Andrew Holter

Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu

Andrew Holter praises Paul Weller for throwing down a gauntlet to fans via cosmopolitan eclecticism and for ceding a large amount of creative control to new collaborators

Anniversary

American Nightmare: Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality at 40

Legacy Of Brutality conveys much of what is magnificent about the band, and much of what is exasperating about Glenn Danzig, says Andrew Holter, as he assesses the compilation – and Danzig’s complicated legacy – 40 years on

Strange World Of...

The Strange World Of… Henry Rollins

Henry Rollins is 60 on Saturday. Given how he has dedicated himself to becoming hardcore punk's most prominent renaissance man, it's become easier to forget about the music that made him. Andrew Holter chooses ten points of entry to his large and forbidding back catalogue

Anniversary

Friends Reunited: Lou Reed And John Cale’s Songs For Drella Revisited

In Songs For Drella, which is reissued this month, Andrew Holter finds a seance for Andy Warhol but also a touching study of friendship regained that can bring a tear even to an atrocity cataracted millennial eye

Reviews

Marshall Crenshaw
Field Day (Reissue)

This fastidious reissue of Marshall Crenshaw's 1983 LP marks it out as a potential lost classic

Reviews

Cindy Wilson
Change

Solo for the first time, the B-52’s co-founder experiments, collaborates and comes up good

Previously Read

A Quietus Interview

By Process Of Iteration: An Interview With Kiran Leonard

John Freeman meets up with the prodigiously talented Kiran Leonard to talk about the next two follow-up albums to debut Bowler Hat Soup and the continual quest to define his sound

A Quietus Interview

‘I Never Want To Play Those Songs’: Fabulous Diamonds Interviewed

Fabulous Diamonds' heat-hazed mix of punk, psych and dub ranks them among the most original acts in the Australian underground. As Steph Kretowicz discovers when they meet to discuss recent LP Commercial Music, their creative impulses are tempered by a contrary streak

A Quietus Interview

“Slacker At Heart, I Guess”: Stephen Malkmus Interviewed

Leah Pritchard talks to Stephen Malkmus about new LP Mirror Traffic, The Fall, golf, softball and hanging with the horse-hunting set

A Quietus Interview

Discordant of Tunbridge Wells: Joeyfat Interviewed

With a reputation as bricks-and-mortar shorthand for Little England conservatism, you might be surprised to know that Tunbridge Wells has long had a thriving musical underground. Alexander Tucker speaks to scene stalwarts Joeyfat, currently being celebrated with a compilation and reissues on Wrong Speed Records

A Quietus Interview

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Andrew Holter

Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu

Reissue of the Week: The Style Council’s Café Bleu

American Nightmare: Misfits’ Legacy of Brutality at 40