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UNCOVERED: 5 | History Defined

Brian Eno's Windows 95 startup jingle and the Minecraft OST are now preserved in the USA's Library of Congress

Alongside some bloke called Miles Davis.

PC Gamer

Microsoft's Windows 95 startup sound has been immortalized in the Library of Congress

The US Library of Congress has decided to immortalize the Windows 95 startup sound in the National Recording Registry.

Tom’s Hardware

“The thing from the agency said, ‘We want a piece of music that is inspiring, universal, blah-blah, da-da-da...' and at the bottom it said 'and it must be 3 & 1/4 seconds long’“: Brian Eno’s Windows 95 start-up sound added to the US Library of Congress

New entrants are added “based on their cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage”

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Pulp announce More, their first album since 2001

Sheffield-formed band also release swaggering new single Spike Island, their first new track since 2013

The Guardian - UK

Record Store Day 2025: the full list, plus 5 great albums you need to bag on April 12

Record Store Day 2025 promises tons of unmissable music for every kind of music fan –here are my picks.

TechRadar

"Too long playing with Photoshop - lethal time-waster - like chronic alcoholism". Brian Eno on his unhealthy addiction to the world's favorite photo editor

Former Roxy Music musician Brian Eno's diaries retells his love-hate relationship with Photoshop

Digital Camera World

I'm obsessed with Brian Eno's Photoshop obsession

I bet he loves a bit of Ambient Occlusion.

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In 'Opus,' Cult Leaders and Pop Stars Are One in the Same

The A24 film's costume and production designers open up about crafting fictional pop icon Moretti’s style and mysterious estate.

Marie Claire

“In terms of what it’s done to societies, it’s been a catastrophe. What it’s done to politics has been completely toxic”: Brian Eno on social media, plus his thoughts on AI

He’s released a surprise new album exclusively on Apple Music

MusicRadar

“I hate the sound of Auto-Tune when it just turns a voice into every other voice”: Brian Eno on his love-hate relationship with the popular pitch correction plugin

In a recent radio appearance, Eno shared his thoughts on vocal production tools and revealed the piece of gear that he says launched his career

MusicRadar

“Coldplay come on stage to that piece - who’s not going to like it when 20,000 people get up to your song?”: Our re-discovered classic interview with Jon Hopkins catches him on the verge of his most successful decade

At the end of the 2000s, the IDM titan spoke to us about tech, his terrifying sessions with Coldplay and his desire to go somewhere new in the looming 2010s

MusicRadar

Carol McNicoll obituary

Ceramic artist whose richly decorated everyday objects such as cups or jugs were given a surreal twist

The Guardian - UK

“ELO, Judas Priest, my dad’s piano playing – that’s prog!” Tennis hero Pat Cash discovered Saga in Steve Harris’ private pub, introduced Tony Iommi to Bigelf and got Robert Plant to take up his sport

Travelling the world with his Walkman, the young Australian moved on from his family’s opera and folk to Rush, Steven Wilson, Brian Eno, Francis Dunnery and Anathema, and adopted his chequered headband in honour of Cheap Trick

Louder

“We were human samplers. We’d listen to the tapes, isolate the best bits, then learn how to play them over and over again”: How Talking Heads created their classic hit Once In A Lifetime

“We very nearly abandoned the song," said David Byrne

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"A staggering number of ideas to experiment with" : a new set of chance composing cards could be the 2025 update to Brian Eno's Oblique Strategies

Pick a card, any card, create a tune, any tune…

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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

Louder

“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

MusicRadar

“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

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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

Louder

"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

The Guardian - UK

‘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

Guitar World

“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

What Hi-Fi?

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?

MusicRadar

"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

Louder

“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

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