John Doran

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Siouxsie Sioux Interviewed: The Banshees And The BBC

Siouxsie Sioux chats to John Doran about banging heads with rock bores and the importance of having glitter in your pocket

The Scene That Calibrates Itself: Neo Shoegazers Engineers Interviewed

All hail the blissful return of Engineers. John Doran shares a cuppa with Mark Peters to discuss Three Fact Fader

Bill Laswell Interviewed: Bass. How Low Can You Go?

Prior to his appearance at Montreux Jazz Festival, John Doran caught up with Bill Laswell in New York and uncovered some surprising information about Def Leppard . . .

Black Sabbath – The Unholy Trinity And The Birth Of Heavy Metal

As Black Sabbath, Paranoid and Master Of Reality get the reissue treatment, John Doran revisits them and the birth of heavy metal

DJ Hell Interviewed

For the first in a new series of articles exploring the ongoing experiments in modern German music we talk to DJ Hell about his fine new album Teufelswerk.

Michael Jackson Dies Of Heart Attack At 50

The King Of Pop Is Dead

Marilyn Manson Interviewed: The Dope Show

In an extract from his lengthy interview with Marilyn Manson for Stool Pigeon, John Doran berates the god of fuck's inability to get his shit together

The Language Of Violence – The Pixies Play Live

The Pixies played live in an art gallery this week. John Doran found himself flung into a world of torrid text and the imagist poetry of violence. Live gallery by Maria Jefferis of Shot2Bits.net

David Heumann Of Arbouretum Talks Trees, Folk And Fred Neil

Arbouretum may be named after a tree park but they are closer in spirit to an untamed forest of firs says a purple tinged John Doran. Pinhole picture by Leslie Burns

Blur And Pink Floyd Team Up To Fight BNP

Depeche Mode Cancel This Weekend’s Gigs

Glittergate – Sparks Fly Over Glam Gig!

New Prefuse 73 EP And Tour

Afrosonic: A Column About Mulatu Astatke And Ethio Jazz

In the second of his occasional columns on African popular music, John Doran interviews Mulatu Astatke

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Reissues: The First Four Are Dead Good

Murder. We're all attracted to it in one way or another and Nick Cave is certainly no exception. John Doran revels in the first four Bad Seeds reissues

Hear The Macabees Album Streamed In Full

Wall Of Arms streamed in full here

New Testament: Manic Street Preachers On Journal For Plague Lovers

John Doran talks to Nicky Wire and James Dean Bradfield about Richey, Jenny Saville's artwork, and working with Steve Albini

Amon Tobin, Sway and Joe ‘Doubleclick’ Chapman Are Two Fingers

Ringo P Stacey talks to Joe and Sway about the Two Fingers project, who have worked with/remixed Spank Rock, Missy Elliott, Ms Jade and Timbaland

Gossip Announce Live Dates

Metallica Boff Fans’ Girlfriends

White Denim Live Dates And Album

Depeche Mode Interviewed: Universal Truths And Sounds

John Doran meets Martin Gore, Dave Gahan and Andy Fletcher and immerses himself in Sounds Of The Universe. Main portraits: Dean Chalkley

Being Frank: Gallows On Hardcore, Racism And Grey Britain

John Doran hangs out with the Gallows and feels the (Ty)burn. Don't complain about the puns - it's all in the execution. Wait, come back . . .

A Few Lines With Vince Aletti – Disco Dispatches From 70s NYC

Here are some extracts from DJhistory.com's ace new book _The Disco Files 1973-78: New York's Underground Week By Week_. Here, in 1976, author Vince Aletti is letting his readers know about the new cult of the DJ and why the rockists just don't get it . . .

Pope’s Easter Message: New SunnO))) Will Rinse It

The Thirty Best Goth Records Of All Time

Gentleman of the night Mick Mercer is just about to have a comprehensive tome on the goth genre published - _Music To Die For_. So who better to introduce this (entirely subjective) top thirty?

Doves Interview: The Romance Of The Telescope

Quietus Beard Lord John Doran heads to Stockport to meet Doves and talk radio telescopes and career best albums. Lovell Telescope photograph courtesy of S. Parish

Manic Street Preachers’ ‘Journal For Plague Lovers’ Artwork Revealed

Steve Albini is producing a Manics album based around Richey Edwards' lyrics. Could this be their best album in a dozen years?

Depeche Mode – Sounds Of The Universe. The First Review Of New Album

John Doran reviews Depeche Mode's new album Sounds Of The Universe

Doves – Kingdom Of Rust. The First Review Of The New Album

John Doran travelled up to Doves' rehearsal rooms at the foot of the Peak District to listen to their new album. His verdict: easily the best yet.

Radiohead’s Thom Yorke Remixes Doom