Music - The Glass Magazine

Interview with honorary Clash member and musician Tymon Dogg

November 4, 2015

Glass felt very lucky to secure an exclusive interview with Tymon Dogg, best known for his unforgettable contribution to the Clash’s unforgettable Sandinista! album, Lose This Skin. Proficient on piano, guitar ...

Bringing the Day of the Dead to life in London

Ben Olsen

November 3, 2015

Feature, Food & Drink, Glass LIVE, Music

A riot of colour, culture and cuisine – not to mention its macabre central theme – makes Mexico’s Day of the Dead festival one of the world’s most popular and visually memorable cultural traditions. Celebrating...

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time

Nicola Kavanagh

October 23, 2015

Culture, Music

Power and grace – Glass meets German-Japanese pianist Alice Sara Ott one of the youngest and most prodigious classical musicians of our time Alice Sara Ott has become one of the youngest and most ...

We’re always in his world

Katrina Mirpuri

October 22, 2015

Music

“I was born already nailed to the cross,” sings Bradford Cox in Snakeskin – the seventh song on Deerhunter’s nine-track album Fading Frontier, released this week. It’s the reoccurring themes of darkness lik...

Going downtown

Katrina Mirpuri

September 30, 2015

Feature, Music

Kurt Vile is a 35-year-old father of two, with a handful of solo work under his belt. After leaving his first band The War on Drugs, Vile, who is often compared to the likes of Neil Young, has significantly...

Glass Autumn 2015

Harry Cohen

September 29, 2015

The Glass Playlists

https://open.spotify.com/user/tetyap/playlist/3AWdmQrNk2VWmFUIOKrkpX...

Waxing lyrical – a waning Crescent City? Glass meets British singer Jon Cleary about the beating heart of New Orleans

Arjun Sajip

September 29, 2015

Culture, Feature, Music

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His speaking voice – dry, distinctly English, vessel for a voluminous vocabulary – isn’t what you’d expect. Singing live and on record, Jon Cleary’s relatively rough baritone sounds happy just to be there, it...

Glass Summer Playlist

Harry Cohen

August 6, 2015

The Glass Playlists

https://open.spotify.com/user/tetyap/playlist/523BuOM3uUqL6DXje7tyd6...

Glass speaks to three masters of Chinese Opera – Professor Tsai Tsan-huang, Man Chin-sui and Pai Hsien-yung

Glass Archive

May 30, 2014

Culture, Don't Miss: Theatre, Feature, Music

Passion and prose – Chinese Opera in its many forms is a triumph of spirit and reinvention but can it survive the threat of modernisation? Glass speaks to three masters of this timeless art For alm...

Plisskën festival 2014 line up announced

Xenia Founta

March 25, 2014

Culture, Feature, Food & Drink, Music, News, Travel

The line-up for Plissken music festival 2014 has just been announced. The annual festival, held in Athens, features a wide array of various music genres and aims to bring eclectic artists to Greece. The music e...

Just for now – Glass discovers more about the London-based Greek poet and musician Sitron Panopoulos

Caroline Simpson

January 8, 2014

Feature, Music

Poetry is a much abused and misunderstood medium. And it is a matter of some sadness, to me at least, that the stagnant pond that passes for London's poetry scene is in the main filled with soi-disant poets who...

Boys Noize' Alex Ridha photographed at the Coronet, London, October 13, 2012

Electronic impulses

Ben Olsen

November 6, 2012

Feature, Music

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From Erol Alkan and Kelis to Snoop Dogg and the Scissor Sisters, the queue of those seeking out the talents of Hamburg-born DJ Alex Ridha keeps on growing. Having produced, collaborated, remixed and shared stag...