“Rock n’ roll was born in the 1950s, and has since left an unquestionable mark on the world. It didn’t just heavily influence the music scene; it also transformed many cultural norms, having an influence on fashion and even wider human behaviors. But which rock n’ roll bands were the most influential of them all? […]
Month: January 2022
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We are told: He has been a member one of one of Britain’s most significant rock bands and one of the world’s biggest male solo stars, but Phil Collins was always eager to collaborate with an eclectic range of artists. Spanning drums, vocals, production, songwriting and more, Phil Collins’ many talents have been employed by […]
‘Damon wasn’t comfortable doing the verses – he just couldn’t get into character’ Modern Life Is Rubbish [Blur’s second album] was overlooked because of the rise of grunge, but we were halfway to somewhere, and with Parklife we arrived. The album was the convergence of a lot of influences: Alex [James, bassist] wanted to be […]
In an interesting interview at CEPro, Alan Parsons, the man who engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and yes, had his own Project, says that room acoustics are far more important than audiophile gear. In fact, the interview led one Slashdot commenter to post this fine quip: “Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to […]
Steve Guttenberg (Stereophile) writes: Classical and jazz notwithstanding, an awful lot of new music is highly compressed, processed, and harsh, and it’s about time we got used to it. Musicians, producers, and engineers are, in large part, on board with the sound, and any suggestion of making less-compressed recordings, with a wider dynamic range, is […]
While Neil Young remains, arguably, the finest composer of the singer-songwriter generation, he has never been shy in revealing the musicians and songwriters from whom he took most inspiration and by whom he was most reliably informed. It s no secret therefore that Young has always remained a huge Bob Dylan fan, and while, like […]
Mary Chapin Carpenter seems to have been in a reflective mood in recent years. In 2014, she brought out the album Songs from the Movie, in which she re-recorded ten numbers from her back catalog, and 2018 sees the release of Sometimes Just the Sky, where she takes another look at 12 tunes from her […]
RARITY This is a very rare CD. only 1,000 were ever produced. INFAMOUS BECAUSE … At a UK hi-fi exhibition some years ago, these were given away free to any visitor [who after hearing it in action in a Harbeth / LFD / Pink T system], wanted it with the suggestion they ask other exhibitors […]
Bob Dylan has given one lucky TV presenter a one-on-one performance. But in an age of social media, are we ever truly alone? Please click HERE to continue reading
Of course, the obvious answer is we want a system that does it all, but that’s not always easy. Definitely, there are some systems better suited to one genre or another in the same way some systems are vinyl-centric while still others digital-centric. A small bookshelf-based speaker arrangement that works great for small chamber ensembles […]
Blues in Britain writes: Here’s the unexpurgated extended version of the interview with Beth Hart from this month’s magazine: Platinum-selling singer Beth Hart was in London to promote Don’t Explain, her album of soul covers with Joe Bonamassa. She spoke to Moray Stuart of Blues In Britain about that, her career so far and her […]
Martin Chilton writes: It’s rather funny to think that it was a middle-aged man who wrote the lyrics that stirred up a generation of teenagers in the Fifites. When Philadelphia-born Max C Friedman penned the words ‘One, Two, Three O’clock, Four O’clock rock’ as the opening line of a novelty number, he’d have had no […]
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“You seen this thing called Shazam?” Ray Davies asks. “I tried it last week.” Sat in a quiet corner of a restaurant in Muswell Hill (where else?), the Kinks legend speaks in a husky, north London murmur, frequently turning the conversation around so he’s the one asking questions: “Where are you from? What do your parents […]
