To paraphrase filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, there's a fine line between making political music and making music politically. The members of Henry Cow understood the difference, and that's why their work ...

“Nobody connected with the band now remembers why on earth we came up with it. I know there’s a story that we based it on Henry Cowell, the 20th century American experimental composer; his widow has ...

Henry Cow were an English avant-rock group, founded at Cambridge University in 1968 by multi-instrumentalists Fred Frith and Tim Hodgkinson. Personnel fluctuated over their decade together, but ...