(This is an early interview from 1997 that Güldal Kızıldemir did for the Turkish newspaper Radikal. Translation by Saliha Enzenauer) “States like meaninglessness and melancholy can only be melted in a transcendental value. Art is one of these values.” Nuri Bilge Ceylan You received two big awards so far for your first feature film, The …
„If you don’t like The Supersuckers, you don’t like rock’n’roll“ Lemmy Ron Heathman of the Supersuckers passed away on August 18th. An obituary by Glen Clarke, with exclusive statements by The Dwarves, New Bomb Turks, and others… (Photo credit: Jim Hucks) *** Mr. Rontrose Heathman, the man who changed the way we look at life-most …
The 13th Floor Elevators weren’t only innovative for their time. They were so different- I liked that from the first moment I discovered them. Like me, they came from a boring small town, and they established a musical independence that was new in its consequence. Optically they looked like backward hillbillies, but stylistically they conveyed …
Meg Baird’s most recent solo album Don’t Weigh Down The Light was released in 2015. She also plays drums, sings, and writes lyrics for the band Heron Oblivion who released their debut in 2016. Meg collaborated with harpist Mary Lattimore on Ghost Forests released in 2018. Meg Baird’s music has been acclaimed as “celestial” (NPR), …
I read that your first ever performance was at a talent show at your school, and I’d like to ask you which song you sang and if you won the show? That was the second one in school. The first one I did I was about 6, and it was one of those summer camp …
We have all read the stories of the band’s expansive greatness. Or supposed greatness… Maybe I should be more respectful? Certainly Mr. Julian Cope will clear my head of any misconceptions I may have in his next, soon-to-be-out-of-print book on Krautrock. So let’s not argue the matter here. By 1976, Ash Ra Tempel was less a …
John Carpenter doesn’t know that his glorious theme to “The End“ is leading a parallel existence in Turkey. It is detached from the horror genre which is no thing over there, but serves as rape music in many films. More precisely, as the onset to an indicated and invisible rape after a K.O. pill was …
My older brothers were ahead of me with The Jam, but I was the one who discovered the Stone Roses. Hell knows what would have become of me without this record. It’s not only the soundtrack of my youth, it IS my youth: beautiful, sun-kissed pop songs with guitars. The Stone Roses was released in …
Electronic music has been ridiculously disappointing in recent years- too much repetition and lack of fresh innovative ideas. We’ve seen the cycle happen before when a music scene starts to turn inward, focusing on past glories reproducing sounds with “authenticity“. It’s a prescription for boredom. And electronic music is never more unbearable then when its …
“So that’s how Manowar started, in Black Sabbath’s backstage !!” Why did you feel the need to pick up a fucking guitar? I actually started playin’ piano when I was around seven, and I was doing really well. My theory teacher always said that my musical aptitude was off the charts, but in Junior High …
