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In 1979, DIY synth pioneers Thomas Leer and Robert Rental made one album together for Throbbing Gristle’s Industrial Records. A new exhibition at the Horse Hospital explores the record’s continuing legacy
With the far right in ascendence across the globe, there's never been a more necessary time to investigate fascist and racist infiltration, current and historical, into the underground culture we love. In an introductory essay to a new Quietus series, Dylan Miller explains why we're doing it
Ahead of his appearance at Le Guess Who? festival in Utrecht, left-field US rapper JPEGMAFIA talks to Tara Joshi about journalism, Throbbing Gristle and his forthright track, ‘I Cannot Fucking Wait Until Morrissey Dies’
In COUM Transmissions the future members of Throbbing Gristle would intensely interrogate the nature of art and performance, along with testing their own experiential limits, across almost a decade of unique 'actions'. Join us on a journey through their strange world where their compulsion to find a pure and honest form of expression saw them tearing up taboos, severely unsettling the establishment on the way. Images thanks to the Tate Archive / Cabinet Gallery. WARNING - SOME IMAGES NSFW
Two decades after Coil finally finished tinkering with tracks, Backwards has finally been release. Russell Cuzner talks to Danny Hyde, the band’s engineer, co-producer, co-writer and programmer about this 'lost' album and the Nine Inch Nails’ material, released last year as Recoiled. Contains NSFW video imagery
Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about his long and bizarre career, from child actor, to Jonathan King-signed pop singer, to house-sitting for David Bowie, collaborating with Derek Jarman and his new soundtrack to 1924 film Epic Of Everest
He’s an elusive artist fuelled by his passion for progressive music and outsider sounds. But Trevor Jackson's new compilation dedicated to the EBM, post-punk and industrial dance acts of the ’80s unveils a fondness for the past. We spoke to him to find out more
Leading light of the Berlin underground Gudrun Gut guides Jeremy Allen through 13 favourite records - she wanted them all to be Neu! but as there weren't enough, there's the Bad Seeds, Throbbing Gristle, Lana Del Rey and much more. Gudrun Gut portrait by Mv Kummer
As ADULT. prepare to tour Europe, Nicola Kuperus and Adam Miller tell Daniel Dylan Wray about their 13 favourite albums drawn from the tough and leather side of life, from Throbbing Gristle to Nitzer Ebb, Einstürzende Neubauten to Drexciya
Before the release of their sixth album this week and appearance at Atonal in Berlin this August, the Death In Vegas head honcho, producer and DJ scours the fruits of his record-collecting history and picks 13 tracks that have informed Transmission for Joe Clay
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