By the time the Furs opened their hits set with “Sister Europe,” the heart Butler made over his crotch with thumbs and forefingers as he bumped and ground stood for the collective swoon that lasted through “Love My Way,” “Heaven,” “India,” and other catalog cuts.

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Nothing transforms feelings of isolation, guilt, shame, rage, and panic into joy like the best PiL music. It is the balm. So expectations were absurdly high for this, Public Image’s first show in the U.S. in eighteen years.

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Singer and guitarist Mayo Thompson formed the Red Crayola (or Krayola) in Houston, Texas in 1966 with Frederick Barthelme and Steve Cunningham, and has continued to lead the group up to the present day with an ever-changing cast of musicians. This complete interview by Oliver Hall.

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The Residents are masked and anonymous artists who prosecute the same visionary tradition as Pere Ubu, Negativland, Harry Partch and Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. The Residents do not communicate directly with the press, but …

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During one song I did not recognize, Hitchcock took a wild fuzztone solo while still singing the lead melody, which is not a thing people can just do. Rieflin delivered a brief studious lecture about how to make a proper studio recording as human hands grew from spectators’ eyeballs and undid the Gordian knot that binds commerce and music in our post-industrial society.

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