Ned Raggett

The Moral Is: Gary Numan’s Dance Revisited

Dance is often seen as the point where it all started to go wrong for Gary Numan. It is however, says Ned Raggett, one of the most interesting albums he ever released...

Talking Drummers: Patty Schemel & Barrett Martin Books Reviewed

Ned Raggett reads and compares the autobiographies of two grunge era drummers from the bands Hole and Screaming Trees

Bitchin Bajas

Bajas Fresh

Chicago’s answer to Pink Floyd? Maybe, kinda.

In The Nursery

1961

The twin brothers from Sheffield continue their dark electronic explorations.

Absolute Focus: Depeche Mode’s Music For the Masses Revisited

Our man in San Francisco, Ned Raggett was just unlucky enough to miss going to THAT Rose Bowl concert featured in the Depeche concert film 101. But he’s had thirty years to think about the featured album

Alien Sex Fiend

Fiendology

The most comprehensive compilation yet of Nik and Mrs Fiend's greatest hits.

Various Artists

Silhouettes & Statues: A Gothic Revolution 1978-1986

A sprawling decade of goth, from the strange to the unexpected

Before The Empire Struck Back: Tie-Ins & The Making Of Star Wars

Over in California, Ned Raggett is still as interested in Star Wars as he was forty years back. But forty years back meant grappling with the fact that cooking shows for Wookies and brutal lightsaber attacks on young princesses coexisted fully. Here is his exploration into the original Star Wars expanded universe

Just Like A Dream: The Cure’s Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me Revisited

Ned Raggett slips back 30 years in time to reassess the double album The Cure released when they were first making footholds in America

RIP The Chameleons’ John Lever

The cult post-punk group's drummer has died

Let’s Go Down And Blow Our Minds: The British Psychedelic Sounds Of 1967

Various Artists

Vince Clark & Paul Hartnoll

2Square

Songs Of The ‘Flesh – The Strange World Of… Justin Broadrick

Our man in San Francisco Ned Raggett talks to Birmingham extreme music legend Justin Broadrick about his three decade plus career of innovation

Various

Close To The Noise Floor

The Lead Review: Ned Raggett On Marissa Nadler’s Strangers

Against all parental advice, Ned Raggett finds communing with Marissa Nadler's Strangers to be an acutely rewarding experience, nodding to the canon of Americana, but stepping out alone into the spotlight of a much broader and conflicted contemporary music landscape

Winning It All: Prince’s Purple Rain Revisited

With news of the great man sadly departing, we remember when Purple Rain got Ned Raggett hot under the collar

INTERVIEW: Dave Gahan

Dave Gahan has taken a break from touring the world and beyond with Depeche Mode for his second album with the Soulsavers team, Angels and Ghosts, as he talks to Ned Raggett about the new album, his songwriting process and taking time out from Depeche Mode

25 Years On: The Young Gods’ Only Heaven Revisited

A quarter century on from the Swiss powerhouse’s fifth album, Ned Raggett takes a look back at what sampling, live drumming & roaring vocals could produce

35 Years On: Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven By Love And Rockets

Ned Raggett looks back at the British post-Bauhaus three piece that made it (temporarily) big Stateside

A Quick Fix: The Cure’s Head On The Door Revisited

Ned Raggett looks back 35 years to when Robert Smith's newly formed quintet version of The Cure were poised for global recognition

Love And Other Tragedies: Roger O’Donnell Interviewed

Ned Raggett talks to multi-instrumentalist and sometime Cure member Roger O'Donnell about his numerous musical projects

45 Years On: Funkadelic’s Let’s Take It To The Stage Revisited

Ned Raggett asks... no, commands... that you get off your ass and jam: in celebration of Funkadelic's 1975 album Let's Take It To The Stage

Martin Gore

MG

The Bottom Line: Martin Gore Interviewed

Ned Raggett speaks to Martin Gore on the eve of the release of MG his first solo album of original material

From The Archives: Manic Street Preachers’ James Dean Bradfield Interviewed

In 1994, the Manics released their career-defining third album, The Holy Bible - and Ned Raggett interviewed a young James Dean Bradfield. Here we look back across two decades of burning rage and cold fury, and publish that interview in full for the first time. Photographs courtesy of Mitch Ikeda

INTERVIEW: Lost Girls

Ned Raggett catches up with Patrick Fitzgerald and Heidi Berry to talk about their previously-lost Lost Girls collaboration, which finally saw release in 2014 sixteen years after its recording

INTERVIEW: Beauty In The Bleak

From London, tQ favourite Kemper Norton and Thomas Bloch will be linking up with a disused silo-turned-musical instrument in a Californian dry lake for an intercontinental collaboration as part of the SAISONSCAPE series tomorrow. Intriguing, eh? Ned Raggett talks to LA visual artist Lauren Bon and Art Assembly director Julia Dempsey about the project

A Super Natural: Marc Cerrone Interviewed

French disco legend Marc Cerrone talks to Ned Raggett about an excellent new anthology charting the highlights of his career in music and production

With All Duet Respect: On Snobbery, Kanye & McCartney

Turns out plenty of Kanye fans don't know who Paul McCartney is. So what? It's not the ignorance of youth that bothers Ned Raggett, it's the faux outrage and the smug lols that greet it

Symphonies Of Sickness By Carcass 25 Years On

Ned Raggett asks you to witness the sickness as he looks back at the groundbreaking second album by Carcass

The Thrill Of It All: Roxy Music’s Country Life Revisited

Our man from the Orange County, Ned Raggett casts his American eye over another British classic

Inspiral Carpets

Inspiral Carpets