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“This is a hideous name drop, but…”: Jon Hopkins reveals what he learned from Brian Eno about music production

“As much as possible, don't get bogged down in the tiny minutiae,” he says

MusicRadar

“I found the underground a more realistic place – bodies all over the floor, film projections on various surfaces, and a right old racket coming from the stage… altogether rather dreamlike”: Robert Wyatt on his improvised life

Fuelled by jazz, socialism and an absurdist slant on the world around him, the retired Canterbury icon’s instincts served him well during a remarkable career

Louder

“This single is going to change the sound of club music for the next 15 years”: How a song intended to be an album track would leave a massive mark on music’s future

When Brian Eno first heard it, he could sense its potential to revolutionise the way pop would be made

MusicRadar

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“The album was played in LaGuardia Airport for a brief period, but travellers said it ‘induced unease’ and sounded like funeral music”: A music professor breaks down Brian Eno's Ambient 1: Music For Airports

Following the release of Gary Hustwit's long-awaited Eno documentary, our resident music prof puts the fabled producer's most celebrated release under the musical microscope

MusicRadar

"After a lifetime listening to hard rock and heavy metal I discovered Talking Heads and realised how good music could really be": Talking Heads open up new worlds on Remain In Light

In which Talking Heads seamlessly merged funk, afrobeat and early hip-hop rhythms with their more abrasive art-rock ideas

Louder

‘I don’t like being revered’: Brian Eno on art, AI, and why he hates talking about David Bowie

He’s worked with some of the biggest names in music, but his latest book claims there’s an artist in all of us. Brian Eno and co-author Bette Adriaanse discuss the myth of genius, and how to really unlock your creativity

The Guardian - UK

“Roxy insisted I have a white Strat – I bought that guitar off Brian Eno, who bought it off his milkman for 30 quid!” Roxy Music’s Phil Manzanera on how he found his bargain Firebird and why he has no regrets about rendering a ’51 Tele “valueless”

The Roxy Music guitarist invites us into his London studio to take a look at the guitars that he cut five decades of hits with, and tells us how a globe-trotting childhood led him to art-rock Shangri-La in ’70s London

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I watched a Brian Eno documentary edited in real-time, so every version is unique – is this the future of movies?

I went to the Sydney Opera House to see a Brian Eno documentary edited in real-time by a computer, so every version is unique. Could other movies be made this way?

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"He's not a great keyboard player, he doesn't write great songs. His engineering and technical abilities are limited too. In fact, he knows very little about an awful lot": The Edge on Brian Eno and how he influenced his own "limited" guitar style

Best of 2024: Classic interview - U2 guitarist reflects on the making of The Unforgettable Fire in 1985 interview

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“I know it sounds like a joke musical but one of my ancestors was a pirate in the Caribbean. He looked a bit like I did when I was 21 in Roxy Music”: The amazing things Phil Manzanera discovered when he looked into his past

After writing a memoir, the guitarist has done the musical equivalent with an 11-disc box set exploring his five-decade career. He explains how he landed his dream gig, how Robert Fripp beat him to a tonal ambition, and why, in a way, Roxy is still active

Louder

Year in review: top 10 audio acquisitions of 2024, as chosen by Wallpaper’s Jonathan Bell

The best audio technology of 2024, from pocketable earbuds to room-filling speakers

Wallpaper

“A friend left music quietly playing for Eno while he was in hospital, which was thought to have inspired his initial idea for Music for Airports”: The origins and evolution of ambient techno

“A friend left music quietly playing for Eno while he was in hospital, which was thought to have inspired his initial idea for Music for Airports”

MusicRadar

Zane Lowe: ‘I hate it when people say the music industry is in trouble’

Exclusive: Apple Music host Zane Lowe and vice president Oliver Schusser discuss launch of three new Apple Music stations and their starry roster of presenters, from Rauw Alejandro and Becky G to FKA twigs and Brian Eno

The Independent UK

“I don’t have many rock’n’roll stories for you – that was always someone else’s job”: Phil Collins was pranked by George Harrison, outdrunk by John Martyn, blown away by Robert Fripp and well-behaved with Eric Clapton

He may not always have been life and soul of the party, but he’s been the heartbeat behind songs across a huge range of genres – to his lasting pride

Louder

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Alternative rock legend Courtney Love reveals her new musical "obsession", the fast-rising teenage artist she considers "the Gen Z Trent Reznor or Brian Eno"

Courtney Love nominates some of her favourite emerging artists, among them "the Gen Z Trent Reznor or Brian Eno"

MusicRadar

“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music”: The Edge confirms new U2 activity, with Larry Mullen Jr back and Brian Eno "involved", is afoot

Band haven’t released a new album for seven years

The Guardian - UK

UK and US must halt escalation in Ukraine

Letters: Diane Abbott MP, Jeremy Corbyn MP, Ayoub Khan MP, Shockat Adam MP, Iqbal Mohamed MP, Adnan Hussain MP, Brian Eno, Fran Heathcote, Sophie Bolt and Lindsey German say diplomacy is the only path to peace. Plus, Laurie Farnum on why Russia can’t be trusted and Alex Hetmanczuk on the…

The Guardian - UK

Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe by Vivien Goldman review – hanging with the punks and the Rastas

From Bob Marley embracing the Clash to Brian Eno hurling his phone against a wall, this wide-ranging collection of music writing evokes an era in which journalists and musicians existed side by side

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“Bono and I are working on some crazy kind of sci-fi Irish folk music.” U2 guitarist The Edge says the band are recording with Brian Eno, but not on the “noisy, uncompromising, unreasonable guitar album” Bono promised

U2 are working on new music, but not the kind of raw, rowdy music they've been talking up over the past few years

Louder

“As a term, ‘prog’ only evolved in the 1990s. And I loathe it. As soon as someone sticks a label on to you, they stop listening”: How Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back for their final resurrection

In 2014, Robert Fripp brought King Crimson back from hiatus – and he was ready to make a “joyous racket”

Louder

“Suddenly he had a different attitude, and from that moment it wasn’t as much fun… It’s strange when one of the guys is a little less keen”: How The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway forced Peter Gabriel and Genesis apart

1974’s ambitious double-album took a heavy toll on the people who worked on it – then its lukewarm reception and bewildering stage show made things even more tense

MusicRadar

“Male bowerbirds spend the majority of the day creating elaborate and beautiful nests... in music, we can build a sonic ‘nest’ to capture ourselves”: Brian Eno to share creative ‘avant gardening’ tips in new online workshop

Producer will also ponder whether music "should still be called music"

Louder

"A demonstration of Manzanera's unending quest to make music without borders": Phil Manzanera's collegiate spirit evident on the sprawling box set 50 Years Of Music

11-CD collection of Roxy Music guitarist Phil Manzanera's solo work

The Guardian - UK

Beatles for sale: new home sought for Abbey Road recording console

Current owners hope to attract musicians who want to work with desk used to make fab four’s celebrated album – after it previously failed to sell

MusicRadar

“He asked me to go into the studio and add some sounds and jam with the band a bit, to bring more electronic experimentation into their sound”: Jon Hopkins reflects on being introduced to Coldplay by Brian Eno

Hopkins recently hit number 1 in the US and UK simultaneously thanks to his appearances on Coldplay’s Moon Music and Charli XCX’s Brat reworks album

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