Daily Newsletter, December 12, 2023

Some masters can keep on going...

In 1969, just a year before their breakup, The Beatles established Zapple, the moribund avant-garde wing of Apple Records.

How do you vote on the best albums of 2023 – get a bunch of music editors and critics in the room to battle it out, that's how.

Today in musical anniversaries: Otis Redding and most of his backing band perished when their small plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake in 1967; the pioneering punk dive CBGB opened in New York in 1973; Led Zeppelin reunited for the first time in decades in London in 2007; Mike Nesmith of The Monkees died in […]

I Listened to 50 Albums in 2023. Here's What to Add to Your Next Playlist.

Read Tal Rosenberg’s review of the album.

These are our favourite reissues, compilations, live albums, mixes, OSTs and etceteras of the last 12 months, as voted for by tQ staff, columnists and core writers

Meet the talented women who defied norms and left an indelible mark on punk music. Plus, learn about the impact they had on the genre.

Still shopping for that music fan who loves to read? I’ve got you covered — assuming they love The Cure, Phil Ochs, Throbbing Gristle, jazz sidemen or Peruvian metal. ’Cause that’s all she wrote. Well, not quite all: I also came across a book featuring a Manchurian Candidate-style conspiracy theory about the murder of John Lennon […]

The auteur behind “Anselm” and “Perfect Days” on his complicated relationship to his native Germany, a new project he’s been nursing for years, and the beauty of sharing mixtapes.

The Delines new single, Christmas In Atlantis, is the perfect way to get into a chilled out vibe in the madness of the pre-Christmas period.