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Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Jerry Wexler: Jerry Wexler: Production without style — on purpose

Interview by Fred Goodman, Musician, June 1993

Hands-off from Muscle Shoals to Stax to New York City ...

Brian Eno: Towards An Understanding of Pop Past and Present

Interview by Andy Gill, Q, November 1993

IN THE BIG room at Peter Gabriel's Real World studio down in Box, Wiltshire, Brian Eno holds court at an informal workshop involving himself and ...

MC5: The MC5's Wayne Kramer (1994)

Interview by Roy Trakin, Rock's Backpages Audio, 25 January 1994

Detroit guitar-wrangler Wayne Kramer looks back at the MC5 and departed comrades Fred Smith and Rob Tyner, drugs and jail, and his life after the Five.

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Rolling Stones, The, Sex Pistols, The, Stooges, The: Nick Kent: Hack From The Brink

Interview by Paul Lester, Melody Maker, 28 May 1994

Wanna find out where MM acquired its taste for livid purple prose? Then let PAUL LESTER introduce you to legendary rock journalist NICK KENT, whose ...

Bill Laswell: An Interview with Bill Laswell

Interview by David Toop, The Wire, December 1994

For almost two decades, Bill Laswell's music has traced a long, humid trail across continents, genres, moods, atmospheres and numerous collaborations. David Toop met him ...

Patti Smith: The Power And The Glory, The Resurrection And The Life

Interview by Gerrie Lim, Big O, July 1995

In art and dream may you proceed with abandon.In life may you proceed with balance and stealth.– Patti Smith, "To The Reader," introduction to Early ...

Rocket From The Crypt: Cats With Nine Knives

Interview by Keith Cameron, New Musical Express, 28 October 1995

They mean it, maaan. Punk from the States is so often tame, familiar and predictable, but that looks set to change with the imminent success ...

Jeff Buckley: Grace under Fire

Interview by Toby Creswell, Juice, February 1996

"THE RECORD IS FANTASTIC, you and I know that. The band is really great and, let's face it, all the women want to get into ...

Patti Smith: She is Risen

Interview by Holly George-Warren, Option, May 1996

"I was feeling sensations in no dictionary He was less than a breath of shimmer and smoke The life in his fingers unwound ...

Patti Smith: The Rebel: Patti Smith

Interview by Ben Edmonds, MOJO, August 1996

To R.E.M.’s Michael Stipe, she is "one of the premier artists of my lifetime – I’ve blindly stolen from her for years." To Bob Dylan, ...

George Clinton: The Brother From Another Planet

Interview by Lloyd Bradley, MOJO, September 1996

From the ancient civilization of Doo Wop he came, stopping off via Cosmic Soul and the Acid Rock asteroid to found the P-Funk Galaxy, his ...

Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Bang! Bang! You're Cred

Interview by David Bennun, Melody Maker, 5 October 1996

They're rude, they're raw, they love rock'n'roll, they're The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. Just don't call them cabaret, that's all ...

Swamp Dogg

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 ...

Was (Not Was), Hank Williams: Don Was: What Was Was and What Was Is

Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 March 1997

After years as a top producer and bandleader, Don Was lost his creative vision. Then Francis Ford Coppola and Hank Williams gave him an idea. ...

Wayne Kramer: Doing the Work

Interview by Michael Simmons, LA Weekly, 5 June 1997

Brother Wayne Kramer's automythological masterpiece ...

Insane Clown Posse: Anarchy In The UK!

Interview by Neil Perry, Kerrang!, 29 November 1997

Straight outta Detroit — the most violent city in America — the INSANE CLOWN POSSE are coming to Britain. Prepare to be drowned in fizzy ...

Robert Wyatt

Interview by David Stubbs, Uncut, December 1997

ROBERT WYATT'S career has meandered long and strange, like an underground driver. He's played alongside Hendrix, Mike Oldfield and Phil Manzanera, as well as avant-garde ...

Big Star, John Coltrane, Funkadelic, Spiritualized, Suicide, Johnny Copeland, Balanescu Quartet, The, Charlemagne Palestine, Bedouin Ascent: Invisible Jukebox: Spiritualized

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, July 1998

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 ...

Real Kids, The: It's Been Real: The Real Kids

Interview by Dave Laing (Australia), Ugly Things, 1999

IN THE SPRING '78 issue of Bernie Kugel's cool fanzine Big Star there is an article by Miriam Linna called "The New Sounds of the ...

Iggy Pop, The Stooges: Iggy Pop: Coming Through Slaughter

Interview by Edwin Pouncey, The Wire, November 1999

Where lesser rock gods have become overweight and obsolete, Iggy Pop endures. In Miami, prompted by the bitter-sweet musings of his 13th album, he reflects ...