Month: December 2021
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Originally published October 2009 Stereophile: You are president of Esoteric Audio Research, a British manufacturer of tube amplifiers, and a world-renowned designer of tube equipment and output transformers. I thought we’d begin with a little background. Where were you born? What kind of education did you get to prepare you for a career in audio? […]
One of the most legendary shows of the great AC/DC at the top of their game recorded live at the mighty Agora Ballroom in Cleveland. Super small venue, big rock & roll inside. Side A: 1. Live Wire (6:00) 2. Sheís got Balls (6:38) 3. Problem Child (4:30) 4. High Voltage (5:17) Side B: 1. […]
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Interview by Dave Simpson: Suggs, singer and songwriter I got sacked from Madness just before we recorded One Step Beyond, still our bestselling album. We used to rehearse on Saturdays, and the band started to get annoyed that I was away every other weekend. I was watching Chelsea! So one day, I was looking through Melody Maker and […]
Paul McGowan writes …. Terri and I chose to live in the safety and quiet of Boulder, while my son Scott and his wife Teresa chose the much livelier city of Denver. They get the nightlife in trade for tolerating the city’s chaos, something Terri and I have less interest in. All our choices come […]
This excellent broadcast recording preserves a great show performed by The Black Crowes at Los Angeles famous Greek Theatre, in Griffith Park, during their first headlining US tour in the summer of 1991. The band were originally formed in Marietta, Georgia – just two years before – by brothers Rich (guitar) and Chris (vocals) Robinson. […]
I have been living with these early HL1s ( Serial Numbers 228 A & B ) for some time and have been surprised they aren’t mentioned more. The equivalent (?) Spendor BC1s have a much higher profile. I bought them sans grilles ( the foam ones had rotted away ) and Sid Chaplin, of Traditional […]
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The BBC’s list of classical music pieces for teenagers is patronising. Ivan Hewett recommends some alternatives Please click HERE to continue
Originally published 2015 Martin Farrer writes ….. The country legend on the legacy of Gram Parsons, musical labels and why it took her nearly four decades to make records with her pal Rodney Crowell Continues HERE
Alexander Goehr is one of the UK’s most important contemporary composers: a pupil of Messiaen, Goehr rose to prominence along with Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, with whom he formed the New Music Manchester group in the 1950s. This month a new recording of three of his works – Marching to Carcassone, When Adam Fell and Pastorals – has […]
Paul McGowan writes: You read the spec sheets of your new speaker. Flat to 17Hz! Brilliant. You wonder how an 8″ driver with a port can do something like that, but then, engineers are magicians. You fire the system up and there’s no low bass. The pipe organ rattles nothing, the notes of keyboards and […]
From 1996
Recorded for Radio Broadcast in New York & Boston. Many music critics of the day were not only intrigued but enamoured by Jeff Buckley when his musical career began to take off in the early nineties. Jeff Buckley born in California in 1966 and as the name suggests, he was the son of legendary singer, […]
As a box-set of The Beatles’ US albums is released, Andy Gill laments America’s cavalier approach to the Fab Four’s classics. If George Bernard Shaw was correct in asserting that Britain and America were two countries “separated by a common language”, then the new box set of The US Albums by The Beatles offers the […]
The three surviving members of the Clash tell Andrew Perry why they reunited after 30 years to create a new box set. As the memory of rock’s golden age in the Sixties and Seventies fades, the music of the era’s biggest groups, from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, has attained the status of crown […]
We spend so much time getting our stereo systems to have resolving power, the ability to hear tiny nuance and subtle cues. Yet, is there a point where a system can be too resolving? Is that even possible? View HERE
Paul McGowan: One of my readers commented that “it sure is easier to just put a record on the turntable and play it” in response to trying to understand the complexity of sending music out of a computer. Well, sure it is – just as it’s even easier to put a CD into a CD […]