Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson: 1955-2010
It's impossible to overstate the influence of Peter "Sleazy" Christopherson, who died in his sleep yesterday, aged just 55. As a founding member of Throbbing Gristle, he was part of one of the most experimental and notorious British groups of all time. The first industrial band, their music covered everything from machine-like noise to almost quaintly melodic electro-pop. I can still remember the
Gang of Four: free EP download
The legendary Leeds post-punk band talk us through three new tracks for you to download for free Next year, Gang of Four are set to release Content, their first album of new material in 16 years. As a taste of what to expect, here's a three-track EP to stream or download (if you don't mind parting with an email address). Featuring a reworked version of the classic Glass (from their debut album Ent
Lou Reed booed in Canada for free-improv set
Lou Reed, Laurie Anderson and John Zorn faced a furious crowd on Friday night, playing cacophonous music to a cacophony of boos at the Montreal International Jazz festival. Fans expecting Sweet Jane or Walk On the Wild Side were instead met by the skronk and skree of Reed's more recent free-jazz work, infuriating sections of the crowd. As audience members hollered their complaints, Zorn responded.
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Both a rationalist and a mystic, the composer's influence stretched from Boulez to the Beatles KARLHEINZ Stockhausen, who has died aged 79, was one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music. He was fond of quoting Blake's lines "He who kisses the joy as it flies, lives in Eternity's sunrise"; and like Blake, the pursuit of his vision led him down strange, and often awkward paths. The results
Michael Cross: Everyone's a winner in the government IT blame game
One of the more successful myths disseminated about government IT is that we live in a blame culture. Public officials, supposedly, are condemned for failure but not rewarded for success, and consequently live in fear. "We have found a perception ... that well-publicised failures are driving a culture of risk aversion," reports the National Audit Office in its study of government IT successes (Del
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