Luke Turner

All The Rays! Grumbling Fur’s New LP Coming From The Quietus

The Quietus Phonographic Corporation label will be releasing interplanetary psych-pop duo Grumbling Fur's third album, Preternaturals, in August. Altogether now, "All the rays are falling forwards..."

The Passions: Owen Pallett’s Favourite Albums

Owen Pallett's new album helpfully gives us the title for our latest Baker's Dozen, as he talks Luke Turner through selections including Tori Amos, Throbbing Gristle, Jean Luc Ponty, Dean Blunt, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Total Freedom and Diamanda Galas

WATCH: The Quietus At Leisure Trailer

Films on Steve Ignorant's lifeboat work and Alan Sparhawk playing American Football to premiere at Supersonic next weekend

They Do Like It Up ‘Em: Fisty Fun & Queer Bangers With Furfriend

On the surface, mysterious Electronic Bumming Music duo Furfriend appear to be a carnal celebration of the squelchier end of sexual practice. Yet, as Luke Turner discovers, their new EP for Perc Trax reveals that they're LGBT activists, as well as just 'active'...

LISTEN: Snack Family – ‘Long Pig’

Raunchy London trio stream track from upcoming Belly EP

Sleaford Mods

Divide And Exit

Savages’ Jehnny Beth On Pop Noire

With Pop Noire set to take over The Shacklewell Arms next week, we asked its co-founder and Savages singer Jehnny Beth about the label's success, philosophy and what we can expect from them this year

No Barrier Fun: Angus Andrew Of Liars’ Favourite LPs

Liars have always been masters of mixing a boggling array of influences into a music that's unhinged, inventive and powerful. Here, Angus Andrew guides us through 13 of his favourite LPs, running the gamut from hip hop to smooth jazz and The Cure

LISTEN: Chris & Cosey October Love Song Remix

New Carter Tutti version of the gorgeous pop song streaming here

The Horrorist Vs. Dead Sound & Videohead

It's another chomper from Dead Sound & Videohead, reworked by The Horrorist

Modern Life Isn’t Rubbish: The Trouble With Britpop Nostalgia

The mainstream media are currently engaged in a collective misty-eyed throwback to the 'glory days' of the mid 90s. Luke Turner, who was a teenager at the time, argues that the current canonisation of Britpop is as musically and socially conservative as 1960s nostalgia

Kjetil’s On The Boil: Arabrot’s Favourite 13 LPs

As we gear up for a mighty basting at Desertfest, Arabrot main man Kjetil Nernes talks us through his 13 favourite albums

No More Coals From Newcastle: Test Dept At AV Festival

Luke Turner travels to the AV Festival in Newcastle and sees Test Dept make a powerful, moving statement about the end of the coal industry and Miners' Strike with a gigantic installation at Dunston Staithes on the River Tyne. Photographs by Colin Davison, Mark Savage

LISTEN: East India Youth Wild Beasts Rmx

AIEEE THIS IS ACE!!!

Test Dept On AV Festival & Remembering The Miners’ Strike

Next weekend, members of 80s clatterers Test Dept head to the AV Festival to carry out an installation commemorating the Miners' Strike. Here, Graham Cunnington and Paul Jamrozy discuss the project, and state why, in the current political climate, remembering those events is so important

Naughty Boy Rock & Roll, With Fat White Family Live

As everyone starts having yet another ponder about the absence (or otherwise) of rock & roll, Luke Turner enjoys another sweaty encounter with Fat White Family

A Sense Of Clarity: Wild Beasts Interviewed

With Wild Beasts' excellent fourth album Present Tense released this week, they sit down with Luke Turner to discuss blurring the line between myth and reality, and how their music has evolved through growing older and (not necessarily) wiser

Wild Beasts

Present Tense

LIVE REPORT: Prince At King’s Place

Prince live virgin Luke Turner gets taken up a back street in King's Cross by 3rdeyegirl and the man himself for a Valentine's Night of intimate pop eroticism

The Price We Pay For Progress: I Like Trains Live & Historical Rock

As I Like Trains bring their songs of death and the past to the Jazz Cafe, Luke Turner is on hand to ask why history isn't more of a source of inspiration to songwriters.

Looking For Something? Perfect Pop: East India Youth Interviewed

William Doyle sits down with Luke Turner to discuss debut East India Youth album Total Strife Forever, accidentally making electronic music, and what ought to count for emotionally resonant pop

WATCH: The Quietus At Leisure Trailer II

Full details of film screening at London Short Film Festival

A Never-Ending Story: Documentary Series The World At War, 40 Years On

As landmark documentary series The World At War reaches 40 years old, Luke Turner writes that its unflinching, honest account of the years 1939-1945 has lost none of its power and relevance

WATCH: Quietus At Leisure Trailer

Three of our films on musician's hobbies to screen at London Short Film Festival in support of Teeth Of The Sea

WATCH: Wire Pinkflag Guitar Orchestra

Full video of exceedingly loud massed guitar blast through 'Pink Flag' at DRILL:LONDON

INTERVIEW: Veronica Vasicka On Blancmange

The Minimal Wave label's reissue of Blancmange's early work is released today. We spoke to Veronica Vasicka about the release, and her plans for the label in 2014

Oh L’Amour: Vince Clarke Of Erasure’s Favourite Albums

In a festive special Baker's, Vince Clarke follows Erasure's Snow Globe album by picking out the 13 LPs that mean the most to him

The Uncanny Valley: Enya’s Watermark Revisited, 25 Years On

A quarter-century since the release of Enya's hit album Watermark, Luke Turner professes his entirely non-ironic love for a beguilingly strange mainstream record that sent his musical tastes along uncanny paths

Let Me Be Your Phantasy: Erol Alkan Interviewed

Erol Alkan has had a busy 2013, building a home studio and releasing great albums from Daniel Avery and Connan Mockasin via Phantasy, as well as his own debut EP. He speaks to Luke Turner about the legacy of his old nightclub Trash, his label, and what makes him tick. Photo by Todd Hart.

British Sea Power

From The Sea To The Land Beyond

Beyond The Hits: Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds

Jeremy Allen, David Bennun, Julian Marszalek, Erin Lyndal Martin, JR Moores, Jamie Thomson, Luke Turner and John Doran run through some of the finest album tracks, b-sides, session moments, live versions, covers and hits that never were of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds' long and illustrious career

Fat White Family

Champagne Holocaust