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Always Organic: Cory Rayborn On 15 Years Of Three Lobed Recordings
By day, Cory Rayborn's a business and environmental lawyer, by night (often five nights in a row, packaging records by hand) he's putting out limited-run releases by the likes of Bardo Pond, Steve Gunn and Sun City Girls. As his label Three Lobed marks 15 years of operations, he talks to JR Moores
A Quietus Interview
Resurrection & Revenge: Michael Chapman Interviewed
Michael Chapman's is a remarkable tale: a singer/guitarist veteran of the '60s who last decade connected with US artists such as Thurston Moore and Jack Rose and started making beautiful and exploratory, improvisational music. Ahead of his performance at Supernormal Festival, he tells Russ Slater about staring at woodpiles and why he hates being called 'folk'
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How Jack Johnson Burned A Path For Some Of The World’s Worst Artists
There was grey and gravel-flavoured BlokeMusic before him. But, argues David Bennun, the tepid indie-folk mumbler’s commercial success ensured that an awful lot more came after him – and we’re still living with the consequences 20 years on
Film
Scientology Fiction? The Master Reviewed
Our Boston, MA correspondent Craig Terlino ponders the basis of modern US cinema great Paul Thomas Anderson's sixth feature, which opens as a 70mm presentation at the Odeon West End in London this Friday, before going on regular nationwide theatrical release from November 16
Books
The Things We Collect: An Extract From Nina Simone’s Gum By Warren Ellis
In 1999 Warren Ellis watched Nina Simone play live at Meltdown. After the show ended he rushed on stage and carefully rescued her chewing gum in a towel from where she'd stuck it to her piano. His new book, sparked off by this incident, is about the alchemy that produces art, obsessiveness and memory
