John Mulvey

1 month ago | biorxiv.org | John Mulvey |Alicia Lundby

AbstractPerforming assays on large numbers of samples requires their analysis in distinct batches, which commonly affects the measurements made in a systematic way. Analytical approaches can correct for such batch effects, however for this to be possible the batch should not be confounded with either the independent variable or any covariates relevant to the analysis. Thus, how samples are distributed across batches influences subsequent analytic conclusions.

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

The start of Kraftwerk’s imperial phase – or the end of the road for Hütter and Schneider’s original project? Kraftwerk★★★★★PARLOPHONE1975 in the Motor City, and Lester Bangs is unsuccessfully hassling Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider to pose for photographs by a Detroit freeway. Soon enough, Kraftwerk will create a fully-automated music, a sound local Michigan producers will streamline even further into techno.

1 month ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

Jack WhiteOn February 8 this year, Jack White posted a longish piece on Instagram. Ostensibly, he addressed complaints that the sets on his current tour should be longer; a churlish criticism, perhaps, when they’ve been averaging out at a solid 90 minutes. What the post turned into, though, was a characteristically impassioned pitch for the electric connectivity of a simple rock gig, as opposed to a stadium spectacle.

2 months ago | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

In memory of the great singer-songwriter Bill Fay, who has diedA day or two after Bill Fay made his one return to the stage, in 2007, he called to tell me about how the day had gone. Fay had turned up for the encore of a Wilco gig at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire in London, where he duetted with Jeff Tweedy on Be Not So Fearful, a gentle prayer of a song from his 1970 debut album.

Nov 14, 2024 | mojo4music.com | John Mulvey

A strange and ever-evolving icon comes out to play on the last night of the Rough And Rowdy Ways tourBob DylanFour songs into what many suspect will be the last night of the Rough And Rowdy Ways tour, Bob Dylan wanders away from his piano and over to where his faithful bassist, Tony Garnier, is paying close attention. As he walks, he sings – the song, incidentally, is False Prophet – in a voice of uncanny resonance and surprising power.