https://youtu.be/giHJkJzb8mYVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Swansea Sound Markin’ It Down (https://youtu.be/giHJkJzb8mY) The post Swansea Sound: “Markin’ It Down” appeared first on Trouser Press ..read more

March 16 in New York – come celebrate Trouser Press magazine’s 50th birthday! Bands, books, booze. Trouser Press magazine, which was first published as a mimeographed fanzine in March 1974 and grew to a 60,000-circulation glossy rock monthly, will celebrate its 50th birthday this March with a definitive anthology and a party. Zip It Up! The Best of Trouser Press Magazine 1974-1984 will be published in paperback and eBook by Trouser Press Books on March 15th. Read about Trouser Press in The New Yorker. The following night, Saturday, March 16th, Trouser Press will celebrate its 50th birthday ..read more

Interview by Dave Schulps Sinéad O’Connor performing at the Ramsbottom Music Festival, 15th September 2013. Photograph by Man Alive!, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This interview with Sinéad O’Connor took place at La Mondrian Hotel in West Hollywood on June 18, 2007. She was in Los Angeles to promote her eighth album, Theology (which was released the day the interview took place), and to play an acoustic show at the intimate Silent Movie Theatre the following day. Theology is unique in O’Connor’s catalog (pretty much anyone’s, for that matter). It consists of one album’s worth of hymns ..read more

This is the essay that was included in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Program Book when the group was inducted in 2019. By Ira Robbins https://youtu.be/Nm866GeIKiUVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: The Cure Acceptance Speech at the 2019 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony (https://youtu.be/Nm866GeIKiU) A review of Three Imaginary Boys, the Cure’s debut album, ran in the Melody Maker of May 12th, 1979, under the headline “The Eighties Start Here.” In England, the magnificent fury of ’77 punk rock was already being consigned to cliché: The best bands were off ..read more

On May 13, 1993, working on a “new faces” assignment for Rolling Stone, I had the occasion to speak with Liz Phair over the phone, shortly before the release — 30 years ago now — of her debut album, an instant classic which became a touchstone for a generation of indie rockers. The short piece I’d been assigned only needed a quote or two, so I thought to include the entire transcript of our conversation in Volume 1 of my journalism anthology, Music in a Word. — IAR Interview by Ira Robbins Your album is being released as a double [vinyl]… I don’t get a gatefold, but that’s just as well. It’s ..read more

In honor of the drummer’s birthday (June 12), here’s one from the archives. The artist shows off some of his vast drum collection. Photograph by Linda D. Robbins Interview by Ira Robbins This interview, arranged for the liner notes I was writing for the Sex, America, Cheap Trick box set, took place on April 16, 1996 at Bun’s home near Rockford, Illinois. He showed me his ware­house of drum equipment, which included impressive rows of neatly racked snares. Given his unofficial role as the band’s in-house archivist and institutional memory, we spent a lot of time discussing specific albums and s ..read more

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“What I’ve been trying to do has never changed in terms of the spirit that made me create Devo in the first place and made me be an apostle of de-evolution.” Jerry CASALE By Dave Schulps A peek into the Trouser Press archives confirms that, on the two occasions when the band graced the mag’s cover, we went BIG with it. The first one, issue 35, bore the cover line, DEVO: Future of Rock or Total Crock? and featured perspectives on these divisive up-and-comers from three different writers: DEVO Yes…DEVO No…and DEVO Maybe. The second, 35 issues later, was a bizarre conversation between DEVO and W ..read more

March 9, 2023 marks the 49th anniversary of Trouser Press magazine. Here’s the story of how things got started, adapted from the introduction of an anthology we published in 1976. On August 3, 1973, the Mercer Arts Center collapsed into a pile of rubble, ending, along with its existence, New York Rock Phase 1. That night, however, the foremost proponents of the genre, the New York Dolls, were not at the Mercer but in midtown, playing second-bill to Mott the Hoople at the Felt Forum. On that historic night, before the gig, Karen Rose — Jeff Beck freak and staunch Anglophile since the Beatles ..read more

By Michael Zwirn Scott Miller of the Loud Family and Game Theory took his life ten years ago this week. This reflection and appreciation was written at the time, April 2013. Since then, all the Game Theory music has been returned to circulation via Omnivore reissues and streaming. For many years the unavailability of that music was part of what formed the cult/community of listenership. For better (mostly) and worse, that is no longer the case. Scott Miller, photographed by Robert Toren, 1985. Courtesy Angrylambie, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons The news came hard, and it’s never been tak ..read more