Jad Fair of Half Japanese | “David and I Just Wanted to Sound Like Ourselves”
In 1974, Jad and David Fair rented a house with no other houses close by. It was useful for two young men who wanted to make a lot...
Other Mother Share ‘anymore’ Ahead of Debut EP ‘Can’t Help But Feel Dramatic’
Cork five-piece Other Mother have shared a new single, ‘anymore’, ahead of their debut EP ‘Can’t Help But Feel Dramatic’, out October 8. The band describe their music...
Savas Christie on ‘Savvas’ | The Rare 1974 LP Returns on Golden Debris
Originally released in 1974 in a pressing of just 300 copies, 'Savvas' has spent most of the past half-century out of sight. The record was made in Melbourne...
Alan Braufman: “I’m still trying to clarify that sound”
From hearing Sun Ra and Pharoah Sanders as a teenager to 501 Canal Street, the rediscovery of ‘Valley of Search’ and the new ‘Anthem for Peace’, Alan Braufman...
Jan Lankisch Interview | How Marshall Allen’s ‘New Dawn’ Came Together
There were only two afternoons. Marshall Allen had turned 100 two days earlier, the musicians were gathered in a Philadelphia studio, and Jan Lankisch still had no real...
Makara Interview | Bangkok’s Neo-Molam Trio Find Their Own Sound
Makara didn’t really become a proper band until their third album. Before that, Q had already made music under the name, often working alone and recording at home...
Fountain Return with ‘It’s Ordinary’ Following ‘Big Bag of New Nothings’ EP
Northampton duo Fountain are back with ‘It’s Ordinary,’ their first new music since the ‘Big Bag of New Nothings’ EP earlier this year, and the beginning of another...
Beth Cameron Steps Out Under Her Own Name with ‘The World. Oh No.’
Beth Cameron has spent more than twenty years making music under different names, from Fair Verona and Forget Cassettes to Eliza the Arrow and Black Bra. ‘The World....
Lewis Shiner Interview: The Author of ‘Glimpses’ on Music, Fiction and a Life in Writing
From Austin punk clubs and the first stirrings of cyberpunk to 'Glimpses', Brian Wilson and the lost music of the 1960s, Lewis Shiner looks back on more than...
Leszek Możdżer Interview: Miłość, Chopin, Komeda and the Decaphonic Piano
Ahead of his appearance at the Polish Jazz Festival in London, Leszek Możdżer looks back on Miłość and the early yass years, his encounters with Chopin and Komeda,...