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ALEX JOHNSON writes … One of my strongest connections with any band ever involved falling for Talking Heads in 1985, via Stop Making Sense, an album we now know to have been quite heavily touched up after the fact—although the 1999 re-released version removed a lot of those touches. I remember noticing that Bernie Worrell’s […]
Thomas J. Beaver writes … As usual, there’s a short version, and a long version. Short version — that’s John. He perceives that he’s being challenged, so he comes back with the most cutting thing he can think of (in this case, verbally slapping George in the face, that they’ll get the very guy George […]
Kate Molleson writes ….. William Byrd was a Catholic in the service of an Anglican monarch; Benjamin Britten was a gay pacifist in second world war England. It never hurts to remember how many of the artists we end up deifying faced some kind of bigotry in their day. This album presents the two composers […]
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We are told ….. The Beatles played five residencies in Hamburg between 1960 and 1962, the last of which is captured here in December of 1962, just a few months after Ringo Starr replaced Pete Best and finalized the lineup that would soon be known as The Fab Four. The group would soon be signed […]
Jazz’s timeline and the iconic figures of each of its successive stylistic movements are well known to aficionados. Less well understood, however, are the underlying conditions that created these changes. Advances in recording technologies, social trends, radio, the incursion of pop and rock, and socio-political factors all played major roles in shaping the evolution of […]
Born Saul Hudson in Hampstead, London, in 1965, and spending his early years in Stoke-on-Trent, he moved to Los Angeles around the age of five and subsequently adopted the stage name Slash. After playing in a number of LA bands, in 1985 he decided to join a bunch of old musician friends who had just […]
Martin Chilton writes as follows: A new book remembers the best of Britain’s Sixties folk clubs and troubadours. It was a world of smoky entertainment, social freedom and suspected communism. Ewan MacColl used to eat his home-made sandwiches on stage. “I put a stop to that,” recalls MacColl’s wife, Peggy Seeger. “Some of the audience […]
Ed Romanoff’s songwriting is impressive on this debut album which features a duet with Mary Gauthier. And Gauthier appears on an another fine slice of Americana by the sweet-voiced Ben Glover. The songwriting on Ed Romanoff’s self-titled debut album is high-calibre, unsurprisingly for a musician who was a recent winner in both the International Songwriting […]
C. J. Skamarakas writes … After the success of Tommy, Pete Townshend was working on a new concept album called Lifehouse. But the project was going nowhere and the rest of the band didn’t understand what it was supposed to be about. Meanwhile, however, Pete had written several excellent songs for Lifehouse. The Who decided […]
JIM CASEY: Happened at a Neil Young concert I was at about 15 years ago. Loved his music, but had never had the opportunity to see him live so this was special. He was doing a mix of his newer songs and old and finally got to Heart of Gold, one of his best and […]
Even in the 70s, with Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, James Sclavunos was in awe of the ELP man’s showmanship. Here, the Bad Seeds’ drummer makes the case for Keith http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2016/mar/14/bad-seeds-james-sclavunos-keith-emerson-lake-palmer-elp
Amazing performance at the Jazz Workshop, Boston Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners Amazingly, Larry Coryell’s Eleventh House were somewhat overshadowed at the time by fusion counterparts such as Weather Report, Return To Forever and the Mahavishnu Orchestra. However, the dynamics and interaction on display here feature not […]
They report: NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Concert series hosts one of the brightest piano talents of his generation NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series on YouTube is an outstanding way to explore new music from all genres, and has hosted the likes of Iestyn Davies, Hilary Hahn and the Danish String Quartet in the past. The […]
Many fans of rock music will be familiar with the works of the Ramones and The New York Dolls. The Ramones, in particular, have become punk icons. You can buy a Ramones T-shirt in Primark (yes, I do shop there!), though I would hazard a guess that most purchasers of said T-shirt would be unable […]
Songwriter Jimmy Webb recalls recording the somewhat infuriating suite with actor Richard Harris, and the real story behind leaving that cake out in the rain The lyrics to MacArthur Park infuriate some people. “Someone left the cake out in the rain/ I don’t think that I can take it/ ‘Cause it took so long to […]
The show featured on this CD is the band s performance at the Texas International Pop Festival held at Lewisville, Texas, over Labor Day weekend, August 30 to September 1, 1969. It took place two weeks after Woodstock. The site for the event was an open field just south and west of the newly opened […]
TOM RYUGO …. Janis Joplin (1943–1970). A popular and influential singer, member of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Why wouldn’t she make it today? Janis Joplin, like it or not, wasn’t drop-dead gorgeous. Like it or not, for the past 40 odd years, the music industry has insisted that female singers be sex […]
We are told ….. Ted Horowitz / Popa Chubby born March 31st 1960 is a survivor. A product of the streets of New York City he cut his teeth on the hard edged urban sounds of the big apple. Along the way he came to realise that you must make your own name and you […]
Andrew Clements writes ….. Even Schumann’s greatest admirers – and I’d count myself among them – would never claim that his choral music is the most significant or rewarding part of his output. But Scenes from Goethe’s Faust, which he worked on for a decade and completed in 1853, a few months before his final […]
“Holiday shopping can be exhausting. And stressful. But a new video making the rounds on YouTube shows a smiling, if somewhat surprised crowd of shoppers after Yo-Yo Ma begins to perform at a downtown Chicago mall on Tuesday night. The setting is the Shops at North Bridge, a glossy mall on Chicago’s Magnificent Mile. At […]