Following its antecedent by less than a year, World Beyond is a track-by-track orchestrated version of Erasure’s 2017 album, World Be Gone. The band last did something like this in 1987 on a handful of tracks from The Two Ring Circus, a companion LP to their second album, The Circus. A re-recording more than a […]
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Winning a classical music competition is not just down to the performer’s musical prowess, a new study suggests. An artist’s stage presence could be even more important when it comes to evaluating a recital. The research, published in the PNAS journal, found that people shown silent videos of piano competitions could pick out the […]
A very fine piece here that requires no comment from me. It comes from Downbeat Magazine. Looks like an excellently put together and vibrant magazine judging from their site. I’m certainly going to bookmark this one. Please click HERE for the whole story Find a music retailer HERE
Recorded live at the Danish Radio Concert Hall, Copenhagen in 2010. It is a little known fact that Charlie Watts lived for a few months in Denmark in the early 1960’s. This was in the early days of the Stones and at the time the band were not an established entity, so Charlie was still […]
My favourite rock drummer is, without question, Dave Lombardo. He is quite the versatile musician; collaborations with the outstanding composer and jazz artist John Zorn, the experimental group Fantomas and the 1999 album, ‘Vivaldi: The Meeting’ by Lorenzo Arruga, Dave Lombardo & Friends (Luca Avanzi (oboe), Mauro Scappini (flute) and Ottavio Dantone (harpsichord)) clearly showcase […]
SUSAN SCOTT … Well, it rather depends who you ask I suppose. There have certainly been enough people over the years who’ve suggested that he can be a bit `overbearing’ when it comes to his creative process, including his former band mates. I suppose you also have to wonder why at least four women have […]
Steve Guttenberg writes …. Listening to your favorite band’s recordings as if they were live in the room with you seems like a great idea, but is it attainable? Continues HERE
We are told: Don Felder carries the grand reputation as being one of the most accomplished guitarists ever in the world of classic rock. As a longtime member of The Eagles, as well as his axe wielding work with The Bee Gees, Stevie Nicks, Crosby & Nash, and many others superstar outings, his continuing impact […]
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Wes Montgomery (1925-1968) was one of the most revered guitarists in jazz history. ‘The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery’ marked his third album as a leader, following ‘Montgomeryland’ (1958) and ‘The Wes Montgomery Trio’ (1959).‘The Incredible Jazz Guitar Of Wes Montgomery’ was widely praised on release and received a five-star rating in Down Beat […]
We are told: L.A.’s Synth-sexy LUCKYandLOVE Announce Debut LP, Preview Single ‘Digging in the Earth’ FOR FANS OF: Phantogram, Ladytron, Glass Candy, Chromatics, Broadcast, Le Tigre, Marnie FOCUS TRACKS: Digging in the Earth, Sexy, Full Moon, Taureon, Venus FOR SHARING Digging In The Earth https://youtu.be/x9Kyj-Emj8M Sexy https://youtu.be/_H5mV3WjV60 Bandcamp https://luckyandlove.bandcamp.com/album/lucky-love Digging in the Earth https://soundcloud.com/luckyandlove/digging-in-the-earth-1 —//— […]
Iggy Pop tackled the thorny question of free music in a capitalist society, says Pete Naughton Four years ago, the BBC began a yearly lecture series in commemoration of John Peel, their late – and sorely missed – musical discoverer-in-chief. Its remit, according to the official blurb, was to “shape a debate and create insight […]
Information Taken from American Songwriter Here, Cooder explains each song, from “Mutt Romney Blues” to “Take Your Hands Off It,” a track he co-wrote with his son Joachim. 1. Mutt Romney Blues: Reverend Al Sharpton said, “How he treated his dog tells you a lot about him.” Where did Mitt Romney learn that hollow laugh […]
Iestyn Davies is in demand as a recitalist, opera singer and West End star. But, says Lindsay Kemp, now with a Bach disc to add to his name, this countertenor still has his feet firmly on the ground Continues HERE
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We are told: Psych-Gaze Outfit Clustersun Announces Sophomore Album, Previews First Single ‘Raw Nerve’ FOR LOVERS OF: Nothing, Whirr, Bauhaus, The Cure, Pink Floyd, The Chameleons, A Place to Bury Strangers LEAD TRACKS: Raw Nerve, Lonely Moon, Don’t Let The Weight of Your Soul Drag You Down, Emotional Painkiller FOR SHARING Surfacing to Breathe […]
My response: I have no idea, and not much interest in find out but, that said, it’s a reasonable question and so I found the following from Richard Misiano-Genovese “All Things Must Pass” had to be the make or break solo debut for Harrison or it would have ended right there for him. He was […]
Partly because of Donald Fagen’s reluctance to sing onstage, partly due to he and Walter Becker’s perfectionism, and partly because thepairs compositions and arrangements were so complex – requiring all manner of studio hardware to reproduce – Steely Dan played veryfew live concerts during their early career, indeed by the middle of 1974 they had […]
The perfect introduction to Tchaikovsky’s music, featuring recordings by Herbert von Karajan, Martha Argerich, Mstislav Rostropovich, Julia Fischer, Valery Gergiev and many more Continues HERE
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/25/axing-courtney-pine-music-a-level-schools-black-stories-pearson-edexcel
This is part of the Prestige Records 50th Anniversary Special Commemorative Edition series. These five tracks, recorded in the 1950s and reissued in 2006, feature Thelonious Monk and Sonny Rollins–two of the era’s most progressive musicians–on the stand together. The interplay between Monk’s skeletal, idiosyncratic, yet strangely logical playing and Rollins’s full, rich tone and […]
From the mid-1970s the humble 7-inch vinyl single was joined by a much grander relative – the 12-inch single. It reached its peak in 1983 with Blue Monday by New Order, probably the biggest selling 12-inch single of all time. Music Journalist and co-founder of ZTT Records, Paul Morley visits the Factory Club in Manchester […]
This 2-CD-set contains the full show, recorded on September 1st, 1993. Official FM Broadcast. CD 101 Royal Scam / Bad Sneakers / Aja (instrumental)02 Green Earrings03 Bodhisattva04 I.G.Y.05 Josie06 Hey Nineteen07 Book Of Liars08 Chain Lightning09 Band Intro10 Green Flower Street11 Home At Last12 Black Friday CD 201 Deacon Blues02 Tomorrows Girl03 Babylon Sisters04 […]
Alexis Petridis writes: “First came the drugs, then the voices. Brian Wilson’s brain has taken a battering. Alexis Petridis tries to get inside the complicated mind of a musical legend. I meet Brian Wilson in the tiny, windowless conference room of a Mayfair hotel, where he is promoting his latest series of British […]