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Month: November 2021
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We are told: An incredible concert experience, a multi-media extravaganza available on CD, Vinyl, DVD and Blu-ray, and starring classic rock icon and famed songwriter/producer Todd Rundgren! Includes some of Todd’s best known songs including “Hello It’s Me” and “Bang On The Drum” PLUS fan favourites that haven’t been performed live in decades! Recorded live […]
While Joni Mitchell had made a few one-off appearances around this time, she hadn’t actually committed to a tour in more than a decade. Secondly, Turbulent Indigo was the revered singer-songwriter’s first album in three years, and first for Reprise since 1971. Mitchell’s informal show in the Griffith Park facility’s Wells Fargo Theater was promoted […]
From the archives: Elliott Smith killed himself a decade ago this month. Remember him with this 1999 interview from Spin, taken from Rock’s Backpages, the home of online music writing Continue reading HERE
Paul McGowan Ok, file this post under Paul’s Pet Peeve department. In reading comments on YouTube and even our forums, why is it some call others “stupid” when they don’t see eye to eye? The dictionary defines stupid as: “having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense” and I don’t think most […]
From our archives: We are told: London’s Happy Robots Records has announced they will be releasing the ‘Total Squaresville’ mini-album from synth-electronic crafter Pattern Language. From this collection of six tracks, they are teasing the lead single ‘By Time We Get There’ with a catchy retro video by Cheyene Grow at 75 Ohms. Created using […]
We are told: Questionable sound quality: A 32 track, 3 hour live show from 1974: 1. Love the One You’re With 2. Wooden Shipsness 3. Immigration Man 4. Helpless 5. Military Madnessir 6. Johnny S. Gardendren 7. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 8. Almost Cut My Hair 9. Teach Your Children 10. Only Love […]
Paul McGowan: Being a designer, an entrepreneur, a business owner, a creator, a writer is risky business. You risk failure at every turn. You risk not meeting your own expectations let alone those of your customers. Yet, without making those risks there are no rewards. And at the end of the day, the rewards seem […]
In 1940, New York City became the centre of activity for an emerging folk scene. Alongside leading lights such as Lead Belly and Josh White were two white musicians and performers, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. These artists in particular would become pioneering figures in the redefinition of American Folk, penning their own material in […]
Blur’s first album in 12 years is everything fans could have hoped for, says Helen Brown Please click HERE to continue
The Lumpy Money Project/Object is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously on January 23, 2009, it compiles the releases Lumpy Gravy and We’re Only in It for the Money with previously unreleased material, with the overall package serving as a audio documentary of the production of the two albums, which share conceptual continuity themes. The […]
Paul McGowan writes …. On my recent visit to Japan, I was working with a high-end dealer who had a beautiful set of Dan D’Agastino’s monoblock amplifiers on display. He and I both wanted to pit the BHK monos against these copper-beauties which we did. Helping him disconnect the D’Agastinos from the wall I noticed the […]
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Tom Service (The Guardian) writes: Continuing what’s become, I admit, something of a Stockhausen obsession over the last few weeks: news from Robert Worby – composer, sound artist, writer, and one of the presenters of Radio 3’s Hear and Now, the network’s bastion of new music on Saturday nights – about an exclusive broadcast he’ll […]
• Includes the entire KSAN-FM Radio Broadcast • Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality • Background liners In the 1980s, Stevie Nicks enjoyed the most successful solo career of anyone from Fleetwood Mac, with four hit albums and a clutch of chart singles. Recorded shortly after the release of 1989’s The Other Side of […]
“Rock’s great maverick reveals his recording ethos at an LA awards ceremony – read the full transcript here” Neil Young last night was presented with a special award at the Grammys ceremony for producers and engineers at the Village studio complex in Los Angeles – and marked the occasion with a long speech that outlined […]
Cole Moreton writes: The music drops out and the voice of Freddie Mercury is left alone to soar in the speakers. This is the last recording the Queen singer made and is the sound of a man railing against the sickness that would soon kill him. I’m listening to his raw, untreated vocal while standing […]
When I travel to visit a dealer or audio club I am often asked to evaluate their system the moment I walk into the room. At that very moment I am still in the travel, rush, rush mode and two things happen: I am disengaged just enough to offer a very pragmatic evaluation of the […]
