Miscellaneous - April 2008

  by Admin

published: 9 / 4 / 2008

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Hello and welcome to the April edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. In what is a very extensive edition, we are running eleven new interviews. Our lead

Hello and welcome to the April edition of the Pennyblackmusic magazine. In what is a very extensive edition, we are running eleven new interviews. Our lead interview this month is with Laetitia Sadier. Primarily known for being the front woman with the experimental art rock group Stereolab, the Parisian born singer, guitarist and keyboardist formed a second band Monade in 1996, which has just released its third album, ‘Monstre Cosmic’. At a Monade gig at the Borderline in London, she speaks to Anthony Strutt about both bands. Elsewhere Sarah Mwangi, in her first interview for Pennyblackmusic, talks to Dan Auerbach from the garage blues rock band the Black Keys who have just released their fifth album, ‘Attack & Release’, which has seen them take their raw sound into a recording studio for the first time. Our other main interviews are with former Moldy Peaches member and singer-songwriter, Adam Green, and Robert Fisher from the Willard Grant Conspiracy, whose collective is about to release their seventh album, ‘Pilgrim Road’, upon which they have worked with Scottish composer and orchestral arranger, Malcolm Lindsay . There are interviews also with reformed hard rockers, Hanoi Rocks ; Californian punks Good Riddance who have recently broken up and as their swansong have released a recording of their farewell live concert, and also, and psychedelic folk rockers MV &EE. Our other remaining interviews for this month are with rising Australian teenage indie guitar and keyboard act, Operator Please ; English born but now Florida-based singer-songwriter, Steve Robinson ; hardcore punks Our Last Night, and Scottish act the Twilight Sad whose much acclaimed debut album, ‘Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters’, has been gaining increasing support since it was released last year. In our profiles section, we are running DVD reviews of ‘RIP’, Rocket from the Crypt’s farewell concert, and also ‘Transylvania’, the Asia Argento road movie, which, as well as featuring a stunning gypsy folk soundtrack, has come out on DVD with many extras. There are live reviews of shows by Billy Bragg, the Levellers, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Malcolm Middleton, Yeasayer, Darren Hayman, Operator Please, Hanoi Rocks and John Parkes. In our features section, there is a Photoscape from Matt Williams, which divided into two parts, shows rising band the Godwits both rehearsing at home, and then at gig at the Hoxton Bar and Grill in London. In our Soundtrack of Our Lives column,in which our writers write about the personal impact of music on their own lives, Malcolm Carter writes of meeting and falling in love with his wife against a backdrop of the Beach Boys, the Chi-Lites, singer-songwriter Jim Stover and the Hollies. In our Re : View column, in which we look back at classic albums from the past, Sarah Johnson examines Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army’s 1978 album, ‘Replicas’, which has just been re-released in a double CD thirtieth anniversary edition. Our Website of the Month meanwhile is Late Night Wallflower, a New York-based alternative music and culture webzine. We are also running 32 album and single reviews. We ran a further 20 reviews in our regular mid-month up-date in March. Thank you to Peter Allison, Aaron Brown, Malcolm Carter, Andrew Carver, Dan Cressey, Anthony Dhanendran, Russell Ferguson, Alex Halls, Ben Howarth, Sarah Johnson, Sarah Maybank, Sarah Mwangi, Chris O’ Toole, Jamie Rowland, Mark Rowland, Maarten Schiethart, Dominic Simpson, Anthony Strutt , Helen Tipping and Andy Vincent, all of whom contributed articles to either this edition or the mid-month up-date. Thank you too to Matt Willams for the Godwit photos, and also to Neil Bailey, who took the photos that accompany the Levellers’ review. We put on-line two new radio shows this month, one from our radio manager Maarten Schiethart, and one from myself. Special thanks both to Maarten and also to Richard Banks, our web master. We will be back in mid April with another mid-month reviews up-date and then in early May with another full edition . We hope then to be running interviews then with David Pajo,Jason Ibells, he Wedding Present, 3 Daft Monkeys, For Against, John and Jehn, Strawberry Whiplash and Laki Mera. There will be more 'Profiles'. We will also have another 'Re : View', another 'Website of the Month' and more features, live reviews and album and single reviews. Thank you as always for reading. John Clarkson Magazine Editor www.pennyblackmusic.co.k