A 1977 trip to Glasgow introduced me to the fabulous second-hand bookshop Voltaire and Rousseau, which happily is still ...

Two of the folk involved in the Britannia Coconut Dancers and with the Stacksteads Brass Band had invited me to come along ...

As he explains, ‘I used AI for the first time; the voice you hear was an audio recording of electric guitar which I then ...

– It occurs to me that sometimes I don’t know what we’re talking about. – We gather information and then we put it in our ...

Growing up in Liverpool in the late 1960s, and into the 1970s there was always music by you know who, (those four lads) ...

The bodies in Babitz’s book, which is subtitled ‘The World, The Flesh, and L.A.’, are usually objects of lust, bitchy ...

He Said was the name used by Wire member Graham Lewis for his solo releases in the 1980s. The first He Said release was Hail, which was released in 1986 on Mute Records. The music on Hail was more ...

Folkestone.  I’m talking about the 1980’s here. Especially in the bus station and Town Centre. Emos? Goths? There’s a ...

Mark Radcliffe (BBC radio) recently described Sentimentalists as, “truly marvellous.” Mark Coles (BBC radio) said, ...

Knowing how best to develop your sound as you progress as a band or musician is a conundrum which many musicians do not solve ...

TROUSERS Worsted trews, pinstripe Studebakers with sewn-in sandbags, gopher pants, luminous bellbottoms, flapdoodles, ...

This video covers the experimental films of the 1960s, including filmmakers like Michael Snow, Hollis Frampton, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Kenneth Anger, Marie Menken, Yoko Ono, Yayoi ...