Month: May 2021
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https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/marvin-gaye-whats-going-on-b1846502.html
This Bob Dylan live broadcast triple LP set features performances from six different dates and locations from the early to mid sixties containing over 30 classic tracks! Performances featured are Riverside Church, July 1961, The Gaslight Cafe, September 1961, Carnegie Chapter Hall, November 1961, Minneapolis Hotel Tape, December 1961, Folksinger’s Choice, January 1962 and Quest CBC-TV, February 1964. […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/14/heart-singer-ann-wilson-success-was-a-faustian-bargain-we-made
The four-and-a-half hour show, broadcast on January 8, ‘95, was a Seattle scenester’s delight, featuring live sets from Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Mudhoney, The Fastbacks, and Mad Season, a spoken word piece from Nirvana’s Krist Novoselic, tracks from ex-Nirvana drummer Dave Grohl’s ‘upcoming solo album’ (at least that was how it was credited at the time), […]
Yes, some but by no means all of the choices are ‘the usual suspects” Anyway, certainly worth scanning through. http://www.stuff.tv/features/30-essential-albums-audiophiles
I was at a small concert in Venice last Friday. The room was about 10m x 20m, there were 4 violins and a double bass. There are those that say soundstage doesn’t exist in live concerts, it did and was very obvious at this concert. I could easily pinpoint each musician. I think what happens […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/16/paul-weller-fat-pop-volume-1-one-review
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/may/16/hey-teacher-how-syd-barretts-artistic-genius-flowered-at-school
Patrick Latimer writes: JS Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos are some of the most recorded classical works in existence and there is a crowded field of competing versions still available. These include the Busch Chamber Orchestra recorded at Abbey Road Studio in 1935 to the Dunedin Consort on the Linn label last year. This collection of the […]
From our archives: Canadian poet-troubadour Leonard Cohen’s most recent album, issued earlier this year, was entitled Popular Problems, but one of Cohen’s problems is not a lack of available material for his fans. Following that LP as well as the Mastered-for-iTunes release of his studio album catalogue, Cohen has announced the December 2 release ofLive in […]
All of these reissues were so critically acclaimed upon their release some 10 years back. And most have been sold out for a long time.Now they’re back and better than ever! Think these classic CCR songs sounded better than ever on Analogue Productions’ recent LP reissues? Well, you’re right of course. Or at least you […]
They tell us…… Disc: 1 1. You Can Tell the World 2. Last Night I Had the Strangest Dream 3. Bleecker Street 4. Sparrow 5. Benedictus 6. The Sound of Silence 7. He Was My Brother 8. Peggy-O 9. Go Tell It on the Mountain 10. The Sun Is Burning 11. The Times They Are […]
We are told: Dylan’s 1990s began with Under the Red Sky (1990), an about-face from the serious Oh Mercy. The album contained several simple songs with a nursery rhyme quality, including the title track and ‘Wiggle Wiggle’. The album was dedicated to “Gabby Goo Goo”, a nickname for the daughter of Dylan and Carolyn Dennis, […]
Sir Simon Rattle has done nothing to scotch rumours that he is to take the top job with the London Symphony Orchestra when Valery Gergiev steps down in 2017, possibly leaving the Berlin Philharmonic earlier than planned: he went to Berlin in 1999 and was due to stay until 2018. (Years go by like bar-lines […]
From The Vault series continues with Live at the the Tokyo Dome a Japanese performance from 1990 during the Steel WheelsWorld Tour. Remarkably, the ten shows in February of that year were the first concerts the band ever performed in Japan. This audio was previously available for download in 2012 via the Stones Archive but this is the first physical release. As with previous […]
David Shariatmadri writes: I was going to start this article with Verdi. Until a week or so ago, my most recent experience of music-induced shivers down my spine, goosebumps, feelings of exhilaration – we’ll call them “the chills” – came during a performance of the Italian composer’s Requiem. It was the Dies Irae, one of […]
We are told ….. British pioneer of folk rock and founding member of Fairport Convention Richard Thompson with two great Rockpalast Shows 1983 in Hamburg/Germany and 1984 in Cannes/France Another new release of the worldwide acclaimed Rockpalast-series Extended boxset with 2 DVDs, 3 CDs and booklet with extended liner notes and previously unreleased photos Richard […]
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Limited run, vinyl-only release of highlights from its fabled Halloween 2009 performance at the Tower Theater outside of Philadelphia. The show featured a long and varied set of impassioned, expertly executed Rolling Stones covers as only the Mule can deliver, with special guests Jackie Greene (Phil Lesh & Friends, Black Crowes, Trigger Hippy) ans saxophonist Steve […]
David Bowie’s ‘Sound + Vision’ box set gets re-released in a slipcased fatpack with 64 page booklet. This a collection spanning four decades, covering the 21 albums from Space Oddity through to Buddha Of Surburbia. It’s a rich survey of David Bowie’s many musical lives offering a generous helping of hits, an intriguing dip into […]
Sunday 31st March 1974 is a landmark date in the history of rock music. It is now celebrated in the multi format release of a rare recording made at legendary London venue The Rainbow, of a concert by a then up-and-coming band called Queen. Few who turned up for that iconic performance could have predicted […]
‘Swan Songs’ as the title implies, is intended to be the final album from the legendary Georgie Fame, bringing an illustrious recording career to a very satisfactory conclusion. Georgie is an iconic R&B, jazz and blues star, responsible for an unrivalled back catalogue of pop hits, from 1964 onwards, including three number 1 hits during […]
These are powerful, intuitive performances from Boris Giltburg playing Prokofiev: War Sonatas, writes Geoffrey Norris. MORE