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Making music: a Taxing process?

26/03/2018

Blues and Rock-influenced unit Tax The Heat drop in to discuss new album 'Change Your Position'...

The dissonant tritone thing is very particular: Vovoid (Interview)

08/12/2016

Vovoid's Denis 'Snake' Bélanger shares some nuggets (of wisdom) at Camden's Underworld...

Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

22/06/2015

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

Make Better Music 72 : Music Theory

30/04/2014

Music theory is way of labelling sounds and ideas in a way that highlights the relationships between them...

Gallon Drunk : The Soul of the Hour

25/03/2014

Gallon Drunk have never sounded so together nor so accomplished. The result of such symbiosis is seven tracks of intense mood and impressive groove. ...

The Presence LDN : Interview

23/10/2013

I won’t use a computer to make music ever again. Those things lead to a shiny but soulless place in the heart....

A picture of Imperial Teen by Kailas Elmer

We’re masochists (Imperial Teen)

22/10/2013

'We're not in a gay band, we're just in a band. On the other hand we're not NOT in a gay band, I just think 'who cares?'' Imperial Teen interview....

A picture of a microphone by freedigitalphotos.net/Jeroen van Oostrom

The Beat Instrumental

09/10/2013

Without sung text the listener was invited to create an entire narrative based on only the title and the music itself. You had to do a little (imaginative) work. ...

A picture of guitars by Carl Byron Batson

Wait for the Drop. Anticipation and Music

27/09/2013

The auditory cortex performs a role beyond just processing sound. Rather, this area of the brain appears to be activated during other activities that require learning and thought, such as confirming...

A picture of Luna Rossa by Jason Parnell Brooks

Luna Rossa : Interview

18/09/2013

'The Sleeping Pills & Lullabies title was an idea of mine. It was the idea of two different ways of falling asleep…'...

A photo of Douglas Dare by Dusan Kacan, Erased Tapes, singer

Douglas Dare : Seven Hours [EP]

12/09/2013

Devoid of histrionics, of 'emotional' treatments, and of cloying sentimentality. Dare's presentation of the songs is instead factual, crisp and resigned....

A picture of Simon Friend from The Levellers

The Levellers (Simon Friend) : Interview

11/08/2013

'Certainly I think we’ve been ignored. Or not even ignored – shunned' - Simon Friend of The Levellers makes up for some lost media attention. ...

Randall Dunn Interview

04/08/2013

I don't think that the world has become a horrible place. I think that we should be more aware of now rather than some idea of the future. ...

Mick Harvey Interview: Part 2

06/06/2013

In part 2 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Nick Cave, murder and PJ Harvey....

Mick Harvey Interview: Part 1

30/05/2013

In part 1 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Australia, love songs, religion, songwriting and the new album...

Make Better Music 70 : Time

10/05/2013

There is no aural analog of the photograph or still frame from a film. Sound is, at its core, inherently a time-dependent phenomenon. ...

Why We Buy Music

05/05/2013

A study reveals what happens in our brain when we decide to purchase a piece of music when we hear it for the first time...

The Icarus Line on Giant Drag

23/04/2013

Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line talks about producing the 2013 release by Giant Drag - Waking Up is Hard to Do....

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Final Part]

10/04/2013

'Art is not made by committee' SWP concludes his series on the art of the soundtrack...

Make Better Music 69: On Sound

02/04/2013

"It is common for us to be in situations where we can not see (or at least vision is severely restricted) but exceedingly uncommon to be in situations where we can not hear"...

No Score Draw : How Movie Music Fails Us [Pt 3]

27/03/2013

If you want sublime original music you don’t ask a god-given talent to appropriate and subtly re-arrange a track by Enya....

King of Drone : Aidan Baker Interview

20/03/2013

More than a feeling : Trebuchet interviews eclectic drone maestro Aidan Baker about a bunch of random stuff that we wanted to know. ...

Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal

14/03/2013

Mechanisms for the reordering of memory and forward living. Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal. Released 4th March on Kranky ...

Counterpoint : Reich Bach at Ya!

01/03/2013

The truth of music in 2013 is that we don't really need a masterpiece right now. We need a higher grade of ordinary....

Melvins Announce London May Shows

26/02/2013

Melvins performing live Lysol & Houdini at London Brixton Electric on Sunday 19 May and playing Bullhead & Stoner Witch at the same venue on Monday 20 May...

Early music lessons boost brain development

18/02/2013

Montreal researchers find that music lessons before age 7 create stronger connections in the brain...

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Her Majesty’s Theatre

13/02/2013

Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Performing Push the Sky Away. Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. Feb 10th 2013...

I have not gone out of my way to mythologise myself, but… Michael Finnissy

03/02/2013

dropcap style=”font-size:100px;color:#992211;”S/dropcapince the late 60’s Michael Finnissy has been composing classical work that challenges, shakes and agitates the listener from...

Benoit Pioulard new album March 4th

10/01/2013

Hymnal is the fourth kranky album by Thomas Meluch under his musical alias Benoit Pioulard, following Précis (2006), Temper (2008) and Lasted (2010). It was written and recorded throughout a year...

Charlotte Sometimes: Interview

10/01/2013

After four albums, dropped deals, reality television, a rare jaw disease that almost crippled her singing career, and a few lost loves, Charlotte has proven there is no plan B. ...

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