Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas
As the Winter Olympics opens in Sochi, we present an extract from Gay Propaganda: Russian Love Stories, published by OR Books, and a glimpse in to the devastating effects of Russia's draconian laws and social attitudes toward homosexuality. The book, by turns harrowing, hilarious and affirming, is nothing if not necessary