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Uncut: Michael Gira's My Life In Music

December 10, 2014

NME, Michael Gira's Lost Album

December 10, 2014

Mojo Filth Review

December 10, 2014

September 10, 2014 Swans: To Be Kind How Michael Gira and co became the greatest live band in the world “Even chord progressions were out,” laughs Swans frontman and founder Michael Gira of his resolute attitude during the band's beginnings in the early 1980s, when the group grew out of the ashes of New York no wave with a sledgehammer sound that went on to influence Sonic Youth, Nirvana and Nine Inch Nails. “It was very physical, but also elating.” Thirty or so years on, taking in 13 albums and... Read more...

Live In Limbo: Capsule 33 Swans

November 26, 2014

Michael Gira is the founding member of Swans. After three decades of challenging music of which remains entirely humanistic in nature. In 2010, Swans returned to the music scene and created three albums, each earning more acclaim than the last. With their 2014 release “To Be Kind” they continue on this track with high praise from the likes of NME, Spin and Pitchfork. The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano gave “To Be Kind” a perfect rating, whileLiL gave it a 9.7/10 On knowing when a track is right. Hint, it’s never right!... Read more...

Pop Matters: The Seer Guides Us to Be Kind: Ten Great Songs by Swans 2.0

November 26, 2014

The Seer Guides Us to Be Kind: Ten Great Songs by Swans 2.0 Michael Gira was not making a mere semantic distinction when, following the announcements in 2010 that Swans would be coming out with a new album, he insisted that the group convened to makeMy Father Will Guide Me Up a Rope to the Sky would be a reconstitution, not a reunion. To those diehard fans of the innovative rock outfit that waited 14 years following 1996’sSoundtracks for the Blind, Gira’s words were—and still are—appropriately sage. While there are... Read more...

The Crack magazine: Swans

November 26, 2014

June 17, 2014

Who could have seen this coming? Thirty two years since they first emerged as the enfants terribles of the New York music scene, Swans have just delivered the year's most uncompromising, thundering and blindingly brilliant album so far. Nothing even comes close to this; To Be Kind is two hours of music of gut-wrenching intensity, a series of never-ending peaks that take the rudiments of rock music and summons up something that is strikingly original. With To Be Kind, Michael Gira and his cohorts have delivered an album that surpasses their critically acclaimed 2012... Read more...

Live in Limbo Podcast with Michael Gira

June 17, 2014

Michael Gira is the founding member of Swans. After three decades of challenging music of which remains entirely humanistic in nature. In 2010, Swans returned to the music scene and created three albums, each earning more acclaim than the last. With their 2014 release “To Be Kind” they continue on this track with high praise from the likes of NME, Spin and Pitchfork. The Needle Drop’s Anthony Fantano gave “To Be Kind” a perfect rating, while LiL gave it a 9.7/10 On knowing when a track is right. Hint, it’s never right! Why “To Be... Read more...