“Most anything Michael Gira is involved in immobilizes me with despair,” Slackjaw columnist / author Jim Knipfel said in a 1999 review of New Mother, Gira’s first album under the moniker The Angels of Light. “That’s not necessarily a bad thing,” he concluded, summing up pretty much how any one who interacts with Gira’s music [...]
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Nothing Left to Rise Above: An Interview with Michael Gira of Swans and Angels of Light
Posted: March 27, 2001 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: angels of light, experimental, gothic, industrial, m gira, swans, young god
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Back In The Pink: An Interview with Richard Butler of the Psychedelic Furs
Posted: August 2, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: alternative music, Psychedelic Furs
“God, it sounds like a venereal disease when you say it like that!” Richard Butler, vocalist and chief songwriter for ’80s mainstays the Psychedelic Furs is cracking wise in response to my poorly phrased question, “Has Love Spit Love (Butler’s post-Furs project) gone away?” “Yes. It’s gone into remission,” he continues, laughing. It’s a pop-culture [...]
Lost in Space: An Interview with Kool Keith
Posted: May 26, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: hip-hop, kool keith
ADULT VIDEO BLOWOUT: $5.99! The blazing neon sign is the mom ‘n’ pop video store’s only identifying feature. It catches the eye of Kool Keith’s music publisher immediately, Keith having jumped out of my car to return two videos, minus their dust jackets. “They don’t rent videos without dust jackets, do they?” Keith’s music publisher [...]
Stealing Mussolini’s Brain: An Interview with Boyd Rice
Posted: April 7, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Boyd Rice, Death in June, Electronic Music, experimental, industrial, Marilyn Manson, Mute Records, Non
“I got a laptop computer about a week ago. Actually, someone gave it to me,” says Boyd Rice, who, under the moniker NON, has been terrorizing the industrial-gothic underground for a quarter century. “But I don’t intend to go on the Internet, and I’m really doubtful whether I’ll even have e-mail,” he theorizes. For an [...]
Liquid Courage: An Interview with Alan Wilder of Recoil
Posted: March 31, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Alan Wilder, Electronic Music, Mute Records, Recoil
When, in a previous life, your band has sold out the famed Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., and comparable venues worldwide, racked up scads of platinum records and hit the Billboard Top 10 twice, the temptation to rest on your laurels should be overwhelming. Unless you’re Alan Wilder and you’re more concerned with the quality [...]
