Classic Interview Archives

The Stick Figures, Florida’s Long Lost Post-Punk Band, Premieres the Unreleased Track “Yesterday” + Interview

Just when it seemed that most bands from the late 1970s and early 1980s had been uncovered, the DIY reissue label, Floating Mill Records, announced Archeology by the Tampa, Florida-based…

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ZE Records Revived With “The Future Is Mine”: Interview With Legendary Producers Michael Zilkha and John Robie

The “Fear City” era of NYC, bound together by poverty, creative diversity and a city full of chaos yielded an explosion of experimentation, overlapping of styles and sounds, and mythology…

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A Bit Funk, A Bit Madness: A Stephen Mallinder Interview for “Pow Wow” Reissue + Video Premiere

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Dancing on the Berlin Wall | An Interview with Tracy Howe from Legendary Canadian Synth-pop Act Rational Youth

The Cold War Period: 1947 – 1991. The Berlin Wall’s construction began on August 13, 1963, and it was destroyed completely in November of 1991. What a shame for humanity…

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Siouxsie Sioux and Robert Smith

Siouxsie and The Banshees were one of the first post-punk bands to make it big, forming in 1976, and already well onto releasing their second album Join Hands by September…

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Peter Murphy announces 15-show album residency in San Francisco, Plus new live LP ‘Bare-Boned and Sacred’

Peter Murphy will be hosting a retrospective this summer at San Francisco’s The Chapel where he’ll be performing nearly his entire solo discography over the course of 15 nights—with the…

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Peter Hook’s Substance: An Interview

Peter Hook, who we all know and love as the formidable and influential bassist in post-punk’s history, didn’t let his dramatic 2007 departure from New Order phase him. Since 2010,…

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Siouxsie and the Banshees | Nocturne

One of the best Post-Punk live albums of all time is most certainly Siouxsie & The Banshees’ Nocturne. Recorded September 30th and October 1st, and released on November 25th, 1983, Nocturne…

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The Sisters of Mercy | “Floodland”

On November 13th, 1987, The Sisters of Mercy released their second album Floodland—considered by many to be a step sideways in the band’s musical direction; it’s definitely a nice wandering off…

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The Cure in Sounds (UK) November 8, 1980 – “Playing For Today” | Plus bonus Dutch Television interview from 1980

[dropcap]O[/dropcap]n November 8th, 1980, The Cure were interviewed in Sounds promoting the release of their second studio album “Seventeen Seconds”, and the single from which the article gets it’s title.…

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