M. Ward - Interview by
Mark Mordue.
"A musical love letter to a friend who
has passed away - as Ward puts it in the sleeve
notes, "this record was designed to keep
the loss alive and behind me.""
Marilyn
Manson by Mark Mordue.
"...that awful
feeling of an artist on the slide - despite the thousands of fans here to see the
self-proclaimed ‘God of Fuck’ do it to them one more time."
Mexico
City / The Black Keys by Mark
Mordue. ""I knew something was up when I came in
through the door. You were in tears and my shit was all over the floor..." Put
me in it man. Take me there."
Loretta
Goldberg's "Zygotones" by Ryn
Gagunlinski. "At
first it sounds like noise. Not bad noise, mind you. It is not annoying like a
screeching subway or angry like a pissed-off mom. But it's piano noise, playfully
discordant, beautifully fanciful. On second listen, however, and after reading the
CD insert, the noise develops into much, much more."
Morrissey
by Mark Mordue. "Curious creature. Half
denying us yet wanting our love, chilling us with the dark edges of sadness yet exalting
us to ecstasy if not joy; amusing us with your wit and theatricality and some other
strange quality that appears to pass over you like a constant spasm of
narcissism...."
The
Vines by Mark Mordue. "... Craig Nicholls
performed like a god. Big gestures, ecstatic motions, rolling over the drum kit in a
radical spinal twist, aiming his feedbacking guitar at the audience and letting it hum
over their heads like a wand."
Dirty
Three: Alive in the City of Sound by Mark Mordue. "Sometimes I could just run into a river and drown. That's what I'm
thinking about mid-way into the set tonight when some electrical thing passes over me and
this other realization comes that sound is the city's river and we're here in it
already..."
Nick
Cave and the Bad Seeds by Mark
Mordue. "And
so to the question on everyone’s lips:
can Nick Cave still rock?"
Read to find out.
Tex
Perkins and His Dark Horses by Mark
Mordue. "...quiet,
secretive talk of music from the margins, a
certain cowboy existentialism."
Radiohead: Ghosts in the
Machine by Mark Mordue.
"...This is tomorrow's music from today's
romantics, struggling to maintain emotional efficacy in a world increasingly iced by
electronic light: the internet, surveillance, reality TV, automated transactions,
voyeurism, a denatured and alienated global communications 'village' where contact
is byte-sized...."
Ben
Harper: "The Gift" by Mark
Mordue. "...at
the10th East Coast Blues and Roots Music Festival
in Byron Bay, Australia, as a wild storm screams
and expectations are desperately high for a
musical force to free us from inclement misery..."
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