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10 Christmas gift ideas for the music-maker in your life under $100

Stocking stuffers for musicians on a budget

MusicRadar

“I was completely petrified by Kate Bush singing Wuthering Heights on TV. Anyone I was scared of I was interested by”: How Matt Berry discovered prog

Toast Of London star and self-taught musician became a fan of Jean Michel Jarre, Mike Oldfield, Pink Floyd and more

Louder

"To say its arrival was earth-shaking would be no exaggeration": why, 40 years on, the Yamaha DX7 was the most important release in synth history, even though it did "make your head dribble"

And why 'important' doesn't always mean 'best'…

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Peter Gabriel - i/o album review: lunar-inspired, slow-burning contemplation

For his first album in twenty years, the former Genesis singer has enlisted a huge cast of stars, including Ai Weiwei, Cornelia Parker, and Brian Eno

Evening Standard

"In the mid-1970s, Berlin was a terrifying place to be. At Hansa Studio, you looked out the window and there was an East German machine gun turret": King Crimson's Robert Fripp looks back on recording "Heroes" with David Bowie and Brian Eno

"If the machine gunner wasn't a Bowie fan, he could've sprayed us!" Robert Fripp on working with David Bowie in Berlin

Louder

“Poor Iggy became a guinea pig for what I wanted to do with sound”: in 1977, David Bowie moved to Berlin to kick drugs. He emerged with five albums that changed music forever

Two Iggy Pop albums and the ‘Berlin Trilogy’ – the second half of the 1970s was David Bowie’s most groundbreaking period

Louder

“Brian Eno has a very simple view on music - the more we clutter it up with things the more foggy the goodness gets”: Huey Morgan’s prog education

Former Fun Lovin’ Criminals frontman traces a line from Nat King Cole and Frank SInatra to Talk Talk, Marillion, Jethro Tull and others

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Celia Hollander: 2nd Draft review – turns a piano into a new sound world

Hollander’s works sound simple but are incredibly detailed and multi-layered, her treated piano solos evoking wind, rain and air

The Guardian - UK

"Where menace meets magic": 6 legendary albums recorded at the iconic Hansa Tonstudio in Berlin

Bowie, Iggy, Bono, Stipe, Depeche and Sylvian all recorded their master works there. Thankfully not all together.

MusicRadar

"I had no melody so I only sang the lines I'd written for four or five bars at a time": The making of David Bowie's Heroes and why Robert Fripp should get some credit five decades on

He might have been making it up as he went along, but this 46-year-old masterpiece has become Bowie's most iconic recording

MusicRadar

Brian Eno and the Baltic Sea Philharmonic review – orchestral manoeuvres with the king of ambience

Surrounded by a host of musicians in motion, and in his first ever solo show, Brian Eno’s 2016 album The Ship – about colossal human hubris – becomes an almighty sound installation

The Guardian - UK

"Nothing much happens for the first eight or ten hours. Just trust that it's going to work out.” Classic Brian Eno interview reveals how he really produced ambient music

And on the DX7: "I'm very surprised that Yamaha haven't given me one free"

MusicRadar

Brian Eno and Baltic Sea Philharmonic at Royal Festival Hall review: an avant-garde homecoming

The art-rock pioneer boldly went where few musical voyagers have gone before.

Evening Standard

Brian Eno review – rapturous swell of ambient beauty amid a sea of high drama

Taking his place among the Baltic Sea Philharmonic Orchestra the composer delights a surreal crowd of dinner suits, grizzled rock’n’roll survivors and Brian Eno lookalikes

The Guardian - UK

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Evening Standard

U2 at the Madison Square Gardens Sphere in Las Vegas review: this could be the greatest show on earth

With the largest LED screen in the world, the Sphere has bells, whistles and everything in between. It cost more than $2 billion and you can see every dollar

The Guardian - UK

Brian McBride: the Stars of the Lid musician who lit up the ambient firmament

McBride’s death this week aged 53 brings one of the great musical duos to an end – but, as his partner Adam Wiltzie explains, there is still more music to be heard

Louder

“Whenever I got accosted on the street by a crazy maniac, the best thing to do was walk away. I always felt threatened. We had to leave by the back door at a lot of places”: Devo’s battle for survival

They’re the coneheaded “alien” stars whose controversial anthems and madcap behaviour wound up the masses – but how prog were Devo?

Louder

"We could have been bigger had we had an amazing manager. We’re our own worst enemies": How Roxy Music got it together despite themselves

They looked like they were from “Planet Zog” and sneaked through a gap created by drug addiction - but the members accept they could have made it easier for themselves

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The Guardian - UK

‘We were once paid $50 to quit’: new wave heroes Devo on boos, Bowie and retiring after 50 years

For half a century, the Ohio band have confounded audiences, collaborated with A-listers and continued to reinvent themselves. They explain why now is the time to finally call it a day

MusicRadar

Heroes: The 6 best covers of David Bowie's classic (and three that are not quite so heroic)

Many have tried and many have failed, but here are six artists that nailed one of the best songs of our time

The Guardian - UK

Francis Monkman obituary

Multi-instrumentalist with Curved Air and Sky who composed the soundtrack to The Long Good Friday

Louder

“This is what I can’t bear about fans: they assume songwriters are writing about themselves all the time” - Brian Eno’s quest to deliver “interleaved stories”

Music as movement, speakers in teapots and laughing with Robert Fripp are all part of the great experimenter’s process

The Independent UK

The Mercury Prize is supposed to celebrate excellence. How did Fred Again get shortlisted?

This year’s shortlist is one of the most eclectic in years, with everything from Dublin folk to London hip-hop making the cut. Roisin O’Connor takes issue with just one of the contenders

The Guardian - UK

Devendra Banhart: ‘A tattoo of bull’s horns almost piercing my nipples felt very inspiring’

The playful Venezuelan American singer answers your questions, taking in Marc Bolan, haircuts from Cate Le Bon, and his ‘bottomless pit of regret’

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Brian Eno extends his ambient realms with these environment-altering sculptures

Brian Eno exhibits his new light box sculptures in London, alongside a unique speaker and iconic works by the late American light artist Dan Flavin

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