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Ron Geesin: It can't be long before Ron Geesin takes over the world

Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 8 March 1969

"A RAVING bloody loony" he may be, but there is no call for the Scots Jimi Hendrix of the banjo to be accused of being ...

Robert Quine, Fred Maher: Robert Quine and Fred Maher: Basic (Editions EG)

Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 25 August 1984

NOT LONG ago, someone asked me if the 'EG' in EG Records stood for Egghead and I foolishly told them no. Now Egghead Records have ...

Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Ornette Coleman, Bill Frisell, Jimi Hendrix, Adrian Belew, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall: Bill Frisell: Blindfold test

Interview by Gene Santoro, Downbeat, April 1987

BILL FRISELL'S eerily haunting voice on guitar has combined with his acute sensitivity and thorough training to make him one of the most in-demand of ...

Bill Frisell Quartet: Look Out For Hope (ECM)

Review by Gene Santoro, Spin, May 1988

BILL FRISELL IS the Clark Kent of the electric guitar. Soft-spoken and self-effacing in conversation, he apparently breathes in lungfuls of raw fire when he ...

Glenn Phillips' Voices In The Night

Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, May 1992

THE POET CHARLES Bukowski believes that greatness is born of ordinary madness. Glenn Phillips would probably agree. In the liner notes for Echoes (1975-1985), a ...

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 ...

Yoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe (Apple SVBB-3399)

Review by Nick Tosches, Rolling Stone, 15 March 1973

Then suddenly we realized that this time we were both drifting out in a cosmos somewhere together, like God's two little dandruffs floating in the ...

Marc Ribot Considered: Cosmopolitan guitarist without portfolio

Profile by Graham Reid, elsewhere.co.nz, 25 February 2015

IF THERE IS a distinguishing feature of American guitarist Marc Ribot's style, it is that you'd be unwise to attempt to attribute a distinguishing feature ...

United States of America, The: The United States Of America: The United States Of America (Sundazed)

Review by Pete Paphides, MOJO, August 2004

James Coburn dug their insurrectionary space rock; Paul Simon hated it; no one else cared until decades later. An era-defining underground album resurfaces with 10 extra ...

Urban Dance Squad, Christian Marclay, MC 900-foot Jesus: Now Turning the Tables... the D.J. as Star

Overview by Mark Dery, The New York Times, 14 April 1991

Disk jockeys want nothing less than the acceptance of the lowly turntable as a legitimate musical instrument. ...

Kevin Ayers: Exile On Mean Street

Profile and Interview by Kate Mossman, The Word, October 2008

Rumpled romantic, booze-fuelled philanderer, gifted golden boy of art-rock, Kevin Ayers fled abroad 40 years ago and now lives a strange, impecunious life wrestling with ...

Nico: From the Velvets to the void

Retrospective by Simon Reynolds, The Guardian, 16 March 2007

Nico was the original model/actor/singer. Unlike her successors she was absurdly talented, but she was also a violent racist, with an awful darkness at her ...

Carla Bley: Arrangements for the Death Dance

Interview by Brian Case, New Musical Express, 26 April 1975

The socio-musical thoughts of Carla Bley ...

Eugene Chadbourne: The Lovably Low-Tech Eugene Chadbourne

Interview by Mark Dery, Guitar Player, February 1988

"There's no type of music I don't like; it's important to be able to make fun of all types." ...

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. ...

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' ...