TRACK OF THE DAY: “Bad Luck Baby” off the CD Monkey Medicine by TheNick Gravenites / John Cipollina Band

Proper, tough electric blues played with taste and at a decent speed by true masters of the genre and yes, it’s the same Cipollina, the deceased guy out of QMS. Excellent ‘kick-arse’ take-no-prisoners Chicago Blues from white guys who know their stuff. Love it! As usual, I got this album off eBay for next to […]

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CREAM: The Lost Broadcasts (CD)

Rare Recordings From The Dawn Of Cream’s Short But Dynamic Career A vital power trio and probably the first ever supergroup, in a career lasting little more than two years Cream sold over 15 million albums and had a number of Top 20 singles to boot. This compilation features the recordings that have come to […]

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MAHLER: News

THE GUARDIAN: The Austrian composer’s first symphony meshed the imagination and narrative of the symphonic poem with the architectural cohesion of earlier models. His crazily ambitious project changed the genre for ever. It’s one of the most spellbinding moments of symphonic inspiration in the 19th century: the opening of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. It’s not […]

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LOGO MERIDIAN

MERIDIAN: Linn Isobaric PMS intervention

3 pairs of 105 power amps = 3 monos per channel. Crossover-less. An outstanding concept of having the frequency response of each pair matched to the characteristics of each pair of drivers with the upper frequency response very steeply rolled off with the lower response of the next pair taking over where the lower pair […]

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MUSICSTACK

Buy rare vinyl records, LPs and CDs from independent record sellers worldwide. When you search MusicStack you are not just searching one record store, instead you are searching over 1000 record stores and looking through the inventory of millions of vinyl records and compact discs. With so many record stores and vinyl record albums located […]

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BEETHOVEN: Was he constantly angry or merely intense?

Gustavo Guardiola, Composer, bass player and professor of music composition for more than 22 years. He was certainly angry. On October 6th of 1802 Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers Carl and Johann. This letter has been known as the Heiligenstadt Testament -or you can call it the testament of Beethoven. In this letter […]

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Warren Haynes / Roy Buchanan

  Bundle includes two limited edtion live radio broadcasts, as follows: Live from Emerson College, (Boston, Ma. 29th Nov 1993 – Wers-FM Broadcast)  by Warren Haynes Best known as longtime guitarist with The Allman Brothers Band and Gov’t Mule, this performance sees Warren Haynes promoting his just released, Chuck Leavell produced debut album ‘Tales of […]

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PRINCIPAL DESIGN PD150 speakers: Dr Penfold and the possiblity of clones of Linn Sara speakers. Part #1 of 2

Meyer Lansky …. Hello. I came across your very good blog whilst looking for Linn Sara information. I wonder if you have any knowledge of another Speaker Manufacture? I purchased a set of Principal Design PD150 speakers in the mid to late 80s. One drive unit has developed a fault so I have been looking […]

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SOUL MUSIC: An Introduction

The thread starts ….. Soul music started to appear in the late 50’s early 60’s, combining the religious inspired Gospel sound with the already popular Rhythm & Blues sound helped to form Soul Music as a more secular styled music, which quickly made it a hit with the young Black communities of the time. It […]

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