Music oriented articles, stories, essays, and documentaries as featured in previous editions of 3 A.M. MAGAZINE.
AN INTERVIEW WITH LUCID NATION'S TAMRA SPIVEY
February, 2002
"In 1995 Banning Eyre went to Bamako, the capital of Mali to study guitar playing with Djelimady Tounkara, a former star of the Super Rail band. His book ‘In Griot Time’ is the extraordinary account of his trip - a unique insider-view into African music. In it, Banning Eyre quite literally goes behind the curtain to reveal the triumphs and failures of the African music scene as it becomes an important player of the world music scene." Richard Marshall interviews Banning Eyre.
IN GRIOT TIME: AN INTERVIEW WITH BANNING EYRE
February, 2002
"In 1995 Banning Eyre went to Bamako, the capital of Mali to study guitar playing with Djelimady Tounkara, a former star of the Super Rail band. His book ‘In Griot Time’ is the extraordinary account of his trip - a unique insider-view into African music. In it, Banning Eyre quite literally goes behind the curtain to reveal the triumphs and failures of the African music scene as it becomes an important player of the world music scene." Richard Marshall interviews Banning Eyre.
(HE BELONGED TO) THE BLANK GENERATION
January, 2002
"There's a black and white picture of Hell in the book that is an eloquent crash-out snap of that mixture of sexuality, glamour and mess that guys with a hard-on for death can represent." Richard Marshall reviews Richard Hell's Hot and Cold.
EVENT REPORT. JILL FURMANOVSKY’S ‘BOBQUEST’. 6TH NOVEMBER 2001
November, 2001
Furmanovsky’s pictures imagine a different language for Dylan, one that breaks free from its own history and exults in a different mix, and an alternative ‘gulsh’d’ set of possibilities. The word ‘gulsh’d’ is from John Clare who was also enclosed by fixed, traumatic and colonial forces - his editor wouldn’t let him use the word and ‘corrected’ it - he ‘corrected’ loads of things - so that Clare felt robbed of his connection to the land and his speech community. Furmanovsky modestly portrays herself as just a ‘someone’ but what happens is that this quality of being just a ‘someone’ is what she finds in her pictures of Dylan." By Richard Marshall.
AN INTERVIEW WITH BERTIE MARSHALL, PUNK LEGEND In 1979, a Mod / Ska revival swept Britain. James Cooper hops on his scooter with The Purple Hearts. This month, Guillaume Destot reviews Reef (“They look and sound like schoolboys who've just discovered a hoard of girly magazines in some hidden, dusty drawer”) and comes to grips with Radiohead’s haunting “cataracts of sound.” Guillaume Destot reviews Tommy Sims’ first solo album. ELECTRONIC Get the party moving - James Brundage gives us a look at what's new on the electronic music scene. ARE & BE THE REVENGE OF SAM KINNISON Q : Are we not men ? Vincent Abbate catches up with US spacepoppers Man or Astro-man? who have landed in Europe. He reviews their German gig and quizzes them about their intergalactic sound. Out of this world. Guillaume Destot reviews Angie Stone and Maceo Parker for all you arsesouls out there.
October, 2001
Andrew Gallix had the chance to catch up with Bertie Marshall, one of the most intriguing characters from the early days of punk. It's quite clear that things haven't changed in that regard.
NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS HERE’S BUZZKUNST
January, 2001
“The event had only been announced days before. Little information had been made available, nor had demos circulated. No one knew what to expect and it silenced many who expected more of the same.” Punk legend Howard Devoto on stage with Pete Shelley for the first time in more than 20 years! Ian Greaves was there. Photographs by Jo Warner.
THE PURPLE HEARTS
NOVEMBER, 2000
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AUGUST, 2000 - ARE & BE
"The so-called 'French touch' of Daft Punk or Air is one thing, but here is something too rarely heard of: Frenchies playing rock with lyrics in English." Guillaume Destot reviews albums by Phoenix, Hobotalk and Stevie Wonder. Eclectic or what?.
AUGUST, 2000 - VANGUARD
"It's been said that rock n' roll will never die ..." By Gary Archambault.
JUNE, 2000 - ARE & BE
Guillaume Destot, music lover and neo-Hydropathe extraordinaire, reviews albums by Fishbone, Papas Fritas and Elliott Smith. 
SON HOUSE MEETS WES THE POWER TRIO
JUNE, 2000 - TRIPPING
"Eddie Son House is reporting back to the other members of the chorus of dead blues legends. Our music. They done changed it again. But it's still going. It's still alive." Vincent Abbate has seen the old man's world-weary face before - in black and white.
JUNE, 2000
By Joel Jenkins "The Seattle grunge music scene was in full boom, and I spent many an evening hanging around in smoky bars, waiting for my half-hour to forty-five minutes in the spotlight." 
PRAYING TO THE ALIENS
APRIL, 2000 - MUSIK SANS FRONTIERES
A : We are Astro ! 
ARE & BE
APRIL, 2000 - ARE & BE