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Interview by Dave Simpson: Suggs, singer and songwriter I got sacked from Madness just before we recorded One Step Beyond, still our bestselling album. We used to rehearse on Saturdays, and the band started to get annoyed that I was away every other weekend. I was watching Chelsea! So one day, I was looking through Melody Maker and […]
This excellent broadcast recording preserves a great show performed by The Black Crowes at Los Angeles famous Greek Theatre, in Griffith Park, during their first headlining US tour in the summer of 1991. The band were originally formed in Marietta, Georgia – just two years before – by brothers Rich (guitar) and Chris (vocals) Robinson. […]
The BBC’s list of classical music pieces for teenagers is patronising. Ivan Hewett recommends some alternatives Please click HERE to continue
Originally published 2015 Martin Farrer writes ….. The country legend on the legacy of Gram Parsons, musical labels and why it took her nearly four decades to make records with her pal Rodney Crowell Continues HERE
Alexander Goehr is one of the UK’s most important contemporary composers: a pupil of Messiaen, Goehr rose to prominence along with Peter Maxwell Davies and Harrison Birtwistle, with whom he formed the New Music Manchester group in the 1950s. This month a new recording of three of his works – Marching to Carcassone, When Adam Fell and Pastorals – has […]
Recorded for Radio Broadcast in New York & Boston. Many music critics of the day were not only intrigued but enamoured by Jeff Buckley when his musical career began to take off in the early nineties. Jeff Buckley born in California in 1966 and as the name suggests, he was the son of legendary singer, […]
As a box-set of The Beatles’ US albums is released, Andy Gill laments America’s cavalier approach to the Fab Four’s classics. If George Bernard Shaw was correct in asserting that Britain and America were two countries “separated by a common language”, then the new box set of The US Albums by The Beatles offers the […]
The three surviving members of the Clash tell Andrew Perry why they reunited after 30 years to create a new box set. As the memory of rock’s golden age in the Sixties and Seventies fades, the music of the era’s biggest groups, from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, has attained the status of crown […]
We spend so much time getting our stereo systems to have resolving power, the ability to hear tiny nuance and subtle cues. Yet, is there a point where a system can be too resolving? Is that even possible? View HERE
A 9 CD set comprising all the Island albums by SPOOKY TOOTH, including “Supernatural Fairy Tales” by ART (their earlier incarnation), and many rare and previously unreleased bonus tracks, including a full concert from April 1972, recorded in Germany (DISC NINE). 48-page book. The Island Years is available as a nine-CD box set or an eight-LP collection. All of the albums […]
Simmy Richman He died in 1986 at the age of 36 but fans of Thin Lizzy have had a fair bit to help keep the memory of Phil Lynott alive over the past few years. First there was the republication and updating of his mum Philomena Lynott’s book, My Boy, a bestseller in Ireland. And […]
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How do seven men who can barely be in the same room together remain one of the most enduring groups British music has ever known? The answer is nothing short of Madness”- writes Sheryl Garratt MORE
We are told …. A Farewell to Kings—40th Anniversary second configuration will be released in a three-CD Deluxe Edition, with the newly reasserted A Farewell to Kings album, the Hammersmith Odeon show, the four new cover songs, “Cygnus X-2 Eh” outtake, Hugh Syme’s song-specific artwork and Rob Bowman’s liner notes.
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David Lander (Stereophile magazine) writes: David Chesky, whose company has been making superior recordings for nearly 20 years now, isn’t from the engineering side of the business. He’s talent—a pianist who sometimes performs on his label, a composer of classical and jazz selections integral to its catalog, and an arranger as well. Chesky was born […]
Led by Pete Shelley, Buzzcocks were early entrants to the punk scene, forming in 1976 after the Sex Pistols played their native Manchester. This show from 1990, the year they re-formed after a decade apart, features the classic line up of Shelley, Steve Diggle (guitar), Steve Garvey (bass) and John Maher (drums) and proves their […]
The Ramones made music so fantastically dumb it was a work of genius that inspired a whole generation, says Neil McCormick. Hey ho, they’re gone. The last of the original Ramones, Tommy Erdelyi, has died aged 62, finally bringing to an end the saga of one of the most loved bands in rock and roll […]