Luke Turner
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Things Learned At: Pop-Kultur Berlin
At this year's edition of the cross-cultural Berlin festival, Luke Turner finds questions asked and answered about the malleable nature of "pop", the therapeutic nature of Cats Eyes' music, the raw power of Algiers and the necessity of European co-operation. (Photographs: Annett Bonkowski)
News
Things Learned At: Pop-Kultur Berlin
At this year's edition of the cross-cultural Berlin festival, Luke Turner finds questions asked and answered about the malleable nature of "pop", the therapeutic nature of Cats Eyes' music, the raw power of Algiers and the necessity of European co-operation. (Photographs: Annett Bonkowski)
Album of the Week
Luke Turner On Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Skeleton Tree
In the sixteenth full-length recording from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Luke Turner finds perhaps their most perfect musical expression of horror, its realism and sense of inevitability overpowering usual tendencies toward the baroque, and a powerful lesson in empathy
Album of the Week
Luke Turner On Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds’ Skeleton Tree
In the sixteenth full-length recording from Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Luke Turner finds perhaps their most perfect musical expression of horror, its realism and sense of inevitability overpowering usual tendencies toward the baroque, and a powerful lesson in empathy
Black Sky Thinking
Fabric’s Closure & The Rise Of A New British Puritanism
The news that London nightclub Fabric is to close has stunned the music community. Here, Luke Turner argues that this is another battle lost on Britain's rightwards shift towards a bland, corporate new puritanism of the strange post-Brexit landscape. Photo thanks to the Islington Tribune
Black Sky Thinking
Fabric’s Closure & The Rise Of A New British Puritanism
The news that London nightclub Fabric is to close has stunned the music community. Here, Luke Turner argues that this is another battle lost on Britain's rightwards shift towards a bland, corporate new puritanism of the strange post-Brexit landscape. Photo thanks to the Islington Tribune
A Quietus Interview
An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green
As well as being a true genius of Detroit techno, Robert Hood is an ordained pastor. Here, Luke Turner conducts a conversation on Christianity, politics and music between Hood and the Reverend Alan Green (NO NOT THAT REV AL GREEN) of St John On Bethnal Green Church, London.
A Quietus Interview
An Ecumenical Chatter: When Rev Robert Hood Met Fr Alan Green
As well as being a true genius of Detroit techno, Robert Hood is an ordained pastor. Here, Luke Turner conducts a conversation on Christianity, politics and music between Hood and the Reverend Alan Green (NO NOT THAT REV AL GREEN) of St John On Bethnal Green Church, London.
Live Reviews
Welcome To The New World Order: Reflections On CTM 2016
Last month in Berlin, the annual CTM Festival threw together artists from across the world in a programme that reinforced the fact that the old boundaries between east, west, developed and developing countries are being overthrown at a thrilling and fast rate. Luke Turner reports.
Live Reviews
Welcome To The New World Order: Reflections On CTM 2016
Last month in Berlin, the annual CTM Festival threw together artists from across the world in a programme that reinforced the fact that the old boundaries between east, west, developed and developing countries are being overthrown at a thrilling and fast rate. Luke Turner reports.
Black Sky Thinking
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?
Black Sky Thinking
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?
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