The Best Music Books of 2023
There were many excellent records released in 2023, but it was also a good year for books about music. From the graphic wizardry of Brian Griffin’s MODE to the scrapbook…
There were many excellent records released in 2023, but it was also a good year for books about music. From the graphic wizardry of Brian Griffin’s MODE to the scrapbook…
The Mortality Tables project was born in Bloomsbury in 2019. The result of a conversation in a delicatessen, it has already led to a series of releases with Vince Clarke,…
“You’re gonna go far,” sings Guy Chadwick in “Love in a Car” – and who can doubt that has been said to The House of Love’s singer many times before?…
This has been a difficult year for parts of the music industry. Bandcamp, owned by Epic Games, turned on its workers in an attempt to break its union and reduce…
There is a danger that electronic music events are becoming conventions for men with bald heads and a passion for vintage equipment. Vince Clarke’s recent London performance brought out the…
“Hear the crashing steel…” Robert Görl’s story begins at The End. A chance meeting between black ice and his BMW brings the lyrics of “Warm Leatherette” to life, shorn of…
It’s raining outside. Winter light barely penetrates the November sky. Amidst the gloom, April is just a dream. A brave crocus shows itself, but there is a mountain of cold…
Juno Sandbæk-Jensen never intended her project, Pieces of Juno, to get this far. It was timed to coincide with the end-of-life of NASA’s probe with the same name; but, when…