Perfect Sound Forever is interested in non-pop culture and of course pop culture too, specifically:
Performers/artists that deserve more recognition
Exploring little known corners of music (i.e. bootlegs, music therapy)
Exposing cliches about certain bands and styles of music
Humorous pieces on music (i.e. Music as a Weapon, Worst Songs of the 70s)
The politics of music / the music of politics
We're always looking for good writers and ideas for stories- please contact us.
Music
You name it!
Our recent listening list includes:
Mission Of Burma The Sound The Speed The Light
Nellie McKay Normal as Blueberry Pie (out Mid-October)
Riceboy Sleeps Riceboy Sleeps
Variant The Setting Sun
Various Artists Tresor.Atmospheres II
Alta Nova Xerrox Volume 2
Solo Andata Solo Andata
The Lost Fingers Lost in the 80's
Joel Octet Harrison Urban Myths
An Horse Rearrange Beds
David Serby Honky Tonk and Vine
Acoustic Ladyland Living With A Tiger
Billy Boy Arnold, John Primer, Billy Branch and Lurrie Bell Chicago Blues: A Living History
Afro Classics The Classic EP
Wussy Wussy
Roman Candle Oh Tall Tree in the Ear
Japandroids Post Nothing
Various Artists Open Strings- Early Virtuoso Recordings From The Middle East, And New Responses
Heavyweight Dub Champion Rise of the Champion Nation
Del The Funky Homosapien Funk Man (the stimulus package)
Scratch Loss 4 Wordz
Various Artists 100% Dynamite! Dancehall Reggae Meets Rap in New York City
Various Artsts African Pearls: Senegal 70 - Musical Effervescence
Various Artists Dillanthology 1: J Dilla's Productions for Various Artists
Thomas Mapfumo Gwindingwi Rine Shumba (reissue)
Lee Morgan Lee-Way (reissue)
Various Artists Truth & Soul presents African Music Today
Tony Molina Embarrassing Times
Louisiana Red Back To The Black Bayou
Joanne Shaw Taylor White Sugar
Various Artists The Birth of Bossa
Ruby Braff For the Last Time
Lydia Lunch Queen of Siam (reissue)
Various Artists Take Me to the Water: Immersion Baptism in Vintage Music and Photography 1890-1950
Movies
Urgh! A Music War, Born in Flames, Dig, Get Crazy, Wattstax, Mystery Train, Rockers, Straight No Chaser, We Jam Econo, 24 Hour Party People, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Jazz on A Summer's Day, Coal Miner's Daughter, Music is the Weapon, Boyz N the Hood, The Harder They Come, Heartworn Highways, High Fidelity, the Kids are Alright, the Buddy Holly Story, Don't Look Back, the Old Grey Whistle Test, Johnny Cash- the Man His World His Music, Downtown 81, Easy Rider, Woodstock, Wild Style, Trainspotting, Pulp Fiction, Pump up the Volume, O Brother Where Art Thou, Repo Man, American Graffiti, Scratch, Shaft, Amadeus, Style Wars, Once Upon A Time in the West, Can DVD, the Streets is Watching, Walk Like A Man, Rock and Roll High School, The Band That Would Be King, American Roots Music, Burma's Carnival of Spirit Soul, Fallen Angel, Deep Blues, End of the Century, Gimme Shelter, Black Orpheus, Do the Right Thing, Nashville, Miles Electric, A Night At the Opera, Carnival Of Souls, Ghost Dog, Icky Flicks, Just An American Boy, The Ladies Sing The Blues, Off the Charts, Monterey Pop Festival, Space is the Place, Stop Making Sense, Sweet Sweetback's Baddasssss Song, the Howlin' Wolf Story, American Folk Blues Festival, Corporate Ghost, Jandek on Corwood, The T.A.M.I. Show, Standing in the Shadows of Motown, Women In Rock, Pennies From Heaven (Steve Martin version), Athens GA Inside Out, Bookshelf, Eat the Document, Fishing with John, This is Spinal Tap, Fear of A Black Hat, Dazed and Confused, O Lucky Man, Perfect Lives, Only the Strong Survive, Theremin, Vinyl, Alice's Restaurant, Paint Your Wagon, Ghost World, Johnny Cash in San Quentin, Genghis Blues, Calle 54, I'm Your Man, Rude Boy, Freestyle, CB4, Trane Tracks, Performance, the Harmonists, Dirty States of America, Good to See You Again, the Devil and Daniel Johnston
Books
As Serious As Your Life, Everything But the Burden, Rock She Wrote, It Came From Memphis, Great Pop Things, Understanding Media, Psychotic Reactions, England's Dreaming, Lipstick Traces, Krautrocksampler, Ocean of Sound, The Death of Rhythm and Blues, the Freedom Principle, Generation Ecstacy, The Fortress of Solitude, Flesh Guitar, Grown Up All Wrong, Subculture, Rock and the Pop Narcotic, Sweet Soul Music, All American Music, In the Country of Country, Ways of Seeing, Four Lives in the Bebop Business, File Under Popular, On Record, The Age of Rock, Performing Rites, Ranters and Crowd Pleasures, Rap Attack, Electric Gypsy, Guitar- An American Life, Stranded, Musicking, Christgau Consumer Guides, Deep Blues, Living With Music, Seems Like Murder Here, Don't Get Above Your Raisin', Unsung Heroes of Rock and Roll, The Mansion on the Hill, Stairway to Hell, Space is the Place, The Hits Just Keep on Coming, the Sound of the City, Minimalism: Origins, Girls! Girls! Girls!, Nobrow, Our Band Could Be Your Life, the Roots of the Blues, Trouser Press Guides, Sounding Off!, Kaleidoscope Eyes, Music, The Brain and Ecstacy, Nowhere to Run, Good Rockin' Tonight, A House on Fire, Electric Sound, Milestones, African Rhythm and African Sensibility, Audio Culture, Shakey, The Nick Tosches Reader, Everything But the Burden, You Call It Madness, Bluegrass- A History, Elevator Music
Heroes
Our sistren and bethren in the zine publishing world, the millions of bands struggling to get by, great writers and editors, music fans, our readership
The longest running music magazine on the Net (and one of the first ones also), birthed way back in 1993- you can find us online at perfectsoundforever.com
Our magazine has been featured in CBS-TV's 'Wild Wild Web', Web Guide magazine (5-star rating), Rough Guides, Pseudo Radio, Richie Unterberger's 'Unknown Legends of Rock'n'Roll' (Miller Freeman). We've also had our work published in 'Coffeehouse: Writings from the Web' (Manning). Our articles have been reprinted at a number of sites online and offline in English, French, Spanish and Czech. PSF has been featured in the HUB at America Online as a 'hot spot.' Our articles and magazine have been cited in the New York Times, Spin, the Village Voice, Mojo, the Chicago Reader and Macromusic.
original articles by: Robert Christgau, Simon Reynolds, Dave Marsh, Jim DeRogatis, David Toop, Richie Unterburger, Richard Meltzer, Lester Bangs, John Sinclair, Holger Czukay, Colin Newman (Wire), Robert Sietsama, Chris Cutler, Scott Colburn (Sun City Girls), Jimmy McDonough
literature by: Camden Joy, Lydia Lunch, Tuli Kupferberg, DJ Spooky, Richard Hell, John Fahey, Moondog, Paul Williams
INTERVIEWS: Acid Mothers Temple, John Acquaviva, King Sunny Ade, Afrika Bambaataa, Terry Allen, Aphex Twin, Angry Somoans, Ron Asheton (Stooges), Robert Ashley, Archers of Loaf, Kevin Ayers, Milton Babbitt, Devandra Banhart, Lester Bangs, David Behrman, Tim Berne, Bevis Frond, Big Star, Martin Bisi, Carla Bley, Rory Block, Borbetomagus, Bratmobile, Burning Spear, John Cale, Can, Neko Case, Exene Cervenka (X), Chuck D (Public Enemy), Clinic, Cockney Rebel, Coldcut, Shirley Collins, Copernicus, Kevin Coyne, Chris Cutler, Delta Rhythm Boys, Jim Dicksinson, the Dictators, Die Kreuzen, John Doe (X), Bob Drake, Drive-By Truckers, Iancu Dumitrescu, Einsturzende Neubauten, Mark Eitzel (American Music Club), Essential Logic (Lora Logic), The Ex, John Fahey, the Fall, Mick Farren (Deviants), Larry Fast (Synergy), the Feelies, Flamin' Groovies, Foetus, Robert Fripp, Fred Frith, The Fugs, Kyle Gann, Gang of Four, Michael Gira (Young God/Swans), Milford Graves, The Grifters, David Grubbs, Half Japanese, Tom T. Hall, Butch Hancock, Jon Hassell, Richard Hell, Pierre Henry, Peter Holsapple (dB's), William Hooker, Michael Hurley, Ryoji Ikeda, Incredible String Band (Robin Williamson), Joseph Jarman, Linton Kwesi Johnson, Phillip Johnston, Joy of Cooking, Lenny Kaye, Tim Kerr (Big Boys), Kid Koala, Kleenex/Liliput, the Last Poets, Bill Laswell, Legendary Pink Dots, Keith Levene (Public Image Ltd), Lene Lovich, Alan Licht, Arto Lindsay, Richard Lloyd (Television), Alvin Lucier, Lydia Lunch, Magma, Barbara Manning, Teo Macero, Ian MacKaye (Fugazi), Bryan MacLean (Love), Michael Mantler, Martha and the Muffins, Christian Marclay, Greil Marcus, Carolyne Mas, Master Musicians of Jajouka, Matmos, Albert Laysles (Gimme Shelter director), MC5, the Mekons, Merzbow, Scott Miller (Loud Family/Game Theory), Roscoe Mitchell, Moby, Robert Moog, Moondog, Ikue Mori, Toshimaru Nakamura, Negativland, Colin Newman (Wire), Babatunde Olatunji, the Orb, Jim O'Rourke, Dan Penn & Spooner Oldham, Charlemagne Palestine, Graham Parker, Stephen Pastel (the Pastels), Mark Perry (Sniffin Glue/Alternative TV), Pere Ubu, Martin Phillipps (The Chills), Plastikman, Pretty Things, Pylon, Question Mark (? & the Mysterians), Robert Quine, Steve Reich, the Residents, Simon Reynolds, Reynols, Terry Riley, Hans-Joachim Roedelius (Cluster), John Storm Roberts (Original Music), Michael Rother (Neu!), Royal Trux, Frederic Rzewski, Saccharine Trust, Kevin Saunderson, Sebadoh, Klaus Schulze, Paul Schutze, Scientists, Seefeel, Matthew Shipp, Shoes, Shonen Knife, Jane Siberry, Irwin Silber (Sing Out), Silver Apples, Silver Jews, Sonic Youth, Spiritualized, DJ Spooky, Spring Heel Jack, Squarepusher, Peter Stampfel (Holy Modal Rounders), Hubert Sumlin, Supergrass, Swamp Dogg, Howard Tate, Cecil Taylor, Deniz Tek, Terre Thaemlitz, Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments, David Toop, Maureen Tucker, Geoff Travis (Rough Trade), James 'Blood' Ulmer, u-Ziq, Uz Jsme Doma, Caetano Veloso, Loudon Wainwright III, Larry Wallis (Pink Fairies), David S. Ware, Mike Watt, Wild Magnolias, Andre Williams, Christian Wolff, Link Wray, Robert Wyatt, Yo La Tengo, Otomo Yoshihide, Doug Yule (Velvet Underground)
TRIBUTES: Amon Duul, Barclay James Harvest, Syd Barrett, Beau Bummels, The Birthday Party, the Blasters, Blue Cheer, Boredoms, Herman Brood, Jon Brion, Peter Brotzmann, Tim Buckley, Butchies, Buzzcocks, Uri Caine, John Cale, Can, Ralph Carney, Chelsea, Don Cherry, Alex Chiton, Kurt Cobain, Alice Cooper, Kevin Coyne, Crack the Sky, Culture/Joseph Hill, Rick Danko, Ivor Darreg, Miles Davis, Delaney & Bonnie, Destory All Monsters, Didjits, Dumptruck, ECM Records, Hanns Eisler, The Embarrassment, Brian Eno, Roky Erickson, Exuma, Father Yod, Felt, Firewater, Flesheaters, Bill Frissell, Funkadelic, Ganelin Trio, Geraldine Fibbers, the Godz, Bernhard Guenter, Gun Club, Keiji Haino, Charles Hayward, Herbie Hancock, Henry Cow, Joe Higgs, Robin Holcomb, Howlin' Wolf, Huun-Huur-Tu, The Incredible String Band, The Insect Trust, Iron Butterfly, Jandek, Jewelled Antler, Oum Kalthoum, Jeff Kelly, Jack Kerouac, Killing Joke, Junior Kimbrough, The Kinks, Steve Lacy, Legendary Stardust Cowboy, John Lennon, Alan Lomax, Lene Lovich, Madonna, Man Or Astroman?, Joe McPhee/Dominic Duval, Metallica, Modern Lovers, Charlie Mingus, Minutemen, Mission of Burma, The Monks, Ennio Morricone, Mr. Bungle, My Bloody Valentine, Conlon Nancarrow, Napalm Death, Neu!, Fred Neil, Olivia Newton-John, Nomeansno, Laura Nyro, Phil Ochs, 101 Strings, John Otway, Evan Parker, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Harry Partch, Pavement, Johnny Paycheck, Plastic People of the Universe, The Pogues, The Pop Group, Bud Powell, John Prine, PJ Proby, Rage Against the Machine, Revenant Records, Marc Ribot, Amy Rigby, Rocket from the Tomb, the Runaways, the Saints, Savage Republic, Scritti Politti, Selena, Sex Pistols, Frank Sinatra, Harry Smith, Soft Machine, Phil Spector, SRC, Alison Steele, Gary Stewart, Karlheinz Stockhausen, the Stooges, Subway Sect, Swell Maps, Sun City Girls, Sun Ra, Hound Dog Taylor, Television Personalities, Richard Thompson, Henry Threadgill, Triffids, the Urinals, Urge Overkill, U.S. Maple, Van Der Graaf Generator, Townes Van Zandt, Vulgar Boatmen, Bunny Wailer, Paul Westerberg, Victoria Williams, Sonny Boy Williamson, Carl Wilson, Iannis Xenakis, Neil Young, Tom Ze
Guitarist Marc Ribot at NYC's city hall, protesting the lack of club space for avant-music
Who I'd like to meet: Fellow music nuts, fans of unusual musical pathways, bands and performers we admire.
NOTE: writers are especially welcome- we're always looking for good scribes. Please contact us.
Kouame Sereba was awarded the price Folk Musician of the Year during the Folk Music Awards at Folkelarm. (Oslo- Norway) - "Thank you" is a word that covers my feelings right now, said a deeply touched Sereba.
Hi, thanks for the add, nice to meet you here! Now I have two songs on my page, do you prefere the romantic song (thinking in the night) or the rock song (heavy time)?
Hi Perfect Sound Forever! We hope you will check out many outrageous Rudy Ray Moore comedy albums recently reissued and pick up a copy of his CD "Dolemite For President" which is in stores now - please help spread the word!!! This original 1972 comedy album has never before been issued on CD and contains unreleased Rudy bonus tracks!
Also check out hit R&B artist Troop's Billboard charting soulful album, "Mayday," in stores and on
Thanks for the friendship. Brotzmann 2009 USA Tour begins this week. Seattle, Houston, Austin, Grinnell, Chicago, Milwaukee, Lexington, Detroit, Philadelphia, DC, New Haven, Baltimore, NYC
