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Sunn 0)) – Monoliths & Dimensions (Southern Lord)

10 June 2009

While nobody’s going to mistake these sounds for Bach, I’d argue that they’re closer to classical music than to rock.

Nels Cline – Coward (Cryptogramophone)

31 May 2009

NELS CLINE may be best known for his often spectacular lead guitar stylings in WILCO, but he’s been a leading figure in avant-garde jazz and rock for almost three decades.

Einstürzende Neubauten - The Jewels (Potomak)

14 October 2008

Blixa Bargeld and the rest of Neubauten compile a large handful of previously web-only tracks into a electronic/percussive stew.

An Interview with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) - Part Two

30 August 2008

The conclusion to my interview with Steven Stapleton, the creative force behind Nurse With Wound.

An Interview with Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound) - Part One

30 August 2008

Steven Stapleton gives a rare glimpse into the mysterious realm of Nurse With Wound.

Nurse With Wound - Huffin' Rag Blues (United Dairies/Jnana)

3 August 2008

Steven Stapleton will cure you, and the method involves mutated jazz beats and a petrol-sodden rag.

Losing My Mind With Francis E. Dec, Esq. and the Reverend Jim Jones

13 June 2008

Doc on the Roq’s recordings of Francis E. Dec’s paranoid schizophrenic rantings prove to be fascinating listening, while the Jonestown Death Tape frightens me back into reality.

Ancestor – Phase I: Silence (The Seventh Media)

3 May 2008

Part of a trilogy, this is darkwave ambient music, quiet but with serrated edges on its drones. There’s nothing new agey about this ambient, which makes for uneasy listening with its buzzing and clanking amid the drones and a glacial pace of movement that oozes foreboding.

Robert Wyatt - Comicopera (Domino)

5 January 2008

There’s a wild streak within – clear-headed musicianship, but also many surprises, all coordinated gracefully by a maestro who into his sixties is making music that’s as visionary as ever.

INTERVIEW: Deerhoof (Part 2)

14 March 2007

I think bands that get popular very quickly can combust very quickly, and that was never something that I wanted to emulate.