Stereolab
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Stereolab's Lætitia Sadier (1997)
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages, 5 November 1997
Ms. Sadier talks about the difference between what Elektra releases and what Stereolab issue on their own Duophonic label; about their latest album Emperor Tomato Ketchup; the band's development and their exploration of multiple genres; their oblique lyrics; resisting commercial pressures and the nature of Stereolab's audience.
File format: mp3; file size: 16.1mb, interview length: 16' 45" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Interview by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 26 October 1991
Stereolab are onstage. There are seven of them tonight; five male (two guitars, bass, drums and keyboard) and two female (singing). They are supporting, so ...
Review by Jim Arundel, Melody Maker, 9 May 1992
PURE POP FOR NOW PEOPLE ...
Review by Everett True, Melody Maker, 23 May 1992
STEREOLAB, to me, were always one of those anonymous State Of The Art bands which so needlessly cluttered up the pages of the music press, ...
Stereolab: Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (Too Pure)
Review by Pete Paphides, Melody Maker, 20 March 1993
"BASICALLY, I want to change the world. I want to make people think about how they live every day, shake them a bit." ...
Stereolab, Moose: Conway Hall, London
Live Review by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 29 May 1993
TONIGHT'S A Nicaraguan Solidarity Benefit and the vibe is definitively mid-Eighties. I haven't stood beneath a poster of Che Guevara while eating falafel out of ...
Live Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 25 September 1993
STEREOLAB ARE now just about the perfect indie art rock band. That's not necessarily a compliment. It means they don't sell millions of records, you ...
Pop View: The Perils of Loving Old Records Too Much
Comment by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 December 1993
TODAY'S ALTERNATIVE rock suffers from a strange kind of nostalgia — a yearning for a golden age that one never personally experienced. There's a term ...
Stereolab: Separation Terrorists
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Melody Maker, 16 July 1994
Subversive MOR may sound like a contradiction in terms, but it’s the best available description of Stereolab’s new single, ‘Ping Pong’, the most brilliant example ...
Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Observer, 18 September 1994
Muzak is hip: Simon Reynolds meets Stereolab, easy-listening revolutionaries ...
Report and Interview by Siân Pattenden, Select, December 1994
What happens when a quintet of indie deities meet the locus of teen-lust that is Take That? Will they cop off? Will they agree to ...
Incredibly Strange Music: The Revenge of the Un-Hip
Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The New York Times, 5 February 1995
IT'S OFFICIAL: IT'S HIP TO BE square. Collectors are paying top dollar for original albums from such '50s and '60s easy-listening fare as LP's designed ...
Stereolab: Refried Ectoplasm (Switched On Volume 2) (Duophonic D-UHF-CD09 13tks/65mins/FP)
Review by Neil Kulkarni, Melody Maker, 9 September 1995
WEIRD SCIENCE: By now, Stereolab's Marxis elevator music ('Ping Pong') and francophone Krautrock should have flirted with your consciousness. So here's your chance to catch up with their ultra-sexy ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 28 September 1995
STEREOLAB have been on the verge of a major breakthrough for longer than Damon Hill. They've been steadfastly supported by music press darlings for the ...
Stereolab: It's The Sugarcubists!
Report by Siân Pattenden, Select, April 1996
OK, it isn't really. Only Stereolab would concoct a promo video set at a fictional 1930s surrealists' drug convention ...
Interview by Simon Reynolds, Rolling Stone, 4 April 1996
"Repetition in the music and we're never gonna lose it," sang Mark E. Smith of the English post-punk legends the Fall in the aptly titled ...
The High Llamas: Hawaii; Stereolab: Emperor Tomato Ketchup
Review by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, May 1996
UPON OBSERVING A SMALL dog walking on its hind legs, Doctor Johnson famously noted that it was less remarkable how well the cur in question ...
Stereolab: Dots And Loops (Duophonic)
Review by Stephen Dalton, New Musical Express, 20 September 1997
STEREOLAB ARE running dogs of bourgeois revisionism who, come the revolution, will be hunted down and shot like the lowly vermin they are. ...
Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, October 1997
Every month we play a musician a series of records which they're asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of what ...
Review by Barney Hoskyns, Rolling Stone, 2 October 1997
PITY THE cerebral technicians of Stereolab, whose coolly subversive fusion of muzak and krautrock has for too long condemned them to the Critics’ Darling ghetto. ...
Stereolab, The High Llamas: 9.30 Club, Washington DC
Live Review by David Stubbs, Vox, February 1998
WASHINGTON DC encapsulates all America's contrasts in extremis. Up on Capitol Hill, they're running the country. Over at the White House, he's running the world. ...
Stereolab: Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage In the Milky Night (Duophonic)
Review and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, September 1999
Double-vinyl-length opus from the enduring and indefatigable South-east Londoners, half of it co-produced by Tortoise’s John McEntire, half by ex-Gastr del Sol member Jim O’Rourke. ...
Stereolab: Cobra And Phases Group Play Voltage In The Milky Night (Duophonic)
Review by Johnny Cigarettes, New Musical Express, 25 September 1999
GANE OVER ...
Stereolab, Olivia Tremor Control: Troubadour, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Marc Weingarten, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1999
Stereolab Piles On Sounds to Create an Eclectic Tempest ...
The Grim Reporter January 2003
Obituary by Phast Phreddie Patterson, Rock's Backpages, January 2003
Phast Phreddie Patterson on those gone but not forgotten ...
Review by Todd L. Burns, Stylus, 27 February 2004
ONE GUITAR AND A CAPABLE HIGH FEMALE VOICE. That's about all that can be said to be missing from the equation from the newest offering ...
Stereolab: Chemical Chords (Duophonic/4AD)
Review by Andy Gill, The Independent, 15 August 2008
STEREOLAB HAVE made no fewer than 11 albums, many more than indie titans like Blur, Oasis, the Smiths and New Order, and far outstripping the ...
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