Vic Mars
Musician Vic Mars takes on this month’s quick-fire questions
Ananda Shankar ‘Ananda Shankar’ (Reprise, 1970)
In Ananda Shankar’s relatively short lifetime, the Indian sitar player was never afraid to push boundaries.
Atka
Pop polymath deals a debut doozy
Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee: Stick It Out
What do you get if you bring together ex-Cure drummer Lol Tolhurst, former Siouxsie And The Banshees sticksman Budgie and uber-producer Jacknife Lee? An exploratory and brilliantly inventive “electronic head-fuck”, that’s what
Martin Rev: Proto Punk
Rooted in fervent, free-form experimentation, Martin Rev’s formative 1970s cassette sonics not only fed into the arch-provocateur’s work with influential New York synth-punksters Suicide, but also his distinctive solo oeuvre. With a new release of archive recordings, he reflects on those gritty early years
OMD: Stepping Up
Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys of Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark are still coming up with the goods 45 years in. Their new album, ‘Bauhaus Staircase’, a glorious collision of hook-laden electropop and artistic sentiment, finds the synth pioneers in perfect sync
Teeth Of The Sea: Cosmic Thing
Steeped in sci-fi dystopia, avant-garde sensibilities and a multi-genre assault, Teeth Of The Sea exist in an “alchemical headspace” where sonically, almost anything goes
Dancing Or Baking Or Snogging
More random musings from Fat Roland. On his mind this month (as far as we can tell) is ‘Big Brother’
Andrew Weatherall: “I’m a sponge, I want to soak up everything”
The first interview with Andrew Weatherall outside of his role in the band Bocca Juniors, which was originally published in the UK weekly music paper Melody Maker on 17 August 1991
Servi
Sweeping the forgotten corridors of sound, Scott Blixen sets his sights on Servi