BOMB 124/Summer 2013
Brooklyn musician Ashley Paul on lyrical development, the conservatory, and the Third Stream between jazz and classical.
Jan St. Werner, of pioneering electronic music duo Mouse on Mars, discusses his forthcoming solo album, Blaze Colour Burn.
Stephen Pastel looks back on creating a new Pastels record, fanzines, and his courtship with film music.
Genesis Breyer P-Orridge and Aaron Dilloway perform at one of the last Wierd Records parties at Home Sweet Home.
Deerhunter discusses automatic writing, Monomania, and setting the record straight on Connie Lungpin.
David Behrman, Tyondai Braxton, and Karlheinz Stockhausen took New York City by storm last weekend. Nick Hallett celebrates their interwoven histories and relationship to the cosmos.
Consciousness, a performance lecture by Marcus du Sautoy featuring music by James Holden and visuals by one of us at the Barbican.
Mike Polizze of Purling Hiss discusses his four-track roots, Ampegs, and letting his song-guts hang out.
Julian Lynch on his new album Lines, the recording/performing dichotomy, and different ways an artist can make use of an influence.
Watch Matmos’s new video for “Luminous Rings,” a bonus track from their recent album The Marriage of True Minds, out now on Thrill Jockey.
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Tres Warren of Psychic Ills on sonic exploration, making music in New York, and working with Neil Michael Hagerty.
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Jennifer Herrema weighs in on her art work, fake reunions, Black Bananas, and sweating the Fiscal Cliff—and the Meatloaf/Gary Busey fight.
John Cale discusses tour drama with with Eno and Ayers, hip-hop comedy, and what it takes to cover Nico.
Holly Herndon on techno-optimism, the academy, and the computer as a compositional tool.
Multi-media artist Tony Martin talks about his synesthesia-driven take on creating space that draws on human-to-human connection.
Bee Mask’s Chris Madak spent the better part of the last two years constructing his new album. Now he reflects on the conceptual threads running through it.
A selection of pages from Elliot Sharp’s score Foliage, with an introduction from the composer.
Oorutaichi muses on the technology of music and the benefits of collaboration.
Artist Tomashi Jackson explores the rhythms of labor and the poetic vernacular of popular culture and visuality in America.
Lee Ann Norman speaks with jazz musician Jason Moran about his multidisciplinary approach to music, collaboration and drawing from many artistic realms for inspiration.
Clive and Mark Ives describe the history of their groundbreaking experimental band Woo.
Scott Davis speaks with Franco Falsini of Sensations’ Fix about what it means to be a musician, the evolution of his sound, and doing what it takes to pay the bills.
Civil Jar editor—and Silver Jew—David Berman talks to Minus Times editor Hunter Kennedy about his new book and his former neighbor James Dickey.
Frontman Mike Donovan discusses the lo-fi DIY recording and music-making process of Sic Alps, set to release their fourth full-length album.
Sabrina Ratté talks to Ari Spool about her films and the organic nature of the inorganic artifice.
Gary War on his latest record, Jared’s Lot, inspired by the harshness of Massachusetts in winter, the sounds of Chrome, and the times in life when shit gets real.
Nick Hallett on a recent performance by synth pioneers Tangerine Dream who are on the outside looking in of the most recent revival of interest in kosmische music.
