Althea Cunningham is a truly original voice and a tireless researcher and eclectic artist, being able to dig deeply in human relationships and social issues. How was your first approach to music?

Althea: My first approach to music was to sit down at the keyboard and just try and write. Being involved in the music industry on and off for twenty years was a benefit yet a much need aspect. In terms of the technical side of things: theory, ear training, melody etc all helped to shape ...more

This year has been one of surprises and achievement for Bruce Springsteen. He began 1995 with an armful of Grammys for ``Streets of Philadelphia,'' then delighted his faithful by reassembling his E Street Band for four new songs on his ``Greatest Hits'' album. He followed that with ``The Ghost of Tom Joad,'' a stark, mostly acoustic album whose bleak story songs describe a series of characters ravaged in their quest for the American Dream.

Springsteen's tour, which stopped last month in Berkeley, is ...more

"I never get asked to show things here," Brian Eno says with a tone of gentle exasperation as a series of painterly images succeed each other on the jumbo-sized computer screen in his studio in Notting Hill. The 58-year-old composer, producer, anti-war campaigner and all-round thinker is bringing an interview to a close by displaying the material that had formed the basis for an exhibition called 77 Million Paintings by Brian Eno, recently on show in a Tokyo gallery. Still photographs illustrate ...more

Even though he engineered Dark Side Of The Moon and many other landmark recordings, by the mid-70s, Alan Parsons was experiencing dire financial troubles. Meeting manager and collaborator, Eric Woolfson, was a case of right place, right time...
“There I was, with all this success but nothing in the bank. Eric went around and said – Where’s my boy’s money? – I had just produced two consecutive number one singles, but I didn’t have the nerve to tap EMI for more ...more

House music has had its fair share of characters in the past, but there are few dance artists as articulate and out-spoken as Chicago’s Larry Heard, otherwise known as Mr. Fingers. Heard’s classics have included “Mystery love”, “Can U Feel It?”, “Washing machine” and “Alien”, and having been teamed with Robert Owens under the moniker Fingers Inc..
Mr. Heard had a somewhat intriguing past. It all began for Larry at about the same time that ...more