He isn’t at all the bastard you expect him to be. He’d disagree with that – he’d be the first to call himself difficult or surly, every bit the man his infamously uncompromising music has made him out to be. But for Jim G. Thirlwell, best know to the world as … well, not best [...]
Posts Tagged ‘industrial’
Foetal Flow: An Interview with Jim Thirlwell of Foetus
Posted: June 29, 2001 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: Foetus, industrial, Jim Thirlwell, Thirsty Ear Records
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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
“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 [...]
Concert Review: Hordes of Screaming NIN-ies Welcome Reznor’s Return
Posted: June 7, 2000 by Sean Flinn in Concert Reviews, MusicTags: industrial, Nine Inch Nails, trent reznor
“We’ve been away for a long time,” Trent Reznor told a captivated audience at Nine Inch Nails’ sold-out appearance at the Arrowhead Pond in Anaheim, Calif. Tuesday night. “And to have you all still here means the world to us.” It ought to. Having taken a hiatus the length of which would have killed most [...]
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 [...]
Outliving Their Enemies: An Interview with Babyland
Posted: January 2, 1999 by Sean Flinn in Interviews, MusicTags: babyland, Electronic Music, industrial, mattress records
Los Angeles-based dico-junk-noise outift Babyland have endured the collapse of their record label, the demise of their local music scene and the closure of their favorite live venues. They remain unstoppable. Babyland, consisting of vocalist / noise-shaper Dan Gatto and percussionist / purveyor of wit SMITH, have been rocking mics and burning down club stages [...]
