Manhattan Miscreants In Heat: Boss Hog
Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, Spring 1990
WELL, I NEVER expected to see a photographic representation of the "Playboy Party Jokes" vixen on a rock album cover either, but it comes as less ...

Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-Yip-YEEEOOOOWWW!!! for the Boredoms
Report and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, March 1993
IT’S THE FRESHEST sound around, if you ever get the chance to hear it. The Boredoms play the space jazz rap music of the times ...

Very Sad Trouser Twins: Royal Trux
Profile and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, June 1993
NEIL HAGERTY AND Jennifer Herrema are a tightly-tied 20th century Hansel and Gretel that the candy path led too far into the dark forest. Parts ...

Tindersticks: Marbles 10”
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, July 1993
THIS WELL-TEXTURED export from the British outback contains comfortably-paced soothe rock dominated by strange choral organ riffs. Two of the four songs feature slightly disembodied ...

Royal Trux: Royal Trux
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, August 1993
ROYAL TRUX is as much a rock’n roll fairy tale as a musical ethos, a terribly incomplete story without the first chapter. This inspirational 1988 ...

Urge Overkill: Saturation
Review by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, September 1993
JUST WHAT THESE overambitious bastards are attempting this time is anybody’s guess. Having severed their ties with practically everyone in the Chicago underground who knew ...

Nirvana: The Boys Are Back In Town
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, October 1993
Go ahead. Hate this band, it's the cool thing to do. The punk rockers hate them because they've "sold out"; the mainstream hates them because they're ...

The Flaming Lips: Transmissions From the Satellite Heart
Review and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, 1994
WHEN THE FLAMING Lips look out at the world from Oklahoma, it must seem hurried and strange. They don't let it affect them. Transmissions From ...

Genesis P and the Chili Pepper’s Pee
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1994
GENESIS P-ORRIDGE left the UK almost two years ago, hounded out by one of those peculiarly English sexsational witch-hunts that the home authorities apparently relish. ...

Noise International: It’s Napalm Death for World Music
Report and Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, August 1994
THE LANGUAGE OF death metal can be as undecipherable to outsiders as street grafitti, but the meaning is as clear: "Stay away – I hate ...

Causing a Commotion: Lloyd Cole
Retrospective and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1995
AT THE BEGINNING, he seemed tailor-made for rock stardom. Young, good-looking and menacingly literate, Lloyd Cole exploded out of nowhere (well, Scotland actually) in 1984, ...

Smog in a Wild Kingdom of Burning Love
Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, 1995
BILL CALLAHAN has spent so much time alone that almost all he can do is be true to himself. He is absolute Bill, and people respond ...

Don’t Shoot the Optigan Player: Thinking Fellers Union Local 282
Interview by Ian Christe, Alternative Press, March 1995
LAUGHTER COMES for some reason, spilling out to surprise you while watching the Thinking Fellers Union Local 282. They are the original unpredictable multi-dimensional band, ...

Siouxsie And The Banshees: The Shriek's Back
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, April 1995
SIOUXSIE'S PISSED. Eight hours into another day of interviews, several dozen stories up Geffen's New York headquarters, and she can't have a cigarette. People say her ...

When You Wake You're Still In A Nightmare: My Bloody Valentine
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Alternative Press, October 1995
In 1991 My Bloody Valentine released Loveless, one of rock's most innovative albums. Then... silence What on earth have they been doing the last four years? ...

Just Dandy Warhols
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1996
"I THOUGHT PEOPLE only came to places like this to get laid." Dandy Warhols frontman Courtney Taylor inspects one of Seattle's finest niteries, winces beneath ...

Nick Cave
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1996
MIDWAY THROUGH Neglected Murderesses, artist Edward Gorey's gallery of feasibly fictional ghoulesses, we meet Sarah Jane "Batears" Olafsen, a cold-hearted killer who "hacked to collops" 19 ...

Last Rites for Skinny Puppy
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1996
THE RUMOURS BEGAN long before the truth caught up with them. The new Skinny Puppy, the latest Skinny Puppy, the last Skinny Puppy, the Rave-less ...

The Seahorses
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1997
IT'S AMAZING what you can pack into a year. Take John Squire for example: he made an album and jammed with Oasis. He worked ...

Straight to Stupid: Black Grape
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1997
DANNY SABER'S been a busy boy. Produced the Rolling Stones, remixed David Bowie, and then seven weeks recording the new Black Grape album, climbing the ...

Bernard Butler Moves On
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1997
HE'S A DIFFICULT bugger, everyone says so. David McAlmont said so, as he walked away from a potentially chart-topping partnership, complaining the guitarist was a ...

Mansun
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1997
THEY'RE THE HOTTEST new British band in 15 minutes, and pretty much the best in almost an hour, but as Mansun set about their first US ...

Lamb’s Chops
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1997
POSING TOPLESS might not be the most unusual way of getting attention these days, but at least when Lamb did it, for a recent promo photograph, ...

Culture Clash: The Return Of The 50 Foot Gender Benders
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1998
"LIAM GALLAGHER is so sexy! There’s not much irony in the things Liam says, it’s just pent up rotweiler frustration. But honey, I think ...

Dot Allison in the Afterglow
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
FAR BE IT from anyone to laugh at a label which drops the Chemicals and Andrew Weatherall, and keeps Scotland's answer to St Etienne instead, but ...

Get Yer Scuttles Out: Coal Chamber
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
DEZ SOUNDS genuinely horrified. "You can't do that! I'll be naked!" And, though it probably takes a lot to shock him, the idea ...

Marilyn Manson
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
HE BROUGHT YOUR sickest fantasies to life, and now you, poor fools, have fulfilled his. When Broadway wheels out the new millennial Jesus Christ Superstar, ...

Slipknot: Kiss Devo Goodbye
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
NOW IS PROBABLY not the best time to say it, but they look like Devo. Those boiler suits with bar-codes on them, those crazy little ...

Nils Stevenson
Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 1999
YOU'VE PROBABLY heard this before, but this time it's true. The best Punk book yet has just hit the streets, written by someone who were there, ...

Locate, subvert, Exterminate: Primal Scream's War on Authority
Report by Jaan Uhelszki, Alternative Press, July 2000
AFTER BEING without an American label for the past three years, Primal Scream return with a vengeance on Exterminator, their first album for Astralwerks. But that ...

Lift Off: Love And Rockets
Report and Interview by Dave Thompson, Alternative Press, 2002
YOU COULD, MAYBE, be forgiven if you weren't expecting Love And Rockets to be dropping by to play, just yet. It was, after all, only ...