Vratislav “Vráťa” Brabenec | The Plastic People of the Universe | Interview
Vratislav "Vráťa" Brabenec – the saxophonist of the legendary The Plastic People of the Universe band, a poet and one of the last remaining Prague beatniks. His alto...
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The Outlaw Blues Band | Interview with Leon Rubenhold
The Outlaw Blues Band recorded two influential albums for ABC Bluesway Records which were destined for obscurity initially. Their both albums represent some of the finest moments from...
Ron Carter | Jazz Legend | Interview
Ron Carter is among the most original, prolific, and influential bassists in jazz history, with more than 2,200 albums to his credit. From 1963 to 1968, Ron Carter...
Meet Veteran Music Industry Exec Loren Israel
Music industry veteran Loren Israel is well-known in industry circles as a record producer, A&R executive/consultant, and songwriting teacher. Over the years his instincts for finding and developing...
Mtsyry Octobriana 1976: The Jim Rugg Interview | By Sean Mageean
50 years ago, in 1971, a public domain comic book character named Octobriana made her first public appearance in a book called 'Octobriana and the Russian Underground' by...
Have Blue | ‘Learning To Die’ | Interview
'Learning To Die' is a new album by Have Blue, a power trio formed in 2014 in Berlin. It's their second album on Nasoni Records. 'Learning To Die'...
Hooveriii | ‘Other Worlds’ | Interview
Vibe is vital for Hooveriii (pronounced “Hoover Three”). The band’s guitarist and vocalist Bert Hoover, via video call from his Californian abode, says that he is fuelled by...
Eric Arn
Eric Arn has mined the nether regions of avant-rock, free improv, drone and psychedelia beginning with the Crystalized Movements in the 1980s, and continuing with Primordial Undermind for...
Gaute Granli
The best thing I've heard this year until now is Gaute Granli's 'Blusens Fasong', a collection of eight bizarre and uncomfortable songs, based around repetition and basic in...
Lieven Martens
Lieven Martens makes, as he calls it, "modern program music", also on his latest album 'The Habu' for the newly found Poole Music label. "I love to show...