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Bright Eyes, LCD Soundsystem, Queens Of The Stone Age, Rapture, The, Secret Machines, Spoon, Streets, The, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The, Liars: 2002: The Year in Music — Yancey Strickler's annotated list

Guide by Yancey Strickler, Flak Magazine, 31 December 2002

Yancey's Tracks: 1. 'Losing My Edge' | LCD Soundsystem 2. 'No One Knows' | Queens of the Stone Age 3. 'Let's Push Things Forward' | The Streets 4. 'Soft ...

Cerrone: The DNA Of Dance

Retrospective and Interview by Daryl Easlea, Record Collector, January 2020

With his new album imminent, Record Collector takes the opportunity to get supernatural with Cerrone. Daryl Easlea stares into the crystal ball. ...

Beloved, The: The Beloved: They Wanna Be Loved

Interview by Jack Barron, New Musical Express, 27 January 1990

THE BELOVED may have started life as dodgy New Order copyists with that ubiquitous Peel session under their studded leather belts, but now they're Dance ...

Faithless: "It's not just fucking chirpy nonsense"

Interview by Andy Crysell, Muzik, October 1998

FAITHLESS are back, bigger, better and bolder than before. They say God is a DJ. He's probably a Faithless fan ...

Prodigy, The: The Prodigy: Prodigal Sons

Interview by Kodwo Eshun, i-D, December 1994

The Prodigy gatecrashed the charts with the cheesy, chirpy rave anthem 'Charly'. Then came a string of hit singles, a best-selling album and a Mercury ...

Björk, Kid606, Matmos, Gold Chains: Laptop punk and the powerbook pop

Report and Interview by Simon Reynolds, Spin, August 2001

All this faceless electronica leaving you cold? A new breed of avant-garde mischief-makers are disrupting techno's cult of impersonality with indie-rock attitude and a warped ...

UNKLE, DJ Shadow: "We've Just Made The Biggest, Most Expensive/Action/Entertainment Shit In The World!" It is the UNKLE album.

Special Feature by Craig McLean, The Face, 1998

It spans eight years, three continents and an aborted Fleetwood Mac cover. It features Richard Ashcroft, Thom Yorke and Mike D. How did DJ Shadow ...

Underworld: The iJamming! Interview: Underworld

Interview by Tony Fletcher, iJamming.net, Summer 2002

IN THEORY, THEY'RE the greatest group on the planet. By which I mean that Underworld's Modus Operandi reads, to me, like a blueprint for how ...

KISS, Hugh Masekela, Parliament, Donna Summer: Casablanca Records' Neil Bogart (1976) [transcript]

Transcript of audio interview by Jim Esposito, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1976

This is a transcript of Jim's 1976 interview with the Casablanca disco mogul. Listen to the audio of this interview.  ...

Chemical Brothers, The, Massive Attack, Portishead, Tricky, Andrew Weatherall, DJ Shadow, Wild Bunch, The, Dreadzone, Renegade Soundwave, Earthling: Trip Hop: Where The Beats Have No Name

Report and Interview by Stephen Dalton, Vox, July 1995

Trip-hop is now part of pop's international language — but the pioneers of Britain's most successful musical export in years refuse to admit it exists... ...

Daft Punk: Plastique Fantastique

Interview by David Stubbs, Melody Maker, 29 March 1997

It's taken a while, but mainstream America is finally welcoming dance music with open aims. Now they're going crazy over the Chemicals and are poised ...

Electro-Funk – What Did It All Mean?: Dance Culture's Missing Link

Retrospective by Greg Wilson, electrofunkroots.co.uk, November 2003

ELECTRO-FUNK IS undoubtedly the most misunderstood of all UK Dance genres, yet probably the most vital with regards to its overall influence. ...

Daft Punk: Frog Rock

Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, February 1997

DAFT PUNK. They're not daft They're not punks. Just two young French funkateers putting France on the house map with one of the most hyped ...

Donna Summer: Too hot to handle

Retrospective and Interview by Craig McLean, Daily Telegraph, 13 June 2008

A devout Christian, Donna Summer was an unlikely queen of disco, particularly one who wore her crown with such raunchy abandon. Now a 59-year-old grandmother, ...

Leftfield: Kings of '95: Leftfield

Interview by Calvin Bush, Muzik, January 1996

A nomination for the Mercury Prize. An appearance on Top Of The Pops. Music for the soundtrack to Shallow Grave. Oh, and a gold album. ...

Vashti Bunyan, Prince, Aphex Twin, Barrabas, Underworld, Labi Siffre, R. Dean Taylor, Terry Callier: The 40 Most Collectible Records

Guide by Bill Brewster, Mixmag, 2006

Okay, so it's not really the 40 most collectable records (if it was, it would contain nothing but doo-wop, northern soul and classical music). It's ...

Madonna: Looks Good on the Dancefloor

Interview by Simon Garfield, Observer Music Monthly, 20 November 2005

With 'Hung Up' at number one and her new album also set to storm to the top of the charts, Madonna has taken back her ...

Marshall Jefferson, Kym Mazelle, Ten City, Blaze, Jomanda, Ce Ce Rogers: Post House: Paradise Regained

Report by David Toop, The Face, December 1988

When New York's Paradise Garage closed, the city lost part of its pulse, leaving only a brand of Eighties disco called Garage. In Chicago, it ...

Patrick Adams: A Celebration of Patrick Adams

Retrospective and Interview by Jason King, Red Bull Academy Magazine, 8 May 2017

Exploring the back catalogue of the black musical genius whose work defined '70s and '80s soul, funk, disco and post-disco ...

A Guy Called Gerald, Bomb The Bass, Happy Mondays, Paul Oakenfold, Oasis, Orbital, Primal Scream, Andrew Weatherall, T-Coy, Danny Rampling: Acid House: '88 State

Retrospective and Interview by Andy Crysell, New Musical Express, 25 April 1998

Disco biscuits, gurning, raves, sartorial bonkersness, and, um, Guru Josh! The ACID HOUSE scene brought us many things when it exploded in 1988; it also ...