The Raincoats
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Rough Trade: Beat, Activity and Conversation
Report and Interview by Ian Penman, New Musical Express, 10 February 1979
Terms For An Industry In The '80s... IAN PENMAN reports on the artistic and commercial concept of ROUGH TRADE, recorders, distributors and promoters of new ...
New Raincoats Don't Let You Down
Interview by Vivien Goldman, Melody Maker, 1 December 1979
Following the sun, Palmolive washed her hands of the Raincoats. But they're back on the road, singing and playing. VIVIEN GOLDMAN took a long time ...
Review by Dave McCullough, Sounds, 8 December 1979
Shrieks from the Grove ...
Women in Rock: Cute, Cute, Cutesy Goodbye
Interview by Deanne Pearson, New Musical Express, 29 March 1980
Exploited for the last two decades as dumb but pretty decorations in rock, some girls now demand and deserve musical respect — but some girls ...
The Raincoats: Odyshape (Rough Trade)
Review by Vivien Goldman, New Musical Express, 6 June 1981
Revelations chapter II ...
Adam Kidron: The Man Behind the Mix
Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, December 1981
Making Tracks with Adam Kidron, London's 21-Year-Old Production Prodigy ...
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, December 1981
PAT BENATAR? Sheena Easton? Judie Tzuke?! You'd think this was the Stone Age – it's as if feminism had never existed, as if women in ...
The Raincoats, Three Courgettes, The Go-Betweens: The Venue, London
Live Review by Lynden Barber, Melody Maker, 5 June 1982
HAVING SUCCESSFULLY thrown off the worst aspects of their twee post-punk amateurism with the release of the refreshing Odyshape last year. The Raincoats took several steps backwards ...
Interview by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 14 August 1982
IF ORDER is considered the new subversion, then what becomes of the untidy old subversives? They're redefined as anachronisms, treated affectionately as museum pieces or ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 9 April 1983
THE LATEST trio of ROIR cassettes expands the label's category of historical documentation – a division which offers some excuse for the fact that Reachout ...
An Old Raincoat Will Never Let You Down
Profile and Interview by Iman Lababedi, Creem, May 1983
NEW YORK — After the interview is over, Ana da Silva gives me a crash course on Portugese politics. Portugal is her homeland and she ...
Raincoats prove that there's life after punk
Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 5 April 1994
CAMBRIDGE – Backstage before their first American gig in 12 years – hey, only their fourth gig period in that time – Raincoats bassist/guitarist/singer Gina ...
Robert Wyatt: Invisible Jukebox
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, December 1995
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 ...
The Raincoats: Looking In The Shadows (DGC) ****
Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 13 June 1996
THE RAINCOATS aren't the kind of band to get hung up on a sound as mundane as a clock ticking. ...
How to buy: Rough Trade Records
Guide by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, December 2006
The revolutionary, still-smokin' independent. ...
Interview by Lois Wilson, MOJO, November 2009
Post-punk's dissonant game changers return to inspire again. ...
The Raincoats: The Raincoats (We ThRee)
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages, November 2009
THIS 1979 ROUGH TRADE album is a period piece and a sacred artefact, not least because of its subsequent endorsement by an "extremely unhappy, lonely ...
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