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
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
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'...
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'...
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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