The Moonlandingz: Lunar Tunes

Pterodactyls in the garden, an obsession with gabba videos and a catastrophic bike accident. Adrian Flanagan, Dean Honer and Lias Saoudi explain their long-awaited second album as The Moonlandingz

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Bluedot 2022

byStephen Dalton

Under the shadow of Jodrell Bank’s gigantic Lovell telescope, Bluedot returns for a scintillating weekend of live music, science and culture

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5 minute read

Morton Subotnick: Quantum Bleep

byMark Roland

Morton Subotnick’s 1967 album ‘Silver Apples Of The Moon’ is an experience of pure electronic music – or “new new music”, as Subotnick puts it. It was created solely on the Buchla, the modular synth he commissioned as an “easel” for creating the kind of studio art sounds he had in mind

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10 minute read

Section 25: Hilltop Blues

byBen Murphy

Ignored and derided during their early years, Section 25 have rightfully been favourably reassessed over the intervening years. With the release of a new boxset, the band’s Vin Cassidy traces their tumultuous history…

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9 minute read

Penelope Trappes: Heaven Up Here

bySharon O'Connell

Australian producer and ethereal soundscaper Penelope Trappes returns with the haunting ‘Heavenly Spheres’. Using just her voice, an upright piano and an old reel-to-reel, it’s a remarkable record steeped in phantasmal atmospherics and hypnagogic strangeness

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10 minute read

Gerald V Casale: Rage Against the Machine

byMark Roland

When Devo’s Gerald V Casale came up with a new solo vehicle in the early 2000s, America was not ready for Jihad Jerry And The Evildoers. With a snazzy new re-release and a brand new track, perhaps the time is now. After all, his is not a holy war…

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10 minute read

Joe Meek: No Ordinary Joe

byJeremy Blackmore

Hidden away for decades, Joe Meek’s near-mythical “tea chest tapes” have finally seen the light of day, revealing much about the working practices of the legendary producer responsible for The Tornados’ pioneering, electronically hued 1962 single, ‘Telstar’