And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles: these are the beginnings of sorrows.
The professor of pop and the technology writer talk about innovation, Twitter and the Enlightenment Where do big ideas come from? One way to find out is to ask someone who's had a few, which must be why London's ICA is packed out on a mucky November evening for an audience with Brian Peter George St John le Baptiste de la Salle Eno – or Eno to his friends. For the rest of us, he's the self-described...
Landscaping the Future with Brian Eno We must think creatively about what's next, we have obligations to consider the Long Now. Tomorrow is not today all over again. And why in the hell is Brain Eno the voice of the...
Magnetic Fields have announced the release date of their new album -- and hey, act surprised: it's a concept venture. Realism is to follow 2008's Distortion , which exploited that idea using both musical and psychological avenues (a heartbroken man attacks reality with the bludgeon of booze; a nun dances with the pipe dream of becoming a courtesan). With song titles like "Seduced and Abandoned,"...
Almanac is the new long-player from the duo of Brian Lightbody and Tom Asselin (Lewis & Clarke), aka Dragon Turtle, and it’s out today on La Société Expéditionnaire. Their style has been called “ambient-winter-calypso-space-folk,” and they’re influenced not only by “post-punk, krautrock, ambient/electronic, and dark Americana,” but also by...
Mustard interviews Alan Moore about his new magazine Dodgem Logic and he reveals that he is doing the libretto for their next opera and they will hopefully be contributing a few pages to the magazine: Then the issue after that we’ve hopefully got Gorillaz onboard. They came down to Northampton last week because we’re planning for [...] Related posts: New magazine edited by Alan Moore, and...
Ride Slow combines the faux-pop genius of Pet Shop Boys with the avant-garde outside chic that is the Animal Collective. A barrage of brilliance and bluster Ride Slow is at once an art-pop gem.
David Bowie -’Low’ (RCA, 1977) I actually ended up picking up Low in Holland on the same family holiday in 1994 that I got Ocean Rain. Odd, I guess, as Holland isn’t particularly regarded as a great place for vinyl enhusiasts (though Germany I do recommend). But from that trip came the Bowie album above all [...]
A mere two years after Booji Boy stiffed in their native US, and an overseas deal with Stiff Records soured in the UK, Ohioans Devo signed on the line with major league hitters, Warner Bros. The rest - as some say - was almost history. Produced in Cologne, Germany, by Brian Eno on the recommendation - in part - of chums Bowie and Pop, " Q: Are We Not Men ? A: We Are Devo ", the resulting...
In 1977, American new wave rock band Devo released their cover of the Rolling Stones (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (right). The single was incorrectly title (I Can’t Get Me No) Satisfaction. The single led to a recording contract with Warner Bros....
Here are three videos of Carousel rehearsals last month at Music Bank in the Tower Bridge Business Complex in which I sang through -- for the first time with real musicians -- three Jacques Brel songs arranged by David Coulter and Mike Smith, and translated by me (you can read my translations, two of which were made specially for this performance, beside the videos as they appear on YouTube). The band...
This Sunday and Monday, DEVO is performing two of its most beloved albums at Seattle’s intimate Moore Theater. The first night, 1978 album Q: Are We Not Men', A: We Are DEVO! will be played in its entirety. In 2009, this record still sounds exactly as God and Brian Eno intended. Eno’s production is clear [...] Related posts: Grey Anne: Somewhere in Seattle, Between Heaven and Hell (Seattle,...
For all the U2 fans out there, I’ve got one doozy of a prize set ready to go for a MuuMuse Excluusive giveaway. U2’s classic The Unforgettable Fire, first released in 1984, is receiving the re-release treatment in honor of its 25th Anniversary this year in a variety of physical formats. But don’t take my word [...]
David Byrne will be in concert at Venaria Reale (10 km from Turin ) the 29 th July (at 9.30 PM) with “Everything That Happens Will Happen Today. Songs of David Byrne And Brian Eno”. The ticket cost depends on the place of the seats. It will be divided in three different rates: € 36, 32 e 28 apart from the presale. The presale is available: ¨ Usual sale circuits ¨ Reggia box office – via A. Mensa 34,...