Rock and roll experimentalist operation The Waterboys—brainchild of Scottish multi-instrumentalist and sole consistent member Mike Scott—have outdone themselves with the beautifully bizarre Life, ...

Those same adjectives might apply to Scott, who with Life, Death and Dennis Hopper has crafted a sprawling, unpredictable and wholly delightful record that is in the tradition of the greatest ...

Some years ago Mike Scott chanced upon an exhibition of the ’60s photo art of Dennis Hopper, best known as the radical, freewheeling actor/director. Seeing the era through Hopper’s eyes moved Scott to ...

Well, yes, indeed I could.” Life, Death and Dennis Hopper feels cobbled together. Sixteen of the numbers are under two-and-a-half minutes long, jams with psyched purple prose voice-overs representing ...

THE WATERBOYS: (Singing) I saw the crescent. You saw the whole of the moon, the whole of the moon. SIMON: The Waterboys have been making music since the 1980s, and their latest album was sparked ...

SIMON: Dennis Hopper, the man, starred in iconic films - "Easy Rider," "Apocalypse Now," "Blue Velvet." But his life away from the camera was often equally dramatic. It is a life that Mike Scott and ...