Githead

Reviews 2

Articles 5

Sampling The Airwaves & Soundtracking A Morgue: Strange World Of Scanner

Ahead of his collaboration with Gazelle Twin at the Drill:London festival we're curating with Wire, Robin 'Scanner' Rimbaud talks Luke Turner through his musical career, from cassettes with Coil to scanning police airwaves for phone conversations, a Derek Jarman tribute record, dance scores and soundtracking a morgue

A Quietus Interview

Begin Again, Every Time: Malka Spigel Interviewed

Malka Spigel's new pop-tinged album was made with a host of collaborators, including husband Colin Newman. They tell Luke Turner about the unique, nomadic creative process that made it happen

Film

Branchage Festival 2010: Scanner On His Magic Lantern Soundtrack

We kick off our coverage of this year's Branchage Festival with a chat with Robin Rimbaud, AKA Scanner, who'll be soundtracking a magic lantern show

A Quietus Interview

Githead Interview: Colin Newman & Malka Spigel On Making A Perfect Landing

Don't-call-them-a-supergroup-group Githead's new album is a Quietus favourite of 2009. Luke Turner sat down with Colin Newman and Malka Spigel for an animated discussion on its whys and wherefores

In Conversation

Wire’s Colin Newman And Tortoise Talk BBC Late Junction Collaboration

This week Wire's Colin Newman and Chicago bods Tortoise collaborate in a session for BBC Radio 3's Late Junction. Session photographs by Lucy Johnston.

News 3

LISTEN: Stream Githead’s New Album

Play Waiting For A Sign, out next week, in full below

Githead Return With Fourth Album

Post-punk experimentalists return after five-year recess from recording and stream Bringing The Sea To The City

LISTEN: Malka Spigel LP Stream

Plus! How-we-met details on collaborators including Johnny Marr and Nik Factory Floor

Previously Read

Film

Gore Blimey! Video Nasties: Draconian Days Reviewed

Jake West's documentary about the moral panic surrounding alleged 'Video Nasties' gets its claws into Mat Colegate

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Low Culture Essay

In Praise Of John Cale, The Superior Velvet, By Daniel Dylan Wray

It seems odd to argue that a member of one of the most celebrated rock bands of all time, the Velvet Underground, is under-appreciated, says Daniel Dylan Wray in this subscriber only essay, until you consider just how absent he is from conversations about popular music

The Quietus International

Complete Communion: Jazz For June Reviewed By Peter Margasak

Peter Margasak has plenty to tantalise you, including new releases from Hedvig Mollestad, Asher Gamedze and Moor Mother/Nicole Mitchell

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Low Culture Essay

Low Culture Essay: Jimmy Martin On Ministry’s With Sympathy

In this month’s Low Culture Essay, Jimmy Martin revisits Ministry’s much-maligned synth pop debut With Sympathy and asks, with the distance of 40 years, if it’s actually Al Jourgensen’s finest work

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Low Culture Essay

Death, Angels & Magic: Daniel Spicer On Elvis Presley’s Way Down

In our monthly subscriber-only essay Daniel Spicer has a Proustian rush listening to Elvis Presley's career concluding single Way Down, is reminded of the fragility of existence and is catapulted back into a childhood of ageing teds, biker gangs and wyrd Cornish magic...

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Githead

Reviews 2

Githead
Waiting For A Sign

Githead
Landing

Articles 5

Sampling The Airwaves & Soundtracking A Morgue: Strange World Of Scanner

Begin Again, Every Time: Malka Spigel Interviewed

Branchage Festival 2010: Scanner On His Magic Lantern Soundtrack

Githead Interview: Colin Newman & Malka Spigel On Making A Perfect Landing

Wire’s Colin Newman And Tortoise Talk BBC Late Junction Collaboration