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Marc Bolan at the BBC

09/07/2013

Whether you are just a fan of his pop orientated, hook filled classics or a hardcore Bolanite on a quest for the grail; this well researched and well collated set of interviews, poetry readings and...

Caroline Niño [Interview]

26/06/2013

If we create a balance between all the elements in that space placing them strategically around all the space, on balance, in the space between the elements, there is harmony....

Soft Riot : Fiction Prediction

25/06/2013

There are some interesting concepts and experiments here, but the moral of the story is that those who live uncritically by the 1980s creatively die by the 1980s...

Henry Diltz Interview [Part 2]

21/06/2013

It was all peace and love; let the universe decide, do it the right way. That’s the way life should be and maybe it will....

Matthew Herbert : The End of Silence

20/06/2013

When you find the press release that accompanies an album more interesting than the music itself, then you know there’s something wrong....

Fortune’s Fools

15/06/2013

When questioned by the youth of future generations about how you responded when the earth was burning, will you reply that you went to the mall staring at a glowing electronic box, engaged in...

Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

01/05/2013

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

Mark Latham, Photographer [Interview]

30/04/2013

Aggression is probably the biggest emotion because a lot of the stuff I shoot is aggressive music and it comes across in the shots....

Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Part 2]

26/04/2013

'I was in and out of the closet. I was a very flamboyant gay teenager and became a rock ‘n’ roller'...

The Shaking Sensations : Start Stop Worrying

25/04/2013

This is an album to induce a trancelike post-rock euphoria, rather than one to focus on. ...

Feeding People : Island Universe

06/04/2013

Youth shouldn't be safe, it should be more exploratory, it should shock and offend, and demand a better world....

Hank Ray : Interview [Pt. 2]

04/04/2013

Berlin sightseeing? Guess I would take you on a “Dining ‘n’ Drinking with the Dead” roundtrip. John Heartfield, Bertholt Brecht, Nico. Something like that! I don’t dig tourists’ hotspots....

Shaky Kane : Interview

29/03/2013

A pencil and a cheap drawing pad - those are the only tools you need, that and an idea bursting to get out the graphite running up that stick of wood'...

San Cisco : Interview

26/03/2013

'I think the boys have become more 'feminine', I catch them painting their nails and have to stop them from trying on my clothes' San Cisco's Scarlett asserts tour dominance...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

London Afrobeat Collective : Floradita [Gig]

23/02/2013

All of the musicians are superb, they’re tight as hell, and they write and play great songs. And with the number of baritone sax solos on offer, I leave a very happy man. ...

Dubstep Allstars Vol. 10 – Plastician

06/02/2013

Trying to unite the disparate tendencies into a compilation is already ambitious but trying to unite them into a continuous mix could seem like asking for trouble. Plastician produces some...

Patrick Wolf : Live, Teatro Lara, Madrid

05/02/2013

'Sometimes I'm a fuckup', he explains, 'but I kinda think that's what you like about me'....

Lux Interior : In Memoriam

04/02/2013

On the anniversary of Lux Interior's death, Mr BAD gathers some loving memories of the Cramps frontman....

I have not gone out of my way to mythologise myself, but… Michael Finnissy

03/02/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;”S/dropcapince the late 60’s Michael Finnissy has been composing classical work that challenges, shakes and agitates the listener from...

Janet LaBelle : New Jersey, Pizza and Punk Pop

03/02/2013

'it could take years…or even a lifetime to write anything you think is ever any good'...

Rebekka Karijord : Interview

02/02/2013

I do feel like I want to be political but I’m not a super rhetorical political person but I do believe that music can be political, not in the sense that I want to sit down and write a song about a...

Salif Keita : Talé

01/02/2013

Salif Keita 's voice is outside of time, although steeped in place(s). If you wish to call someone, he once stated, call them with music. In present-day Mali, that's got to be worth a try....

Interview: Reptile Youth

25/01/2013

'if you have a country where the same old guys have been in power for a long time then it’s going to be a shit country'...

Albums of the Year: Editor’s Picks

25/12/2012

If Lana Del Rey, Flying Lotus or Grimes aren't on any Trebuchet lists this year, it's certainly not because we haven't heard them (indeed, how could we miss them?). And we're not coming over all...

Hanging Offence: Debut Contemporary

17/12/2012

Opportunities are immense, they are global and with a little bit more planning and strategizing, a bit more knowledge, information and know-how when it comes down to how to navigate the art system,...

Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...

Let it Be [Theatre]

13/11/2012

It should not be possible to make a Sgt Pepper's set look more like a Slade Christmas special...

Panic Room: On Performance

08/11/2012

'It's always a balancing act when you're drawing up a set list; I think people would be surprised to know how many hours we literally spend agonizing over it'. UK rock band Panic Room talk about live...

Panic Room: On Songwriting

01/11/2012

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”S/dropcapwansea’s Panic Room are one of British rock’s best-kept secrets. Over the past few years they’ve built up a loyal...

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