Ripley Johnson is a guitarist, singer, and songwriter for Wooden Shjips, Moon Duo, and his most recent project Rose City Band. Rose City Band’s newest album Earth Trip will be released through Thrill Jockey Records on June 25. Ripley Johnson’s music has been described as “dazzled psychedelic wandering” (AllMusic), “some of the decade’s most mesmerizing …
Harmonia was described by Brian Eno as the “most important rock group”. But you originally wanted to bring Roedelius and Moebius into Neu! at the time? When NEU! was invited to do a tour in the UK in 1973, Klaus Dinger and I faced the problem that we needed musicians to help us put our …
Gabi Delgado has passed away a few hours after publishing this interview. He meant the world to me, and he will be terribly missed by his fans. Things indeed can come to a certain end. Gabi Delgado, March 2020 For me, you are without a question the most influental German band. Many people would name …
Interview by Mark Lager What were your first experiences that made you decide to become musicians? Eva: I really don’t know if I decided to become a musician, it is just a path that is part of my life. Since I was a child I have enjoyed listening to music and I have found myself …
Rat Scabies is the drummer of The Damned and Professor and the Madman. PATM’s great new album, Séance, echoes The Who, Beach Boys and Hüsker Dü, and was released November 13, 2020. *** What is your idea of perfect happiness? Peace of mind. What is your greatest fear? Seeing it coming and not being able to duck. What …
Mary Lattimore is a harpist originally from Philadelphia but currently based in Los Angeles, California who played with The Valerie Project (an alternate soundtrack to the 1970 film Valerie and Her Week of Wonders), has released solo albums At the Dam (2016) and Hundreds of Days (2018), and has collaborated with Meg Baird on the …
Sal Canzonieri of Electric Frankenstein talks about influences and the music scene, Rat Fink & Monster Art, the pioneering days of the internet & MP3 and what it meant to run one of the first 45 websites overall, how the music industry tried to suppress the new rock’n’roll scene, and why he is a well-known …
Ruyter Sighs and Blaine Cartwright talk Nashville Pussy, the hilarious new audio book on “High As Hell”, gossip from their Grammy nomination parties, and how streaming services like Spotify destroy music. Also revealed: the ‘Dee Snider Rule’ + the Cartwright method on how to persuade a bomb lady like Ruyter to leave Canada and come …
(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 …
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), …
