John Doran

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

WATCH: New Video By Deerhunter

Krautrock, hauntology and shoegaze influenced American rock band return with new promo

WATCH: New Iron Maiden Video

A treat in store for Eddie watchers worldwide...

The Bug & Fennesz Interview Tomorrow

Bug photograph by Morisa Tamaki. Fennesz photograph by Ann Kristin Traaen of nyMusikk

Carter Tutti Void Announce New LP

WATCH: very short but very exciting trailer for new CTV album

Warriors Come Back Out To Play-Ay

Cult cast reunite for festival - can you dig it?

Bl_ck B_st_rds By KMD Gets Reissue

Killer early MF Doom album available again

Gnaw Their Tongues New LP Announced

Some people call him the space cowboy; some people call him the gangster of love; his mum calls him Mories but we know him as Gnaw Their fucking Tongues

Public Enemy Announce New Album

Rap heavyweights return with 15th long player

How Live Aid Ruined My Life, By John Doran

In an extract from Jolly Lad, John Doran remembers how in 1985 Live Aid was one of the three events that set him off the straight and narrow into two decades of depression and alcoholism. Illustration by Krent Able

WATCH: Kristoffer Lo Mini Documentary

Kristoffer Lo is a drone metal influenced brass player from Norway. This mini-documentary shows him utilising a remote lighthouse to make incredible music

There Is No Perimeter: John Robb Of The Membranes Interviewed

John Robb met up with John Doran in Manchester recently to talk the Higgs Boson, trilobites, dub, death, love and the spectacular rebirth of the Membranes

Hubris: John Doran On Spoken Word LP Feat. BSP, Perc & More

To accompany his book Jolly Lad, John Doran recorded tracks of spoken word and racket with British Sea Power, Perc, Nicky Wire, Arabrot, Karin Park and Nik Void of Factory Floor. He explains the story and we've tracks streaming here

A Fine Blend: The Quietus Writers’ Favourite DJ Mix Albums

Following yesterday's celebration of Coldcut's illustrious mix album 70 Minutes Of Madness, tQ writers have contributed a selection of their favourite DJ mixes, taking in sets from Surgeon, Carl Craig, Shackleton, Grouper, Perc and many more

An English Trip J-Do Tour Starts Today

Brighton, Manchester, Hastings & Eastbourne gigs this bank holiday weekend

John Doran and Kjetil Nernes are joined this weekend by Sexton Ming, Ten Mouth Electron, Kemper Norton, ILL, Natasha Soobramanien, Luke Williams and Verity Spott as 31 date tour gets under way

An English Trip Doran/Arabrot Live

WATCH: Warmduscher Gold Teeth Video

Pass the poppers! The camping's about to begin!

WATCH: Wizards Of War By Riddles

"Pass me the poppers - the war's about to start!"

Lone Taxidermist’s RSD15 Face Paint Meltdown

Natalie Sharp aka Lone Taxidermist loves vinyl and she's gone to extreme measures to celebrate Record Shop Day

LISTEN: Horton Jupiter’s Cosmic Disco Mix

My Mind Is Going: Psychedelic Vanguard Sculpture Interviewed

Ahead of one of their all-encompasing, mind-unlocking, dance-starting, cortex-melting, immersive psychedelic events in Hackney this Friday, John Doran talks to the audio visual masters of (un)reality, Sculpture. Enjoy an exclusive audio/video transmission

An English Trip: An Extract From Jolly Lad & Tour With Arabrot

"This time next year everything will be alright.”

John Doran is going on tour by mistake. He hopes this extract from his new book Jolly Lad will explain why. Author photographs courtesy of Al Overdrive & Jonny Mugwump

WATCH: Nick Cave Interviewed

Outernational Funk Disco YouTube Playlist

Here's a playlist that talks in the internationally understood languages of funk, disco and psych

WATCH: Jane Weaver – Don’t Take My Soul

tQ favourite Jane Weaver reveals the video for next single, out later this month; special edition of The Silver Globe out now

Monumental Achievement: East India Youth Interviewed

Culture Of Volume hasn't been off the Quietus stereo since we first heard it months ago. William Doyle explains the genesis of this astounding album to John Doran

Nick Cave Announces Sick Bag Song Book

Nick Cave releases 'epic poem' written on airline sickbags via Canongate this Spring

John Doran Publishes Menk Book

No one asked for it; he didn't want to write it and then he had a nervous break down in the process. And yet here we are...

Stalker Humanoids: The ERC, Maxine Peake & Lias Saoudi Interviewed

The Eccentronic Research Council, Maxine Peake and Lias Saoudi get together with John Doran to talk tactile knobs, pop star crushes and the secret history of early electronic pop

The Quietus Hour: Death By Biscuits, Radio Show Two

The best new music presented by bewildered men on cups of tea

WATCH: New Kano Single Hail

Grime godfather Kano returns with a new track Hail, released for Record Store Day on Saturday April 13