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THE GUARDIAN For the past year a Middlesbrough pressing plant has been helping artists make records, and there is no sign of demand slowing down It only received its first pressing machines on Christmas Eve last year, but Press On Vinyl is well on its way to becoming the biggest manufacturer of vinyl records in […]
THE GUARDIAN: Best of the rest: the classical CDs we missed in 2022 We are able to review only a tiny fraction of the albums released each month. From Brahms to Berg, and Pejačević to Sohy, here are 10 recent releases worth going back to Despite more than a decade now of dire predictions of […]
GUITAR MAGAZINE writes ….. After seven decades of performing, the Blues virtuoso’s final trek will take place next year. Blues legend Buddy Guy has announced his retirement from touring, with the guitarist set to initiate his final tour in early 2023. Having begun his extensive career back in the mid-1950s, Buddy Guy has spent over […]
Spotify’s Equalizer Sessions in Germany Help Women Build Lasting Connections What do you get when you bring an impressive collection of women artists, podcasters, and influencers together for dinner? Magic—and an environment that inspires meaningful connections. Spotify has hosted Equalizer events in Europe to combat gender inequality in music for some time. The latest event, […]
ALL MUSIC / ROB CALDWELL The Apprentice was mostly completed a full two years before it was released. Martyn’s record label, Island, rejected the tapes of the songs in 1988, even though artistically they were not too far removed from his previous release, Piece by Piece. In fact, this album turned out to be the […]
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JAZZWISE: Bassist Charles Mingus shook up the jazz world like few others, Kevin Le Gendre assesses his legacy and speaks to contemporary bass stars Christian McBride and Boris Kozlov about his influence Instruments owned by famous musicians have been a staple at auctions for many years. When a rock star guitar goes under the hammer […]
DANIEL ROBSON / THE GUARDIAN Since her father is a longtime music journalist and her mother is a musician, it was inevitable that my 10-year-old daughter would fall in love with music. But I never imagined that the music she would fall in love with would be enka. Enka is often considered “traditional” Japanese music […]
THE GUARDIAN: Sped-up versions of existing songs are becoming more popular than the original versions. But who’s behind the trend? I’m listening to the accelerated, chipmunk voice of the British singer Raye on Escapism, a rebound-sex anthem that’s currently climbing UK pop charts. Raye actually has a low, brassy singing voice, but I’m not listening […]
FRED THOMAS / ALLMUSIC.COM The Cure’s 1989 album Disintegration was the band’s inarguable artistic peak, and surprisingly also their biggest commercial success to date. A rare feat for any group, but especially unexpected when considering how Disintegration abandoned much of the pop excitement the Cure had been working with through the mid-’80s and returned to […]
MARK DEMMING / ALLMUSIC.COM Safe at Home, Gram Parsons’ first full-length album (and the only LP he would record with the International Submarine Band), today sounds like a dry run for the country-rock he would later perfect with the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers; it’s also a major changeup from the psychedelically shaded pop/rock […]
Kevin Le Gendrte / THE INDEPENDENT Chicago is one of the great musical powerhouses of America. Since the Twenties, its Black population has produced colossal talents, such as classical composer Florence Price and soul singer Curtis Mayfield, not to mention any number of jazz pioneers, from Sun Ra to Quincy Jones to Herbie Hancock. Less […]
THE INDEPENDENT / Tim Burgess don’t know why I chose this particular record out of the 3,000 I have at home. But Too-Rye-Ay by Dexys Midnight Runners always been there in my life, ever since I first heard “Come On Eileen” in the summer of 1982, when I was 15 years old. I was a […]
THE GUARDIAN / Andrew Clements It took Maurizio Pollini more than 30 years to complete his recordings of the Beethoven piano sonatas for Deutsche Grammophon. The first instalment of that series, which appeared in 1977, was devoted to the last five sonatas, including magisterial performances of the two paired on this new release, which was […]
THE GUARDIAN / Elle Hunt His greatest songs – ranked As Trouble in Paradise – which gave the world I Love LA – turns 40, we celebrate the satirical singer-songwriter’s best work DETAILS
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THOM DUREK / allmusic.com Who’s Calling is the 16th solo album by guitarist Harvey “Snake” Mandel, and his second for Tompkins Square. He is widely considered one of the most innovative guitarists to emerge from Chicago in the 1960s, alongside icons Charlie Musselwhite, Barry Goldberg, Steve Miller, Michael Bloomfield, Paul Butterfield, and Corky Siegel. Along […]
STEPHEN THOMAS ERLEWINE / allmusic.com Look Long, the title of Indigo Girls’ 15th album, appears to be an imperative to their audience and a creative challenge to themselves — an attempt to look beyond the internal and familiar. Reuniting with producer John Reynolds, who previously produced the duo’s 1999 LP Come On Now Social, Indigo […]