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The story of Faust is one of the oddest in modern music, taking in terrorism, nakedness, cement mixers, prison and no small amount of groundbreaking music. Here, in an extract from a new oral history of krautrock, all of the major players remember the band's short, tumultuous and incredibly creative time at Virgin...
Jane Savidge was the co-founder and head of public relations company Savage & Best who looked after Pulp during their late 90s pomp. In an exclusive extract from her new book for Bloomsbury’s 33 1/3 series, she picks apart the tricky sexual politics of the group’s notorious cover art for *This is Hardcore*
In an exclusive extract from her new book *Transfigured New York: Interviews with Experimental Artists and Musicians, 1980-1990*, writer and radio host Brooke Wentz shares an interview from the WKCR-FM archives with pioneering Downtown musicians Arthur Russell and Peter Gordon talking ballet, rap music and ‘democratic music’
The new book by Jesse Rifkin, *This Must Be the Place* tracks the rise and fall of music scenes and the places that gave them succour. In his author playlist, he picks out 11 key tracks that exemplify those scenes, from the Greenwich Village folk revival to early 00s Brooklyn noise-rock, via loft jazz, punk rock, hip hop and more
The history of black metal has been marred by lurid tales of church-burning fascists and the far-right represent an ongoing blot on the scene, but as *Tonight It’s A World We Bury* author Bill Peel argues, black metal remains a site of contestation with much to offer to left thought
To accompany today’s extract from *Alien Territory: An Experimental, Radical & Irrelevant Playlist from 1970s San Diego*, author Bill Perrine has curated a special playlist of off-beat and oft-neglected music from the book, featuring essential tracks by Pauline Oliveros, Diamanda Galas, Harry Partch, Kenneth Gaburo, Peter Gordon, and more
In an exclusive extract from his new book, *Alien Territory: Radical, Experimental, & Irrelevant Music in 1970s San Diego*, author Bill Perrine describes the heady atmosphere of early 1970s California that led to a new era in the work of one of America's most adventurous composers
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