Feature interview #1632 in an ongoing series. To celebrate our Band of the Year visiting the UK for a run of live dates – and releasing their Band of the Year album – I met Italian champs Violet Blend for … CARBELLION – AT THE CART & HORSES ...
During the 15-month gap between the filming of “Let It Be” and its launch, The Beatles recorded and released their final studio album, “Abbey Road,” which came out in September 1969. Shot on 16mm and blown up to 35mm, the 80-minute “Let It Be” movie was built around the ...
I really like the sense of the to-and-fro of the collaboration in which sometimes the image will generate the poems, and at other times the photographer will work to respond to or illustrate the poem. As Philip Gross writes in his endorsement on the back cover: “Each double page is a...
The album opens with its best track: “Going Way Back“, an oral history of Hip Hop’s origins in the Bronx, followed by the beatbox-driven “The Original Gangster of Hip-Hop” (an explicit version of his first LP’s “Gangster of Hip-Hop”). The third song “Freedom Of Speech” ...
is pretty dire. Roxy hit their stride on their magnificent second album,For Your Pleasure, after which point Eno split. Or was pushed by Ferry, depending on whose stories you believe. However he came to be out on his own, though, Eno’s debut album is an absolute masterpiece, featuring...
Marvin The Album 16 Wonderland Rachel Fuller Cigarettes and Housework 16 Super Duper Love Joss Stone The Soul Sessions 16 World On Fire Sarah McLachlan World On Fire 16 Dare You To Move Switchfoot Learning To Breathe 16 Complicated Avril Lavigne The Number One Divas 16 Shadow Ashlee Simpson Auto...
and don’t pull any of theCompanion’s metafictional tricks–except in the sense thatallscary folktales are frightening because they live on the border between fiction and reality.Year Walkis unsettling for the same reason that ghost stories are to children: because the storytellerswearsit’s ...
Walpole, in a letter to the Reverend William Cole, decreed that Reeve’s novel is: “stripped of the marvelous…, except in one awkward attempt at a ghost or two, that it is the most insipid dull thing you ever saw…” From my own perspective it is hard to see this judgement by ...
“Northwest Passage,” a veritable Canadian national anthem,sung lustilyby the barrel-chested musician (1949-83) on his debut album in 1981. So as to not lengthen the duration of our discussion unduly, I refrained from mentioning it then, but do so now for the sake of sharing more of my...
“Northwest Passage,” a veritable Canadian national anthem,sung lustilyby the barrel-chested musician (1949-83) on his debut album in 1981. So as to not lengthen the duration of our discussion unduly, I refrained from mentioning it then, but do so now for the sake of sharing more of my...