Polly Samson, Pink Floyd lyricist and wife of David Gilmour, accuses Roger Waters of ‘antisemitism to your rotten core’ Waters says he entirely refutes the ‘incendiary and wildly inaccurate comments’ by former bandmate’s wife Pink Floyd lyricist Polly Samson has accused the band’s co-founder Roger Waters of being “antisemitic to your rotten core”, in an […]
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GUARDIAN / RICHARD WILLIAMS ‘They felt like a possible future’: how Brian Eno and I recorded Television’s first demos hen Tom Verlaine wrote his great lyric about Broadway looking so medieval, he wasn’t thinking about the rather down-at-heel recording studio in an office building where his band, Television, made their first demos in December 1974. […]
GRAMOPHONE: Composer and pianist Iain Farrington surveys the interwoven history of classical and jazz as his new album, ‘Gershwinicity’, is released on the Somm label lthough the terms ‘classical’ and ‘jazz’ are frustratingly vague for such a broad wealth of music, they provide a useful distinction for two different musical traditions. When the two styles […]
GRAMOPHONE In 2019, Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Schubert’s great song-cycle in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Erato were on hand to record it. James Jolly caught up with the multi-Gramophone Award-winning mezzo to talk about her unique approach to the work. As one of a handful of women singers who have […]
Eric Johnson (former Radio Promotions Director Remote Engineer at CBS (1990-2002)) replies … Of course he was….Someone once asked if JPJ was, to paraphrase, “the weakest talent in the band” at which point Page just laughed at the foolishness of the statement and said “go sober up sometime and have another listen” and he continued […]
Following a 50-year legal battle, the founding member of Creedence Clearwater Revival now owns the global publishing rights to the iconic rock band’s songs. It came after Mr Fogerty, 77, bought a majority stake in the rights to the band’s catalogue from Concord Records, which has owned the rights since 2004 —//— At its peak, […]
THE GUARDIAN / Annie Zeleski When Adele covered Bob Dylan’s Make You Feel My Love on her debut album 19, her interpretation was a sparse piano ballad that exuded tortured romantic longing. “The lyrics are just amazing and summed up exactly what I’d been trying to say in my songs,” Adele said then. “It’s about […]
I recently purchased a Benchmark DAC 2 which supports DSD decoding following an article from Robert Hartley indicating that Sony would release all of its music catalog in DSD download format. As of today, there are only 358 DSD downloads available from Acoustic Sounds. On average the DSD downloads is music that is 30-45 years […]
R J HOLLAND … Huge, tough, heavy rock band in the late sixties with some of the best musicians in the business. Tim Bogert, bass guitar and vocals Vince Martell lead guitar and vocals Mark Stein Hammond organ and vocals Carmine Appice drum and vocals. Their sound was big; thunderous drums, the wailing Hammond organ, […]
Blues pianist Eddie Boyd’s 7936 South Rhodes was recorded in London in January 1968 with three members of the early lineup of Fleetwood Mac: Peter Green (guitar), John McVie (bass), and Mick Fleetwood(drums). It’s a tantalizing setting for Boyd’s straight up Chicago piano Blues, going heavier on the slow-to-mid-tempo numbers than the high-spirited ones. Eddie […]
Amy Christa Erano wries … Southern white men in general (“Southern Man”) and white Alabamans in particular (“Alabama”). Those two songs painted a very negative picture of Southern white men, and while the South certainly has a history of racism as well as slavery, Ronnie Van Zant was a Southern white man (from Florida, not […]
Released on 20th November 2015 through Universal Music, the Status Quo career retrospective releases ‘Accept No Substitute: The Definitive Hits’ 3CD and ‘Accept No Substitute: The Definitive Hits & More’ 2DVD are a true celebration of the entire body of work of one of the world’s greatest ever rock acts. For the first time […]
Sylvie Malaborsa writes … John Lennon’s father, Alfred was a merchant marine, who spent long periods of time away from his family. Upon his return in 1944 after a long absence when John was four years old, his wife Julia, who had an adventure with a Welsh soldier, was pregnant. After their separation, he had […]
GRAMOPHONE: Joined by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the American mezzo takes a different approach to this song masterwork In 2019, Joyce DiDonato and Yannick Nézet-Séguin performed Schubert’s great song-cycle in concert at New York’s Carnegie Hall, and Erato were on hand to record it. James Jolly caught up with the multi-Gramophone Award-winning mezzo to talk about her […]
After the expanded instrumental scale and sonic experimentation of Court and Spark and The Hissing of Summer Lawns, Joni Mitchell reverses that flow for the more intimate, interior music on Hejira, which retracts the arranging style to focus on Mitchell’s distinctive acoustic guitar and piano, and the brilliant, lyrical bass fantasias of fretless bass innovator […]
Matt Rimmer Queen information sponge (1975 – present day) answers ….. “Does Brian May still play his original Red Special in concerts or is it now a museum piece and he plays a replica of the original he made with his dad at the beginning of his career?” Yes, he still prefers to play his […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHdCo9YXTOs A few viewer observations First time I listen this… It’s so amazing! I guess it says something, when you can sing the song w/o having the cd for the last 13 yrs. Great band! only the guys who jumped off the metal wagon understood this kind of music
Her first solo album on A&M records was Rich Man’s Woman (1975). It was released to critical acclaim, but Brooks was given a hard time because of the album’s cover shot of a naked Brooks with a feather boa, which was considered outrageous for the time. It came before a run of 16 albums in […]
THE GUARDIAN / Emma Brockes I’ve been here before, but not for a while. The last attack, from memory, was Cyndi Lauper’s Time After Time, but that was quick – I was in and out in two days. Same goes for Petula Clark’s Don’t Sleep in the Subway. There was a weird period when the […]
Sarah Barness (The Huffington Post): If you know anyone that “seriously” collects records, they are probably exactly like this guy. They organize their collection by sections for generic metal, stoner metal,death metal, punk, shoegazer, dream pop, jazz, ragtime, classical, rap, R&B etc. etc. etc. If the records aren’t organized by genre, they might just be […]
THE INDEPENDENT / Jacob Stolworthy Roger Waters hars re-recorded one of Pink Floyd’s most-acclaimed albums – by himself. The musician’s project, which he has been working on in secret, has seen him create a new version of 1973’s The Dark Side of the Moon. According to a new interview, Waters proceeded without telling his former […]
Q1: What does Osibisa mean? The name Osibisa was described in lyrics, album notes and interviews as meaning “criss-cross rhythms that explode with happiness” but it actually comes from “osibisaba” the Fante word for highlife. Q2: What does Woyaya mean? Woyaya means “we keep going” in a Ghanaian language called Ga.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OR25MqPWuc Elvis the C when he was at the top of his game. I saw this way back when and recorded it onto cassette from the cheap TV! Listened to it often for years – a great version. I don’t agree you go up there and do the hits note for note. He and the […]
GRAMOPHONE: A world first video stream-on-demand with audio track in lossless studio quality The Berliner Philharmoniker’s Digital Concert Hall (DCH) – which has been broadcasting around 40 concerts live from the Philharmonie every season since 2008 and then offering them in a constantly growing concert archive – notches up another technological milestone with the introduction […]