Edwin Pouncey
Edwin Pouncey is also known by the nom de plume Savage Pencil He is an English comics artist, musician, and music journalist. He has contributed to magazines such as Sounds ("Rock'n'Roll Zoo", etc.), Forced Exposure and The Wire. He has illustrated record sleeves for bands such as The Fall, Big Black, Sonic Youth and Rocket From The Crypt amongst others. Savage Pencil was also a member of The Art Attacks, a band who released two 7"s; 'I'm A Dalek' b/w 'Neutron Bomb' (released on the Albatross label in 1977) and 'First & Last'/'Punk Rock Stars'/'Rat City' (released on the Fresh label in 1979).
Edwin is currently a member of the "improvising drone-rock noise band" Pestrepeller, along with Peter Hope-Evans (ex-Medicine Head), Ed Pinsent, Harley Richardson, Nick Neocleous and Rob Brown. They released an album in May 2006 on Important Records, entitled Isle of Dark Magick, described in the press release as "a gem of free-improvised-found-sound-collage enriched with dark pagan folky vibes and supernatural horror noise dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare."
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Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 10 July 1982
IT HAS ALREADY been wisely stated elsewhere that any thoughts of tribal ceremony soundtracks brought direct from the bush by intrepid white David Fanshawe types ...
King Sunny Ade: Sunny Side Of The Beat
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 28 August 1982
Edwin Pouncey meets the 'Minister Of Enjoyment' and monarch of juju music KING SUNNY ADE ...
Allman Brothers Band: The Allman Brothers: Seven Turns
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990
LAST YEAR'S EPIC DREAMS boxed set satisfactorily covered the full history of these good ol' Southern boys and their particular brand of rock 'n' blues. ...
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 6 January 1990
DANGEROUS TOYS wind up their set with a no-sweat rendition of their first 45, an aimless rocker entitled 'Teas'n, Pleas'n' that merely acts as a ...
Guide by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2016
Channelling the magick of Aleister Crowley and the neo-paganism of witchcraft, occult rock is the sound of rock 'n' roll's secret society. Edwin Pouncey reads ...
Amon Düül (I & II): Communing With Chaos: Amon Düül II
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, February 1996
WHEN THE GERMAN rock explosion (now recognised as Krautrock) first hit these shores in the early 70s, the temptation to label it as a thriving ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990
THIS TIME NEW YORK moshers Anthrax sound like they're really pissed off….at least, that's what they'd like you to believe as they hurl their third ...
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 20 June 1981
Tea and Anarchy: Edwin Pouncey sees Crass in action ...
Ash Ra Tempel, Coil, Julian Cope: Julian Cope's Cornucopea: South Bank Centre, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
BILLED AS "a festival of plenty" by its curator Julian Cope, the two nights spent in the company of his various label mates, old mates ...
Albert Ayler: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, October 2003
Albert Ayler (tf/ts); Mary Marta Parks (v/ss); Call Cobbs (p); Steve Tlntwetss (b); A Pen Biairman (d). Rec. 25 and 27 July 1970 ...
Babes In Toyland: A Fête Worse Than Death
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 15 August 1992
Rumble rumble rumble... whizz "WHAAAAHH!"And that's just listening to the new BABES IN TOYLAND album, long before EDWIN POUNCEY went anywhere near a rollercoaster with ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 2000
FEW MUSICIANS have fully understood how to make effective use of feedback in improvised music. If anybody can crank up their output and return part ...
Chet Baker, Terry Riley: Terry Riley: The Gift (Organ of Corti)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
TO DATE, Organ of Corti's important release programme of rare and previously released material from master minimalist Terry Riley has been a somewhat frustrating exercise ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 31 July 1982
ALREADY WRITTEN about in rival publications but well worth another mention here to remind you of their greatness. ...
The Bangles: Yesterday and Today
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 2 February 1985
THE 'HOUSE full' sign was proudly on display outside Boston's Paradise Theatre, a local haunt that had, so I was informed, fallen from favour by ...
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1999
In the latest in our series uncovering the hidden wiring of 20th century music, Edwin Pouncey shows how rock 'n' roll's face was changed forever ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, February 2009
THIS COMPREHENSIVE collection of Teenage Jesus And The Jerks recordings features 'Orphans' and 'Less Of Me', both sides of their debut single for Charles Ball’s ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 29 February 1992
SINCE THEY faded into obscurity in 1975, shortly after recording the sessions for the Third/Sister Lovers LP, Memphis pop/rock band Big Star have been lauded ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2001
"KIRBY'S FOURTH WORLD period was sort of like when Miles went electric," enthuses jazz percussionist Gregg Bendian about the inspirational force behind his improvised tribute ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990
DRUMMER BOB BERT once slammed skins for such New York underground rock superstars as Sonic Youth and Pussy Galore. Now he has decided to try ...
Black Uhuru: Chill Out (Island)****1/2
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 12 June 1982
AFTER THE blistering scorch that came out as Red, things in the Uhuru camp just had to cool off before the next major assault could ...
Black Uhuru: Tear It Up (Island)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 13 February 1982
BLACK UHURU'S tour of English provinces last year took place at a time when the streets were torn with riot, ironically the perfect setting for ...
Black Uhuru: Red (Island ILPS 9625)*****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 30 May 1981
THE KING of reggae may be at rest, but the beat he spent his life supporting lives on. While the media have paid their varied ...
Black Uhuru: Stepping On The Dragon
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 18 July 1981
THE COACH journey from London to Bristol went quicker than I had originally expected. It hardly seemed five minutes since we were stepping aboard the ...
Blue Cheer: Highlights And Lowlives (Nielbung); Blitzkrieg Over Nuremburg (Thunderbolt)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, January 1991
BLUE CHEER were once championed as being the loudest band in the world. By today's standards of mega-volume Blue Cheer may sound pretty tame, but ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 14 December 1985
HEAVY METAL groups come and go but the Cult apparently to on forever. It kinda makes you feel warm inside — at least you can ...
BoDeans: Home (Slash/London LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 9 September 1989
SLASH RECORDS were one of the first American labels to offer an alternative selection of new artists to an industry bloated on feeble rock clichés. ...
The Boredoms: Drilled to Infinity
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2002
Over 15 years, Osaka's Boredoms have mutated from a splatterpunk avant noise group to the streamlined ferocity of their current mantric percussion barrage. In London, ...
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 1997
Now into his fifth decade at the doors of perception, label boss ALAN DOUGLAS hasworked with many of the century's underground greats, from Lenny Bruce, ...
Burning Spear: Farover (Radio)***
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 29 May 1982
TWO YEARS on from his last collection finds Winston Rodney, the African teacher, aka Burning Spear, relating the same universal message of cultural education through ...
Butthole Surfers: Rembrandt Pussy Horse (Red Rhino RRE LP2)*****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 3 May 1986
CRAZY HORSE ...
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Dust Sucker (Milksafe)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2002
THE FULL STORY of Captain Beefheart's ill-fated Bat Chain Puller – potentially his greatest musical statement after Trout Mask Replica – has already been admirably ...
Captain Beefheart & The Magic Band: Ice Cream For Crow (Virgin V2237)*****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 11 September 1982
TO THE casual observer, Captain Beefheart's vibe must appear to be similar to the window blind painting he has created to adorn his latest batch ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990
CHEAP TRICK ARE THE champions of the FM pop/rock ditty, a position they have proudly hung onto, through the great American punk apocalypse right to ...
Alex Chilton: Like Flies On Sherbert (Great Expectations/CD only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 4 July 1992
WHEN BIG Star finally went under after their Sister Lovers (aka Third) LP failed to receive the attention it deserved at the time, a disgusted ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 28 November 1992
THIS RECORD HAS taken its creator, poet/songwriter/musician Leonard Cohen, four years to complete. A collection of seven originals and two cover versions that Cohen and ...
Alice Coltrane, John Coltrane: Alice Coltrane: Enduring Love
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, April 2002
AFTER HER KEY ROLE IN JOHN COLTRANE'S ECSTATIC JAZZ EXPERIMENTS OF THE LATE 60S, PIANIST AND HARPIST ALICE COLTRANE EMBARKED ON A JOURNEY INTO THE OUTER SPIRALS ...
Concrete Blonde: Concrete Blonde (IRS)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 2 May 1987
CONCRETE BLONDE have pushed themselves up towards the sun from a long ugly crack in the sidewalk called Hollywood. They're a gangly looking weed, with ...
Elvis Costello: Punch The Clock (F.Beat)****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 30 July 1983
ELVIS COSTELLO, the self-confessed Invisible Man, returns. Off come the dark glasses, the bandages are unwound and drop to the floor to reveal his latest ...
The Cramps: The Curse Of Elvis
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 1 February 1986
It's exploitation-a-go-go as THE CRAMPS surf back from the dead to keep a date with EDWIN POUNCEY in downtown Los Angeles. ...
The Cramps: Creatures From The Black Leather Lagoon
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 20 January 1990
Self-confessed "Norma Desmonds of rockabilly", THE CRAMPS are cheering the demise of a less-than-world-beating '80s and looking forward to a well-rockin' '90s. With their new LP ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Ragged Glory
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, October 1990
LIKE BOB DYLAN (his closest creative counterpart) Neil Young likes to keep his audience on its toes. For every critically acclaimed 'classic' that is punched ...
Crazy Horse, Neil Young: Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Weld/Arc-Weld (Reprise/All formats)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 19 October 1991
SOLDER OF FORTUNE ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2001
THE RESURGENCE of Destroy All Monsters, the Detroit artists' collective group made up of founder members Mike Kelley, Jim Shaw and Cary Loren, owes much ...
Devo: Jade Dellinger & David Giffels: Are We Not Men? We Are Devo!
Book Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, December 2003
DEPENDING ON which side of the critical fence you were standing at the time, '70s art rock group Devo from Akron, Ohio were either "the ...
Digable Planets: Reachin' (A New Refutation Of Time And Space) (WEA/All formats)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 13 February 1993
DIGGERS WITH ATTITUDE ...
Dinosaur Jr: Doin' The Dinosaur
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, March 1991
Will Dinosaur Jr go monster now they're signed with the corporate might of Warners? Edwin Pouncey says Oi! to the band who claim The 4-Skins ...
Mikey Dread: Who's The Man Plays Dubwise Selection Without Objection? Mikey Dread, Of Course
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 2 February 1980
MICHAEL CAMPBELL is a man of many parts. Producer of numerous dub, toasting and vocal sides he has also worked for such luminaries as King ...
The Dream Syndicate: Medicine Men: The Dream Syndicate
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 14 July 1984
INSIDE THE Mission Theatre in sunny Santa Barbara weve got trouble. With less than an hour to go before The Dreams Syndicate take the stage, ...
Bob Dylan, Grateful Dead: Bob Dylan and The Grateful Dead: Dylan and The Dead
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989
THIS COULD be a marriage made in heaven or hell, depending on which side of the critical fence you might be sitting. The majority of ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2001
ENDGAME ARE a trio from Leicester, featuring brothers Alan and Steven Freeman, with musician, engineer and designer Jim Tetlow. ...
John Fahey: Blood on the Frets
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 1998
The original American Primitive, John Fahey's raw mixes of blues, folk and musique concrete embody the spirit of American alternative music. But during the 60s ...
The Fall: Hex Enduction Hour and Live At Acklam Hall, London 1980
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 6 March 1982
IN A constantly flowing stream of creativity, through each consecutive fad, fantasy and fashion The Fall have always strived to go against the grain to ...
The Fall: The Prestwich Horror And Other Strange Stories
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 31 January 1981
Mark Smith of The Fall discloses fragments of the "Totale Mythos" to Edwin Pouncey. ...
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 1 October 1988
GOTH NIGHT in South London has brought out all the silly cowboy hats, floppy bandanas and Wayne Hussey lookalikes in full force. The crowds of ...
Godspeed You! Black Emperor: Yanqui UXO (Constellation)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 2002
Veering between swarming guitar symphonies and Messiaenic tranquillity, Canadian refuseniks Godspeed You! Black Emperor are learning to love the bomb... not. ...
Grateful Dead: One From The Vaults
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, June 1991
FOR DEVOTED Dead Heads, this release is a dream come true as (not to be outdone by Dylan) the Grateful Dead open up their tape ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 1979
"THERE'S NOTHING like a Grateful Dead concert." This oft-quoted statement from past hand-out material was going through my head as I stumbled over the attendant ...
Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks Volume 16: Fillmore Auditorium 11/8/69 (Grateful Dead GD4036 3XCD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
ALTHOUGH GRATEFUL Dead tape archivist Dick Latvala died last year, his guiding hand still pushes along the project that carries his name. That Grateful Dead ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Without A Net
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, November 1990
THE GRATEFUL DEAD are the kind of rocking teenage combo who are at their very best when they're playing wild and free in front of ...
Grateful Dead: The Grateful Dead: Rainbow, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 4 April 1981
Dead fans "awake" shocker ...
Green On Red: Gas Food Lodging
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 18 May 1985
ALL OF a sudden, its a-happening. Seems like every LA outfit that you ever read about in these pages moons ago is over here with ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 12 October 1991
THE JAZZ noise made here is powerful and alluring enough to snare the unwary punter into its ever-thrilling web of sound. ...
The Gun Club: Gun Club: Miami (Animal) *****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 18 September 1982
IN A MUSICAL world that is forever being bedevilled and picked at by the bland spirits of so called 'new pop', the emergence of a ...
The Gun Club: Gun Club: Calling On Thunder
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 23 October 1982
IN THE beginning Jeffrey Lee Pierce was born in Texas and raised in Los Angeles. ...
Jimi Hendrix: Stages (Polydor/CD box set only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 8 February 1992
SINCE HIS untimely death in 1970 guitar god Jimi Hendrix has been lauded as 'The Greatest Guitarist Of All Time'. His name has been inducted ...
Hole: Pretty On The Inside (City Slang/All formats)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 14 September 1991
TOP HOLE! ...
Ronald Shannon Jackson, Bill Laswell, Sonny Sharrock: Bill Laswell: Mad Maxim
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 16 May 1992
Laughing in the face of musical categories, Manhattan's AXIOM label smashes through Techno stomp, space bass boogie, classical gas, Islamic rap'n'thrash, ferocious free-form jazz and ...
Linton Kwesi Johnson: Making History
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, October 1983
A LOT OF polluted water has flowed under the bridge since Bass Culture, Linton Kwesi Johnson's last album of poems, was released to rave critical ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, November 1990
HOT ON THE heels of their recent court victory (where Judas Priest were found not guilty of causing the deaths of two young men through ...
The Justified Ancients Of Mu Mu: Who Killed The JAMs (JAMs LP only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 13 February 1988
MILKING THE MU MU ...
Wayne Kramer, MC5: MC5: Young, Powerful and Full Of Sperm
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 7 December 1991
It wasn't all flowers and freedom in the '60s for Detroit's finest rock'n'revolutionary band the MC5, whose legendary 1968 debut LP Kick Out The Jams, ...
Bill Laswell, Carlos Santana: Bill Laswell/Carlos Santana: Divine Light (Columbia Legacy)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2001
IN 1997, PRODUCER Bill Laswell was granted access to Columbia's tape vaults where, using the original masters, he put together Panthalassa, his devoted reconstruction of ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 25 August 1990
IT'S PROBABLY too ironic that, just when the Lemonheads were getting somewhere, things started to abruptly shake apart. ...
Lone Ranger: Rose Marie (Black Joy)****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 2 January 1982
THIS BRAND new selection without objection is the first released album in this country from the Lone Ranger since he last bared fangs on the ...
Loop: A Gilded Eternity (Situation Two LP/ Cassette/CD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 20 January 1990
NEW GOLD DREAM ...
Gary Lucas: Improve The Shining Hour: Rare Lumiere 1980–2000 (Knitting Factory)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, June 2000
THE GLITTERING career of US guitarist Gary Lucas has inevitably become overshadowed by the work he produced for Captain Beefheart during the early 80s on ...
Charles Manson: Die Flayed Alive! Charles Manson
Report by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 29 August 1992
Many reckon the swinging 60s ended the night followers of deranged hippy guru CHARLES MANSON broke into the home of Roman Polanski and brutally murdered ...
Matato'a: Global Ear: Easter Island
Report by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, March 2000
A survey of sounds from around the planet. This month … Easter Island ...
Mazzy Star: She Hangs Brightly (Rough Trade)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 26 May 1990
DAVID ROBACK, who with singer Hope Sandoval makes up one half of the Mazzy Star project, probably likens himself to the US equivalent of ace ...
Ministry: The Land Of Rape And Honey (Sire LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 11 February 1989
BRIAN JOURGENSEN and Paul Barker, the men from Ministry, work together in a world of seemingly self inflicted pain and torture. A ceaseless metal-machine beat ...
Mötley Crüe, Skid Row, White Lion: Crüe To Be Kind
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 18 November 1989
Lock up your heated rollers, here comes Metal mayhem. Into the heart of dorkness strode our very own rock monster EDWIN POUNCEY armed with only ...
Mudhoney: Put Mud In The Music
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 27 May 1989
Thanks to an extensive European tour, a vinyl collaboration with Sonic Youth and their own indie-chart hit LP, Seattle's MUDHONEY find themselves the latest US ...
Tisziji Muñoz: Alpha-Nebula — The Prophecies (Anami Music)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
FOR MANY, the name of New York born, Puerto Rican guitarist Tisziji Muñoz will be unfamiliar, so perhaps a brief summary of his career is ...
Music Blues: Things Haven't Gone Well Thrill (Jockey)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2014
THE 2006 resurrection of Athens, Georgia doom rockers Harvey Milk was a cause for celebration among those who had faithfully followed the group's precarious career, ...
Marissa Nadler: Death Becomes Her
Profile and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2005
IN THE BACK of a small pub in South London, surrounded by a crowd of curious onlookers, Marissa Nadler tunes up her acoustic 12-string guitar ...
Nirvana: Bleach (Sub Pop import US LP only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 8 July 1989
REAL ROCK music should hurt. Like being too near an exploding plate glass window, it should get under your skin and cause you to writhe ...
Nirvana: Bleach (Tupelo/All formats); Hormoaning (Japanese CD only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 7 March 1992
WHAT'S ON offer here are Nirvana's (bleached) roots, a raw-throated and perhaps over-fussy sounding debut LP that would eventually spawn a phenomenon. Bleach with ...
Nirvana: Never Mind The Bullets
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 27 February 1993
Deep in the woods of Minnesota, a sleepy CHRIS NOVOSELIC is just finishing a major magazine article on the Bosnian/Croatian conflict, while Steve Albini helps ...
Nirvana: 'Nevermind' — The Bolognese!
Report and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 21 December 1991
THE RAIN-sodden streets of Muggia (a secluded town in Northern Italy that acts as the border with civil war-torn Yugoslavia) are seemingly empty. Nirvana bass ...
Nirvana, Tad: Hard On: Nirvana and Tad
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
This week EDWIN POUNCEY gets on the trail of Sub Pop, the label that brought you Mudhoney and who are about to unleash the ungodly ...
Nirvana, Tad: Tad, Nirvana: Astoria, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 16 December 1989
"CHECK!... CHECK!..." This is one little improvisation that the fans freezing outside were missing as Sub Pop stalwarts Nirvana struggled valiantly to balance the sound ...
Kemper Norton: Loor (Front & Follow)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, October 2014
SELF-ANOINTED slurtronic folkologist Kemper Norton’s music has been labelled mysterious, occult and uncanny, the last of these being his preferred description for the vivid sound ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, April 1999
IN THE 1960s Brazil declared war on rock 'n' roll. Any popular music betraying American or English influences — and that included the use of ...
Lee "Scratch" Perry: Who was that masked man?
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, June 2015
The Lone Ranger, Clint Eastwood and Lee Van Cleef ride again as dancehall deejays. ...
Phish: A Picture Of Nectar (Elektra/All formats)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 20 June 1992
YOU'VE NEVER heard of them... right? But, believe it or not, Phish (from Vermont) are very big fry in the States right now and no ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, April 1989
THAT LITTLE MONKEY with the halo hot-wired to its tiny skull – the central image for both the Pixies' latest single and this, their second ...
Robert Plant: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 23 June 1990
AT ONE point during his performance this evening, Robert Plant throws back his golden locks and lets loose what sounds like an Islamic call to ...
Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy Pop: Coming Through Slaughter
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 1999
Where lesser rock gods have become overweight and obsolete, Iggy Pop endures. In Miami, prompted by the bitter-sweet musings of his 13th album, he reflects ...
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, February 1991
The stomping ground for much of the action that took place during the "Psychedelic '60s" is usually considered to be San Francisco, where bands such ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 13 January 1990
• From working on building sites to recording in Hollywood, THE QUIREBOYS have had the sort of change in careers that most hard rock bands ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 2000
WITH THEIR FOURTH album Kid A, Oxford quintet Radiohead have caused a tsunami-sized wave of confusion by breaking with stadium rock orthodoxy to exhibit an ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 15 September 1984
STILL RAINING, still dreaming. ...
Lou Reed: Magic And Loss (Sire/All formats)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 11 January 1992
LOU REED may have abandoned his 'Phantom Of Rock' image long ago, but the search for his creative mainline has continued unabated. ...
R.E.M.: Deconstructing The Fables
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 18 October 1986
Their sight fully restored with the release of their latest creation, R.E.M. are looking straight ahead once more and enjoying Lifes Rich Pageant. EDWIN POUNCEY ...
R.E.M.: R.E.M: Life's Rich Pageant
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 16 August 1986
NOW WHERE did this panther spring from? Seems like only a minute ago I was hacking my way through a jungle of ugly pop fever ...
The Replacements Drink and Drive
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 9 November 1985
Drunk on fame? Not yet or probably ever. Paul Westerberg pours out the history of THE REPLACEMENTS to EDWIN POUNCEY in Minneapolis. ...
The Replacements: Pleased To Meet Me (Sire)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 9 May 1987
THE WELCOME return of the world's most talented buncha winos. This time the noise that Minneapolis's finest are making sounds like a celebration of sorts. ...
The Residents: Cube E Show, Sadler's Wells, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 18 November 1989
SOME CLASSY joint! No beer slop pit of a venue for The Residents... Nosiree! Instead, the paying customers are treated to seats, opera glasses and ...
The Residents: The Primer: The Residents
Discography by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, February 2001
A bi-monthly series in which we offer a user's guide to recordings of some of our favourite musicians. This month, Edwin Pouncey takes a duck ...
The Residents' Mole Show: The Roxy, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 13 November 1982
Mountains out of Molehills ...
The Residents, Snakefinger: The Residents: The eyes of the Lord are upon us
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 30 July 1988
From eyeball lashing to Bible bashing THE RESIDENTS are back and inviting you to come spend a fright night at the opera with them. Their ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, April 2000
MARTIN REV might not be toppling too many new barriers, but the rhythmic and lyrical ghosts he summons up have an indefinable, haunting quality. ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 1 June 1985
Is there life after Suicide? Martin Rev gets fired up ...
The Rolling Stones: Steel Wheels (CBS LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 2 September 1989
STERLING MOSS ...
Henry Rollins: Mean Fiddler, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 1 October 1988
THE GRAND old illustrated man of US hardcore grips the stage with his toes and hangs ten. Henry Rollins has just rolled into town again ...
Royal Trux: Twin Infinitives (Domino/CD only)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 5 February 1994
"NOW THAT I can get outside of myself, I can see how that record has something that might not catch on immediately," admitted Royal Trux's ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 2000
Pound for pound, the trailer park noise symphonies of Royal Trux out-weird everything this side of Ornette Coleman and The Grateful Dead. Edwin Pouncey travels ...
Silver Apples: Oscillate Wildly
Retrospective and Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 1997
After 30 years of universal neglect, New York's Silver Apples are finally getting recognition for their pioneering electronic rock. ...
John Sinclair: Invisible Jukebox: John Sinclair
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, January 2003
John Sinclair — poet, journalist and former manager of 60s revolutionary rockers The MC5 — was born in Flint, Michigan in 1941. His father worked ...
Sonic Youth: Bad Moon Rising (Blast First BFFP 1) *****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 9 March 1985
FOR THEIR third assault upon the senses, and the first for their new label, New York's powerful and passionate Sonic Youth take a Creedence title, ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 15 October 1977
SPLIT ENZ are mainly a musical theatrical troupe, not that that's a slagging off because they are also talented musicians. It's just that the first ...
The Stooges: Heavy Liquid (Easy Action)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, October 2005
ASSEMBLED FROM a back catalogue of previously released sessions, rehearsals and various recording ephemera circa (1972–74) from what many believed to be The Stooges' last ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 1 June 1985
DUE TO an allergy to cats, Martin Rev is forced to huddle next to an open window in manager/producer/believer Marty Thau's feline thronged apartment. ...
Suicide: Invisible Jukebox: Suicide
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, March 1998
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Suicide, Alan Vega: Alan Vega: Journey Through America 1985 — Part One
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 23 November 1985
During the '70s ALAN VEGA switched New York on to a different wavelength. Ten years on, and he's seemingly blown a fuse with a 'commercial' ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Ptolemaic Terrascope, April 1996
GARY RAMON is a musician who takes his psychedelia seriously. As well as being the guitarist and front-man for Sun Dial he also finds time ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Vox, March 1991
FOR THE NEXT BIG THING, avert your tired eyes from Manchester and focus instead on Wandsworth, South London, where Sun Dial sit, waiting to rise ...
Sunn O))): Invisible Jukebox: Sunn O)))
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, July 2004
EVERY MONTH WE PLAY A MUSICIAN A SERIES OF RECORDS WHICH THEY ARE ASKED TO IDENTIFY AND COMMENT ON WITH NO PRIOR KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT ...
Sunn O))) & Ulver: Terrestrials /Ulver: Messe I.X – VI.X
Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, February 2014
THE LAST TIME American drone lords Sunn O))) and Norwegian lycanthropes Ulver came together in the studio was in 2003 for 'CutWOODED' on the cowled ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 20 May 1989
On their new album The Burning World the SWANS have discovered their volume control goes down as well as up and have left the harsh ...
Television: Return of the Valve Heads
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 19 September 1992
HUNCHED AROUND a huge table which dominates the fancily decorated room that their new record company, Capitol, has allocated to them for interviews, the four ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 29 May 1982
Edwin Pouncey spars with TOYAN ...
The Viceroys: We Must Unite (Trojan)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 20 March 1982
THE CULT phenomenon, as with other realms of popular music, is also almost predominantly featured in the world of reggae. The Viceroys, a mysterious trio ...
The Wailing Souls: Breada Gravilicious
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 5 September 1981
LLOYD "BREAD" McDONALD tells the Wailing Souls story to EDWIN POUNCEY ...
The Waitresses: Wasn't Tomorrow Wonderful? (Polydor)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 30 January 1982
FOR STARTERS, The Waitresses first came into being through one Chris Butler, who created the group as a spillover for musical ideas that were incompatible ...
The Waitresses: The Peppermint Lounge, New York
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 27 February 1982
ONE BY ONE out of the cold, graffiti-decorated dressing room, The Waitresses leap on to the stage to be greeted by a hailstorm of applause ...
The Waitresses: What The Butler Said
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 6 March 1982
THE WAITRESSES give tips to EDWIN POUNCEY on how to cure irony ...
Tom Waits: Swordfish Out of Water: Tom Waits
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 15 November 1983
"WHEN YOU drive from Los Angeles to Northern California... Leaving Los Angeles is like youre being put upon and then it gets simpler and simpler, ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 1985
With my head full of violent thoughts, swirling with the alcohol I've poured down myself to accomplish the task at hand, I'm just in the ...
Wall Of Voodoo: Call Of The West (Illegal)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 23 October 1982
THE LIGHTED office door on the cover of the second Wall Of Voodoo album is sealed shut while the tumbleweed haunted mists of Western legend ...
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 26 January 1991
"THIS SONG is called 'Squelch The Weasel'," announces vocalist Gene as he straps on an acoustic guitar. "By Ween," reminds his partner Dean, plugging in ...
Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, August 2004
"IF I PLAYED you all the Wilco songs in chronological order on an acoustic guitar, they probably wouldn't sound that different," declares Wilco leader Jeff ...
X: Under The Big Black Sun (Elektra)*****
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 3 July 1982
NO LESS a person than Slash magazine's very own Kickboy Face once told me that X were most popular among the inhabitants of LA's Mexican ...
Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 31 August 1985
ARE YOU ready for the country yet? If bands like the Long Ryders and Jason And The Scorchers (both of whom owe an enormous musical ...
Frank Zappa: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Edwin Pouncey, Sounds, 4 February 1978
GOOD EVENING ladies and gentlemen. The lights have gone down, the Zappa band are all ready, so let's get on with the show, 'cos that's ...
Frank Zappa: Kevin Courrier: Dangerous Kitchen – The Subversive World of Frank Zappa
Book Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, April 2003
SINCE HIS death from prostate cancer in 1993, Frank Zappa's history and collective improvisations have been celebrated and picked over by a horde of musicologists ...
Warren Zevon: Transverse City (Virgin America LP/Cassette/CD)
Review by Edwin Pouncey, New Musical Express, 27 January 1990
WARREN ZEVON is one hell of an American songwriter with a brilliant — albeit sometimes cynical — eye zoomed in on the way both his ...
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Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, September 1998
Every month we play an artist or musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge ...
One nation underground: ESP Disk
Retrospective by Edwin Pouncey, Jazzwise, March 2000
What record company these days would dare print "the Artists Alone Decide What You Will Hear" on their album sleeves. Well ESP Disk did in ...
Richard Meltzer: A Whore Just Like The Rest (Da Capo)
Book Review by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, May 2000
"I'M FAT, I drink too much. I feel grey, I feel old, I am old. This could be my last book," is how writer, critic, ...
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