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The Tape-beatles and Public Works in Print

Interview with Lloyd Dunn, Kurt Weller interviews a Tape-beatle for the blog Plaza of the Mind, May 7, 2007
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

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

The Unacceptable Face of Plagiarism by Brian Duguid for EST Magazine, 1992
The Tape-beatles and Public Works by Igor Vaganov for Achtung Baby! March, 1998 [in Russian]
Conversation with a Tape-beatle by Godfrey Daniels for Deuce of Clubs 1994