Carl Loben
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Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 10 January 1998
SOUTHERN MUTHAS DO HAVE EM! ...
Dot Allison, One Dove: Dot Allison: Experimental Breakbeat Diva
Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 20 March 1999
THERE HAVEN'T been many Dots in pop — Dot Cotton from EastEnders has yet to commit to vinyl — so when you hear the name ...
Report and Interview by Carl Loben, Simon Reynolds, Ngaire Ruth, Melody Maker, 30 April 1994
For decades, squatting, free festivals and illegal parties have played a vital role in alternative pop culture. The Criminal Justice Bill — which has been ...
Basement Jaxx, Ed Rush & Optical, Norman Jay, Danny Rampling, Underworld: Homelands
Report by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 5 June 1999
Orbit's minute-by-minute descent into delirium ...
Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 9 May 1998
TEN YEARS on, and the Acid House Gods are smiley-ing on Winchester like the trippy Teletubbies sun-baby. Dance music's cream — and plenty of cheese, ...
Cay, Muse: Muse/Cay: Make Mine A Double…
Report and Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 31 July 1999
There's nothing we like better than brilliant new bands. So what could beat joining a booze-fuelled double-bill of MUSE and CAY on the road? ...
Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 18 July 1998
"IT WAS either this, or scaffolding." Carl Cox, perhaps the biggest DJ on earth, in more ways than one, is relaxing in the Italian morning ...
Depeche Mode: Wembley Arena, London
Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, October 1998
CITED BY MANY electronica artists as an early influence, Depeche Mode began life as chirpy synth-poppers in the early '80s before moving into superb clangers ...
Ed Rush & Optical: Quantum Drum'n'Bass
Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 30 January 1999
IN CONTACT, Jodie Foster climbs into the capsule, straps herself in, and mentally prepares for the impending voyage. The aliens have kindly given Earth/the US ...
Gravediggaz: The Pick, The Sickle & The Shovel (Gee Street 15tks/63mins)
Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 13 September 1997
GRAVEDIGGERS, morbid souls who don't usually have much to say. Gravediggaz, however... ...
Huggy Bear: The Powerhaus, Islington, London
Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 8 January 1994
SHOULDN'T HUGGY Bear have split up by now? ...
Melky Sedeck, The Roots: The Roots, Melky Sedeck: Astoria, London
Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 15 May 1999
R&B. WE HATE that schmaltzy shit, don't we? Well, no, not when it's as sassy and spiritually uplifting as Melky Sedeck. ...
Interview by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 22 May 1999
Rave/punk crossover genius MOBY is known as the most clean-living and politically correct pop star an the planet. The Maker met him in a karaoke ...
Plaid, Squarepusher: Squarepusher, Plaid: The Blue Note, London
Live Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 17 May 1997
APHEX TWIN is blocking the bloody stairs. Paul Hartnoll out of Orbital is getting crushed and Björk is lost in her own little world down ...
Roots Manuva: Brand New Second Hand (Big Dada) ****½
Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 1 May 1999
UK HIP HOP is only ever any good when it doesn't try to copy Americans all the time. A prodigious talent like Roots Manuva has ...
Spring Heel Jack: Treader (Tugboat)
Review by Carl Loben, Melody Maker, 5 June 1999
NOW UP to their fourth d'n'b album, Spring Heel Jack's John Coxon and Ashley Wales are nothing if not prolific. The orchestral artcore of There ...
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Brits Are Still in Love with Rave Culture
Comment by Carl Loben, Huffington Post, 12 August 2015
"HALF OF UK nightclubs close as Brits abandon rave culture," reported the Daily Telegraph yesterday morning (Tuesday 11th August). Other titles led with "Clubs close as dancing ...
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