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Totally Wired
Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews by Simon Reynolds - the companion volume to Rip It Up and Start Again - information, news, and bonus transcripts
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Early next month Totally Wired: Postpunk Interviews and Overviews is published in the USA by Soft Skull . It's the first of three of my books Soft Skull are putting out over the course of the next year: the others are Bring the Noise and Energy Flash . Totally Wired US is slightly different from its UK incarnation, featuring the "lost" chapter on SST/Los Angeles/"progressive punk", compensation…
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POSTPUNK THEN AND NOW: TOTALLY WIRED SPIN-OFF PIECE director's cut, Arena , March 2009 by Simon Reynolds Every decade has its retro twin. The Seventies looked back wistfully to the Fifties. By the Eighties the focus of revivalism had shifted to the 1960s. And in the past decade it's been the turn of the 1980s themselves to enter the retro spotlight, with young groups pillaging ideas and imagery…
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an interview with me, largely but not entirely about Totally Wired , for Pennyblackmusic webmagazine, by Mark Rowland -- part one , and part two
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TOTALLY WIRED: THE RUNNER-UP TRANSCRIPTS, #2 INTERVIEW with ROBIN CRUTCHFIELD of DNA and DARK DAY conducted by Simon Reynolds PART ONE: DNA AND NO WAVE early life I come from a small family that migrated from Dayton, Ohio to southeastern Pennsylvania in 1960. I had a largely forgettable and sheltered childhood, spent primarily in silent contemplation, alone in my room, drawing pictures and…
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An Italian translation of Totally Wired is to be published by Isbn Edizioni, who also did Rip It Up (as Postpunk 1978-84 ) and Bring the Noise (as Hip-Hop-Rock 1985-2008 ). Should be out early 2010.
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TOTALLY WIRED: THE RUNNER-UP TRANSCRIPTS, #1 Q&A with STEVEN BROWN of TUXEDOMOON questions by Simon Reynolds Can you tell me a bit about your personal background? Born August 23 1952 Chicago Illinois; grew up in Hinsdale- western suburbs. Wanted to study film, checked out nearest University with a film program in Iowa and it was a bit expensive so ended up in Liberal Arts program at Western…
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I'm going to be on Resonance FM this weekend, on Jonny Mugwump's show The Exotic Pylon , talking about Totally Wired . I'll be playing a real postpunk obscurity of a tune (by one of the T W interviewees) along with post-WW2 electronic/musique concrete gems I brought in. Show goes out 9.30 pm to 11, Saturday 21st February, via www.resonancefm.com . It will also find a permanent web home a few days…
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a couple of Totally Wired related articles at The Quietus : a conversation between me and John Doran a quasi-extract from the book : a sort of runner-up transcript that almost made the TW's final cut, an interview with Charles Hayward of This Heat check here in the weeks ahead for more bonus transcripts
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[updated Feb 5 with more precise details on UK events, plus contents page] From the author of the best-selling postpunk history Rip It Up and Start Again comes TOTALLY WIRED , a companion book of conversations with the brilliant minds who made the late Seventies and early Eighties such a creative era for radical music and alternative culture. TOTALLY WIRED features 32 interviews with postpunk's…