Roberta Flack
Rob Garza
Best known as one-half of the internationally acclaimed Thievery Corporation, Rob Garza’s career includes over two decades of pushing conceptual boundaries to the forefront of a flourishing electronic music movement. Rob Garza’s fascination with musical discovery began at a very young age. As a kid he was drawn into a wide range of styles, beginning […]
Queen Kwong
A few years ago, Carré Kwong Callaway—aka Queen Kwong—was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and told she may only have a decade left to live. As a result of the condition, she’s prone to episodes where her lungs fill up with blood and she’s literally drowning. If that wasn’t bad enough, two months after her diagnosis, […]
Polychromatic Records
Peter Murphy
Peter Murphy’s initial foray into the music world was as the inimitable singer for the pioneering early-80’s band Bauhaus. The youngest of seven children, Peter was a book-binder’s apprentice before joining Bauhaus with childhood friend Daniel Ash. Forged in the flat fields of working-class Northampton, Bauhaus helped create what became known as the post-punk genre. […]
OrbScure Records
The Orb
The many members of the Orb’s loose collective have been fluid over the years, with Alex Paterson remaining the only constant throughout. A West Norwood resident, punk and acid house veteran, Paterson’s career in music started in the early 1980s as a roadie for Killing Joke, for whom his childhood friend Martin ‘Youth’ Glover played […]
OK! Good Records
The Neverlutionaries
The Neverlutionaries’ self-titled debut LP album is an unfiltered expression of the heart that seamlessly straddles moods and genres. The brainchild of multi-instrumentalist songwriter Christopher Harold Wells and bound by his distinctively soulful timbre, the eponymous eight-song release tints hook-laden alternative rock with psychedelia, shoegaze-y jazz, and subtle funk. “The only parameter that I set […]
Mensa Death Squad
Mensa Deathsquad want you to live in a world without shame or guilt. Mensa Deathsquad want you to dance and think and fuck and cry in a state of total liberation from your pressures, your hang-ups and your social anxiety. Mensa Deathsquad say that not only is there beauty in the darkness of the world, […]