by Tim Sendra [-] The Monochrome Set’s 2022 album Allhallowtide finds the long-running group right in the middle of a late-career hot streak. Starting with 2012’s Platinum Coils, their first album made after singer/songwriter Bid’s stroke, the group have released one fine album after another on a biannual schedule. Each record is filled with sophisticated chord […]
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Valérie Lemercier directs and plays both old and young versions of the Canadian singer in a bizarre film that digitally superimposes her face on to the head of a young girl https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/01/aline-review-celine-dion-biopic-valerie-lemercier
Featuring outstanding new albums released today by Sonya Yoncheva, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Danish Quartet, Gil Shaham, Arcangelo, Tara Erraught and more DETAILS
We are told … Michael Veitch’s “Wachtraum,” (which means “Wake Dream”) is available in all digital and physical stores and by mail order c/o www.michaelveitch.com/michael-veitch-store. “Valentine’s Day,” a co-write with Michael’s long-time recording engineer Julie Last, is the album’s first single. Watch a lyric video at www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xLaHAnvO8E. Folking’s Bill Golembeski says the song “is upbeat and pushes the pop-o-meter […]
Recorded live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen in 2010. It is a little known fact that Charlie Watts lived for a few months in Denmark in the early 1960’s. This was in the early days of the Stones and at the time the band were not an established entity, so Charlie was still […]
Interview ‘I feel admonished for being myself’: Yseult, the chanson singer riling the French establishment Marta Represa The Parisian singer’s take on traditional variété française includes confrontations with mental health, body image and bondage – and her challenge has struck a nerve MORE
Written by Jay Jay French First off, I hope many of you are listening to my new Podcast called The Jay Jay French Connection: Beyond the Music (available on Spotify, Apple Music and Podcastone.com) Great topics, great guests, and my new book, Twisted Business: Lessons From my Life in Rock n Roll is coming out […]
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Her mother blackmailed her, her husband Giovanni Battista Meneghini stole from her, and shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis was violent and abandoned her for Jackie Kennedy. Soprano Maria Callas was adored by audiences worldwide but she never knew real love offstage, and her life was even more tragic than previously realised, according to research. In writing […]
More cohesive than many a posthumous release, Allen’s legacy is well-served here, especially on the more experimental tracks MORE
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“Guardian writers fish out their favourite lesser-known tracks of the year from an emotional ballad to mellow rap” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/dec/26/the-best-songs-of-2021-that-you-havent-heard
Over the last decade and more, no Lieder recitals have given me more intense pleasure than those by the tenor Christoph Prégardien. Though he is now in his mid 60s, and his voice has inevitably lost some of its former bloom and flexibility with age, this Brahms disc, recorded in 2020, confirms that the sheer […]
“A shivering seabed of sound, haunted by barely there vocals and stitched together with lo-fi production – McElroy has made a beautiful early year listen” https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/jan/14/ben-mcelroy-how-i-learnt-to-disengage-from-the-pack-review
Over the coming week, the Guardian will select the greatest culture since 2000, carefully compiled by critics and editors. We begin with a countdown of defining classical music compositions, from X-rated opera to high-tech string quartets https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/sep/12/best-classical-music-works-of-the-21st-century
Carlos Santana, Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young also appear in 26 minutes of home video at event that marked end of hippy dream Twenty-six minutes of unseen footage of the vast and notoriously violent Altamont music festival held in northern California in 1969 have been unexpectedly uncovered. The […]
