The Allman Brothers – Manley Field House, Syracuse, NY (2CD)

Having bravely regrouped after the shattering blow of Duane Allman’s death in October 1971, in 1972 the Allman Brothers hit the road with a vengeance. Featuring tracks from all the albums they’d released so far, this superb set was broadcast on WNEW-FM, and finds them on dizzying form, firmly on their way to becoming America’s […]

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Musical acoustics – a very useful guide

Musical acoustics or music acoustics is a branch of acoustics concerned with researching and describing the physics of music – how sounds are employed to make music. Examples of areas of study are the function of musical instruments, the human voice (the physics of speech and singing), computer analysis of melody, and in the clinical […]

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ANGRY: Who’s a famous singer whose music is so bad that it genuinely makes you angry?

CHRIS GIESBRECHT suggests Harry Styles: “Do they let him write his own songs? They need to stop him from doing that. His first single as a solo artist made me angry at the whole concept of music. It was the most insipid, vapid, uninspired, cliche-riddled garbage I’ve ever heard. I know nothing about him or […]

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ROGER WATERS: Amused To Death (CD+Blu-ray)

  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 […]

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Miles Davis – The Last Word – The Warner Bros. Years (8CD Box Set)

 In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Bros.. He immediately started working on an album called ‘Perfect Way’ after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed ‘Tutu’ by producer Tommy LiPuma. When ‘Tutu’ (a tribute to Desmond Tutu) was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis’ career, crossing […]

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Rolling Stones – From The Vault Live At The Tokyo Dome 1990 (Blu-ray)

We are told ….. From The Vault series continues with Live at the the Tokyo Dome a Japanese performance from 1990 during the Steel WheelsWorld Tour. Remarkably, the ten shows in February of that year were the first concerts the band ever performed in Japan. This audio was previously available for download in 2012 via the Stones Archive but this is the first physical […]

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NEW RELEASE: The Monochrome Set / Allhallowtide

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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GORDON LIGHTFOOT: WIOQ-FM Philadelphia 1979 – 1980 (CD)

Legendary Performance at the PBS Soundstage by the “Canadian National Treasure” in 1979. Includes the entire WIOQ-FM broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners Canada’s greatest and most recognised songwriter Gordon Lightfoot is also known internationally as a folk-rock legend who has inspired a healthy following of such enthusiasts within a mainstream […]

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STEVE JOBS: The iTunes Music Store: The Unpublished Interview

On April 28th, 2003, moments before I was about to interview Steve Jobs at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, I was jittery. Anticipation? Nerves? Excitement? You bet. All of those visceral emotions were firing. Knowing Jobs’ storied reputation as an irascible and exacting Silicon Valley CEO had me on edge. But I had prepared a tight […]

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