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EZRA FURMAN: When Ezra Furman first heard Transformer, Lou Reed’s louche, bristling second album, it was as though she’d found her way out of a locked room. “Who I thought Lou Reed was [when I was] in high school became, like, ‘Oh, I’ll follow that. That’s a way to go.’” The seminal 1972 record – which […]
LAURA SNAPES: Martin Duffy, who played keyboards for Primal Scream and Felt, has died aged 55, his former Charlatans bandmate Tim Burgess has confirmed. Duffy was born in Birmingham on 18 May 1967 and grew up in Rednal. He joined the indie band Felt in 1985 after frontman Lawrence put up a notice in the […]
ALEXIS PATRIDES: As the credits roll on Dance Craze, the impossibly exciting 1981 concert film shot at the height of the 2 Tone movement, the Specials perform Nite Klub. It’s a noticeably different version of the song to the one that appears on their eponymous 1979 debut album. The intro is long and slow, reflecting […]
Dave Davies of Sixties superstars the Kinks talks to Neil McCormick about his ‘new’ album – and the endless feuding with older sibling Ray Davies. “Dave Davies shuffles into a north London café looking more like a tramp than a rock star. A moth-eaten black woollen cap covers a half-bald pate and stringy, flyaway, grey […]
1970-1987 collects the American musician’s solo albums over a 17 year period (the Warner era), starting with his 1970 eponymous debut and calling a halt at 1987′s Get Rhythm. Vinyl replica card sleeves, housed in a clamshell box. Disc: 1 Ry Cooder Disc: 2 Into the Purple Valley Disc: 3 Boomer s Story Disc: 4 […]
An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society, Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency over the past two decades. With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly – and unthinkingly – in thrall to its television screens. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks […]
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This Special Edition 3DVD set brings together three concerts featuring the great Paul Rodgers. Paul Rodgers “Live In Glasgow” was filmed on was filmed on Paul’s solo tour in 2006 and features tracks from across his career. Paul Rodgers & Friends “Live At Montreux1994” was filmed at the famous festival on the tour in support […]
70 YEARS OF THE UK CHARTS – The UK singles chart has been with us for 70 years, which gives Bob Stanley the chance to pick his entirely subjective list of favourite top entries to the hit parade for each year since 1952SIMPLE MINDS – After emerging from the Glasgow punk scene, Jim Kerr and […]
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We are told ….. Kate & Anna McGarrigle appeared on the scene in 1976 with their self-titled debut and a follow-up in 1977. While those two titles have been reissued throughout the years, their third album (which has been out of print since its initial vinyl release) has never been available on CD or digitally. […]
We are told: This is the first posthumous release from Tom Petty and is a career-spanning box set that focuses on Petty as a great songwriter. The compilation includes 8 unreleased songs plus many of Petty’s hits, usually as alternate or live versions. The set also includes some of his lesser known songs – especially […]
Larry Coryell, solo acoustic, Little Center, Clark University, Worchester MA June 23, 1976. By 1976 Larry Coryell was firmly established as one of America’s most accomplished and innovative electric guitarists, and a pioneer of jazz-rock / fusion. However, he was equally talented on the acoustic guitar, as this superb solo live set indicates. Taped for […]
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ALLMUSIC: Conductor Semyon Bychkov was never particularly known as a Mahler interpreter, but that seems to have changed after he ascended the podium at the Czech Philharmonic in 2018. Perhaps, as only the orchestra’s second non-Czech conductor, he wanted to establish a repertory for himself outside the usual Czech fare. In any event, his rendition […]
ALLMUSIC: In July 1973, New York’s Blue Note Records assembled an artists showcase for Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival. The performers included Bobbi Humphrey, Bobby Hutcherson, Ronnie Foster, Marlena Shaw, and Donald Byrd. Following the gigs, the label released a series of albums from them with the same title: Live: Cookin’ with Blue Note at Montreux. […]
ALL MUSIC: After years of departures, solo albums, strange alliances, and rapprochement, Echo & the Bunnymen returned with Ian McCulloch at the helm for 1997’s Evergreen. It’s clear from the first song that the re-formed band is back in all its mysterious, uplifting, and graceful glory. “Don’t Let It Bring You Down” features the best […]
Originally published September 2013 The singer on the influence of Elvis (and his mum), the brilliance of Bruce Hornsby and Bridge Over Troubled Water, and the musician who always turns the most heads at his famous parties Continues HERE
