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New Voices Ukraine: Memory Leaks V – How a Single Radio Show Shaped Odesa’s Music Scene. In the latest instalment of our collaboration with Kyiv’s 20ft Radio we hear tales of taxi drivers horrified by music, “Baroque pop”, paying tribute to Twiggy Pop, and ask what is an Independent label, in Ukraine. The fifth Memory Leaks episode is a trip to the south of Ukraine in the 2000s and ...
The Silent Partner Speaks: Vince Clarke Interviewed
Oct 5, 2023 · All portraits by Eugene Richards The cover of Vince Clarke’s debut solo album feels like it’s making a statement. Monochrome, grainy, all ear, nose and throat, it’s a close-up of the face of an unlikely pop star, one who has sold roughly 30 million records over the last 42 years. He’s looking down, as we’re […]
The Endless Now: An Interview With Lisa O’Neill
Feb 20, 2023 · It certainly explains how O’Neill’s new album All Of This Is Chance arrived in the world; the title derives specifically from this idea. It’s also a record where tradition and modernity, history and stories playing out in the restless now, the yearning for freedom and righteous anger at repression are in constant dialogue with each other.
"Not Doing Things Is Soul Destroying" - Kevin Shields Of MBV ...
May 10, 2012 · And the funny thing is, we’d heard nothing yet. The galloping heart, the unbearable urgency, even that bit in the middle where it just kind of froze, tipped a gallon of petrol over itself, grinned and flicked the lighter… it turned out we’d heard nothing yet.‘You Made Me Realise’ may still be the greatest pop record My Bloody Valentine ever made, but once the album Isn’t Anything ...
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Baker's Dozen Pogue’s Gallery: Spider Stacy’s Favourite Albums As he prepares for more post-Shane MacGowan shows with The Pogues following a triumph in Hackney earlier this year, Spider Stacy takes Patrick Clarke through 13 records that shaped him, from post punk classics through to the new wave of folk music, via jazz, hip hop, roots reggae and more
Alastair Mackinven Has Died, Aged 53 | The Quietus
5 days ago · Alastair Mackinven, the musician, artist, painter, writer, and teacher, has died at the age of 53, following a long illness. In recent years Mackinven was best known for his visual art, but since the mid-90s he was a driving force in Country Teasers and The Male Nurse – bands beloved of art world, with the former going on to influence the likes of Fat White Family, while counting Jarvis ...
Building From The Ground Up: Lorn Interviewed | The Quietus
Aug 31, 2010 · The first thing that struck me when listening to Lorn’s debut album was the melodies. They’re everywhere, swelling up through crisp hip hop breaks and snarling basslines like milk diffusing in tea; enlightening, enriching, deepening. They’re direct, memorable and surprisingly powerful, lending the producer’s music an emotional piquancy which few in the sphere of electronic […]
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Robert Fripp’s Drive To 1981: King Crimson’s Discipline at 40
Sep 27, 2021 · When King Crimson released Discipline, their eighth studio album, on September 22 1981, reactions ranged across a pretty wide spectrum: joy from long-standing fans, who’d assumed they’d never get to hear a new record from Robert Fripp’s band ever again; bemusement from the great majority of people who thought …
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INTERVIEW: Wayne Bell on the Long-Awaited Release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre score. As his score with Tobe Hooper for The Texas Chain Saw Massacre gets an official release, 50 years on, Wayne Bell speaks to Charlie Brigden about doing justice to an all-time classic, previously-unheard material, and getting his father to imitate a pig