Did Phill Niblock invent both Grunge and Ambient? One thing's for sure: the music of this New York composer is loud... very loud. Mark Sinker took his earplugs to New York to meet him. This article originally appeared in The Wire 124 (June 1994).

Everyone's heard of them, no one knows what they do. Mark Sinker investigates Auntie's best-kept secret. This article was originally published in The Wire 96 (February 1992).