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“After three years of righteous punk anger, the Clash were ready for a change. 1976’s Year Zero was fast receding, overtaken by the group’s booming status as international rock stars. Recorded during 1979’s hothouse summer, London Calling was to prove their magnum opus, the album that established them as masters of rock, rather than inspired […]

Tim Cumming writes:  I’m due to meet him in a Russian tea room in Primrose Hill, but find the man instead in the local wine shop, pondering the chiller cabinet. Across the road, there’s a café crowded with a half dozen pavement-cramming prams. He makes a joke about fertility cults – you could say he […]

Sound On Sound write ….. With the final programme for Loop — Ableton’s music summit — being announced, we took the opportunity to catch up with one of the artists on the roster. We talk to Berlin-based Italian minimalist electronic artist, Caterina Barbieri whose 2017 record Patterns of Consciousness has received critical acclaim and even been named […]

Interviews by Dave Simpson.  Paul Weller / In 1981, I was going through a few changes. I was taking note of what was going on in our country. When you’re touring, you’re often in your own bubble, but we were going around the country seeing firsthand what was happening. It was the start of the […]

• Includes the entire WMMS-FM broadcast • Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality • Background linersAt the end of 1983, Cyndi Lauper was on the verge of rising to superstardom. Her debut album had been released just two months before this December 14, 1983 concert, and the following year, it would spawn several massive […]

3 DISC SET FEATURING LIVE NIRVANA BROADCASTS FROM 7 DIFFERENT PERFORMANCES This three CD set consists of Nirvana at their very best, performing live on various occasions across theirshort but dynamic career. Featuring live broadcasts from; 1987 in Olympia W.A. for KAOS FM community radio while in the very earliest incarnation; 1991 at Del Mar […]

  Stereophile write:  By 1986, when his Pacific Music had become the biggest international classical distributor in Southeast Asia, Heymann envisioned a budget-priced CD label that would offer his Southeast Asian customers classical CDs at the same price as LPs. Naming the new label Naxos, after the Greek island long associated with art and culture, […]

The list of things Lou Reed pretty much invented in rock music could last for a very long time – here are five Continue

Nina Simone was one of the most original artists of the 20th Century, a unique talent whose music transcends most of the pigeonholes that make up the predominantly genre led world of popular music. This collection presents her first four albums between 1958 and 1960 and includes her international hit “My Baby Just Cars For […]

  Merrill Reed Weiner writes: In the coming weeks, my brother, Lou Reed, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer, an honor celebrating his incredible impact upon the world of music. Since his passing from liver disease in 2013, there have been many accolades, articles, and ruminations […]

From our archives …. Former Dire Straits frontman Mark Knopfler talds about seventh solo album, Privateering, and plays a sample from one of his songs. MORE

From the archives:  “On the morning of 21 September 1966, a Pan Am airliner from New York landed at Heathrow, carrying among its passengers a black American musician from a poor home. Barely known in his own country and a complete stranger to England, he had just flown first class for the first time in […]

“Bryan Ferry is a contradictory man. His public image is dashing and debonair, the natural pop star with a beautiful woman on his arm. But does the miner’s son feel at home in the elite circles in which he moves? Or is he happiest when he is on his own making music?” MORE

  From our archives …. Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell’s new album, The Traveling Kind, follows the longtime friends’ first duet album, 2013’s Old Yellow Moon, which won Best Americana Album at the 56th annual Grammy Awards as well as two awards at the 2013 Americana Music Association Honors & Awards Show, for Album of […]

Sarfraz Manzoor asks” Fans of Woody Guthrie’s music include everyone from Bob Dylan to Barack Obama but, exactly 100 years after his birth, isn’t it time to separate the man from the myth?”    New York City, February 23, 1940. In a dingy hotel room near Times Square sits Woody Guthrie. He is 27 years […]