pampelmoose Dave Allen of Gang of Four’s Music and Media Blog

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It takes pros to jazz up such a basic interview, so if TV on the Radio’s latest disc Dear Science or its entire back catalog for that matter has yet to convince you of the group’s pro level, this interview sure will. While the questions are entirely routine - ranging from ‘tell [...]

Starfucker played to a packed house last night to celebrate the release of their debut album and also their ‘most added to CMJ charts’ success. They played an amazing show and Dykeritz who opened for them were just as good too. I’ll be posting a video with live performance and interview with Starfucker later today.
Starfucker [...]

No Age live at MusicFestNW 08, a song and a chat from Dave Allen on Vimeo.
Here we have a chat backstage at MusicFestNW 08 with Dean and Randy aka No Age in which we discuss Wire’s Pink Flag, Dean asks about Gang of Four and I don’t reply, they both discuss Portland and vegans and [...]

Paleface: An interview and live footage from Pickathon 08 from Dave Allen on Vimeo.

Here’s Ian back in 2007 extolling on his ideas of what exactly musicians should be doing when they think about releasing a CD. Example: He says why are you touring to support the release of the CD? The CD should be released to support the touring Mackaye says. Good point. Thanks to Rodger at Strange [...]

[Update: I removed the video of Byrne discussing the album as, rather annoyingly, I was unable to undo the auto-play function.] It’s been many years since Byrne and Eno released the ground breaking album ‘My Life In The Bush of Ghosts‘ an album that was an analog precursor to the sampling habits of today’s musicians. [...]

I’m not one to promote the iTunes store but when a Northwest indie label not only succeeds and stays in business while getting to be 20 years old it feels good to be a supporter. And for those of you who haven’t got a CD shelf or computer full of Sub Pop artists’ tunes now [...]