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Album Buying Guide A Guide to the Blues-Rock Guitarist’s Best Recordings Dip in and out HERE
Megan Conner: The jazz musician, 49, on standing up to the ‘jazz police’, playing saxophone on the moon, and being saved by the Pet Shop Boys Continue HERE
“He knew he was totally mediocre, he was a measly old poet, Wordsworth, and never made it at anything like Coleridge,” Shane MacGowan said, adding, “He had really bad teeth.” Mr. MacGowan, the principal singer of the Celtic rock band the Pogues and a man fabled for his thirst, affinity for illicit substances and terrible […]
Let Me Get By is the third studio album from Tedeschi Trucks Band, featuring ten new, original songs that stand together as a testament to the spirit and commitment of the tightly-knit 12-member ensemble. Driven by Susan’s soaring, spiritually charged vocals and Derek’s masterfully lyrical slide-guitar, the band’s musical talents are on display in full […]
We are told ….. With the new Live At Pompeii, of the five formats being issued only one combines separate audio CDs with video, and that is the four disc (2CD, 2 x blu-ray) deluxe box set. This also offers an exclusive bonus blu-ray which delivers 65 extra minutes of performance from the same tour […]
Classic live radio broadcast from 30th May 1973 Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for enhanced sound quality Background liners Muddy Waters had only recently completed his Australasia tour that had started in late April and finished in Perth on 11th May 1973. He arrived just two days later in Vancouver before performing five dates […]
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The inclusion of two studio albums plus a live set and many rarities makes for a compelling look at a transitional year for the band.
One of the world’s greatest pianists, Andras Schiff, played his 60th birthday concert on Saturday – a hugely demanding programme of the Goldberg Variations by Bach and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Earlier he told the BBC’s Tim Franks why he gave the performance in London – and not in his homeland, Hungary. Andras Schiff takes me […]
HELEN PIDD / MARK BROWN The ultimatum to English National Opera was attacked as ‘cultural vandalism’, but raised some hopes nearer Manchester https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/27/a-fight-at-the-opera-could-forcing-eno-up-north-work-out-manchester-arts-council
ROBERT WEBB urt” – a song on Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 release The Downward Spiral – came to the attention of the country legend Johnny Cash in 2002, through a mutual friend, the producer Rick Rubin. https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/hurt-johnny-cash-nine-inch-nails-b2205081.html
Joe Jackson is one of the most unique musicians in British pop history. Coming out of the punk musical revolution, he immediately got noticed for his skill in combining raw energy, great taste and dislike of stereotypes. Joe Jackson and his band appeared on the British music scene just after the punk revolution with iconic […]
We are told: Inspired by Live Aid and Bob Dylan’s appeal for aid to US farmers at that event, the first Farm Aid benefit took place at the University of Illinois’ Memorial Stadium on the 22nd September, 1985. The concert raised over $9million for American farmers struggling to pay mortgage debt, and this success persuaded […]
• Nitty Gritty’s 1987 and 1988 albums for Warner Bros. which both made the US Country charts • The country hits ‘Oh What A Love’, ‘I’ve Been Lookin’’, ‘Fishin’ In The Dark’ and ‘Down That Road Tonight’ are all featured in this package • The band continue to gig and record in 2015 • Digitally […]
ALEXIS PETRIDIS Rock and pop music has been obsessed with its own past almost from the start: by 1959, a New York record store called Times Square was doing a roaring trade in what it called “oldies”, selling mid-50s doo-wop singles to teenagers already convinced the golden age of rock’n’roll was over. That said, a […]
ROISIN O’CONNOR Eddie Van Halen was the guitarist behind some of the biggest riffs in rock music. Revered by his peers as much as by Van Halen’s own fans, he was a virtuoso who pioneered a number of wild new techniques. “Eddie put the smile back in rock guitar at a time when it was […]
GRAEME ROSS Fifty years since the death of their singer Jim Morrison in a Paris bath tub on 3 July 1971, The Doors continue to divide opinion. Their fans will brook no argument as to the band’s place in history as one of the most imaginative, challenging and influential bands of the rock era. To […]
