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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
GRAMOPHONE Liszt’s piano music, with Alexander Ullman Alexander Ullman’s new album featuring Liszt’s Piano Concertos Nos 1 and 2 and the Sonata in B Minor, is released today on Rubicon Classics. For this week’s episode of the Gramophone Podcast, the Award-winning pianist joined Editor Martin Cullingford to explore this extraordinary music, its beauty and its […]
Feature length DVD film, over 140 mins. Including live performance footage of: Oh Well, Albatross, Black Magic Woman, Man of the World, and many more. Over two hours of incredible, honest and under the skin footage shot as a feature and delivering a definitive insight into the life of Peter Green and those that surrounded […]
THE INDEPENDENT The row between former bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters has roared back into life after an extraordinary attack from Gilmour’s partner and Floyd lyricist, Polly Samson. Ed Power delves into a decades-long feud that’s incorporated everything from liner notes to Russia’s war on Ukraine Brick by brick, the feud between Pink Floyd’s […]
The passionate, hard-driving blues song “Dust My Broom” has been filling dance floors and exhilarating listeners for more than 60 years. The song’s been covered by countless performers – a quick search on youtube turns up versions by Robert Johnson, Elmore James, Howlin’ Wolf, B.B. King, The Yardbirds, Fleetwood Mac, Johnny Winter, Canned Heat, Ike and […]
Gary Gomes, Current Musician, Vedic Astrologer at Self-Employment Noel was a guitar player first and actually thought he was auditioning for the New Animals. Hendrix hired him mainly because he liked his hair! In fairness to Redding, he actually did a very good job for Hendrix considering his lack of experience (pun intended). Redding actually […]
Herbie Hancock featuring Jaco Pastorius, live at Ivanhoe Theater, Chicago, February 16th 1977. By 1977 Herbie Hancock was firmly established as America’s leading purveyor of jazz-funk. This superb performance finds him playing with Weather Report’s legendary bassist Jaco Pastorius, as well as Bennie Maupin (tenor sax / bass clarinet) and James Levi (drums). […]
MOJO: “Writing was hard, recording was hard, everything about it was like pulling teeth…” So said Donald Fagen of Gaucho, finally released in November 1980 after a litany of problems that included label spats, endless re-takes and a $150,000 bespoke-built drum machine called Wendel. There was tragedy, too: Walter Becker’s girlfriend died of an overdose […]
Morrissey has announced a new album, and it’s up for grabs to any label who wants it. News of his forthcoming release, titled Without Music The World Dies, was shared via the musician’s Messages from Morrissey website on Monday (20 February). According to the former Smiths frontman, the new record was recorded in ….. MORE
When Flying Nun announced in 1983 that it was going to issue a new live album by the renowned Mancunian outfit the Fall, the news came as a bit of a surprise. The label had positioned themselves as advocates for New Zealand underground music and here it was doing a live record from a prominent […]
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THE GUARDIAN: John Lydon has said he is competing to represent Ireland at this year’s Eurovision song contest primarily in order to raise awareness of Alzheimer’s disease. The former Sex Pistols frontman (once known as Johnny Rotten) will appear with his band, Public Image Ltd, on the Late Late Show on 3 February, performing Hawaii, […]
For the first 10 months of 2022, it seemed that British musical life was returning to some kind of normality. But that was to reckon without the decisions of the one organisation in this country whose sole reason for existence is to nurture and encourage the arts throughout England. It was generally accepted that there […]
BBC: David Bowie fans will get an unprecedented look into his life, work and legacy after the V&A museum acquired the star’s extensive archive. The collection includes more than 80,000 letters, lyrics, photos, stage designs, music awards and costumes. It also features several instruments owned by the musician, including the Stylophone he played on his […]
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON AT 50 – To celebrate a half-century of one of rock’s landmark releases, we talk to many of those that were there on its release, revisit (often underwhelmed) contemporary reviews and look at the most collectable incarnations of a record that, well, eclipsed all before it on its release […]
We are told: THE COMPLETE SHOW RECORDED AT THE MARQUEE LONDON IN 1973 The 1980 Floor Show (a pun on the song ‘1984’) was the first appearance by David Bowie since his much publicized retirement on 3rdJuly 1973 at the Hammersmith Odeon. It was also to be his last appearance as Ziggy Stardust The show […]