Shine On: Steve Hillage
Steve Hillage has made a career finding the spaces within beats and turning rhythms into textures that envelop the listener. As a member of Gong, he was key to the…
Steve Hillage has made a career finding the spaces within beats and turning rhythms into textures that envelop the listener. As a member of Gong, he was key to the…
Shine On: Bruce Gilbert Bruce Gilbert approaches music as material. A guitar can provide structure, but so can a tape loop, a repeated word, a contact microphone or the sound…
Jimmy Monell has spent much of his career making other people sound more certain of themselves. His credits move between bright Swedish pop, electronic rock, remixes, live production and the…
Keith LeBlanc, who passed away in 2024, was an innovative drummer who developed sounds and styles that shaped hip hop and electro-industrial music.
In 1973, Stephen Mallinder (universally known, simply, as Mal) joined a musical collective that included two friends, Richard H. Kirk and Chris Watson. The top song on the charts that…
There are artists who build a career in straight lines – and then there is Ben Watkins, whose catalogue sprawls like a circuit board. The copper lines trace a complex…
To some people, Dave Baker is that pub pianist who accompanies them on Carpenters and soul sing-alongs at North London venues. To others, he is that DJ with the eclectic…
It’s hard to work out what Brett Wickens is best known for. He founded Spoons at high school with Gordon Deppe and Sandy Horn in 1979 before moving on the…
Paul Kendall has been moving through British music history since the late 1970s, quietly altering its signal path. He was a member of a post-punk band, Dry Rib, before an…
We have a soft spot for record store clerks. The movie, High Fidelity, was a disappointment, precisely because it missed the point about why they are cool. The workers in…