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Author Chris Bryans' new book is an oral history of the group Killing Joke. In the following exclusive extract, band members Youth and Geordie Walker, engineer Phil Harding, and sleeve designer Mike Coles recall the making of their eponymous debut
Sod the first few EPs, we say a band's real hidden gems are buried at the end, among the ill-advised career moves and last grasps at fading relevance. Here, tQ writers fight the corner for their favourite unloved and underrated records from the tail-end of their favourite artists' discography.
With The Orb's new retrospective box set recently released, Exotic Pylon lizard lord Jonny Mugwump speaks to Alex Patterson about industrial ambient dub, the social conditions that fed into the 90s rave explosion, and working with Lee 'Scratch' Perry
In our latest Wreath Lecture, Joe Kennedy argues that now the flaccid post punk revival of ten years ago is over, in 2012 artists are making music that embraces the imperative to move forward and reflect troubled times. Header image: artwork for test pressing of Prurient's Bermuda Drain
After meeting up at Paul Raven's funeral the original line-up of Killing Joke decided to record together for the first time since 82. John Doran got the invite round to Youth's house on Xmas Eve to hear the results
As Nitzer Ebb gear up to play Helsinki's Flow Festival, Douglas McCarthy talks Luke Turner through his favourite music, from listening to classical while eating offal on Canvey Island through David Bowie, Killing Joke, Brian Eno, JJ Cale, Thelonious Monk and more
How did it take us nearly a decade to ask Brother John Robb for his Baker's Dozen choices? The Membranes frontman sits down with Julian Marszalek to discuss 13 favourite records where over the years he's dug out the most funk
In a piece originally commissioned by The Bug's Kevin Martin, Justin Broadrick follows the release of Godflesh's new album A World Lit Only By Fire by taking a new spin on the Baker's Dozen format and talking Kate Hennessy through his current listening favourites