With his new book out now from Strange Attractor Press, A Hidden Landscape Once A Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, former Wire editor Mark Sinker tells Colm McAuliffe about the highs and lows of the old inkies and weeklies
With his new book out now from Strange Attractor Press, A Hidden Landscape Once A Week: The Unruly Curiosity of the UK Music Press in the 1960s-80s, former Wire editor Mark Sinker tells Colm McAuliffe about the highs and lows of the old inkies and weeklies
Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers
Ahead of his talk at Manchester's Anthony Burgess Foundation this evening (26th June), Colm McAuliffe sits down with author Austin Collings — the man previously dubbed the 'crisp-packet Ballard' on these pages — to discuss musicality and musical influence in his writing, the futility of Next Big Thing lists, out-selfing Will Self and his book The Myth of Brilliant Summers
Through a series of excellent releases over various small labels, Tim Gane, Stereolab founder and former McCarthy man, has developed a distinct new instrumental electronic sonic offering with Cavern Of Anti-Matter. Here, he tells Colm McAuliffe how it came together
Through a series of excellent releases over various small labels, Tim Gane, Stereolab founder and former McCarthy man, has developed a distinct new instrumental electronic sonic offering with Cavern Of Anti-Matter. Here, he tells Colm McAuliffe how it came together
Ahead of their curating of Jersey's Branchage film festival and their site-specific performance on the island on the 28th of September, Colm McAuliffe sits down with the legendary Radiophonic Workshop to discuss their long, strange history.
Ahead of their curating of Jersey's Branchage film festival and their site-specific performance on the island on the 28th of September, Colm McAuliffe sits down with the legendary Radiophonic Workshop to discuss their long, strange history.
On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites
On the occasion of the Berberian Sound Studio and Katalin Varga director releasing Wasp Boutique, a collaboration between Art-Errorist and Zsolt Sőrés, on his record label, and with a new feature film on the way, he sits down with Colm McAuliffe to talk 13 formative favourites
Ahead of their set at the final ATP holiday camp festival this weekend, Californian noise rockers Comets On Fire tell Colm McAuliffe about reuniting, psychedelic "secret handshakes" and memories (or what's left them) of holiday camp weekenders past
Ahead of their set at the final ATP holiday camp festival this weekend, Californian noise rockers Comets On Fire tell Colm McAuliffe about reuniting, psychedelic "secret handshakes" and memories (or what's left them) of holiday camp weekenders past
As Grönland reissues his collaborative albums with Holger Czukay, David Sylvian writes for The Quietus as he remembers the spirit of experimentation that he discovered in the Can studio during the 1980s. Photos by Yuka Fujii.
Jane Savidge was the co-founder and head of public relations company Savage & Best who looked after Pulp during their late 90s pomp. In an exclusive extract from her new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, she picks apart the tricky sexual politics of the group’s notorious cover art for *This is Hardcore*
Wherein the towering frontman of The Pop Group and The Maffia takes occasional breaks from busting writer Dustin Krcatovich's chops to look back on four decades of fire theft, including the recently reissued 1983 album Learning To Cope With Cowardice
As he launches a new label dedicated to contemporary classical music, Jonny Greenwood of Radiohead talks to Patrick Clarke about his passion for classical, why Bach is like Kraftwerk, and the 'gruesome' intersection of prog rock and Rachmaninoff.