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White Fence Interview: “Hearing certain music at a certain age galvanised me in a profound way

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 27, 2026
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White Fence (photo: Agathe Rousselle)

Albums Features

Everything Changes: Rodan’s Rusty 30th anniversary

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date April 4, 2024
5 Comments on Everything Changes: Rodan’s Rusty 30th anniversary

Rodan (photo: Ewolf)

Album Reviews

Blimp: Egg EP

Blimp (photo: from artist's Bandcamp page)

Tags Blimp, Brian McMahan, Horsegirl, Lifeguard, Low, Matador Records, Middleman, nirvana, Pardoner, Pavement, Sprain, Stephen Malkmus, Steve Fisk, The Breeders, The Byrds, Unwound

Features Interviews

Glass State: In Conversation with Sweet Williams’ Thomas House

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date May 12, 2023
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Thomas House (photo: Gabriela Soto)

Lost Albums

Klark Kent: Music Madness from the Kinetic Kid

Post author By Sean Beardmore
Post date December 7, 2022
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Stewart Copeland

Tags Animal Logic, Dave Grohl, Francis Ford Coppola, Ken Loach, Klark Kent, Molly Meldrum, Nigel Gray, nirvana, Oliver Stone, Richard Linklater, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Cars, The Police, Townsend

Features

Come As You Are: Going Shopping with Nirvana

Post author By stephenpotter
Post date January 24, 2022
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Kurt Cobain performs with Nirvana in 1993

Tags bunnymen, Courtney, Dave Grohl, HOle, iggy, joy division, Krist, Kurt Cobain, Mudhioney, nirvana, SMioths

Features Interviews

A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 2

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date October 13, 2021
3 Comments on A Golden Sky: In Conversation with Damon & Naomi – Part 2

Damon & Naomi (photo credit: Anabel Vazquex Rodriquez)

Tags 20/20/20, cocteau twins, Damon & Naomi, Damon Krukowski, Galaxie 500, George Harrison, Jarvis Cocker, John Cage, Michio Kurihara, Naomi Yang, nirvana, Pulp, Richard Youngs, Suzanne Sassic

Features Interviews

Sunstack Jones and Mai 68 bring back the flexi disc

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date September 30, 2021
3 Comments on Sunstack Jones and Mai 68 bring back the flexi disc

Tags beatles, FLexi Discs, Funkadelic, joy division, Komakino, Mai 68, nirvana, sunstack jones, the cure

Albums Features

All Souls Day: The Burning Universe of Unwound

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date August 2, 2021
44 Comments on All Souls Day: The Burning Universe of Unwound

Unwound (photo provided by Numero Group)

Albums Features

The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld 30th anniversary

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date April 2, 2021
2 Comments on The Orb’s Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld 30th anniversary

Tags Alex Patterson, Ennio Morricone, glastonbury, Heaven, Inter-Modo, Jimmy Cauty, Massive Attack, Minnie Ripperton, my bloody valentine, nirvana, Paul Oakenfold, Pete Namlook, primal scream, Rickie Lee Jones, Steve Reich, the orb, The KLF

13 Questions

13 Questions with Thom Morecroft

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 24, 2021
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Thom Morecroft

Features Interviews

Bobhowla Interview: “I’ve always experimented with throwing imagery into songwriting”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date February 6, 2021
7 Comments on Bobhowla Interview: “I’ve always experimented with throwing imagery into songwriting”

Bobhowla's Howard Doupe (photo credit: Simon Kirk)

Tags 81 Renshaw Street, 9x9 Records, Bobhowla, Faith No More, Graham Fletcher-Hill, Howard Doupe, idlewild, Jason Spaceman, John Brindle, joy division, Mick Head, Neil Tilly, nirvana, Post Electric Studios, rod jones, spiritualized, The Coral, The Twilight Sad, The Zutons

Features Lost Albums

Beasts Of Bourbon’s Sour Mash: “A potent brew of belligerence and hedonism”

Post author By Simon Kirk
Post date January 7, 2021
22 Comments on Beasts Of Bourbon’s Sour Mash: “A potent brew of belligerence and hedonism”

Beasts of Bourbon (photo credit: Alain Rodier)

Tags AC/DC, Beasts Of Bourbon, Big Day Out, Boris Sujdovic, Comic Psychos, Eddy Current Suppression Ring, James Baker, Kim Salmon, Mudhoney, nirvana, RVG, Scientists, Slug Guts, Spencer P. Jones, Tex Perkins, The Jesus Lizard, Tom Waites

13 Questions

13 Questions with Bobhowla

Bobhowla. Photo by Richard Taylor

Things are happening with Southport’s Bobhowla, so we threw 13 questions at frontman Howard Doupé to get to the bottom of it all.

Tags album, bibio, Bobhowla, debut, erland cooper, idlewild, king creosote, liverpool, nirvana, rod jones, royal court, Therapy

Lost Albums

ABC’s Beauty Stab: “Success does not breed success, success breeds confusion”

Post author By sun13banjo
Post date July 11, 2020
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ABC made some of the best pop music of the 80s and then followed it up with a difficult but wonderful second album, Banjo reflects on their ambitious new direction.

Tags BAC, Beauty stab, fame, Julian Cope, lexicon, mark white, martin fry, nirvana