“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 ...

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 ...