More rare & unreleased recordings from the archives of The Darlings of Wapping Wharf from 1973 to 1990 – includes the very rare “Funky To The Bone “ track recorded in Germany which has been a holy grail for collectors. Release coincides with the film “Midnight Of My Life” starring Martin Freeman as Steve. […]
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Valérie Lemercier directs and plays both old and young versions of the Canadian singer in a bizarre film that digitally superimposes her face on to the head of a young girl https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/mar/01/aline-review-celine-dion-biopic-valerie-lemercier
This remarkable set was taped at Hollywood’s Palomino club, where the Burritos had a Monday night residency in mid-1969. Featuring country-rock legends Gram Parsons, Chris Hillman and Clarence White, as well as guest vocalist Jimmy Lee Morris, they perform a remarkable cross-section of tracks, including classics from their recently released debut album as well as […]
The American minimalist has fed bales of hay to his piano but it’s his six-hour-plus Well-Tuned Piano that has changed the way we hear music – quite literally. La Monte Young’s magnum opus will have you entranced, bewitched and will change your sensory perceptions of the phenomenon we call music. It is a work for […]
According to Andy Warhol, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes — a concept that has gelled even more with the advent of the Internet. Well, yesterday a humble music store employee got his three-times-five when a series of vids he made called “What it’s really like to work in a music store” suddenly started […]
Two men are trying to save Indian folk music, one haunting song at a time. Andrew Buncombe joins them as they haul their microphones to the farthest reaches of the Thar desert. MORE
HARMONY is a state recognized by great philosophers as the immediate prerequisite of beauty. A compound is termed beautiful only when its parts are in harmonious combination. The world is called beautiful and its Creator is designated the Good because good perforce must act in conformity with its own nature; and good acting according to […]
“The charismatic slide guitar god and Southern rock avatar finally gets his due via a massive career overview… Until now, no guitar great’s career has been as under-represented as has that of Duane Allman, who packed a lifetime’s worth of music into seven intensive and wildly productive years. Previous efforts to compile Allman’s […]
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Since LPs are built around older technology do they actually sound best when played on the same vintage equipment as they were originally designed for? Watch Now
Dorian Lynskey writes: Thirty years ago this month, Dire Straits released their fifth album, Brothers in Arms. En route to becoming one of the best-selling albums of all time, it revolutionised the music industry. For the first time, an album sold more on compact disc than on vinyl and passed the 1m mark. Three years […]
The entire original US TV and KLOL-FM, KWN-FM and MTV Broadcasts Covering live performances from The Beacon Theater (1974), The Summit (1976), The Forum (1980) and Burbank (1994). Professionally re-mastered with background liners and rare archival photos. This 7-disc set presents four historic broadcast performances by one of America’s most successful and best-loved bands, at […]
Si Hawkins: Just a few minutes into a perfectly good-natured chat with Justin Currie, I suddenly feel the need to make an embarrassing, tone-altering admission. Currie was, and soon will be again, the lead singer of Del Amitri, a band seemingly destined never to be hip, and an easy target for those of us who […]
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Fiona Maddocks writes ….. Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto remains puzzlingly underplayed, a neoclassical masterpiece dating from 1931. The composer worried that, as a non-violinist, he wasn’t equipped to write idiomatically. It’s certainly fiercely hard, opening with big, strident chords and exploiting the instrument’s staccato brilliance. The inner movements, Arias I and II, are more song-like, mysterious […]
A 4CD, 34-track career retrospective set that examines the totality of Hancock’s work on the Columbia label, presented in a hardback book format case. CD1 and CD2 draw on the late 70s/early 80s work done with V.S.O.P, CD3 focuses more heavily on Hancock’s electric work and the final disc is represents the music of Hancock […]
From the archives ….. The British singer-songwriter talks to Francesca Ryan about her new album Sugaring Season, motherhood and cooking with her nose. MORE
World Party’s Karl Wallinger tells Graeme Thomson what kept him afloat after a devastating brain aneurysm. In 1997 World Party released a song called She’s the One. A simple, affecting piano ballad written by Karl Wallinger “in 10 minutes and recorded in about an hour”, it should have been a huge hit. And it […]
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Ray Davies says he is delighted to be in the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame as he tells the Hay Festival of his tempestuous times with The Kinks and how they were banned in America – and Wales Please click HERE to continue
Bob Stanley writes: One of the reasons I wanted to write Yeah Yeah Yeah is because it didn’t already exist. There wasn’t a book that followed pop music’s development from the start of the 1950s, when the introduction of vinyl records, the “hit parade”, the weekly music press and the Dansette – the first portable […]
Metroplis writes: What is audio mastering? It is the final stage of the production process and the last opportunity to check, correct and enhance your music before it’s released to the world. Here at Metropolis Mastering we have the skills, equipment and experience to realise the potential in your recordings and take them to the […]
\In 1994, Sarajevo was a city under siege. Mortars and rocket-propelled grenades rained onto the city, killing indiscriminately every day. Amongst the madness, two United Nations personnel, a British military officer and another Brit working for the UN fire department, decided it would be fun to persuade a global rock star, Bruce Dickinson of Iron […]