Luke Turner

David Cameron: Shocking Music News!

Indie rock Cam connection!

A Reader’s Digest: The Best Of The Quietus In 2011

Bored of the shite Christmas telly and the droning of relations? Well we've compiled some of our favourite Quietus articles over the past year. Get stuck into the seconds below

2011: Celebrating The Continued Shattering Of Our Culture

Kicking off 2011's Wreath Lectures, Luke Turner argues that the continuing fragmentation of our culture and consumption is to be welcomed, and will bring forth new joys

Drum’s Not Dead: Ali ‘Perc’ Wells Interviewed

Perc's Wicker & Steel is a Quietus LP of 2011. Luke Turner talks to Ali Wells about the album, the rise of his Perc Trax label, the Home Counties and an antidote to wishy washy electronica

Grinderman Split

Announcement in Australia

Here Comes The Rennes Again: Trans Musicales Festival Reviewed

The Quietus heads to the boozy streets of Rennes for the annual Trans Musicales music festival. Colin Stetson live pic by Dave Kerr

LISTEN: Chris Carter & Cosey Fanni Tutti Discuss Throbbing Gristle Reissues

We're pleased to be able to present the audio of Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti discussing the Throbbing Gristle reissues, recorded at Rough Trade East last month

Byetone

Symeta

Chris Watson

El Tren Fantasma

The Search For The Perfect Pub: An Extract From A Thirsty Tome

Paul Moody & Robin Turner's new book Looking For The Moon Under Water - The Search For The Perfect Pub will make you want to run down to the nearest Dog & Duck for a swift one. In this extract, Slayer and the RZA soundtrack a trip to the back of beyond

WATCH: Leonard Cohen – How I Found My Song

Cohen thanks Spain as the source of his inspiration. Was it not the sisters of mercy?

The Fall

Ersatz G.B.

Steve Ignorant On Saving Lives With The Sea Palling Lifeboat

Steve Ignorant now lives in North Norfolk and volunteers as a crew member on the independent Sea Palling lifeboat. Here, he tells Luke Turner about his work on the choppy grey waters. Photo thanks to Damon Allen Davison

WATCH: New Rammstein Video

NSFW (there's a shocker) film online

Crass To Reunite For Last Supper

Plus! Shoot me if I go back on vow to quit, says Steve Ignorant

“Rock & Roll Has Nothing To Do With Lists”: Luke Haines’ Favourite Albums

Ahead of his appearance at our Klub Gutenberg next week, Luke Turner talks to Luke Haines about his favourite 13 albums

Pork Life: Matthew Herbert Discusses One Pig

Matthew Herbert has been making bacon with One Pig, an album that explores our relationship with the meat industry

Fix Up Look Sharp: Dickon Edwards Meets Turbonegro’s English Gent

The Quietus took Turbonegro's Tony Sylvester and legendary fop Dickon Edwards to the pub for an afternoon. Over gin, strong lager and red wine, this is what transpired. Photographs by Al Overdrive

Daemons In Hoods: Cloaks Interviewed

Ahead of their performance at Supersonic this weekend, Luke Turner speaks to Cloaks about twisting dubstep into brutalist industrial forms

LISTEN: Debut Single From Toy

Out now via Heavenly

Some Thoughts On ATP I’ll Be Your Mirror In Asbury Park New Jersey

Luke went to New Jersey for ATP and was once again melted by Swans. But America, why you not dancing? Images thanks to Abby Braden

There’s A Song Playing: Brett Anderson’s Favourite 13 Albums

From The Fall to Kate Bush, Bjork to Eno and Bowie to Midlake, Brett Anderson guides Luke Turner through his favourite 13 albums

Brett Anderson’s Guide To Black Rainbows

Brett Anderson's fourth solo album Black Rainbows sees him reinvigorated by the return of Suede. Here he guides Luke Turner through the record

BSP, Big In Japan: An Extract From Do It For Your Mum

In an extract from new British Sea Power and family memoir Do It For Your Mum, Roy Wilkinson writes of the first time the band visited Japan

Obake

Obake

Suck & Let Go: In Defence Of Electroclash

Ten years after the release of Fischerspooner's 'Emerge', Luke Turner looks back at a much-maligned form, and picks ten of his favourite electroclash bangers

Grandaddy

The Sophtware Slump (reissue)

LISTEN: Bon Iver & James Blake Track

Blubstep bromance? Or brilliant?

Scanner, The News Of The World & The Art Of Listening In

Robin Rimbaud - AKA Scanner - once trawled the airwaves recording 'found' telephone conversations. He discusses his controversial work, and remembers when the News Of The World tried to buy his archive of recordings

NEW MUSIC: ‘Ghostwalking’ By New War

'Ghostwalking' out on Gossip guitarist's label soon

LISTEN: Indonesian Thoughts In Post-Snowman Project

New music from Andy Citawarman

Bum Rush The Show: Why Reality TV Has More To Do With Violence Than Rap

Luke Turner refutes the Daily Mirror's assertion that hip hop was to blame for this week's unrest. But there's another popular cultural form that reflects the kind of society that caused it