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That Petrol Emotion: Inflammable Material: That Petrol Emotion

Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 15 October 1988

SHAGGED OUT after a frenzied bout of road fever, That Petrol Emotion have collapsed into the back of their minibus. ...

Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 12 November 1988

Loop's free-falling acid rock is now a luring black hole, sucking in a host of trance disciples. Their new single, 'Black Sun', and forthcoming tour ...

Spacemen 3: Urine Salesmen Of The Apocalpyse [sic]

Interview by Byron Coley, Forced Exposure, Fall 1988

SWEETLY, simply put, Spacemen 3 are the only English band that I'd walk across the street to piss on. Meaning mostly that I wouldn't even ...

Loop: More Music: Loop

Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 22 January 1989

SIMON REYNOLDS on mind-blowing Loop, the most disorienting group of the day ...

The Ramones: Joey Ramone

Interview by Christine Natanael, crushermagazine.com, 3 February 1989

The following is an interview conducted with Joey on February 3, 1989. It was conducted under the auspices of promoting the album Brain Drain, but ...

Mudhoney: Sub Pop, Sub Normal, Subversion!

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 11 March 1989

SUDDENLY SEATTLE IS THE CENTRE OF ALL THINGS GRUNGE. EVERETT TRUE TRAVELS TO THE HOME OF THE ANTI-HITS TO MEET MUDHONEY WHO RECENTLY TRADED SONGS ...

Mudhoney: Angels With Muddy Faces

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 13 May 1989

MUDHONEY's music is a wild thing — garage grunge and Iggy-style abandon. In person they're mild-mannered, middle class Americans with a hopeless addiction to Sham 69 ...

Primal Scream: The Ivy League

Interview by Everett True, Melody Maker, 29 July 1989

It's been two years since we last heard from Bobby Gillespie's indie darlings, but the Galswegian Motormouth is finally back with a new single, 'Ivy ...

Primal Scream, Andrew Weatherall: Primal Scream: Spring Loaded

Interview by Push, Melody Maker, 10 March 1990

The former darlings of indie rock may lose some deities with their new house-orientated single 'Loaded', but Primal leader Bobby Gillespie is determined to use ...

Was (Not Was): Hitmen

Interview by Andy Gill, Q, June 1990

THERE ARE SEVEN of us round the microphone, and I, for one, am a little nervous. I should be, too: three of the voices present ...

Was (Not Was): Motown Brothers

Interview by Stuart Maconie, New Musical Express, 2 June 1990

WAS (NOT WAS) make perfect pop (not poop). They also know the names of several philosophers! STUART MACONIE wants to lick the barbequed goat pizza ...

Sonic Youth: A Load Of Tony Baloney

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 1 September 1990

Sonic Youth aren't impressed with Manchester's latest contribution to rock culture. In fact, they think it's a pile of "contrived shit", a real homoerotic, lads-together ...

Spacemen 3, Spiritualized: Spacemen 3: Rock'n'Roll Suicide

Interview by John Robb, Sounds, 9 February 1991

The story of SPACEMEN 3 is a cool, rock'n'roll tale of drugs, revolution and eventual destruction. JOHN ROBB meets up with Sonic and Jason on ...

KLF, The: The KLF: Great Luminaries of Our Time

Interview by Roy Wilkinson, Sounds, 2 March 1991

Over the past five years, THE KLF have operated under a variety of guises but, now that they've brought such immaculate sounds as '3AM Eternal' ...

Bob Mould, Jello Biafra: Bob Mould and Jello Biafra: Two Faces of Punk

Interview by Mark Kemp, Option, July 1991

CLAWING THEIR WAY INTO THE '90S, BOB MOULD & JELLO BIAFRA EXPLORE THE PERSONAL & THE POLITICAL ...

Primal Scream: Politics of Ecstasy

Interview by Max Bell, Vox, November 1991

Bobby Gillespie met DJ Andy Weatherall on the road to Damascus (or was it Brighton?), and in a flash of blue light discovered a dance ...

Spiritualized: Spaced Out

Interview by John Robb, Siren, February 1992

IN A BATTERED armchair collapses a laid back, skin and bone R'n'R trouper with an exquisite record collection and perfect cheekbones. Jason Pierce, ex Spaceman ...

Bill Laswell, Ronald Shannon Jackson, 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 ...

Sonic Youth: Here Come The Noise Terrorists: Sonic Youth

Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 21 July 1992

THUNDEROUS mantra-grooves and jagged fanfares of atonal brass boom across the parched grass of New York's Central Park, though it could equally well be Monterey ...

Auteurs, The: The Auteurs: Auteur Magic For The People

Interview by John Harris, New Musical Express, 20 February 1993

Fed up of noisy, brutish Brit bands ripping off tired ideas from the Yanks? Nothing to excite you in the modern, cutting-edge of music? Then ...