Laurie Anderson
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Laurie Anderson: Ian Birch Investigates Wonderwoman
Profile and Interview by Ian Birch, Smash Hits, 15 October 1981
EVERY SO often a single snaps out of nowhere and startles everyone. You've probably never heard of the singer before (and few of them survive ...
Laurie Anderson: Riverside Studio, London
Live Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 17 October 1981
PERFORMANCE HEART... ...
Laurie Anderson: Dizzying, Dazzling Action
Interview by Richard Harrington, The Washington Post, 7 November 1981
Laurie Anderson: All This and Humor, Too ...
Laurie Anderson: Market Street Cinema, San Francisco CA
Live Review by Michael Goldberg, Musician, March 1982
LAURIE ANDERSON looked like some kind of punk mystic as she stood on the stage of the Market Street Cinema in San Francisco. Her brown ...
William Burroughs, John Giorno, Laurie Anderson: The Ritz, New York NY
Live Review by Jim Green, Trouser Press, March 1982
AH YES, culture. Not rock — two-thirds of this bill wasn't even music. But my doubts that a novelist, a poet and a multimedia performance ...
Review by Chris Bohn, New Musical Express, 24 April 1982
AS A PERFORMER, Laurie Anderson is little short of phenomenal: a slight Chaplinesque figure, she's as much vaudeville as she is artist, in that she's ...
Laurie Anderson: Adelphi Theatre, London
Live Review by Andy Gill, New Musical Express, 26 June 1982
FIRSTLY, OF course, Laurie Anderson is a woman. ...
Laurie Anderson: Looney Spoons and Merrie Melodies
Interview by Mick Sinclair, Sounds, 26 June 1982
The Super Adventures of Laurie Anderson ...
Laurie Anderson: Big Science (Warner Bros.)
Review by Geoffrey Himes, Musician, July 1982
THIS IS THE avant-garde art music album for folks who generally hate the stuff. Anderson captures the rarely realized potential of modern art music and ...
Laurie Anderson: Big Science (Warner Bros.)
Review by Mitchell Cohen, Creem, August 1982
‘I NO LONGER love the way you hold your pens and pencils’ is a line that any one of a thousand writers might write. But ...
Laurie Anderson: The Dominion Theatre, London
Live Review by Mat Snow, New Musical Express, 5 March 1983
IF YOU expected an overview of American civilization from the vantage point of a New York City loft, you would have got both more and ...
Anderson Brings Everyday Life And Humor To Performance Art
Interview by Geoffrey Himes, Baltimore Sun, 27 March 1983
IT WAS a strange kind of love song. The singer wore a shiny black jacket over a black shirt and black tie. Her blond hair ...
Laurie Anderson Goes For The Throat
Interview by Mark Dery, High Performance, 1984
FORGET the Pippi Longstocking coyness that led Newsweek to dub her "a cybernetic Lily Tomlin." Forget the dimples and the I-had-an-argument-with-10,000-volts-and-lost hairstyle. When Laurie Anderson ...
Laurie Anderson: Mister Heartbreak (WEA)
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 3 March 1984
Somewhere Over Gravity's Rainbow ...
Laurie Anderson, she slipped back in
Interview by Mick Sinclair, ZigZag, July 1984
THE ARTICULATED LAURIE. OUR SUPERMAN, MICK SINCLAIR, TRACKS DOWN THE ENIGMATIC LAURIE ANDERSON ...
Laurie Anderson: Missus Heartbreak
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 27 October 1984
CYNTHIA ROSE lends an ear to a jetlagged LAURIE ANDERSON and hears the call of the riled from a multi-media star whose fame has induced ...
Laurie Anderson: Home Of The Brave
Review by Mark Dery, International Musician & Recording World, 1985
A GARBAGE disposal with indigestion, glub-glubbing on a smooshed Jiffy Pop foil bubble or a gluish wad of Captain Crunch, is not a pretty sight. ...
Laurie Anderson: A Voice From Outer Space
Interview by Jon Wilde, Sounds, 7 June 1986
LAURIE ANDERSON has never ever had breakfast with William Burroughs, but she likes to talk about language, symbols and images. JONH WILDE likes to listen and wonder what ...
Laurie Anderson: More Blank Than Frank
Interview by Don Watson, New Musical Express, 7 June 1986
AS SHE confides to us in her live show, Laurie Anderson was a bird in a previous incarnation. ...
Interview by Jon Wilde, Melody Maker, 30 May 1987
STILL AVOIDING CATEGORISATION YEARS AFTER HER 'O SUPERMAN' HIT, LAURIE ANDERSON TELLS JONH WILDE ALL ABOUT HER MOVIE, HOME OF THE BRAVE. ...
Performance Art: Pop 'n' Fresh
Overview by Mark Dery, L.A. Weekly, 21 April 1988
THE CHAIN linking performance art and pop music is 75 years long this March. It's a tangled, meandering chain, stretching all the way from Italian ...
Laurie Anderson: On The Jagged Edge
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Elle, October 1989
"I'LL BET you think I'm making this up," says Laurie Anderson, her voice taut, edgy. A dramatic pause, then a grave shake of the head. ...
Laurie Anderson: Rebel from Decade of Greed
Interview by Steve Turner, The Times, 22 November 1990
Laurie Anderson’s first big work since United States, the two-part, eight-hour show she took on the road in 1983, is Empty Places. Shorter (ninety minutes ...
Laurie Anderson: Clarity’s Angel
Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, March 1992
First, Laurie Anderson chronicled the United States of America. What’s next for the leading performance-person of our day? ...
Laurie Anderson: The Nerve Of Her
Interview by Gillian G. Gaar, Rolling Stone, 16 June 1994
THE GENERAL PUBLIC MAY HAVE heard little from performance artist Laurie Anderson in recent years. But that's certain to change in 1994, a hectic year ...
Laurie Anderson Media Manipulator
Interview by Frank Broughton, i-D, August 1994
SHE’S A MULTI-MEDIA story-teller, spinning yarns around the flickering campfire of technology. Her songs are swathes of hypnotic synthesised tones, with eerie voice filters focussing ...
Laurie Anderson: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Live Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 8 July 1995
PATRON SAINT of art zombies everywhere, Laurie Anderson's come a long way from playing her violin while standing on blocks of ice on street corners ...
Outside the Whale: Laurie Anderson plays Moby
Live Review by Eric Weisbard, The Village Voice, 13 October 1999
Songs and Stories From Moby Dick, BAM Opera House, Through October 16 ...
Interview by Rob Young, The Wire, May 2000
Laurie Anderson tells Rob Young how a great white whale lured her towards her latest revelations ...
Drowning in Genius: Surveying this season's mountain of greatest-hits albums
Review by Eric Weisbard, Spin, December 2000
SO, WHAT'LL IT BE: Tears for Fears? .38 Special? Whitesnake? It's become impossible to keep abreast of all the best-ofs, as labels keep foisting greatest-hits ...
Invisible Jukebox: Laurie Anderson
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, August 2001
MOST PEOPLE first heard about Laurie Anderson when her 1980 single, 'O Superman', an eight minute voiceloop and vocoder incantation, reached number two in the ...
Laurie Anderson: Electronic Expressions in the Service of the Soul
Profile and Interview by Will Hermes, The New York Times, 25 June 2010
LAURIE ANDERSON was home for a few hours last month — a rare occurrence. This musician and multi-media artist had returned from Poland, where she ...
Laurie Anderson: All her own invention
Report and Interview by John L. Walters, Eye, Summer 2010
Graphic design's recent concerns have for decades been at the heart of Laurie Anderson's practice. ...
Laurie Anderson & Kronos Quartet: Landfall – Scenes from my New Novel
Preview by John Lewis, Barbican show programme, 28 June 2013
IN MANY WAYS, Laurie Anderson and the Kronos Quartet come from very different worlds, and not just because they're based on different sides of the ...
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