Luke Turner

LISTEN: Cold Cave Cover New Order

Wes Eisold covers NO classic at tQ's behest

LISTEN: Bowie Impersonates Dylan &c

Studio outtakes surface online

The Lead Review: Luke Turner On Suede’s Night Thoughts

"Everything is always going to be with a sense of drama." Brett Anderson's swapped crack for nappies, but the uncynical passion of years gone by is still present, argues Luke Turner. But is this the best Suede album yet?

LISTEN: Ace Full Of Nothing Comp

Great Russian label welcome 2016 with bandcamp release

This Heat Reform (Sort Of)

Concerts at Cafe Oto in February

Social Media Snakepits & Solidarity Versus Corporate Shafting, UK 2015

In the first of this year's Wreath Lectures, Luke Turner looks back over 2015 and argues that the decline of small, unfashionable institutions and professions is opening the door for an increasingly boring, corporate future. What alternative, resisting communities are being formed?

Morrissey Wins Bad Sex Award

"bulbous salutation" pops

LISTEN: New The Inward Circles

New track from Richard Skelton's project

Space Celts & A Voyage Into The Avant-Garde: Enya Interviewed

Thought Enya was naff? Think again, says Luke Turner as he speaks to Enya and argues that her music is some of the most successful avant-garde pop of all time

WIN! Factory Floor Tickets & Farah

Get your bangers and togs here!

LISTEN: The Bug – Meth Teng

Judder to the "digested madness" here

WATCH: New Bowie Trailer

Unusual happenings!

Plex BleeD Them Preview Playlist

Prepare to lose thy mynd at Corsica tomorrow

LISTEN: New My Disco LP

Melbourne's finest return with new LP

LISTEN: New Savages

Plus new album details

A Lot Of Respect: Erasure On The Strange World Of Erasure

Flamboyant, radical, joyous and purveyors of some of the finest pop songs to ever grace The Quietus' ears, this year Erasure celebrate their 30th birthday. Vince Clarke and Andy Bell (with a little help from Mute's Daniel Miller) guide Luke Turner through their beautiful world

Cheesed Off With The Mercury? It’s tQ’s Jovian Bow Shock Prize

The week after an arse-crimpingly boring list from the Mercury Prize, Britpop berk Alex James has proclaimed that independent music is over. Here are the 12 nominees for The Quietus Jovian Bow Shock award that proves them wrong:

INTERVIEW: These New Puritans

Jack Barnett discusses moving to Berlin to record a new These New Puritans album... that won't be a 'Berlin album'. Photo by Valerio Berdini

Eastern Dawns: CTM Siberia & The Importance Of Dancing Across Borders

Luke Turner travels to Novosibirsk for the inaugural CTM Siberia, where Russian musicians play alongside international artists in a spirit of unity that goes against current and historical international tensions

INTERVIEW: Powell On Albini

Powell discusses unexpected reaction to billboard ad featuring Steve Albini email

New Sunn O))) LP! Kannon Kometh!

The "most outright 'metal'" Sunn 0))) record in years!

GIVE! Daniel Patrick Quinn Kickstarter

Ends tomorrow! Cough up y'bollocks

Something Changed: Pulp’s Different Class Revisited

Luke Turner looks back 25 years to a singular album and a nation standing at a cultural crossroads

The Lead Review: Luke Turner On Carter Tutti Void’s f (x)

Luke Turner holds up the new studio album by the cross-generational trio as an exciting, visceral reaction to contemporary cultural and social monotone

Things Learned At: Milhoes De Festa

Mat Colegate and Luke Turner brave the scorching heat of Barcelos for the brilliant Milhoes De Festa, where the likes of The Bug, Grumbling Fur, Perc and Thee Satisfaction entertain a roasting poolside crowd.

New Order’s Music Complete: A Track-By-Track Preview

Luke Turner celebrates New Order's return with an album that is "largely thrilling, progressive and fun, which ought to stand as a highlight of their career"

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Manbait

LISTEN: Chrononautz – Noments

Get yer Pennine pounders here!

And The Kitchen Sink: The Quietus’ Highlights Of 2015 Thus Far

What links Get In The Sea to Wanda Group to Shia LaBeouf to Bad Guys to x-ray vinyl printing to books about landscape to a day sweating at Berghain to Mad Max? Quietus staffers John Doran, Luke Turner, Laurie Tuffrey, Sophie Coletta, Christian Eede, Karl Smith and Mat Colegate have loved them, that's what. Our cultural highlights of the year so far are...

New Order: New LP Details

Hear a sampler here!

Magic, Noments! The Quietus Phonographic Corporation Presents Chrononautz

OOOOOF! It's CHRONONAUTZ! The latest artist we're releasing on The Quietus Phonographic Corporation... time for a right grubby rave-up. Pic by Alicja Debicka

LISTEN: Hirvikolari

Hear a set from brilliant new brass and modular duo