Ben Scholz writes ….. Pop culture’s love-hate relationship with its artists presents an interesting conundrum. Music created for mass-consumption must be easily digestible, yet the public is quick to retaliate against content that lacks substance. Gifted musicians are often pigeonholed into a certain style or sound that may not reflect their true range. This myopic […]
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Neil McCormick meets guitarist Jimmy Page and finds the band sounding more thrilling than ever http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10862455/Jimmy-Page-We-knew-that-no-band-had-ever-sounded-like-Led-Zeppelin.html
The Velvets, Warhol, heroin, music that ranges from the divine to the disturbing: Lou Reed’s life and work is legendary. But he doesn’t want to talk about it – in fact, he doesn’t want to talk at all MORE
You have been invited to play at the Chicago Blues Festival and I see that you are doing a workshop entitled The Art of Slide. How did that come about? In July of last year (2008), I was playing with the Norwegian band at Fitzgerald’s, a blues club in Chicago, and while the band did […]
We can’t get enough of the Scandinavians just now, can we? From their bleak crime dramas to their minimalist interior design to even their bloody jeans companies, Nordic culture is everywhere at the moment – and that of course includes the music. The Scandi nations have always had a presence in popular music that far […]
Thomas Conrad (Stereophile) writes ….. I don’t remember the year, but I remember the moment when I first became intensely curious about Roy DuNann. It must have been about 1975, right after I moved to Seattle. I bought a Sonny Rollins LP called Way Out West, took it home, cued it up on my Thorens […]
Originally published November 2013 Ivan Hewett writes: Two great saxophone colossi have bestridden the London Jazz Festival (now the EFG London Jazz Festival) in recent years. One is Sonny Rollins, who despite health problems made a triumphant appearance at the 2012 festival, in his 83rd year. The other is Wayne Shorter, who turns 80 this […]
Trees was a British folk rock band recording and touring throughout 1969, 1970 and 1971, reforming briefly to continue performing throughout 1972. Although the group met with little commercial success in their time, the reputation of the band has grown over the years, and underwent a renaissance in 2007 following Gnarls Barkley’s sampling of the […]
From the archives: The crimped hair. The tiered skirts. The heavily kohled eyes. The wraith-like movement. I wanted to be her. My big sister Claire – for it was she – was glamorous and mysterious back then, in 1978. What I didn’t know, but found out soon after, was that Claire was herself in awe […]
Blues in Britain magazine writes: What started your career as a radio presenter? Twenty-five years at Radio 2, twenty-six if you count the three pilot programmes that I did in 1985. That was a holiday relief for Dave Gelly who was doing a jazz programme. Because I was subbing for Dave, who makes Bob Harris […]
The charismatic New Zealand soprano Dame Kiri Te Kanawa looks back at her life in song through forty years of classic performances from the BBC archives, from her first TV performance on The Harry Secombe Show in 1971 to her appearances on Top of the Pops to sing the rugby anthem World in Union in […]
John Clarke writes: Back when the Rolling Stones were proud to be the voice of revolt and Mick Jagger was as far away from his knighthood as Zayn Malik is from a seat in the House of Lords, they were, very occasionally, modest, not to say humble. A couple years after cutting their eponymous first […]
Said one viewer, express the opinions of many: “This is top quality. His tone is exquisite” Click here to view
Original manuscript of iconic song expected to fetch up to $1.5m at auction in New York and includes lost ending, describing how “the music was reborn” Please click HERE to read more
Couch surfing. No, it is not a new event you will see at a Peripheral Vision concert, much like Moshing was to Nirvana and Anthrax. But it is an endearing sacrifice band co-leaders Michael Herring and Don Scott made in order to develop a strong friendship with each other. At various times during the first […]
Neil McCormick writes: “‘Thank you. I’m Laura,” mumbled the pale and pretty 21 year-old, nervously collecting the award for Best British Female Solo Artist at this year’s Brits. It is not often award winners feel compelled to identify themselves, but you could almost hear a nation muttering “Laura who?”Self-styled acoustic folk singer Laura Marling had […]
They made some of the cleverest and most inventive music of the 70s, but split up at the height of their success. 10cc come together for the first time in 36 years to explain where it went wrong – writes Paul Lester MORE
One of the best ways to learn jazz is to sit down and talk with virtuosic jazz musicians. In this incredible interview we get an opportunity to sit down and explore the mind of jazz organ virtuoso Joey Defrancesco. Who Is Joey Defrancesco? Joey Defrancesco is simply one of the greatest jazz musicians alive today! As […]
Originally published May 2015 As a blues man is laid to rest in the Mississippi Delta, questions linger about how he died. Between the white horses and the family intrigue, the thrill is never gone Continues HERE
William Carn’s new band, Run Stop Run and his latest album of the same title could also be titled simply “run.” Carn’s recent work and collaborations, as well as his work as a professor of music, provide tremendous insight into Carn’s work ethic. Now,by adding touring to his busy schedule, Carn is truly a man […]
It was a warm sunny morning, as I drove through the rolling oak covered hills of Marin County. I had just left the town of Navato California and was heading towards David’s place, when the tape I was listening to went into “Pride Of Man”. It was then that I really got exited about the […]
Laura Martin writes: If Jimmy Somerville had one of the most powerful pop voices of the 1980s, then his words carried even more of an impact. As frontman of synth-pop bands Bronski Beat and the Communards, Somerville’s soprano tones were unmistakable. But almost more than his musical talent, it was his political zeal that made […]