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LISTEN: East India Youth Wild Beasts Rmx

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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

Making Eyes At Suburban Boys: Talking Truths With Real Lies

New London group Real Lies make nocturnal, rave-tinged love songs to the fringes of London. Luke Turner spoke to them about youth, the romance of the suburbs, and why the pothead bros of East London are denying their own youth

PIXIES For Field Day Sunday!

Black Francis and co to headline second day!

LISTEN: Bunker Preview Mix

Luke Turner takes Foxygen down a dark alley in a hard, heavy and fruity mix to preview tomorrow night's Bunker in Bristol

Knights Of Wrongness: The Strange World Of Regis & Downwards

As Downwards celebrates 20 years with an excellent compilation and new great releases from Oake and Samuel Kerridge, Luke Turner sits down with Karl O'Connor to discuss two decades of chaotic and righteous music making, from Sandra Electronics to Downwards releases, and solo work to the British Murder Boys

John Tavener RIP

Composer passes away aged 69

Scanner Curates Gothic Fest

Robin Rimbaud discusses December event featuring Carter Tutti, Gazelle Twin and Death Walz

LISTEN: Perc Remixes Dan Avery

TUNE OF THE YEAR! AIEEEEEE! Plus! New Avery video

HTRK Discuss New Remix & BFI Rowland S Howard Event

HTRK release video to accompany Mika Vainio remix and discuss forthcoming Rowland S Howard tribute event at the BFI in London

Searching For The Cave Man: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Live

Nick Cave gets behind the piano for some slower songs from the Bad Seeds back catalogue at the Brighton Dome, but even that can't stop Luke Turner from marvelling at a band on top of their game. Photos by Neil Thomson

WATCH: Way Through Video

Inspired by and shot in abandoned English villages

Child Star To Jarman & Everest: The Strange World Of… Simon Fisher Turner

Simon Fisher Turner speaks to Luke Turner (no relation) about his long and bizarre career, from child actor, to Jonathan King-signed pop singer, to house-sitting for David Bowie, collaborating with Derek Jarman and his new soundtrack to 1924 film Epic Of Everest

INTERVIEW: Tamikrest

Tamikrest begin their UK tour tonight. Here, they discuss recording their new album Chatma during the recent strife in Mali and explain why they've dedicated it to the women of the world

Vatican Shadow

Remember Your Black Day