Keyboard

Keyboard is an American monthly magazine, founded in 1975, that originally covered electronic keyboard instruments and artists, and now also covers digital music technology. It is also available in an online edition.
12 articles
List of articles in the library
Shriekback's Barry Andrews: Painting Landscapes, Abusing Pianos
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, June 1987
'BLACK LIGHT Trap' on Shriekback's latest album, Big Night Music [Island, 90552-1], is about a device used "for snaring unwary insects," keyboardist Barry Andrews explains. ...
Coil: The Darker Side Of Sampling
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, July 1987
LONG BEFORE the verb was coined, Coil keyboardist Peter Christopherson started sampling. ...
The Cure's Lol Tolhurst: A Dose Of Keyboard Fever
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, August 1987
EVER SINCE schoolmates Robert Smith, Laurence "Lol" Tolhurst, and Michael Dempsey formed Easy Cure in 1976 – the name was eventually shortened to the Cure ...
Afrika Bambaataa, Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five, Run DMC, Stetsasonic: Rap: Rock Is Dead
Special Feature by Mark Dery, Keyboard, November 1988
THE RAW POWER OF CHEAP TECH CRASHES HEAD-ON INTO INNER-CITY DEFIANCE AND DESPAIR ...
Shriekback Blasts the Top Off The College Charts
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, January 1989
Nice Monsters Go Bang ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, September 1989
"MOST MUSIC criticism," griped Leonard Cohen in a recent Musician interview, "is...so far behind, say, the criticism of painting. Nobody is identifying our popular singers ...
Report and Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, September 1990
"Elvis was a hero to most But he never meant shit to me you seeStraight up racist that sucker wasSimple and plain ...
Coldcut, De La Soul, Digital Underground: Digital Underground, Coldcut and De La Soul Jam The Beat
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, March 1991
DIGITAL UNDERGROUND, De La Soul, and Coldcut make musique concrete for boomboxes. These three bands, all on the Tommy Boy label, have achieved, perhaps unwittingly, ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, March 1991
AFTER 50 YEARS IN JAZZ THE BANDLEADER FROM SATURN FINALLY LANDS A MAJOR LABEL DEAL. ...
Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, October 1991
Keyboard: THIS IS your first tour in almost a decade. Why now? ...
Diamanda Galas: Hymns Of Empathy
Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, August 1992
IF MARIA Calas had sizzled at the stake, she might have sung 'The Litanies of Satan', by Diamanda Galas, as her final, fiery aria. ...
L.F.O., The Orb, Orbital, The Shamen, T99, Third Eye: Techno
Overview by Mark Dery, Keyboard, April 1993
TECHNO. THE name sounds at once monolithic and impersonal, the acronym of a multinational conglomerate, and toylike, as in brightly colored plastic Lego blocks. ...
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