Prodigy, The
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Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, August 1997
RARELY HAS a pop trend been so shamelessly spoon-fed to America as the hold-all genre dubbed "electronica". Rarely, indeed, has the music industry tried so ...
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The Prodigy: Touched By The Hand Of Prod
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, July 1994
"So I've decided to take my work back underground... to stop it falling into the wrong hands." ...
Prodigy: End Fest, Bremberton, Washington
Live Review by Gillian G. Gaar, Rolling Stone, September 1996
ON THE one hand, it was hard to see why Prodigy were chosen to close End Fest; the annual daylong outdoor music festival is usually ...
Review by Simon Reynolds, Village Voice, July 1997
SOME SAY the Prodigy have betrayed the bright promise of the "electronica revolution", resulting in a techno-rock hybrid that's not so much kick-ass as half-assed. ...
The Prodigy: The Fat Of The Land
Review by Paul Morley, Uncut, August 1997
CHRIST ALMIGHTY. It moves vertically through salted pressures with a head that can see sideways. It is red in tooth and claw. It swoons and ...
Book Excerpt by Ben Thompson, Seven Years of Plenty, 1998
LIAM HOWLETT - soft-spoken mastermind behind The Prodigy's globe-subjugating juggernaut of organised chaos - is a very busy man. If you want some idea of ...
Prodigy: Chat Of The Landowners
Interview by Stephen Dalton, NME, January 1999
In the second of this two-parter with PRODIGY'S LIAM HOWLETT, NME has a word, Hello!-stylee, about his new country home, his pal Keith and his ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, May 1999
EVER SINCE 'Firestarter' and 'Breathe' transformed Prodigy into rave'n'roll superstars, Liam Howlett, the band's leader and musical brain, has taken pains to distance Prodigy from ...
Interview by Ben Myers, Kerrang!, August 2004
"I REMEMBER being in our rehearsal room and Keith was picking holes in shit and I just thought 'What the fuck, man? What's happened to ...
Live Review by Pete Paphides, Times, The, December 2008
IN 1996, WHEN Keith Flint – the face that soonest springs to mind when people think of the Prodigy – shovelled on the kohl and ...
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