While Joni Mitchell had made a few one-off appearances around this time, she hadn’t actually committed to a tour in more than a decade. Secondly, Turbulent Indigo was the revered singer-songwriter’s first album in three years, and first for Reprise since 1971. Mitchell’s informal show in the Griffith Park facility’s Wells Fargo Theater was promoted […]
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From the archives: Elliott Smith killed himself a decade ago this month. Remember him with this 1999 interview from Spin, taken from Rock’s Backpages, the home of online music writing Continue reading HERE
From our archives: We are told: London’s Happy Robots Records has announced they will be releasing the ‘Total Squaresville’ mini-album from synth-electronic crafter Pattern Language. From this collection of six tracks, they are teasing the lead single ‘By Time We Get There’ with a catchy retro video by Cheyene Grow at 75 Ohms. Created using […]
We are told: Questionable sound quality: A 32 track, 3 hour live show from 1974: 1. Love the One You’re With 2. Wooden Shipsness 3. Immigration Man 4. Helpless 5. Military Madnessir 6. Johnny S. Gardendren 7. Only Love Can Break Your Heart 8. Almost Cut My Hair 9. Teach Your Children 10. Only Love […]
In 1940, New York City became the centre of activity for an emerging folk scene. Alongside leading lights such as Lead Belly and Josh White were two white musicians and performers, Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. These artists in particular would become pioneering figures in the redefinition of American Folk, penning their own material in […]
Blur’s first album in 12 years is everything fans could have hoped for, says Helen Brown Please click HERE to continue
The Lumpy Money Project/Object is a compilation album by Frank Zappa. Released posthumously on January 23, 2009, it compiles the releases Lumpy Gravy and We’re Only in It for the Money with previously unreleased material, with the overall package serving as a audio documentary of the production of the two albums, which share conceptual continuity themes. The […]
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Tom Service (The Guardian) writes: Continuing what’s become, I admit, something of a Stockhausen obsession over the last few weeks: news from Robert Worby – composer, sound artist, writer, and one of the presenters of Radio 3’s Hear and Now, the network’s bastion of new music on Saturday nights – about an exclusive broadcast he’ll […]
• Includes the entire KSAN-FM Radio Broadcast • Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality • Background liners In the 1980s, Stevie Nicks enjoyed the most successful solo career of anyone from Fleetwood Mac, with four hit albums and a clutch of chart singles. Recorded shortly after the release of 1989’s The Other Side of […]
“Rock’s great maverick reveals his recording ethos at an LA awards ceremony – read the full transcript here” Neil Young last night was presented with a special award at the Grammys ceremony for producers and engineers at the Village studio complex in Los Angeles – and marked the occasion with a long speech that outlined […]
Cole Moreton writes: The music drops out and the voice of Freddie Mercury is left alone to soar in the speakers. This is the last recording the Queen singer made and is the sound of a man railing against the sickness that would soon kill him. I’m listening to his raw, untreated vocal while standing […]
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They made some of the cleverest and most inventive music of the 70s, but split up at the height of their success. 10cc come together for the first time in 36 years to explain where it went wrong – writes Paul Lester. Forget the Stone Roses’ comeback and the mooted (and denied) Smiths reunion: another […]
Great early years concert by New York’s Talking Heads, recorded at Park West, Chicago in 1978, just three years after their 1975 formation – a must for any fan! Tracks include ‘The Big Country’, ‘Stay Hungry’, ‘Artists Only’, ‘New Feeling’, ‘Don’t Worry About the Government’ & – of course – their first charting single ‘Psycho […]
Legendary singer, songwriter, activist and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joan Baez’ brand new album Whistle Down The Wind . Produced by three time Grammy Award winner Joe Henry and recorded over ten days of sessions in Los Angeles, Whistle Down The Wind gathers material by some of Baez’s favourite composers. Whistle […]
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Trees was a British folk rock band recording and touring throughout 1969, 1970 and 1971, reforming briefly to continue performing throughout 1972. Although the group met with little commercial success in their time, the reputation of the band has grown over the years, and underwent a renaissance in 2007 following Gnarls Barkley’s sampling of the […]
By Trevor Cox Professor of Acoustic Engineering, University of Salford: In preparation for a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Giving up music for Lent, to be broadcast on Monday, I have been trying to avoid all music. This fast is not being done for religious reasons, instead it is about getting an insight into how the […]
Edward Helmore writes: It was summer 1967, midway through the era of drugs, promiscuity and rock’n’roll rebellion. But in the basement of a small house – Big Pink – near Woodstock in upstate New York, Bob Dylan was holed up with his backing band, a group of mostly Canadian dropouts known as the Hawks, inadvertently […]
CDs and LPs; sometimes DVDs too. As editor I get advanced notification of music releases and so I’m sharing it. Primarily Blues, Jazz, Classic and Rock. I make no value judgements here i.e I am merely …. the conduit. Updated pretty much 24/7 HERE Thanks HP
From our archives Jack White has embarked on his first tour as a solo artist after having spent much of his career as member of The White Stripes, The Raconteurs and The Dead Weather. In Nashville, his adopted hometown, the musician has set up shop with his record label Third Man Records. There he not […]
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