SHAAD D’SOUZA (The Guardian) writes: Posthumous lawsuit brought by Jan Roeg, who worked as a talent scout, alleges a long history of harassment and assault Jan Roeg, a talent scout who worked for Atlantic Records under label founder Ahmet Ertegun from 1984 until the mid 00s, has sued the label and the estate of Ertegun […]
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On the anniversary of the Beatle’s death, Sean Smith celebrates the memory of a man who made a difference not just to music but to the world Read more HERE
She has 11 Grammys, nine major-label albums, university courses studying her work and an unstoppable fandom… so how did Taylor Swift conquer the music industry? Ahead of her 10th record, ‘Midnights’, Zoya Raza-Sheikh explores how Swift’s songwriting is the secret to her success. “Haters gonna hate…” but Taylor Swift’s influence over pop is undeniable. From […]
Why is sexism still tolerated in our industry? We need an immediate and total change in attitudes across the board. Classical music is not dying (pace yet another overly-enthusiastic report at Slate.com) but there are clearly many problems in the industry. Most of them are brought on by those of us in the business […]
Jenny Valentish / The Guardian writes: Hanging Rock, VictoriaCave’s voice has never had so much range – and it was on full display at this outdoor show, filled with delirium and wonder As dusk falls, the animals of Hanging Rock become curious onlookers. Kangaroos sit poised on the race track, watching banks of coaches draw […]
Saxophonist Henry Threadgill: ‘An artist needs to be uncompromising and willing to make sacrifices’ The veteran jazz great talks to Kevin Le Gendre about his new album and upcoming Barbican show, and why great art is imperfect, ‘there’s always something that’s a little bit off’ Read more HERE
Michael Hann: They have put buffalo on hydraulic lifts, made crack-rap cover versions and taken part in Dada-inspired art projects. ZZ Top are the veteran absurdists of 12-bar blues. “We thought: ‘Let’s have a stage the shape of Texas.'” In dark glasses, 10-gallon hat, cowboy boots and – of course – long beard, ZZ Top’s bassist Dusty Hill […]
From the archives As the Cure gear up to headline Reading and Leeds festival, we return to 1993 with Rock’s Backpages – the world’s leading collection of vintage music journalism – and find Robert Smith deep in conversation with Spin magazine MORE
ANDREW CLEMENTS “Seven years have passed since Paul Lewis’s last solo Schubert recording, and this latest collection coincides with his continuing series of Schubert recitals. It groups together the three sonatas of 1825 and 1826 – the earliest of them, in C major D840 just a two-movement torso, the others, in D D850 and G D894, perhaps […]
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/nov/25/frank-zappa-music-documentary-alex-winter
4’33” has made him famous – or should that be notorious? – but listen to his actual music and you’ll hear that there’s a great deal more to John Cage than his ideas. John Cage. A wolf in sheep’s clothing. Not my aphorism, but the epithet of Michael Finnissy, a composer who worked with Cage […]
TOM LAMONT The Scottish folk singer on the perils of having a low public profile and the emotional pain behind his latest album. James Yorkston, who for the past decade has been putting out quietly popular albums of modern folk, is sometimes asked to play at the weddings of his most ardent fans. “Extremely flattering, […]
Charles Shaar Murray: Three changes of dress and a kiss from Lou Reed. The waiters were horrified. Jill and Lyn are 17 and they’re into Bowie. They’ve both seen David working three times in as many weeks. They’ve both got Ziggy Stardust and neither of them like Marc Bolan. Jill says she likes the way […]
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 […]
Originally published May 2015 As a blues man is laid to rest in the Mississippi Delta, questions linger about how he died. Between the white horses and the family intrigue, the thrill is never gone Continues HERE
First published 2015 The HBO film will include dozens of Nirvana songs and performances, as well as previously unheard Cobain originals http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jan/13/kurt-cobain-documentary-montage-of-heck-unheard-music
One day, Bryn Terfel’s eldest son fell asleep at the opera. It was during the first act of Welsh National Opera’s 2010 production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Cardiff. Only when his father came on and started singing as Hans Sachs, did he awaken. “My first line woke him up. He apparently […]
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ROGER NORRINGTON: Who was it who said that two of the most fascinating things in life are sex and the 18th century? Certainly for lovers of classical music it is a century of quite extraordinary riches: beginning with the late baroque joys of Bach and Handel, overseeing the rise of opera, the sonata, string quartet […]
ERICA JEAL: There are two violinists at work on this recording, and it doesn’t take anything away from Vilde Frang’s exhilarating performance to say so. In Beethoven’s concerto there is nothing remotely laboured about her playing, yet her light touch and unfailingly sweet tone is the vehicle for a satisfyingly large-scale interpretation. In the Stravinsky […]
In the archives we found the following: Hugh Masekela kicks off the first of our exclusive live music sessions from the 2012 Womad music festival with a performance of Louis Armstrong’s Rockin’ Chair. Masekela met Armstrong while studying at the Manhattan School of Music in New York in the early 60s, after leaving South Africa […]