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Daniel Dylan Wray , January 11th, 2021 09:39 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 Author portraits by Natasha Bright People have some very strongly held beliefs about the roles of John Cale and Lou Reed. A few years ago, when interviewing Cabaret Voltaire’s Richard H Kirk, I lightheartedly made a Reed/Cale comparison between him and ex-Cabs member Stephen Mallin...

EK: Tell me about your formative years. What got you guys into music? Can you tell us about very early groups you belonged to? Ryan: Music had always been around me growing up, whether it was listening to my mum practising her aerobics routine to Urban Cookie Collective, or my dad introducing me to Radiohead at a criminally young age. I was always going to end up doing something creative, or at least joining a gym. I’ve been in bands growing up too, Joe actually used to manage the first, and played bass in the second, he’ll be CEO of the fourth.

The critic was known for linking artistic tendencies that few other writers intuited. December 28, 2020 Frank Stella, his wife Barbara Rose, Larry Poons, Lucinda Childs, Wilder Green, Barnett Newman and William Rubin, in Rubin's apartment, surrounded by artwork by Hans Hoffman, Adolph Gottlieb, Willem de Kooning, Andre Masson, Herbert Ferber, Mark Rothko, Robert Motherwell, Clyfford Still, and David Smith. (Photo by William Grigsby/Condé Nast via Getty Images) Barbara Rose, the fierce but flexible critic best known for helping to usher in the new vanguard of Minimalism in the 1960s, died on...

DANGERBIRD Two decades on, the ‘American OK Computer’ (or one of them, anyway) got a deluxe vinyl box, featuring two LPs of rarities and B-sides and a full 2020 re-recording of the album on piano. The latter, rush-recorded during lockdown in Jason Lytle’s LA apartment, was a surprise highlight, actually shining new light on the 11 songs that made up the original record. 29 BRIAN ENO UMe While Eno busied himself with a collaborative project alongside brother Roger (Mixing Colours, Luminous), the reissue of his back catalogue continued apace. The Jah Wobble (Spinner) and John Cale (Wrong ...

Harold Budd: American Vision Despite having waited eight years to create the follow‑up to his 1988 solo album, experimental composer Harold Budd composed and recorded the new album, Luxa, in just 11 days. Since the late '70s, it has become a habit for recording artists to take longer and longer to write and record their music. Peter Gabriel, most famously, may take several years to record an album. At the other end of the spectrum, there are still a few bands and artists who will write and record an album in a matter of weeks. And then there's Harold Budd. The American ex‑minimalist, ex�...