‘Damon wasn’t comfortable doing the verses – he just couldn’t get into character’ Modern Life Is Rubbish [Blur’s second album] was overlooked because of the rise of grunge, but we were halfway to somewhere, and with Parklife we arrived. The album was the convergence of a lot of influences: Alex [James, bassist] wanted to be […]
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In an interesting interview at CEPro, Alan Parsons, the man who engineered Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon and yes, had his own Project, says that room acoustics are far more important than audiophile gear. In fact, the interview led one Slashdot commenter to post this fine quip: “Audiophiles don’t use their equipment to […]
Steve Guttenberg (Stereophile) writes: Classical and jazz notwithstanding, an awful lot of new music is highly compressed, processed, and harsh, and it’s about time we got used to it. Musicians, producers, and engineers are, in large part, on board with the sound, and any suggestion of making less-compressed recordings, with a wider dynamic range, is […]
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While Neil Young remains, arguably, the finest composer of the singer-songwriter generation, he has never been shy in revealing the musicians and songwriters from whom he took most inspiration and by whom he was most reliably informed. It s no secret therefore that Young has always remained a huge Bob Dylan fan, and while, like […]
Mary Chapin Carpenter seems to have been in a reflective mood in recent years. In 2014, she brought out the album Songs from the Movie, in which she re-recorded ten numbers from her back catalog, and 2018 sees the release of Sometimes Just the Sky, where she takes another look at 12 tunes from her […]
Bob Dylan has given one lucky TV presenter a one-on-one performance. But in an age of social media, are we ever truly alone? Please click HERE to continue reading
Blues in Britain writes: Here’s the unexpurgated extended version of the interview with Beth Hart from this month’s magazine: Platinum-selling singer Beth Hart was in London to promote Don’t Explain, her album of soul covers with Joe Bonamassa. She spoke to Moray Stuart of Blues In Britain about that, her career so far and her […]
Martin Chilton writes: It’s rather funny to think that it was a middle-aged man who wrote the lyrics that stirred up a generation of teenagers in the Fifites. When Philadelphia-born Max C Friedman penned the words ‘One, Two, Three O’clock, Four O’clock rock’ as the opening line of a novelty number, he’d have had no […]
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“You seen this thing called Shazam?” Ray Davies asks. “I tried it last week.” Sat in a quiet corner of a restaurant in Muswell Hill (where else?), the Kinks legend speaks in a husky, north London murmur, frequently turning the conversation around so he’s the one asking questions: “Where are you from? What do your parents […]
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Nick Dureden writes: There is a lot of fun to be had in listening to Donovan’s latest greatest hits offering, Donovan: Retrospective, released to mark his 50th anniversary in music. Though essentially a facsimile of his many and varied hits collections over the years, his songs remain sublimely evocative of the era from which they […]
In the late 1970s Morton Feldman established an ensemble, Morton Feldman and Soloists, at the university in Buffalo, New York, where he taught. Feldman was one of its pianists, and the group’s repertoire naturally included a number of his own works, but it also ranged from Satie to Xenakis, Kurt Schwitters to Toru Takemitsu. […]
01 Dirty Blvd. 02 Endless Cycle 03 Last Great American Whale 04 Beginning Of A Great Adventure 05 Busload Of Faith 06 I Love You, Suzanne 07 One For My Baby (And One More For The Road) 08 Doin’ The Things That We Want To 09 Rock ‘N’ Roll 10 Video Violence 11 The Original […]
After reforming in the Spring of 1999 with two of the original three members, Blue Cheer have toured constantly in Europe and America. Now for the first time, a new studio recording truly represents the power of the band that ushered in the beginnings of heavy metal rock. Not since their historic recording of “Summertime […]
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Format: 140 gram LP – clear RED vinyl in transparent PVC sleeve with BLUE lettering (limited edition 500 copies) Blues Creation was formed in 1969 by Japanese ax-hero Kazuo Takeda, along with fellow guitarist Koh Eiryu and singer Fumio Nunoya (later of Dew). Initially influenced by the likes of The Yardbirds and Cream, group mastermind […]
Even with a career that has brought us an incredible twenty-one studio albums, British folk legends Steeleye Span’s history still includes a number of records that stand out as landmarks. 1974’s Now We Are Six was one such moment, an album that saw the band expand both their line up to a six piece and […]
Back in the ‘70s, when I worked in hi-fi retail, I bought the EMI 3LP reissue of Otto Klemperer’s mono Beethoven recordings from the 1950s. I then made the mistake of playing one of the discs in the shop. Bad move. Customers and staff started pulling faces at the ‘poor’ quality of the sound. And, […]
We are told: “Wacken Open Air quickly grew its reputation as the most important metal festival in continental Europe. A peaceful gathering of metal fans coming from all over the world. Long hair, leather clothes, mud and a lot of fun for what seems to be the closest music to resemble the spirit of festivals […]
Fantasy Music League, Group A: The Carpenters I love the Carpenters. Their beautifully crafted songs however, regrettably, remain deeply unfashionable, seemingly imprisoned forever within the impenetrable bunkers of ‘easy listening’ radio stations. Nonetheless, if you listen to ‘Singles 1969 – 1981’ (2005) on hybrid CD/SACD (produced for SACD by Richard Carpenter), it is a stunningly […]
The legendary songwriter on Janis Joplin, being ‘the voice of cosmic America’ and Croz, his first solo album in 20 years. Paul Lester interviews: Hello David, how are you? I’m fine (1). I’m in California right now, out in the country, in a place called Santa Barbara. How was your recent solo gig? Great. I […]
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