Art Rock and avant-garde
Velvet Underground, Nico: Andy Warhol: A Mirror Of American Death
Essay by Geoffrey Cannon, New Society, June 1968
The Andy Warhol and Robert Kennedy shootings, and the Velvets ...
John Lennon, Yoko Ono: John Lennon and Yoko Ono: Life With The Lions (Apple)
Review by uncredited writer, Record Mirror, May 1969
JOHN AND YOKO DO THEIR OWN THING (Part 2) ...
Wild Man Fischer: An Evening With Wild Man Fischer (Reprise)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, July 1970
Frank Zappa's "It had to be done" experiment finally released after some 18 months. Many will already have heard import copies of this two album ...
Press Release by uncredited writer, RCA Records, November 1971
THE SUMMER IS probably the best time to go down there, to the far reaches of the west West village. It's really calm, quiet and ...
Profile by Lester Bangs, Fusion, November 1971
NICO IS one of the true enigmas of our time. Austere, elusive, a tall ghostly woman with an aura of utter loneliness and distance so ...
Yoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe (Apple)
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, January 1973
INASMUCH AS the Lennons have spent four years trying to turn self-dramatisation into an art-form, the criticism of indulgence so often aimed at them seems, ...
Brian Eno: Eno: Of Launderettes And Lizard Girls
Interview by Nick Kent, NME, July 1973
...and things that go bump in Ladbroke Grove. Nick Kent stakes out Eno's closet ...
Yoko Ono: The Whole World Is My Mother-In-Law
Profile and Interview by Caroline Coon, unpublished, 1974
2012 NOTE: Tidying through my papers some days ago I found, at last, an interview I did with Yoko Ono at home in New York ...
Robert Wyatt: Join The Professionals, Form A Rock Band…
Interview by Ian MacDonald, NME, July 1974
YEAH, WELL – Robert Wyatt (fact) drummed with Soft Machine, led Matching Mole, and fell from a fourth-storey window in Maida Vale early last year, ...
Henry Cow: Gerroff An' Milk It
Profile and Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, August 1974
CHARLES SHAAR MURRAY wanted to call it 'How I listened to HENRY COW – and lived' ...
Robert Wyatt: Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London
Live Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, September 1974
EVEN THOUGH the gig was due to start at 8.30, Drury Lane had started to clog up with earnest-looking hippies nearly two hours before the ...
Robert Fripp: Something Is Stirring Down At Wimbourne
Interview by Chris Salewicz, NME, October 1974
IT'S NOTHING to do with egos, you know, this final dissolving of King Crimson. No, there's something of a much grander design — somewhat rather ...
Brian Eno, John Cale, Nico: Eno: The Monkey Wrench Of Rock Creates Happy Accidents On Tiger Mt.
Profile and Interview by Stephen Demorest, Circus, April 1975
One day Eno is going to formulate a theory that will make music melt out of the North Pole (maybe he'll do it with mirrors), ...
Henry Cow: In Praise of Learning
Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, June 1975
IT HAS been said that rock has lost its vision. It has also been suggested that the current drought of spectacular things to behold in ...
Brian Eno: Eno: Another Green World (Island)
Review by John Mendelsohn, Phonograph Record, November 1975
UP UNTIL THE moment the temporary editor of this august journal telephoned to apprise me that he'd just been in a terrible automobile accident in ...
Ron Geesin: Cockpit Theatre, London
Live Review by Miles, NME, January 1976
DRESSED IN RED shorts and jersey with white sneakers, Ron Geesin looks like a combination of Elton John and Alexander Solzhenitsyn but has the crazed ...
Henry Cow: London School of Economics, London
Live Review by Miles, NME, February 1976
SOMEHOW HENRY Cow all seem slightly amused to be on stage. This is one of the many communications going on between them, but mostly they ...
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1976
THIS ALBUM is neither Bizarre nor DiscReet, but that's neither here nor there. ...
Brian Eno, Roxy Music: Eno Part 1: Before and After Science — Accidents Will Happen
Interview by Ian MacDonald, NME, November 1977
Thinking about music with BRIAN ENO. Some monologues recorded and compiled by IAN MacDONALD. ...
Brian Eno, David Bowie: Eno Part 2: Another False World — How to Make A Modern Record
Interview by Ian MacDonald, NME, December 1977
Thinking about music with BRIAN ENO. Some more monologues recorded and compiled by IAN MacDONALD. ...
Review by Paul Morley, NME, July 1978
WITH HER first album for six years, Annette Peacock softens the fabric. Glancing curiously and greedily at the rhythms and advantages at the tip of ...
Annette Peacock: A Rock & Role Alternative
Interview by Ian Penman, NME, September 1978
"I THINK what happened was, after I left New York all the anger and the toughness and the hostility seemed to dissipate – and in ...
Review by Ian Penman, NME, October 1978
"I'M NOT really interested in the quality of the film, what they furnish is an excuse to do some music...they're areas where I can experiment ...
Steve Reich: Music For 18 Musicians
Review by Paul Morley, NME, November 1978
A MAJOR new work by Steve Reich, a 42-year-old composer and performer from New York. Music For 18 Musicians was conceived in May 1974 and ...
Residents, The: The Residents: Not Available
Review by Andy Gill, NME, November 1978
MORE SO than anything else they've done, when Not Available's weirdness wears off, its "merry tunes" become an indelible stain on one's day-to-day existence. After ...
Residents, The: The Residents: Not Available
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, November 1978
EVEN BEFORE slotting the stylus into the grooves, you're aware that this is one of the most bizarre albums ever to make it a: far ...
Flying Lizards: Penseur in Patchy Light: David Cunningham…
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, November 1978
is either a 3-time loser looking for a way out, OR......An entrepreneurial polymath looking for a way in. ...
Chrome: Half Machine Lip Moves
Review by Andy Gill, NME, March 1979
THE TITLE OF Chrome's second album Alien Soundtracks perfectly describes one level on which their music can be taken: the evocation of a fantasy world ...
Residents, The: The Residents: Nibbles! (Virgin)
Review by Ian Penman, NME, July 1979
MEET THE Residents!!! ...
This Heat: This Heat (Piano Records)
Review by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, September 1979
THIS Heat takes you to ten movies in the space of a one-year-old album. ...
Review by Andy Gill, NME, September 1979
FOR MUCH of This Heat's album, it's difficult and at times impossible to decipher which instrument is playing what. This is some indication of their ...
Annette Peacock: A British Rail Breakfast With The Artbreak Kid
Interview by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, December 1979
TIMING: a while ago someone asked Bob Geldof — famous vocalist and composer with the extremely well-known Boomtown Rats pop group — for his definition ...
Flying Lizards: The Flying Lizards: The Flying Lizards (Virgin) **½
Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, February 1980
SOME TIME ago, American journalist and alliterator Tom Wolfe wrote an essay, 'The Painted Word', on the world of post-war American painting. ...
Brian Eno: Into The Spirit World
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, July 1980
The White Man's Grave Look to Africa ...
Brian Eno: Eno: Only The Small Survive
Interview by Dave Rimmer, Face, The, October 1980
One of the vital musical innovators of the Seventies, Brian Eno now inhabits a curious world. He lives in 'medieval' Manhattan, where he gambles on ...
Material: When Is A Band Not A Band?
Interview by Richard Grabel, NME, April 1981
When it's Material, who are sort of several New York bands who are always sort of coming and going in all sorts of wonderful ways. ...
Robert Wyatt: Rock Bottom / Ruth Is Stranger Than Richard (Virgin)
Review by Richard Cook, NME, April 1981
THE REAPPEARANCE of Robert Wyatt's two Virgin albums (1974-5 vintage), now in a double package, is as welcome as a spring day after a relentless ...
Yellow Magic Orchestra: No More Hiros
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, February 1982
BEFORE MAKING the obvious comments on such an album title as Neuromantic and collapsing into sarcastic guffaws, consider for a moment the man who coined ...
This Heat: King's College, London
Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, June 1982
TRAGICALLY snubbed by both press and public in this country, This Heat may have played their final gig. ...
Steve Beresford: Everywhere Man: Steve Beresford
Profile and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, September 1982
You name it, Beresford had done it. He'd played bass, played piano, played trumpet...he'd composed music, improvised music, organised music, he'd written about the damn ...
Steve Reich: 9th Street Crossing Festival, Pension Building, Washington DC
Live Review by Paul Yamada, Washington Review, February 1983
FOR SEVERAL years now Steve Reich has been labeled one of the three "minimalists" to name drop, listen to, and even to take seriously. ...
John Cage: Tributes to John Cage: The Kennedy Center Concert and Ninth Street Crossings
Report by Paul Yamada, Washington Review, June 1983
WHAT CAN you say about a 70-year-old wiseacre, whose public persona exudes sensitivity and dogma, insight and fatuousness? And what can you say when that ...
Robert Wyatt: When The Boat Comes In
Interview by Richard Cook, NME, June 1983
Well, Robert Wyatt's boat has certainly come in with the surprise success of his single 'Shipbuilding' on its re-release. In this interview Richard Cook talks ...
Laurie Anderson Goes For The Throat
Interview by Mark Dery, High Performance, 1984
FORGET the Pippi Longstocking coyness that led Newsweek to dub her "a cybernetic Lily Tomlin." Forget the dimples and the I-had-an-argument-with-10,000-volts-and-lost hairstyle. When Laurie Anderson ...
Einstürzende Neubauten: Einsturzende Neubauten: Driller Thriller
Report by Chris Bohn, NME, January 1984
METAL MARAUDERS IN THE MALL ...
Scott Walker: The Original God-Like Genius
Profile and Interview by Richard Cook, NME, March 1984
"I LIKE to watch people throw darts." ...
Richard H. Kirk: Sound Tracked
Interview by Don Watson, NME, May 1984
IT DOESN'T take too long to suss that Richard Kirk's medium is The Image – here's a man who's ill at ease with The Word. ...
Psychic TV: Holloway Road, London
Live Review by Julian Henry, Melody Maker, August 1984
TONIGHT'S UNPUBLICISED appearance of Psychic TV at an old disused music hall off the Holloway Road was some "event". ...
Diamanda Galás: Diamanda Galás (Metalanguage)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, NME, December 1984
PEOPLE KEEP bursting in looking pained, which must have something to do with this record. Admittedly at a distance it could be mistaken for a ...
Laurie Anderson: Home Of The Brave
Review by Mark Dery, International Musician, 1985
A GARBAGE disposal with indigestion, glub-glubbing on a smooshed Jiffy Pop foil bubble or a gluish wad of Captain Crunch, is not a pretty sight. ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, January 1985
HOT TOWN, it's summer in the city. Basing Street, West London to be exact, the pleasure dome of ZTT records. The Art Of Noise have ...
Jon Hassell, Brian Eno, U2: Brian Eno: Music Without Compromise
Interview by John Hutchinson, Mix, February 1985
BRIAN ENO IS something of a paradox. He is at once associated with the avant-garde and an artist/producer who has actually had his share of ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, May 1985
"HEY! LOOK at this weird architecture," enthuses Peter Principle, surveying the sight he's just stumbled across by opening the curtain in my hotel bedroom. I ...
Laurie Anderson: More Blank Than Frank
Interview by Don Watson, NME, June 1986
AS SHE confides to us in her live show, Laurie Anderson was a bird in a previous incarnation. ...
Material: Secret Life (Jungle)
Review by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, August 1986
STRANGE TIMING for this double album retrospective, considering how totally the alternative scene has renounced the ambitions of 1979-82, all the rhetoric about Eurofunkactivism, Sex, ...
Interview by Neil Perry, Sounds, September 1986
From his bizarre explanation of tattoos to his obsessive faith in causes, PSYCHIC TV's Genesis P-Orridge is the very definition of complexity. As willing disciple ...
Residents, The: The Residents: Hammersmith Palais, London
Live Review by Dele Fadele, NME, November 1986
IF YOU often wondered what fate befalls ex-members of that most teenage of teenage groups, Menudo, don't. Their hearts are left in San Francisco where ...
Fall, The: The Fall Play Hey! Luciani: Riverside Studios, London
Live Review by Len Brown, NME, December 1986
THERE'S A PLAY in every one of us, even Ernie Wise. And perhaps Mark E. Smith. In fact, most of the ingredients are here, maybe ...
Interview by Jack Barron, Sounds, January 1987
No other group creates such extreme reactions as SWANS. For some, they are a bunch of American charlatans making the worst noise in the world; ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Q, February 1988
Stylists have thrown in the towel, promotional persons have blanched, record execs have shed real tears as, over six years, Talk Talk have been increasingly ...
Interview by Mark Dery, Elle, October 1988
WHEN DIAMANDA Galás opens her mouth, dark things come flapping out in a pandemonium of caws, screeches, and beating wings. "I feel as if I'm ...
Diamanda Galás: The Demon Diva
Interview by Mark Sinker, Melody Maker, January 1989
As the AIDS epidemic spreads and all pop can do is turn a blind eye, Diamanda Galas is the only singer left to stand and ...
Brian Eno: Man Out Of Time: Brian Eno
Interview by Don Watson, Spin, May 1989
"IS THIS 1962 OR 20 YEARS ON?" asked the sleeve notes of the first Roxy Music LP, the record that introduced Brian Eno to the ...
Overview by Mark Dery, Elle, September 1989
MAYBE IT all began in 1917 with the harmless-looking urinal "R. Mutt" entered in the Society of Independent Artists New York show. ...
Laurie Anderson: On The Jagged Edge
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Elle, October 1989
"I'LL BET you think I'm making this up," says Laurie Anderson, her voice taut, edgy. A dramatic pause, then a grave shake of the head. ...
Brian Eno: Back to the Future: Brian Eno
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, November 1990
The teenage keyboard pioneer with the left-field dress sense evolved into the amiable egghead in the "gardening clothes". And in between – via the avant-garde, ...
Electronica: Electronics Anonymous
Report by Johnny Black, Q, December 1990
Swatched in dry ice, tucked behind towering banks of keyboards, they are the spiritual descendents of Tangerine Dream and Vangelis, prescribing "psycho-active music to bring ...
Interview by Betty Page, Vox, November 1991
Mark Hollis takes minimalism to its limit with a one-note solo on Talk Talk's new album, Laughing Stock. Still, a solo, like life, is what ...
Diamanda Galás: Diamanda Galas: Hymns Of Empathy
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, August 1992
IF MARIA Calas had sizzled at the stake, she might have sung 'The Litanies of Satan', by Diamanda Galas, as her final, fiery aria. ...
Robert Fripp, David Sylvian: Double Edge
Interview by Nick Coleman, Time Out, June 1993
Guitar hero meets cool synth dude on The First Day, a new album by Robert Fripp and David Sylvian. They should go together like a ...
Fugs, The: The Fugs: F*** Art, Let's Levitate The Pentagon
Retrospective and Interview by Johnny Black, Q, March 1994
DECEMBER 16, 1965. A press conference is under way at Columbia Studios, Los Angeles. Bob Dylan is holding court. One reporter throws a question: "What ...
Aphex Twin: 'Phex And Drugs And Rock'N'Roll
Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, March 1994
APHEX TWIN is the first superstar of ambient, the crossover King of innovative pop. Which is why Seefeel, Saint Etienne, The Boo Radleys, Curve, hell, ...
Laurie Anderson: The Nerve Of Her
Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Rolling Stone, June 1994
THE GENERAL PUBLIC MAY HAVE heard little from performance artist Laurie Anderson in recent years. But that's certain to change in 1994, a hectic year ...
Incredible Strange and Highly Exotic
Essay by David Toop, Wire, The, October 1994
The Incredibly Strange Music books are mondo archaeology for vinyl fetishists. They exhume a hidden world of plastic where exotic Easy Listening, modern primitives, suburban ...
John Oswald: The Man Who Stole Michael Jackson's Face
Profile and Interview by David Gans, Wired, February 1995
John Oswald creates new works from existing sonic materials. His Plunderphonic got him in trouble with the copyright police. (It also got him gigs with ...
Retrospective by David Toop, Wire, The, April 1995
This New York composer, who died in obscurity of AIDS in 1992, was a true visionary, traversing dub, disco and minimalism and anticipating the '90s ...
Interview by Richard Cook, Wire, The, May 1995
Scott Walker, perhaps the most enigmatic singer in recent times, has returned with his first recording since 1984. But is it a work of experimental ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Ikon, October 1995
David Bowie is enjoying another renaissance – hyperactive, philosophical, and buoyant. The century may be expiring, he figures, but his cup runneth over. Chris Roberts ...
David Bowie: Inside The Outsider: The Postmodern Panorama of David Bowie
Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, October 1995
HE'S BEEN a lot of things to a lot of people, sometimes even too many things to too many people, and the only certainty has ...
Interview by Phil McMullen, Ptolemaic Terrascope, 1996
"You are about to have probably the most unusual musical experience of your life. The music will enter areas of your mind never before opened ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, February 1996
The new TORTOISE album, with its radical approach to rock, dub, trip hop and avant-Techno, will blow your mind. SIMON REYNOLDS heralds the future ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, November 1996
RICHIE UNTERBERGER interviewed Robert Wyatt on November 18, 1996 for his book Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll, which profiles 60 of the most interesting cult acts ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, August 1997
WHERE MOST folk in this business work on instinct, rarely pondering how to maximise their talent, supposing they have any, Eno is one of a ...
Brian Eno: We Have Ways Of Making You Talk: Brian Eno
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, September 1997
...on Russia, Roxy and tennis players' bottoms ...
Talk Talk, Mark Hollis: Return from Eden: Mark Hollis
Profile and Interview by Rob Young, Wire, The, January 1998
As the prime mover behind Talk Talk, Mark Hollis threw off the shackles of a pop existence to create the bleakest, yet most lyrical orchestral ...
Robert Wyatt: Deep Shleep: Robert Wyatt Gets Personal
Interview by Mac Randall, Boston Phoenix, January 1998
"THE BIG PROBLEM I have with rock and roll is the rock end of it," says Robert Wyatt. "But I love the rolling. I'm into ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, April 1998
Test card music for the Gods. Band at vanguard of American 'post-rock' developments ...
David Bowie: A Rock 'n' Roll Suicide: A live art event by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard: ICA London
Report by Nick Coleman, Independent, The, July 1998
"OF ALL THE SHOWS on this tour, this particular show will remain with us the longest. Not only is it the last show of the ...
DAF: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft: Reissues
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1998
Overdue reissue of Eighties German minimalist synth duo's electronic pop albums ...
David Toop: Exotica: Fabricated Soundscapes In A Real World
Review by Rob Chapman, MOJO, July 1999
IF EXOTICA is, to quote a much used definition, nostalgia for places you've never visited, then the term has potentially universal application. Bearing in mind ...
Grateful Dead, Frank Zappa: Fables Of The Deconstruction
Essay by Edwin Pouncey, Wire, The, July 1999
ONE MAY evening in 1967 at San Francisco's Matrix club, Steppenwolf's bass player Nick St Nicholas got up on stage, plugged his guitar into an ...
Laurie Anderson: Outside the Whale: Laurie Anderson plays Moby
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, Village Voice, October 1999
Songs and Stories From Moby Dick, BAM Opera House, Through October 16 ...
Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2000
DEVO'S FIRST single, 'Jock Homo', was released in 1977. An instant hit, it expounded the group's theory of de-evolution, that mankind is regressing, rather than ...
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, October 2000
ANOTHER SUPERLATIVE ambient/techno album from former Bjork collaborator ...
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Surface, April 2001
WHEN, IN 1987, David Sylvian sang the words, "I wrestle with an outlook on life, that shifts between darkness and shadowy light," he spoke of ...
John Oswald: Plunderphonics 69/96 (Fony)****
Review by David Stubbs, Uncut, August 2001
Sample Minded… Sampladelia run rampant from the USA ...
Yoko Ono: Just imagine: Yoko Ono
Interview by Andrew Smith, Observer Music Monthly, November 2001
In the '60s, Yoko Ono married John Lennon and campaigned for peace in Vietnam. More than 30 years on, she's still irrevocably linked to her ...
Cabaret Voltaire: Various Compilations
Review by Simon Reynolds, Uncut, December 2001
From post-punk to dance crossover: Sheffield pioneers' mid-Eighties revisited The Original Sound Of Sheffield — The Best Of The Virgin/EMI Years Conform To Deform — The Virgin/EMI ...
Jim O'Rourke: The Art Of Noise
Profile and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2002
HEAR AN EXPERIMENTAL, ELECTRONIC RECORD THESE DAYS AND CHANCES ARE IT WILL HAVE CHICAGOAN JIM O'ROURKE'S NAME ON IT. ROB HUGHES MEETS THE 21ST CENTURY ...
Interview by Chris Campion, Dazed & Confused, July 2002
IT'S TAKEN 30 years for Alan Vega to make the transition from surly street punk and art world agitator to New York institution. Better known ...
David Thomas: Man in the Mirror
Profile and Interview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, June 2003
Pere Ubu’s David Thomas stages the latest incarnation of his rock opera/performing arts festival 'Disastodrome!' ...
Profile and Interview by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, September 2003
"Ron Geesin, composer for all media, live performer and one-man record company, works from his own studio both writing for musicians and working with complex ...
Yoko Ono: The Outsider Peeks Inside
Profile and Interview by Jeff Tamarkin, Global Rhythm, January 2004
THE WOMAN'S clothing is being snipped from her body. Systematically, one by one, 200 scissors-wielding strangers – and the woman's son – silently have a ...
Moondog: Ain't Nothin' But A Moondog
Retrospective by Fred Dellar, MOJO, March 2004
DURING APRIL, 1953, US DJ Sid Gross was in England attempting to arrange for a British band to visit the States in exchange for an ...
Interview by Steven R Rosen, Harp, April 2004
David Byrne – whose funk-rock-art band Talking Heads brought New Wave into the mainstream a generation ago, and who has pursued his interests in rhythm-based ...
Damo Suzuki, Can: Damo Suzuki: The Accidental Anarchist
Interview by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, July 2004
Damo Suzuki is the legendary vocalist with German group Can, but he has been perfecting his unique mode of 'instant composition' all his life. Having ...
This Heat and Cold Storage: Once upon a time in Brixton
Retrospective by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, August 2005
"A former meat storage room that became This Heat's rehearsal room then an 8-track studio then a 16-track studio then a 24-track studio then a ...
Diamanda Galás Prepares To Perform A New Defixiones
Profile and Interview by Ted Drozdowski, Boston Phoenix, September 2005
DIAMANDA GALÁS has had a talent for plucking beauty from the maw of horror for more than 20 years – right from her first solo ...
Terry Riley: Royce Hall, UCLA, Los Angeles
Live Review by Steven R Rosen, Harp, October 2005
TO CELEBRATE the 70th birthday of California-born minimalist composer Terry Riley, the UCLA Live series put together a program even stranger than Riley's landmark In ...
Phish: Trey Anastacio, 40, Manhattan
Interview by Jaan Uhelszki, Harp, December 2005
A YEAR after dismantling Phish, one of the jam scene's most beloved institutions, Trey Anastasio continues to receive hate mail from bereft fans. ...
Interview by Graham Reid, Rock's Backpages, May 2006
NO ONE COULD accuse reclusive songwriter and singer Scott Walker of haste. In the time between Walker's last album Tilt and his latest The Drift, ...
Essay by Michel Faber, Guardian, The, July 2006
GLEAMING METAL DOORS slide open noiselessly at the touch of a button, and I step into the secret subterranean studio of Brian Eno. The atmosphere ...
Brian Eno: Containing Spontaneity
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, October 2006
NOT JUST a few otherwise sophisticated human beings would likely feel less uneasy naked and unarmed in Northern Afghanistan than present in a room when ...
David Byrne: The Importance Of Being David Byrne
Interview by Ken Scrudato, Filter, November 2007
I WAS IN ZURICH recently and found myself at the rather legendary Cabaret Voltaire. It was in that very same place, all the way back ...
George Pringle: The Social, London
Live Review by Caroline Sullivan, Guardian, The, November 2007
"JUST WAIT till my husband gets out of prison," sulks the skinny girl, poking a pinky into her mound of frothed hair. The audience titter ...
Interview by Luke Turner, Dazed & Confused, February 2008
"WE FOUND them in the woods," laughs Stephen O'Malley, refusing to divulge where Sunn O))) wove the monastic robes that, along with cranium-crushing waves of ...
Interview by Luke Turner, Dazed & Confused, March 2008
Diamanda Galás has been shouting down society's hypocritical moralists for over 30 years. Here, she explains how HIV/Aids, Catholicism and injustice inspired a lifelong crusade ...
Delia Derbyshire, BBC Radiophonic Workshop: In Praise of Delia Derbyshire
Profile by Jude Rogers, Guardian Unlimited, July 2008
Last week's news that lots of Derbyshire tapes had been found and digitised marked the latest stage in her recovery as a musical, and feminist, ...
Bill Drummond: Recorded Music Has Run Its Course
Interview by John Doran, Quietus, The, August 2008
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Sunn O))): Monoliths & Dimensions
Review by John Doran, Drowned in Sound, May 2009
DURING SHELLAC'S excellent track 'The End Of Radio', about the nature of recording and broadcasting electronically amplified rock music, there's a line (when performed live ...
Bill Laswell: Bass. How Low Can You Go?
Interview by John Doran, Quietus, The, July 2009
Prior to his appearance at Montreux Jazz Festival, John Doran caught up with Bill Laswell in New York and uncovered some surprising information about Def ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Clash, April 2010
IN 1975, LOU Reed was the most dangerously fascinating figure in rock 'n' roll. With his old associates Bowie and Iggy having turned respectively into ...
Interview by Luke Turner, Into Magazine (Sound & Music), June 2010
Chris Watson talks to Luke Turner about the connections between his work as a documentary sound recordist, musician and artist, as his latest installation, Whispering ...
Brian Eno: 'Lady Gaga's Meat Dress? I Did It First'
Interview by Ben Thompson, Daily Telegraph, November 2010
Fashion disasters, electronic music, even the Lib-Con coalition...The super-producer and former Roxy Music wizard saw it all coming ...
David Bedford: Albion's Astronaut
Interview by Mike Barnes, Wire, The, March 2011
Trained by the European avant garde, British composer David Bedford helped launch Mike Oldfield and Kevin Ayers's pastoral rock into orbit with his cosmically aligned ...
Steve Reich: Musicians, Composers and Artists pay tribute
Interview by Mike Barnes, Guardian, The, May 2011
STEVE REICH is a major influence on today's musicians, artists and film-makers. As the Barbican pays tribute, we ask some of them why – and ...
Björk: A New Map to Björk's Music
Report and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, October 2011
IT'S A SAD IRONY: The digitization of music has impoverished the average listening experience. Not only do compressed files sound meagre compared to the sonic ...
Press Release by Rob Young, 4AD Records, September 2012
Bish (n. sl.), bitchBosch, Hieronymous (c. 1450–1516), Dutch painterBish bosh (sl.), job done, sorted* ...
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