John Doran

May The Fourth Be With You: YouTube Playlist

Prepare for cosmosis tonight at The Lex with this handy YouTube playlist of close encounter funk, disco and electro

Lone Taxidermist’s RSD Face Paint Tribute

Let's face it: we all love vinyl...

TQ On Modified Voices: Freakier Zone Tonight

John Doran is a guest on Stuart Maconie's show at midnight

Part Chimp & Bong For Supernormal Festival

Hello Bastards

“It’s Not Easy Listening”: Thirty Years Of Pure Fucking Mayhem

On their 30th anniversary - with an appearance at Oya Festival booked and a new album ready for release - John Doran looks beyond the murder, the suicide, the extremism and the immolation, and talks to Mayhem's founder Necrobutcher about their radical music and nothing else

LISTEN: Bong Ra Birthday Best Of!

Happy birthday Jason Köhnen - listen to a sixteen track anthology here... Photograph courtesy of ©YASS

You Puppies! Lord Humungus (Parts And Labor) Interviewed

John Doran sits down with the Ayatollah Of Rock And Rolla & former leader of The Australian Free Territories, Lord Humungus, to talk about his lengthy career in making synth pop and industrial dance

Låpsley Is One To Watch Say GIT Award

One to watch prize winner announced ahead of Friday's award ceremony

Black Sabbath & Bo Ningen Hyde Park Gig

WATCH: Kate Bush Nut Allergy Short Film

A Demon In The Drift: Kate Bush Interviewed

To mark Kate Bush's return to live performance, we're republishing this interview, originally posted in 2011, where John Doran talked to one of the UK's most indomitable and peerless artists about her then-new album 50 Words For Snow

Kate Bush To Play Live

Singer returns to live performance for first time since 1979

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Stein Urheim

INTERVIEW: Trent Reznor On NIN Tour

"I feel some responsibility to the audience, I want them to leave feeling that they’ve had some kind of experience that was satisfying. But at the same time, as the guy onstage, I feel some responsibility to making myself feel like there’s no safety net." Trent Reznor talks to John Doran. Photo by Kate Beard.

The Revolutionary Party: Islam Chipsy Of EEK Interviewed

Islam Chipsy is an explosive talent in Egypt at the moment; in a wider sense part of the new wave of chaabi artists electrifying the country's music scene, but also completely unlike any other musician working today. John Doran talks to him about his fearsome work ethic and his unique style

Radio Live Transmission: 22 Years Of Pirate Broadcasts With Rude FM

John Doran sits in on broadcasts by the veteran North London station RudeFM.com and talks to management and DJ Imaginary Forces about why jungle, drum & bass and hardcore radio will never die

The Quietus On This Saturday’s Freakier Zone

Pixies Release EP 2/ WATCH new video

Band have written "new" 'Gigantic

Pixies photograph by Michael Halsband

Quietus Albums Of The Year 2013 (In Association With Norman Records)

Here is the Quietus' main albums of the year list for 2013, in association with Norman Records for all your record buying needs. Thanks to Sophie Coletta for assistance in building the behemoth

WATCH: Sudden Death Of Stars Video

Ample Play band premier new vid on tQ and team up with Cosmic & E Beat in the new year...

The Quietus Anthology EBook Available In Brand New Editions

Point Close All Quotes: A Quietus Anthology now available in PDF, Kobo, EPUB & iBook editions as well as via Amazon in the UK and US

Justified Fascination: Richard H Kirk Of Cabaret Voltaire Interviewed

Did Cabaret Voltaire lose their way when they lost Chris Watson? Far from it, they entered their imperial period... John Doran talks to Richard H Kirk

Various Artists

Choubi Choubi! Vol. 2 - Folk & Pop Sounds From Iraq

Great Northern Electrics: The Strange History Of T.R.A.S.E.

When Andy Popplewell was a teenager three decades ago he made a synth pop album. Here he tells John Doran why it has only just been released by Finders Keepers

WATCH: Pixies’ What Goes Boom Video

Quietus Stage Line-Up At Desertfest Revealed

Master Musicians Of Bukkake, Dragged Into Sunlight, The Body and more for next year's event

Various Artists

New Orleans Funk Volume Three

Note: Contains Spoilers for the HBO TV show Treme

Soundhead: Robert Hampson Of Loop’s Favourite Albums

Ahead of the first Loop gigs in 22 years, Robert Hampson tells John Doran about the LPs that he feels were neglected at the time but are now finding their audience

30 Years On: Cocteau Twins’ Head Over Heels Revisited

Julian Marszalek looks back three decades at the Cocteau Twins' second album and finds a band transcending their influences

LISTEN: Cosmic & E Beat Black Impulse Mix

NEW MIX AHEAD OF SATURDAY'S SOCIAL...

Zing Went The Strings: Tom Moulton’s Disco Remixes Reviewed

"You wait forty years for a boxset of Tom Moulton Philly disco remixes on heavyweight vinyl, and then two turn up at once." John Doran finds himself in black plastic heaven

Dead Army Fiction Halloween Special Tonight!