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Mothers Of Invention, The: The Mothers of Invention: Uncle Meat (Bizarre)

Review by Richard C. Walls, Creem, June 1969

(Most of the music is from the Mothers' movie of the same name which they haven't got enough money to finish yet.) ...

Yoko Ono: Approximately Infinite Universe (Apple)

Review by Ian MacDonald, NME, 20 January 1973

IN AS MUCH AS the Lennons have spent four years trying to turn self-dramatisation into an art-form, the criticism of indulgence so often aimed at ...

Brian Eno: Eno: Only The Small Survive

Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, October 1980

One of the vital musical innovators of the Seventies, Brian Eno now inhabits a curious world. He lives in 'medieval' Manhattan, where he gambles on ...

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 ...

Brian Eno: Only The Small Survive

Interview by Dave Rimmer, The Face, October 1982

One of the vital musical innovators of the Seventies, Brian Eno now inhabits a curious world. He lives in 'medieval' Manhattan, where he gambles on ...

Glenn Branca: "Sometimes I Wished My Fist Was A Sledgehammer"

Profile and Interview by Mark Dery, High Performance, Spring 1985

Can a microtonal man from Harrisburg, Pa., find happiness in the '80s when his music sounds like a well-tempered band saw? ...

Pere Ubu: The Long, Strange Trip Of Pere Ubu

Report and Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 16 September 1988

DAVID THOMAS, lead singer-lyricist of Pere Ubu, on his group's long, strange trip: "The original Pere Ubu had been very much like piling in a ...

Grateful Dead, John Oswald: John Oswald: Rites of the Living Dead

Profile and Interview by Simon Reynolds, The Wire, December 1995

Following the death of Jerry Garcia, John Oswald's Grayfolded, a digital reworking of the Grateful Dead's 'Dark Star', has assumed new, ghostly qualities. ...

Big Star, John Coltrane, Funkadelic, Spiritualized, Suicide, Johnny Copeland, Balanescu Quartet, The, Charlemagne Palestine, Bedouin Ascent: Invisible Jukebox: Spiritualized

Interview by Mike Barnes, The Wire, July 1998

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 ...

Joan Jeanrenaud: No strings: Joan Jeanrenaud

Profile and Interview by Adam Sweeting, The Guardian, 28 February 2002

Joan Jeanrenaud had the classical world at her feet as cellist with the Kronos Quartet. She tells Adam Sweeting how she finds life on her ...

Pink Floyd, Move, The, Tomorrow, Soft Machine, Mick Farren, Arthur Brown: We Have Lift Off!

Retrospective by Johnny Black, MOJO, February 2004

In less than one year, London's UFO (pronounced "you-foe") club became the nocturnal haunt of the '60s counterculture, gathering place for the Beatles, Stones and ...

Joanna Newsom: Daydream Believer

Profile and Interview by Frances Morgan, Plan B, September 2004

Joanna Newsom is a new kind of folk heroine, plucking out spells and lullabies on 46 thrumming strings. ...

Bill Drummond: Pop's prankster heads for destruction

Report and Interview by Robert Sandall, Daily Telegraph, 19 August 2008

WITH BILL Drummond now, you feel, it's very much a case of "cometh the time, cometh the man". ...

William Basinski: Invisible Jukebox: William Basinski

Interview by David Stubbs, The Wire, September 2009

Each month we play a musician a series of records which they are asked to identify and comment on — with no prior knowledge of ...

Yoko Ono: Naked Ambition

Interview by John Doran, The Stool Pigeon, October 2009

THERE'S SOMETHING to be said for delayed gratification. There's no small amount of tortoise versus hare enjoyment to listening to Yoko Ono's new album. ...

Fugs, The: For The Benefit Of Tuli Kupferberg

Report by Michael Simmons, Huffington Post, 15 June 2010

For those who trot out the tired cliché of hippies morphing into stockbrokers, check out the Fugs. No sell-out here. ...

Gong: The Gong Remains The Same

Retrospective and Interview by Jack Barron, Record Collector, October 2010

Jack Barron celebrates the 40-year celestial trip of "Europe's Grateful Dead". ...

Can: The Making of Tago Mago

Retrospective and Interview by Max Bell, Classic Rock, April 2011

SUMMER 1971. The five members of Can are huddled around a bottle of wine and a stereo suitcase Revox A77 tape recorder, listening to the ...

Plastic People Of The Universe, The: The Plastic People of the Universe

Retrospective and Interview by Archie Patterson, Eurock, 10 June 2011

"When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them." (Plato)   ...

Gavin Bryars, John Cage, Lol Coxhill, Portsmouth Sinfonia, The: The Avant-Garde's Woodstock: The International Carnival Of Experimental Sound, 1972

Book Excerpt by Dave Thompson, 'June 1st, 1974', 2013

Excerpt from the book June 1st, 1974: Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Nico, Eno, Mike Oldfield and Robert Wyatt – The Greatest Supergroup Of The Seventies ...

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