Special New Band: The Hard Quartet Interviewed
Oct 2, 2024 · “The Travelling Wilburys just wanted to play with Roy Orbison. In some ways, we’re doing that too.” Stephen Malkmus muses on his latest pursuit – an ensemble that’s a bit more than just a special new band: The Hard Quartet.Featuring the Pavement frontman alongside Emmett Kelly, Matt Sweeney and Jim White, the proudly leaderless line-up could be an AI-generated schematic of indie rock ...
Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn To The World's Most …
Sep 18, 2024 · Many screenings are happening this month, one staged in a nuclear bunker, another followed by a walking tour of Cold War locations, several featuring specially pre-recorded Q&As.A sold-out screening at the Sheffield Film Festival this summer even featured a Q&A with its most famous extra: Michael Beecroft, a traffic warden who moonlighted as an extra on local productions, and spent just one ...
Deep Deep Down: J Spaceman & John Coxon's Music for William …
Oct 17, 2024 · Stranded In Canton is Eggleston’s 1974 documentary of the Deep South and its inhabitants, most of whom are his friends, co-conspirators, family or fellow debauchees. It’s full of the kind of freaks and misfits – ‘characters’ we might call them – …
Tyler, The Creator – Chromakopia | The Quietus
Nov 1, 2024 · From the moment the first notes echo, Chromakopia reveals itself as a meticulously crafted auditory journey, laden with raw emotion, and seamless yet unpredictable transitions that pass by almost unnoticed. The opening line, spoken by Tyler’s mother, Bonita Smith, sets the album’s tone: “You are the light / It’s not on you, it’s in you / …
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Oct 31, 2024 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …
The Strange World Of… Field Music
Oct 8, 2024 · Peter Brewis: We were inspired by some of the DIY stuff that was going on. DIY was almost like a style of music, punk, and we thought, “Well, DIY could be anything, as long as you’re doing it yourself.
Amended Legacy: The Kinks’ Ray Davies Interviewed
Apr 11, 2017 · Thanks to the band’s run of magnificent social vignettes throughout the 1960s, Ray Davies of The Kinks became known not simply as a fine songwriter, but a fine British songwriter. While The Beatles and The Rolling Stones achieved transatlantic megastardom, as a writer Davies was forced to look inward after being banned from entering the country between 1965 to 1969, following a dispute with ...
Cahill/Costello II - The Quietus
Nov 20, 2024 · Cahill/Costello II is a set of widescreen tracks, pulsating with sound and atmosphere. Following 2021’s Offworld, the Glaswegian duo of Kevin Cahill and Graham Costello, guitarist and drummer respectively, have developed a close musical affinity.Their new album was created by writing and improvising together, and recording the results live. The method might suggest an unpolished record, but ...
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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
Better Red Than Dead: Towards A Socialist Black Metal
Aug 26, 2023 · The history of black metal has been marred by lurid tales of church-burning fascists and the far-right represent an ongoing blot on the scene, but as *Tonight It’s A World We Bury* author Bill Peel argues, black metal remains a …