John Doran

LISTEN: Outernational On NTS Live Radio

Two hours of Middle Eastern and African party music

At The Brink Of Destruction: Ian William Craig Interviewed

John Doran speaks to one of tQ's favourite artists of recent years, the singer and tape manipulator, Ian William Craig

12-Year-Old Boy Directs New Aphex Twin Video

Aphex Twin shares the first taste of his forthcoming EP

Free Screening Of Orion Tonight At RTE

The Quietus Hour Episode Ten: New Music Radio With John & Luke

Luke Turner and John Doran are back with another instalment of their weekly radio show that brings you the best in new music and also features that kind of gibberish that would have seen them incarcerated in more civilised times

Stone Roses New Single At Midnight Tonight

Manchester band release Beautiful Thing at witching hour

The Vinyl Staircase: June In Record Buying Misery By John Doran

John Doran goes to Margate to visit the newly opened Transmission and casts his eyes over a box set by Cluster, appreciates the work of Pharaway Sounds and checks the 'new' Units LP... All photographs by author unless otherwise stated

Guttersnipe & Yeah You At Cafe Oto Tonight

From The Lighthouse: Kristoffer Lo Interviewed

Kristoffer Lo recorded his new album of tuba and flugabone drones in a lighthouse out at sea during a storm. And it's great, says John Doran, who interviewed him recently

Porch Songs: Marissa Nadler Interviewed

Marissa Nadler has just released her new album Strangers. Here she talks to John Doran about apocalyptic visions, personal crisis and the need for constant creative change

LISTEN: New ERC Track Out Now

A northern uproar from Adrian, Dean and Maxine

tQ At Stoke Newington Lit Fest

Edited highlights (according to us at least) of the popular annual books bash in Hackney

LISTEN: Outernational On NTS Live

Levantine Funk... Afro psych... Egyptian grime... Disco hi-life... Two hours of party music from the Middle East and Africa

Alistair Fruish On The Sentence & Alan Moore Art

John Doran speaks to Alistair Fruish about his 46,000 word, one sentence novel and learns about an Alan Moore artwork on sale on eBay today...

SFTOC Sense Blasting Sunday In Salford

Sculpture, ILL, Chrononautz, Yossarians, Locean, The Interference, Big Sexy Land DJs & John Doran Live at the Kings Arms as part of Sounds From The Other City

An Official Statement On The Death Of Prince

WATCH: Tony Conrad Supersonic Live & Interview Film

Great footage of the American drone music pioneer at the Custard Factory in Digbeth

Lone Taxidermist RSD Face Off!

Natalie Sharp recreates classic album covers... on her boat race!

LISTEN: 6Music On Mike Patton

Yeah, cheers for inventing Limp Bizkit mate.

WATCH: Neil Tennant PSB Interview

"Taylor Swift is like the Margaret Thatcher of pop"

Jolly Lad The Audiobook Out Now

Jolly Lad Audiobook Clips On NTS Radio

Jonathan Meades’ First Art Exhibition

Inimitable TV man and word assembler versus the cultural lollipop ladies

WATCH: Årabrot Tall Man Video

WATCH: Cornershop’s New Video

Condemned To Vagrancy: The Strange World Of… Matmos

When you get that feeling, Matmos give you conceptual healing. Drew Daniel and Martin 'M.C.' Schmidt talk John Doran through the highlights of their career to date. Band portraits by Josh Sisk

Hey Colossus Reissue Cuckoo On Vinyl

The Middle Eastern And African Playlist By John Doran

John Doran presents this month’s playlist of Turkish funk, Egyptian mahraganat, Iranian synaesthetic techno and classic Moroccan field recordings

Get Rich But Don’t Switch: Kano Interviewed

John Doran talks to the East London born and bred MC about the joy of brass, trying to heal old feuds and his growing social consciousness

WATCH: New Let’s Eat Grandma Video

Belly Reform: UK Shows

The Vinyl Staircase: Vertigo At The World’s Largest Record Fair

John Doran keeps on striding down the vinyl staircase; this month he alights at a crashed Borg spaceship in Utrecht containing four million LPs and singles. February's reissues include Erasure and African Headcharge