Luke Turner

It’s a big month in our round-up playlist, with just a wafer-thin slice off five hours of everything we’ve been covering in September 2025. For those who support us by being members of the Subscriber Plus tier, we’ve just finished the first weeks of the new subscriber perks in which we’re sending out essential listening […]

The Folklore Tapes label has launched a Kickstarter for a major project reimagining 1969 film The Watchers as a book, album and live show. Marking the label’s 15th birthday, their take on The Watchers will, we’re told, “expand upon the film’s atmospheric legacy, drawing out its folkloric undertones and exploring the cultural and psychic landscape […]

The video no longer exists but, if it did, you could click play right around now and find yourself transported to the living room of a provincial French home. You’d hear the first few notes of the song straight away, and they would probably remind you of a jaunty alarm clock. Soon, though, the music […]

The reunion of Cabaret Voltaire’s Stephen Mallinder and Chris Watson for a series of dates through the autumn of 2025 is one of the musical stories of the year, so we got the shivers to say the least when a pal sent over a YouTube video of rehearsals at London’s infamously synth-packed Memetune Studios. The […]

“Fan” is one of the most abused words in the music business’s lexicon. There is much talk about how to “engage” and “value” fans, making things as “fan-centric” as possible, with clichéd homily being layered upon clichéd homily like a platitude lasagne. What it too often means is the upending of music’s best customers and […]

It always felt as if Douglas McCarthy had unfinished business with Essex. Though the Nitzer Ebb frontman spent his later years in Los Angeles, once he found out I was writing a book about the county, he seemed almost hell bent on telling me his story of growing up there. Those stories almost became a […]

In the 70s, as many African nations were working to define themselves beyond the weight of colonial oppression, a country in the heart of the continent was crafting its own revolution – not just politically, but sonically too. Zambia, newly independent, landlocked, and learning to stand on its own, gave birth to a music that […]

Back in April, Andrew Carthy – known to fans as Mr Scruff – completed a run of 15 shows in grassroots venues around the UK. This ‘Miniature Arenas Tour’ was a special one. For every ticket sold, he donated £1 to The Liveline Fund, a joint initiative between Music Venue Trust (MVT) and Save Our Scene […]

Perhaps it began in my grandparents’ living room in the spring of 1990. I watched, quizzically, as my cousin Nancy popped her Walkman headphones over my grandad’s thick ears, and clicked the clunky play button. He looked as puzzled as me, then lifted one of the fuzzy earphones and asked “what is this?” Nancy replied […]

Three years ago, Suede’s Autofiction was roundly praised as being the finest album of the band’s second incarnation, pushing the distinctive blueprint into grittier territories. On the evidence of the first non-live outing of new material, it seems that this might be a direction that the band are continuing in with what seems likely to […]