Body to Body: Ten Tracks That Tell the Story of Electronic Body …
Oct 26, 2024 · Emerging in late 1970s Europe, EBM (Electronic Body Music) fused hard, minimal beats with provocative lyrics and aggressive performances. Born from a stark, pulsating response to post-punk and experimental electronic scenes, EBM catalysed a wave of underground subcultures that shaped club landscapes across Europe and beyond.
The Strange World Of… Laurie Anderson
Nov 19, 2024 · On 3 February 1983, Laurie Anderson unveiled her four part multimedia show United States at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music.Some attendees may have expected a more conventional concert, following her unlikely rise to pop stardom with 1982 debut album Big Science and its single ‘O Superman (For Massenet)’: an eight-minute-long, chiefly acapella piece about the American military industrial ...
Surviving Threads: Why Are People Drawn To The World's Most …
Sep 18, 2024 · Many screenings are happening this month, one staged in a nuclear bunker, another followed by a walking tour of Cold War locations, several featuring specially pre-recorded Q&As.A sold-out screening at the Sheffield Film Festival this summer even featured a Q&A with its most famous extra: Michael Beecroft, a traffic warden who moonlighted as an extra on local productions, and spent just one ...
Sonic Grandeur in Ruin: Songs Of A Lost World by The Cure
Oct 31, 2024 · A big reason why is simply down to Smith himself, how he literally sounds. That voice is still that voice, and it sounds like nothing has changed at all, that it’s still that feeling of half-sob, half-caress, a yearning that can trip up your heart. In a world of software fixes and AI recreations, all I can tell you is that having seen the band enough times over …
Separate The Game From The Truth: Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die
Sep 13, 2024 · Ready To Die was a difficult album to listen to while its maker was still with us, but it’s impossible to hear now without your knowledge of what happened to him two-and-a-half years after its release fogging your vision and altering its context. What it meant and what it has come to mean are two completely different things, but the former is so obscure as to be irrelevant, so elusive we can ...
Beautiful Losers: Jim Reid of The Jesus And Mary Chain’s Baker’s …
Oct 16, 2024 · “I tried to be honest,” says Jim Reid, when I ask him if this collection of records has any kind of unifying theme. “I looked at a couple of other people’s lists and I think some people were just being deliberately obscure and I didn’t want to …
Rock & Roll Part 3: Stepping Out Of Gary Glitter’s Shadow
Nov 14, 2008 · "For me the Glitter band were more influential than the Beatles," explained The Fall’s Mark Smith recently. Sometimes Smith hits the nail on the head, and even if he is exaggerating to make a point, The Glitter Band had an amazingly unique sound, a sound that has gone on to inspire an unlikely cross section of musicians.
The Necks – Bleed | The Quietus
Oct 17, 2024 · One of the main challenges for any group of improvising musicians is to figure out ways to push forward without repeating yourself. One would imagine this is especially true for the legendary Australian trio The Necks, both because they specialise in ultra minimal longform improvised soundscapes, and because they’ve been pursuing these sounds for …
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Baker's Dozen Slow Burners: Sean Johnston on the 13 Songs that Shaped A Love From Outer Space As much-loved club night A Love From Outer Space reaches its 15th anniversary, Sean Johnston – its co-founder alongside the much-missed Andrew Weatherall – picks 13 tracks that have soundtracked its journey from a Stoke Newington basement to an international community