Dull Fantastique | Mapping a Dying World on ‘Mindmap of a Madman’
Dull Fantastique is not merely a musical artist but a writer of mythology; and 'Mindmap of a Madman' is his 35-song epic. Otherworldly and personal, spacious and expansive....
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ALICE NOT JOHN Episode 30: A Fictional Radio Transmission Guest: Gerry D’Haeyer (Hubble Bubble)
ALICE NOT JOHNEpisode 30: A Fictional Radio TransmissionGuest: Gerry D'HaeyerHost: Joeri Bruyninckx A conversation I overheard in a record store: Customer: “Do you have Coltrane?”Record shop owner: “In...
Dennis Herring Interview | From Leonard Cohen to Modest Mouse, and Back to Mississippi
From Saltillo to Los Angeles and back to Oxford, two-time Grammy-winning producer Dennis Herring talks Leonard Cohen, Barry Hannah, Modest Mouse, Johnny Marr, and the instinct to trust...
Geoff Leigh Interview | Henry Cow, Radar Favourites, Red Balune and Ex-Wise Heads
Geoff Leigh is an English saxophonist, flautist, composer and improviser best known as a former member of Henry Cow. He played on the band’s 1973 debut album, 'Legend',...
The Summerlands Talk Bonfante Gardens Forever
Bonfante Gardens is still there. It's just not called Bonfante Gardens anymore. The Gilroy theme park got renamed back in 2007, and for Grant Simmons, that small, kind...
White Satan at the Black Monarch: The Haunted Show That Never Happened
The first thing we saw when we opened the door to the Black Monarch Hotel was the big tiled room on our left with a tall ceiling where...
Bates Motel’s 1980 Concert Recordings Finally Released on ‘Live in LA 1980’ | Interview
Les Bohem and David Kendrick look back on Bates Motel, the late-'70s Los Angeles club circuit, the demos they made with Andrew Gold, their move into Sparks and...
Flood | Interview | “We Were the Heaviest Band Around in Exeter at the Time”
Mark Flood looks back on the Exeter underground, Hot Head, Julian Piper, supporting Hawkwind and Genesis, and the recordings that finally became 'A New Way of Living' more...
Furekåben, Anthony Barnett and ‘Prinsesseværelset’
Lars Movin has spent the last few years piecing together the short and rather elusive history of Danish underground group Furekåben. An exchange with former member Anthony Barnett...
La Banda: Argentina’s Lost Candombe Jazz-Rock Supergroup | Luis Ceravolo Interview
The Argentine drummer looks back on the extraordinary one-album group that brought Rubén Rada together with some of Buenos Aires’ finest jazz musicians, and on the long-overdue Altercat...