Perfect Sound Forever
Perfect Sound Forever is a digital music magazine. It was founded in 1995 by writer Jason Gross, and is now published bi-monthly.
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Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 18 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 ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 28 December 1996
THE SPIN Alternative Record Guide wrote that Crass were "probably the first rock band whose liner notes are not only indispensable, but often better reading ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 28 December 1996
THE SPIN Alternative Record Guide wrote that Crass were "probably the first rock band whose liner notes are not only indispensable, but often better reading ...
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 10 February 1997
"If you know the extension of the party with whom you wish to speak, dial it and stop wasting our time! If you have money ...
Trouser Press: The Story Behind The Legendary Zine
Retrospective by Ira Robbins, Perfect Sound Forever, June 1997
EDITOR’S NOTE: One of the reasons that our zine started up was because there were other music nuts before us who wanted to tell the ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, September 1997
IT'S HARD NOT TO praise someone who's a pioneer and a star in techno/electronica — that's just Richard D. James (aka Aphex Twin) for you. ...
Richard Hell, Robert Quine: Robert Quine
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, November 1997
WHO IS ROBERT Quine? According to him, he 'remains one of the most compelling, appalling and universally hated figures in music history.' ...
James "Blood" Ulmer: James Blood Ulmer
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 1998
THOUGH THERE'S BEEN hundreds and thousands of hotshots who vowed to take the guitar to the next level after Jimi Hendrix broke the doors open, ...
LiLiPUT: Kleenex/Liliput — interview with Marlene Marder
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 1998
"Hotch-potch, Hugger-mugger, Bow-wow, Hara-kiri, Hoo-poo, Huzza, Hicc-up, Hum-drum, Hexa-pod, Hell-cat, Helter-skelter, Hop-scotch" ...
Scruffs: The Scruffs: Wanna Meet The Scruffs?
Review by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 1998
THE MOST part of the whole wave of CD reissues is seeing these obscure gems that you're positive no one else could possibly care about ...
Blue Cheer, Randy Holden: Randy Holden
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 24 April 1999
RANDY HOLDEN might be the Great Lost Guitar Hero of the 1960's. ...
Bonzo Dog Band: The Bonzo Dog Band: Neil Innes
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, 26 June 1999
IF THERE was ever an equivalent to Spike Jones in rock music, the Bonzo Dog Band were it. ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2000
AS ONE OF the first people who decided that rock and roll was something that could and should be something that could be seriously written ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2001
WHILE TROLLING AROUND an MP3 newsgroup one day, I saw the name 'Delta Rhythm Boys.' I had no idea who they were but the name ...
Bob Dylan, Pete Seeger: Irwin Silber of Sing Out!
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2001
IN THE mid-1960's Irwin Silber was editor of Sing Out! magazine, the leading folk periodical in the United States. Here he talks about his personal ...
Phil Ochs: One-Way Ticket Home
Retrospective by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, September 2001
AROUND 1980, my friend Julia invited me over to listen to a compilation album by a singer named Phil Ochs. I was a college senior, ...
The Incredible String Band: Robin Williamson
Interview by Richie Unterberger, Perfect Sound Forever, Fall 2001
IN THE 1960s, Scotland's Incredible String Band put together elements of folk and world music into something that was called folk-rock, in part, because it ...
Big Star, Ry Cooder, Jim Dickinson, Bob Dylan, The Rolling Stones: Jim Dickinson: Home Cooking
Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2002
THIS MAIN COURSE is a hearty southern dish, marinated in worldly wisdom and good humour, matured slowly in honky-tonks, recording studios and bars the world ...
Clinic: The Only British Band Which Matters
Interview by Joss Hutton, Perfect Sound Forever, March 2002
LIVERPUDLIAN quartet Clinic may be blessed with consummate good taste – pictures of the likes of Roky Erickson, Serge Gainsbourg, Phil and Ronnie Spector, Silver ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, May 2002
Depending on how you see music journalism, Simon Frith is either a sinner or a saint. After the late '60's, rock criticism began to show ...
The Liberation of Detroit: The Motor City after Motown
Retrospective by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2002
WHEN BERRY GORDY JR. moved the Motown empire to Los Angeles in 1971, his plan was for the world’s premier record company to go into ...
Phil Spector: The Mad Director: Phil Spector and the Sound of Walls
Guide by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, March 2003
HAD PHIL SPECTOR accomplished nothing more than recording The Ronettes singing ‘Be My Baby,’ he would deserve at least one get-out-of-jail-free card. ...
Interview by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2003
THIS IS A TIME when global corporatism links a grotesque preponderance of its steel-eyed vision to the silly notion that anything produced by, for, or ...
Delaney & Bonnie: The Axis of Delaney and Bonnie
Retrospective by Phil Mershon, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2004
TAKE TWO PARTS post-Blonde on Blonde neo-folkie sensibility, stir in one part Aretha Franklin Gospel spirit, sprinkle in a few pinches of an attitude that ...
The Kinks Face To Face with 1966: Where Have All the Good Times Gone?
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2004
I. SENSE AND NON-SENSE ...
Special Feature by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
I. Entrance: On the Slopes of Parnassus ...
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, July 2004
IF THE FIRST ALBUM is soulful and unconscious, the second develops a narrator and player who find new voices, taking on consciousness, memory, and loss. ...
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
In Memory of Robert Quine, Master of Beautiful Musical Expression, 12/30/1942 Akron, Ohio5/30/2004 NYC ...
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
IV. Pere Ubu: Christ's Agony, Cabarets, and Scary Movies ...
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, November 2004
V. The Pagans: Claustrophobia and Creation ...
The Sex Pistols: Children In The Mire: A Reading Of Bangs, Marcus And The Sex Pistols, part 1
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
"THE DOMAIN OF the theater is not psychological but plastic and physical. And it is not a question of whether the physical language of theater ...
The Sex Pistols: Children in the Mire: Bangs, Marcus, and the Sex Pistols, Part II – Polly
Essay by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, January 2005
The hot night makes us keep our bedroom windows open.Our magnolia blossoms. Life begins to happen. My hopped up husband drops his home disputes, and ...
Essay by Kandia Crazy Horse, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005
Feels so good inside myself Don't wanna move Feels so good inside myself Don't need to move –'Luv 'N Haight', Sly & the Family Stone ...
The Flamin' Groovies, Roy Loney: Roy Loney
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, April 2005
Funny story... Though I had spoken to Flamin' Groovies founder in 1998, I held the article all this time hoping to speak to Cyril A. ...
David Ackles: The Golden Horse Is In Hell: David Ackles' Theatre of Melancholy
Retrospective by Michael Baker, Perfect Sound Forever, May 2006
To be born is to be wrecked on an island. J.M.Barrie, in a review of Coral Island ...
Thurston Moore, Sonic Youth: Byron Coley: An Interview
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, June 2010
SITTING ON A back porch in bucolic Western Massachusetts on a gorgeous summer's day, my friend’s adorable little daughter coyly asked, "Wanna see a picture ...
Kip Hanrahan: Love is Like a Cigarette
Review by John L. Walters, Perfect Sound Forever, December 2010
MY FIRST encounter with Kip Hanrahan was when someone at Pangaea, his record company, handed me a copy of Days and Nights of Blue Luck ...
Angry Samoans: An Interview with Gregg Turner
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, August 2016
PSF: WHAT WAS the local scene like before the group started? ...
Interview by Jason Gross, Perfect Sound Forever, December 2016
Sue Gogan Interview Part 1 (we hope) ...
Jack Kerouac: Still Rockin' in the Beat world
Essay by Simon Warner, Perfect Sound Forever, October 2021
How Kerouac cool continues to fuel popular music passions as the writer's Centenary nears in 2022 ...
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