In the new issue of Q, out on Tuesday 7 May, we go deep into the world of Vampire Weekend. Over two meetings in Los Angeles, band leader Ezra Koenig talks to Niall Doherty about fatherhood, their excellent fourth album and why he can’t stop over-thinking. “The album is so colourful and diverse,” he says. “After all these years gone, I needed to re-establish a bigger world.”

The Norwegian synth-pop star on how Grimes’ 2015 record helped shape her world.

Dublin’s Fontaines D.C. cite James Joyce and TS Elliot as the main influences on their fourth single. You can certainly hear it in frontman Grian Chatten’s surreal monologue here, delivered in a tar-thick accent over anxious sounding post punk styled guitars.

Aussie singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett backstage at Brixton Academy, London, before her show in November 2018. An outtake from Q394, taken by Alex Lake.

Q writer David Cavanagh died on December 27, 2018. He wrote for Q prolifically during in the 1990s and returned to the magazine in 2018. He was the greatest music writer of his era, universally admired by his peers and readers alike. This profile of former Coral guitarist Bill Ryder-Jones appeared in November, 2018, in Q393. It was to be his last piece for Q.