What the Future Sounded Like: the story of Electronic Music Studios
“Think of a sound—now make it.” Here is a very cool doc by Ian Collie about London’s Electronic Music Studios, the pioneering synthesizer company formed…
Music Archives: 09/2010
David Quantick: ‘The music industry hates you’
Smarter than your average bear, the multi-talented writer David Quantick recently popped up on BBC’s Newsnight Review to rattle cutlass with the Music Industry. Quantick…
Rock against repression: Gal Costa, “Milho Verde” and the banning of India
Brazilian singer and birthday girl Gal Costa started her career during the Costa e Silva and Médici military juntas in Brazil, and from the top…
The meme that wouldn’t die: ‘Trololo’ performed on a theremin
I know you’ve all grown tired of the “Trololo” meme, but this version brings some new life to Edward Hill’s interweb sensation. Performed on the…
Bad Brains, Suicide, Mink DeVille, Johnny Thunders and more at CBGB and Max’s 1978-80
Rare Japanese documentary footage of The Dictators, Suicide, Bad Brains, Mink DeVille, James Chance, The Ramones and The Dead Boys at CBGB, 1978. The Plasmatics…
Nuns who rock: a tale of two Sisters
Sister Janet Mead “The Lord’s Prayer’ was recorded in 1974 as a B-side to ‘Brother Sun, Sister Moon” by Sister Janet Mead and became a…
Miles Davis TV interview 1986
Jazz legend Miles Davis gave very few television interviews. Notoriously prickly to begin with, Davis also had a colorful way of expressing himself as readers…
Legendary Mersey beat poets and rockers: The Liverpool Scene, 1967
The Liverpool Scene was a confluence of poets and musicians who recorded four albums in the late 1960’s. Founded in 1967 by poet Adrian Henri…
Future of Music app tells you what not to listen to
What a brilliant antidote to the current highly lame trend of attempted personalised music selection software (Pandora,etc). This Brian Whitman fellow has got it right…