
Pitchfork launches subscriptions, readers score the news 0.0
It's not that bad of an idea, is it?
Jan 20 • Stuart Stubbs
Why won’t you just die!?
Nothing is forever, not even final goodbyes
Jan 15 • Stuart Stubbs
10 cult classic albums from the worst month of the year
Hayden Merrick on some of the greatest albums released in Januarys past, giving you the soundtrack to another new-year/new-me journey
Jan 5 • Hayden Merrick

Interviews

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Shabaka’s Starting XI
The fantasy team of artists who've meant the most to Shabaka Hutchings throughout his life and career
Feb 9 • Stuart Stubbs
The romance and reality of running a record store
The story of Drift Records, and why the renowned store surprised everyone last week by announcing its forthcoming closure
Feb 4 • Stuart Stubbs
No more slowcore: the transfigured return of deathcrash
The foremost custodians of British slowcore discuss why it was time to put the sound to rest for their make-or-break third album, Somersaults. By Robert…
Jan 13
Sleaford Mods’ Starting XI
The fantasy team of artists who've meant the most to Jason Williamson throughout his life and career
Jan 7 • Stuart Stubbs

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Robbie Williams’ Britpop dream, and our relative nightmare
Robbie's new album drops us back into the wrong end of a movement than many didn't like when it was at its best
Jan 19 • Stuart Stubbs
The simple joys of live music
Cal Cashin travels to Bristol's Simple Things festival to work out what he loves most about going to shows
Nov 12, 2025 • Cal Cashin
Turnstile thrive in the wild
The Baltimore band bring their supersize hardcore show to Alexandra Palace for every heavy music fan with an open mind
Nov 6, 2025 • Stuart Stubbs
Clive Le Bouche reviews every album cover to ever win the Mercury Prize
L&Q's reclusive art critic resurfaces
Oct 29, 2025
A man walks into the strangest gig of his life
PJ Harvey, Jason Pierce and Sam Walton turn out for the wild world of Milkweed
Oct 22, 2025 • Sam Walton
Has John Maus ridden out his post-January 6th cancellation?
Caught up in the Trump rally that led to the storming of the US Capitol, the king of DIY synth-pop returns with Later Than You Think
Sep 29, 2025 • Stuart Stubbs
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Podcasts & Video

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42:37
Roundtable podcast: Dry Cleaning, Tyler Ballgame, By Storm and David Bowie's Blackstar
3 members of the L&Q team discuss key albums from the last 30 days, and reassess one from 10 years ago
Feb 11 • Stuart Stubbs, Gemma Samways, and Sam Walton
Podcast: Flying Lotus’ New Year’s resolutions
FlyLo just announced his new EP 'Big Mama'. Here's his first podcast interview about it.
Feb 5 • Stuart Stubbs
42:07
Metronomy: back to work (for one night only)
Listen now | Joe Mount is currently a man on a sabbatical, producing Adam Buxton and working with Robyn, waiting for inspiration to plot a meaningful…
Jan 28 • Stuart Stubbs
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The two lives of Biffy Clyro, with Simon Neil
From post-hardcore trio to the UK's biggest rock band, the Simon Neil discusses what it's like to go mainstream, and why it was a no-brainer
Dec 16, 2025 • Stuart Stubbs
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Roundtable podcast: Sorry, Danny Brown, an argument about Rosalía, and Albums of the Year
Things get heated over pop opera
Dec 9, 2025
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Kevin Morby is back, Bonnie "Prince" Billy's First & Best, Roundtable Podcast, Shabaka's Starting XI, the first ever SFA song, Curling (obviously)
Feb 13
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Double track of the week action, First & Best with Charlotte Day Wilson, Flying Lotus on the podcast, Soulwax will rave at Abbey Road, Melania IRL
Feb 6
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New protest songs, the chillest TOTW, The Itch live in a cellar, V&A East launched with Black British music exhibition, Morrissey checks his phone
Jan 30
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Green screen of the week, a tour of Prince's home, guitar lessons from Squid, Arctic Monkeys are alive!, Pitchfork's 0.0 news, Spice Girls in shock
Jan 23
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Aldous Harding joins Sleaford Mods, Dry Cleaning live in London, Bandcamp bans AI, Life Without Buildings return, Jenny Lewis marries her dog
Jan 16
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Lala Lala settles in LA, 10 cult classic albums from Januarys past, First & Best with The Cribs, Save Where Else?, Peter Gabriel's moon safari
Jan 9
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Listen to Cootie Catcher, Biffy Clyro on the podcast, First & Best with Melody's Echo Chamber, Geesalazy Keith Richards, The Best of 2025
Dec 19, 2025
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The Best Albums of the Century so far, King Krule's instrumental album, a new record store for London, 2 surprise albums, podcast ding-dong, Cameron…
Dec 12, 2025
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