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ELVIS PRESLEY, THE KING RECLAIMING HIS CROWN IN 1968: Stranger in a strange land
When you look at the footage now it‘s as if you’ve been tossed down some weird time tunnel. It is 1968 and out on the explosive streets of America are assassinations (Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King), riots and demonstrations, cops wielding clubs, and teargas clouds filling the air. The soundtrack is the Stones’ Street Fighting Man and the day-glo hippie Summer of Love... more >>
Added: 23 Dec 08
KRAFTWERK'S RALF HUTTER INTERVIEWED (2008): The werk ethic
Ralf Hutter -- founder of the innovative German electro rock pioneers Kraftwerk rarely does interviews. And when he does speak to the press he sometimes doesn’t make it easy. One reporter tells of the constraints being placed on questions: the first being no asking about Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk are, shall we say, different: their Kling Klang studio in Dusseldorf has no phone, no... more >>
Added: 22 Dec 08 
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MICAH P HINSON INTERVIEWED (2008): We won't have to be lonesome
Micah P Hinson is one those artists who is just starting to appear on the radar for many people, this despite much touring, two excellent albums before his current Micah P Hinson and the Red Empire Orchestra album, and a back-story that has been of interest to music writers. The slight Hinson -- who grew up in a fundamentalist Christian household in Abilene, Texas where his father was... more >>
Added: 22 Dec 08
WILLARD GRANT CONSPIRACY'S ROBERT FISHER INTERVIEWED (2008): Strange bedfellows: economics and music
For a band which has released eight albums the alt.country/indie.rock band Willard Grant Conspiracy has - like Calexico, Giant Sand, Lambchop and others - rarely broken into mainstream consciousness. Despite favourable reviews for live shows and albums, WGC remains the private passion of small but significant audience. Yet those who have discovered them can be slavishly loyal and will... more >>
Added: 22 Dec 08
KASEY CHAMBERS AND SHANE NICHOLSON INTERVIEWED 2008: The family that plays together . . .
Backstage after a performance for invited guests and a camera crew in a studio room at the Sydney Opera House, Kasey Chambers and her husband Shane Nicholson are greeting fans and well-wishers. Just minutes before they had unplugged after an intimate and affecting set -- with their small band which includes Kasey’s father Bill on guitar -- and now they are the centre of a more... more >>
Added: 22 Dec 08
JAMES HUNTER INTERVIEWED: The hard way to the top (2008)
At 46, James Hunter from Colchester in Essex is an overnight soul-singing sensation who took a couple of decades to get to where he is. But for most people he seemed to appear out of nowhere with his breakthrough album People Gonna Talk in early 2006. Hunter’s effortless blend of Sam Cooke-styled soul with soft reggae rhythms and his snappy original songs found immediate critical... more >>
Added: 22 Dec 08
PETER FRAMPTON INTERVIEWED (2001): From headlines to sidelines
From where Peter Frampton was standing he could see everything. It was 1976 and the angelic, halo-haired singer-guitarist from Kent was on top of the world. His new album was selling spectacularly. As one writer put it, in 1976 two significant events happened in America: the country celebrated its bicentenary and Frampton Comes Alive! was released. In that year, the double live... more >>
Added: 20 Dec 08
JOHN ZORN INTERVIEWED (1990): No ordinary noisemaker
John Zorn doesn’t sound like your typical New Yorker. His speech is slow and measured, not quite the expected machinegun rattle of words. Then again, composer and saxophonist Zorn is no ordinary New Yorker – and no ordinary composer either. Take his two most recent albums as a sampling from a career which has seen him come screaming from the sidelines as “avant-garde... more >>
Added: 20 Dec 08
PJ HARVEY INTERVIEWED (2001): Enjoying a cheerful misery
It‘s the day before their 2001 Big Day Out appearance and Polly Jean Harvey and her band are in the Playground rehearsal rooms in Newton. They are running through a real-time rehearsal of their set which is being timed to the second. They have 55 minutes on stage and Harvey wrote out the song list in the van on the way here only an hour ago. It‘s the first time they‘ve... more >>
Added: 18 Dec 08
BLEND, THE LEBANESE ROCK BAND INTERVIEWED (2004): Hard rock at the flashpoint
Jad Souaid is late and apologetic, he had a minor traffic accident on the way and in this city -- Beirut, the capital of the Lebanon -- that means handing over papers and having them checked. It all takes time. Beirut -- which was blown apart in a protracted civil war between Muslims and Palestinians, and Christian factions for 15 years from 1975 -- still lives with the legacy of its... more >>
Added: 18 Dec 08
DAMON ALBARN OF BLUR INTERVIEWED; BRITPOP v USA (1993): England Made Me
Somehow it seemed inevitable that an English musician would talk about clothes. These people work in a world where a photo shoot can be as important as the album of the moment. And right now with the 70s revival, bell-bottoms, chokers and an Afro are being analysed as “cultural signifiers.” Every music has its own pair of trousers. So hello Damon Albarn of Blur, gorra new... more >>
Added: 15 Dec 08
THE MOVE, BOXED UP AT LAST: Classic pop, great rock . . . and largely overlooked
Anyone who relied on an encyclopedia of rock or, worse, classic hits radio, would be forgiven for not knowing the Move ever existed. It seems the Move have been written out of rock history, despite cracking seven top 10 singles in Britain between 1967 - 72 (their first four consecutive hits all went top five, and did well in Australasia also). They also took over the Who’s weekly... more >>
Added: 15 Dec 08
FRANK ZAPPA (1940-93) REMEMBERED 15 YEARS ON: Straight and Bizarre
“Frank was my Elvis. His example encouraged me, made me feel it was okay to go my own way, to not do the things the way the authorities told me to. As soon as Bart is able to shave he’ll have a little moustache and goatee just like Frank Zappa’s.” -- Matt (The Simpsons) Groening “Frank Zappa was the most untalented bore who ever lived” -- Lou... more >>
Added: 15 Dec 08 1 Comment
YOKO ONO INTERVIEWED (2008): Art for art'$ $ake
“If there’s such as things as a genius, I am one” -- John Lennon, 1970 In the... more >>
Added: 8 Dec 08
RICHARD THOMPSON INTERVIEWED (1991): Small and imperfectly formed career
About the time Bob Mould, formerly of Husker Du, was telling NME he’d seen Richard Thompson performing and felt so scared he should quit, Thompson himself was once again carting his band through tiny venues in the stages and Canada. This was the man Mat Snow in Q magazine said had “spent 20 eventful years lapping up critical acclaim while neatly sidestepping commercial... more >>
Added: 7 Dec 08
BOB MOULD of HUSKER DU INTERVIEWED (1991): Flying solo at last
Bob Mould outlines a few of the projects he’s been involved in recently and then laughs: “See, that’s what happens when you quit your band – you get to do all the fun stuff.” As a member of the power trio Husker Du (“along with REM, the most influential rock band of the 80s,” according to Bleddyn Butcher in NME), Mould crafted some of the most... more >>
Added: 7 Dec 08
LARRY HENLEY INTERVIEWED (1993): The world beneath his wings
On this slightly hung-over weekday morning Larry Henley doesn’t look the kind of man whose words have touched a generation. He speaks with a quiet, modest and slow-drag Texas accent and seems too self-effacing for someone whose song lyrics have been recited at funerals and marriages, during intimate moments by way of love or apology, and which have spawned innumerable lesser... more >>
Added: 1 Dec 08
SCREAMIN JAY HAWKINS INTERVIEWED (1991): Coffin-rocking, wine drinking skull shaker
The man on the phone with the curiously quiet voice gently sets the record straight quite quickly. He’s never considered himself a singer he says. But after 35 years of making records and giving the world one of the most outrageous stage shows ever, then what is he? “I’m a big mouthed screamin’ man who uses a lot of flamboyance in his shows,” he says... more >>
Added: 23 Nov 08
THE BEACH BOYS IN DECLINE: Sucking in the Seventies?
Without wishing to appear nasty, it has to be said some people outlive their artistic viability. They exist in the present, but actually live in the past. If chief Beach Boy Brian Wilson had died in 1970 we would still hail him as a genius on the basis of Pet Sounds . . . and would speculate on what other greatness he might have achieved. But let's be brutally frank: Brian's intermittent... more >>
Added: 22 Nov 08 1 Comment
HARRY SMITH'S LEGACY REVISITED 2007: His grave is being kept . . . clean?
In 1952, the 29-year old Harry Smith -- an archivist and film-maker whose innovative work bears comparison with the genius of Elsewhere favourite Norman McLaren -- selected 84 songs from his collection of thousands of fragile 78rpm discs and -- through Moses Asch of Folkways Records -- released them as three double albums on the then-new LP format. Those albums -- of folk, blues,... more >>
Added: 21 Nov 08
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