John Doran

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

Beyoncé World Tour With UK Dates

Disco Infiltrated: An Early LCD Soundsystem Interview

As LCD Soundsystem announce their reunion for Coachella, John Doran delves into his archives for an early interview with James Murphy discussing their debut LP, DFA, and a musical Damascene moment

John Bradbury Of The Specials Dies Aged 62

Former band mate Jerry Dammers pays tribute

tQ’s Reissues Etc Of 2015, In Association With Norman Records

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

John Doran suffers a flexistential crisis, recalls interviewing Harmonia and casts his eye over reissues by Peter Gabriel and Simple Minds in the latest instalment of his vinyl collecting column

Jolly Lad At Le Guess Who? Tonight

"Did those girls look like undead sex workers to you?"

6Music Air Freakier Zone Coil Show

A short introduction to Coil, "one of the last great undiscovered groups"...

LISTEN: Helelyos Mixtape & Andy Votel Art Exhibition

John Doran interviews the Finders Keepers / Tisted Nerve beard lord about his new cassette art exhibition, opening in Chorlton tonight

Born To Do This: Allen Toussaint Interviewed

Very few people deserve the soubriquet 'Living Legend'. Allen Toussaint does. John Doran talks to New Orleans "musical royalty"

Black Impulse/TQ Incubate Radio Show

Natural Habitat: Real Lies Interviewed

John Doran talks to Tom Watson and Kev Kharas of Real Lies about finding a house by a lake in the middle of a city to live in and how that changed everything for them

WATCH: New Adele Video Hello

First video directed by Xavier Dolan and features Tristan Wilds of The Wire

The Vinyl Staircase YouTube Playlist

Calling all you enablers and all you enabled... John Doran has made you an internationally funkified playlist for a wet Wednesday...

LISTEN: Philip Jeck’s Favourite Music

A fascinating personal guided tour of the avant multi-media composer's extensive vinyl collection... including reggae housed in cream cracker packets

The Grit Under The Glitter: Jeanie Finlay Interviewed

John Doran talks to Jeanie Finlay about Orion, her new film about an Elvis soundalike, and how being an outsider helps

LIVE REPORT: Tower Bridge Bascule Chamber Concert

Against his better judgement John Doran goes to watch classical music in a "monstrously huge, 1,000 ton garlic crusher" inside Tower Bridge. Photo gallery by Maria Jefferis

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

A NEW MONTHLY COLUMN: Jonesing for a hit of the black wax, John Doran seeks solace with The Units, British Sea Power, Cassie, Black Sabbath, Barbara Carr, The The and more

Unfinished Business: New Order Interviewed

Don't call it a comeback... John Doran talks to New Order about their best album in a quarter of a century

LISTEN: New David Bowie Track Blackstar Excerpt

Kill the fatt'd calf etc. He is returned...

The Difficulty Of Love: King Midas Sound And Fennesz Interviewed

John Doran meets Christian Fennesz, Kiki Hitomi, Roger Robinson and Kevin Martin in Tilburg, NL, after their first ever live performance together at Incubate festival. They discuss their excellent new album Edition 1, the difficulty of romance, the nature of melancholy and their memories of rain

LISTEN: DL Run The Jewels New LP For Free

Jolly Lad Hypnosis For Liverpool Psych Fest

Your third eye is growing tired...

As If By Magic: Carter Tutti Void Interviewed

Chris Carter, Cosey Fanni Tutti and Nik Void have made one of tQ's favourite albums so far this year, f(x). John Doran interviews the trio at the C&C Music Factory in the Norfolk

Columnus Metallicus: September’s Heavy Metal Reviewed By Toby Cook

Like drainpipe jeans and pneumonia, Toby Cook is back! And he has all the metal that's unfit for review with him. Myrkur portrait by Rasmus Malmstrom

A Volcanic Talent: Senyawa Interviewed

Indonesian duo Senyawa are one of the most startlingly original acts of recent years, combining a bamboo instrument shaped like a ritual spear with throat singing, producing music that's reminiscent of heavy metal. WTF, asks John Doran. Vocalist Rully Shabara Herman gives him some answers

The Lead Review: John Doran On AFX’s Orphaned Deejay Selek 2006 – 2008

He was looking for a horse, and then he found a horse, and heaven knows John Doran is happy now that there's a new AFX EP out