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The Old News Archive

Closets Nearly Full, but Old News Keeps on Coming

It’s a well-known fact that knowing as much about The Tape-beatles and Public Works can improve your outlook, cause you to shed pounds, and in general make the world a better place. Knowing their history is a key element to all that. Historians tell us that the group has been working together since late 1986. We can find no evidence, however, of any activity before 1987. It really doesn’t matter: all the relevant information is here. The Old News Archive! Explore its vicissitudes and be enlightened.

Interviews with the Tape-beatles and Public Works

• Meet the Tape-beatles, an in-depth overview of The Tape-beatles ideas and works by Todd Kimm for Icon, January 6, 2000
• Interview with the Tape-beatles by Philip Blackburn for Artpaper, September 1992
• Another Interview with the Tape-beatles by Steev Hise for Synergy
• Questions, and More Answers Eric Benndorf interviews Public Works by e-mail
• Casual Quarter with Public Works Interview on Radio Free Berkeley by Peter Conheim and Jon Leidecker, May 13, 1997
• Interview with a Tape-beatle by Godfrey Daniels for X Magazine, 1994
• An Interview with the Tape-beatles by Stephen Perkins for Tractor
• Interview by mail with the Tape-beatles by Anton Viergever for Vital, April 1992

Articles about Tape-beatle and Public Works

• Local group produces song made from everyday sounds by Jeff Rynott, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, September 18, 1987
• Just What are Tape-beatles? by Bill Stuelke, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, August 5, 1988
• Less Popular than Jesus, Tape-beatles Keep Trying by Lindsay Allen Park, The Daily Iowan, Iowa City, August 1, 1991
• The Tape-beatles by Beth Lucht, Neo: The Iowa Entertainer, Iowa City, December 1987
• Perfecting the Art of Plagiarism by Mark Dery, Keyboard Magazine, September 1991
• Tape-beatles Plunder a Media-Mad Culture by Paul Ashby, Pulse, November (?), 1991
• Sample Saturation: Tape-beatles rip-off all of their material by Brendan Kelly, Montreal Mirror, August 15, 1991
• The Tape-beatles are Making a Career of Being Unoriginal from the Cedar Rapids Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, April 13, 1990
• On “Music with Sound” by Laurence Roberts from Artpaper, 1991
• Article about the Tape-beatles that appeared in the June 1999 issue of Black Book

Reviews of Tape-beatle and Public Works CDs (by title)

• A subtle buoyancy of pulse; (1988)
• Music with Sound (1990)
• The Grand Delusion (1993)
• Matter by Public Works (1996)
• Good Times (1999)
• Numbers by Public Works (2001)

Reviews of Tape-beatle and Public Works public presentations

• Critic’s Choice in The Chicago Reader for the Tape-beatles show at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, April 24, 1999
• Review of Tape-beatles show at the Empty Bottle, Chicago, April 24, 1999
• Review of a Public Works show at ATA Gallery, San Francisco, May 10, 1997
• Review of “Good Times” presentation at Illinois State University’s Center for the Visual Arts, Normal IL, October 25, 2001

Tape-beatle/Public Works Performance and Travel Photos

• Prague, Czech Republic, November-December, 1998 (30 photos in series)
• San Francisco, California, October, 1999 (16 photos in series)
• Record Collector, Iowa City, February 2000 (6 photos in series)
• CCCB, Barcelona, February 2000 (11 photos in series)
• Spain and Portugal, February-March 2000 (22 photos in series)
• New York City, October-November 2000 (16 photos in series)