Spurious Transients ‘Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies’ (Bandcamp)
Through music and spoken word, ‘Something Strange Came Out Of The Skies’ tells the peculiar story of The……
Doug McKechnie: The Catalytic Agent
Starting in 1968, San Francisco musician Doug McKechnie was one of the very first people to play a Moog. Stand by for a remarkable story involving Hell’s Angels, FBI agents, concrete caverns and a pyramid of Mexican weed
X Marks The Pedwalk ‘Transformation’ (Meshwork)
Pump up the balloons. ‘Transformation’ is the 10th album by German EBM pioneers X Marks The Pedwalk and…
The Haçienda Hair Salon
There were lots of strange things going on in the dark corners of The Haçienda in the 1980s, but the strangest thing of all was Swing, the hairdressing salon in the basement
Spizzenergi: Enterprise Allowance
He landed the inaugural Independent Chart’s first Number One single with Spizzenergi’s ‘Where’s Captain Kirk?’. Four decades on, the irrepressible Spizz shows little sign of slowing down…Â
Ron Wright & Neil Webb
Steel City audio-visual adventurers
Acid: In The Theatre Of Madness
In the hands of a small group of Chicago musicians and producers a little silver box created the squelch for Acid House and sparked the revolutionary illegal rave scene that followed soon afterÂ
Bo Hansson ‘Music Inspired By Lord Of The Rings’ (Silence, 1970) (Charisma, 1972)
Since the huge commercial success of Peter Jackson’s ‘The Lord Of The Rings’ movies, it’s been easy to forget the significance of the JRR Tolkien novel to the 1960s counterculture hippies.
The 50 Greatest Space Records
Space disco? check. Space funk? check. Space rock and space jazz? check and check. but let’s also not forget all manner of electronica, pop, ambient, dark ambient, electro, techno, exotica, psych, hip hop, post-punk, post-rock, and a lot more besides. we’re talking kosmische musik in its full glory here…
John Keenan
We Are heading back to the post-punk daze of the Futurama Festival, with promoter John Keenan telling tales of flooded venues and vomiting singers