Dark Bells News
How we made: Richard Branson and Mike Oldfield on Tubular Bells
Published on 20. May 2013
Virgin Records founder Richard Branson and composer Mike Oldfield recall how a leftfield offering by a bedroom genius kickstarted the Virgin empire
Tomasz Stanko/John Surman – review
Published on 16. May 2013
Stanko and his young US-based partners triumphantly balanced Surman's brooding, subtly spaced slow melodies with the New York downtown scene's casual, world-musical erudition, writes John Fordham
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Petrenko – review
Published on 05. May 2013
Petrenko unleashed the terror of Shostakovich's Fourteenth Symphony in a magnificently dark programme, writes Alfred Hickling
New band of the day (The Wytches No 1,504)
Published on 01. May 2013
This Brighton band are tapping into a dark strain of psychedelia and painting it black
From Snoop Dogg to Snoop Lion: the reinvention of a gangster rapper
Published on 06. April 2013
He's the former pimp married to his childhood sweetheart; the shrewd businessman who smokes 30 joints a day. Can the gun-toting Dogg reinvent himself as a peace-loving Lion? By Simon Hattenstone
This week's new live music
Published on 30. March 2013
Tyler, The Creator | British Sea Power | Swans | Phronesis | The National Youth Jazz Orchestra & Jacqui Dankworth | Royal Opera: Nabucco
Killing Joke: 'We've lost all our friends. We're the only ones we've got left' – a classic interview from the vaults
Published on 27. March 2013
To hail Killing Joke's 35th anniversary and the release of a new singles collection, we return again to Rock's Backpages – the world's leading collection of vintage music journalism – for this interview with the band. It first appeared in Sounds in August 1980