The Lost Interview: Michael Gira (Swans)

A few weeks ago Swans announced details of their sixteenth studio album, The Beggar, due for release on Mute on 23 June and also released the first single from the album, “Paradise Is Mine” This is probably one of the last chances to publish an interview I did with Michael Gira back in late 2019 […]
What I did last night instead of going to see The Necks play live

I thought about how good The Necks sound on record, and how refined I would have felt watching their refined, exploratory jazz at the Old Museum where bats fly out from under the rafters. (I tried to find a review to link to so you could engage viscerally with their music without the tiresome bother of […]
An Excessively Exhaustive Look at 10 Interesting Pieces of Music from 2011 | Matt O’Neill
At the risk of sounding overly hyperbolic, I think the best – or, at the very least, most interesting – records stand outside time.