If Berlinâs deep space dub techno scene has a voice, then Paul St Hilaire is surely the one most entitled to claim its title. The artist that first made his mark as Tikiman , but who reverted to his
From the September 2021 issue of Apollo. Preview and subscribe here . Depending on who you ask, Helena Blavatsky was either a mystic and a sage who introduced Eastern spirituality to Western culture,
Superlatives A Vulture series in which artists judge the best and worst of their own careers. “I think people didn’t know how much fun we were truly having. And it was a lot of fun.” Photo: Paul Natki
The American film maker and composer, Phill Niblock has died aged 90. Here composer and artist Lawrence English pays tribute Phill Niblock, NYC, 2022, by Lawrence English Phill Niblock once wrote of h
If you live in London, perhaps you’ve scanned theFM spectrum and come to a halt at a pirate station whose sound youcan’t quite finger or figure. It’s got House music’s slinkypanache, but the rhythm’s
‘W e were not trying to make people dance, we were not trying to ‘rock’ – we were trying to make things that were beautiful,” says Dean Wareham, who formed Galaxie 500 in Boston in 1987 with Naomi Yan
Over the course of a career that has spanned more than three decades, Autechre’s Sean Booth and Rob Brown have transcended their origins as one of the most respected and beloved groups of the 90’s UK
Centuries-old settlement patterns — and the attitudes they spawned about government — are to blame for differences in longevity between red southern states and bluer parts of the country. POLITICO ill
1. Pothole city L ooking back now, it is hard to pinpoint the moment when things got totally out of control. It might have been when council contractors teamed up with police for an operation that Nic
Photo: Bobby Doherty In 2018, a movie-publicity company called Bunker 15 took on a new project: Ophelia , a feminist retelling of Hamlet starring Daisy Ridley . Critics who had seen early screenings h
Part One You may or may not be tired of old people telling you how they found out about new music before the existence of the internet. I can’t imagine that it’s a terribly interesting topic for anyon
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A WHISTLE of telephonic feedback, then a woman’s voice: “Are we on the air?” A DJ: “Yes, you are.” “Hello, Mom! Uh, I’d like to hear a new beat on the request line.” “OK, you got it, comin’ up. . . .”
Published 2023-06-21 05:00 5:00 June 21, 2023 am Share Political efforts to ban gender-affirming care for transgender people have escalated in the United States. Hundreds of bills have been introduced
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London after the rave 'From the moment that human beings started communicating with electrical and electromagnetic signals, the ether has been a spooky place. Four years after Samuel Morse strung up h
The Secret History of “The Joshua Tree” Hot Press by Colm O'Hare (2007-11-21) For many people it is U2’s greatest album. Twenty years on, to mark it’s re-release, Colm O’Hare talks to Daniel Lanois an
When The Replacements released Don't Tell a Soul in 1989, many of their fans felt like the record was too polished and too pop. Producer Matt Wallace [ Tape Op #128 ] took a good portion of the blame
Inside the close-knit community of stripped-back minimal, Dana Ruh is an admired and much-loved artist. She goes about her work—producing, DJing, and running a label—quietly, delivering consistent qua
I n 1989, George Evelyn was driving in a stream of shimmering headlights, in convoy, to a rave in a slaughterhouse in Blackburn with about 10,000 others. He recalls thinking: “This must have been what
Visionary hip-hop producer J Dilla never found mainstream success during his brief lifetime. But in the seven years since his death, Dilla — who would have turned 39 today — has come to represent a ma
W hen Glen “Spot” Lockett pointed his camera at something, he intended to capture what was there, not what he wanted you to see. “I paid attention to my subjects and what they were doing,” he told Vic
Throughout the 1990s, corporate CD clubs like Columbia House and the BMG Music Service dumped millions upon millions of compact discs on a consumer public ready to replace their vinyl collections en m
Pre-internet, pre-social media, it was all people had to learn about various parties, besides word of mouth. The rave scene was a movement that existed outside of most people’s consciousness at that t
John Balance and Peter Christopherson in the earlier days of Coil. Source: The Vinyl Factory Familiar to most as a 1980s New Wave/synthpop staple, Soft Cell’s 1981 hit “Tainted Love” received a drasti
Credits Joe Zadeh is a writer based in Newcastle. On a damp and cloudy afternoon on February 15, 1894, a man walked through Greenwich Park in East London. His name was Martial Bourdin — French, 26 yea
In the fall of 1975, an envelope from England arrived at the Trouser Press (I was going to say office, but we didn’t have one yet) mail box at the Grand Central Station Post Office. Inside, typed on n
‘They’re Really Close To My Body’: A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck ‘We possess nothing in this world other than the power to say “I”. This is what we must yield
Darran Anderson celebrates The Orb's "chance encounter between Steve Reich and Ming the Merciless in the Black Ark" – one of the most unlikely number one albums of the early 90s In the winter of 1954,
When Jeff Bridges rocked the cover of Rolling Stone on August 19, 1982, his most well-known movies were probably The Last Picture Show (1971) and, Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974), both of which got h
It's Sound, It's Art, and Some Call It Music Send any friend a story As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Anyone can read what you share. See the article in its original cont
Hey!When you commission David Bowie to go see, maybe talk to trip hop ingénuTricky, you don't expect the standard Q piece. You except a bizarre, semi-poeticfantasy written in Burgess-like futurespeak
Josh Davis, aka DJ Shadow By 1991, sampling had entered a golden era with De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising, NWA’s Straight Outta Compton and the Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique. I was a senior in hig
William Basinski ’s “Melancholia II” sounds like what might happen if despair itself walked into a studio and someone pressed the record button. Little pops poke through its smeared dreariness, like a
Lisa Whittington-Hill | Longreads | June 2022 | 16 minutes (4,445 words) Jennifer Finch is smiling, but she’s clearly frustrated. “Everywhere I go, everywhere I turn, I see this fucking face,” says th
Interview by Morgan Chosnyk Edited by Owen Murphy and Bailey Egan Portishead ’s debut album Dummy came out 25 years ago on August 22, 1994. Considered by many as one of the best albums certainly of th
Photographs by Grant Harder and Tony Rath Not long ago, while browsing a craft fair in Boothbay Harbor, Maine, I spotted a guitar like no other I’d ever seen. It hung half-hidden behind a display of c
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