This 4CD box set lovingly documents the final musical years of a true legend, a great songwriter, musician, and formidable frontman. Steve Marriott was sadly taken from us prematurely at the age of 44 on the 30th April 1991. Vocalist and guitarist in such great bands as Small Faces and Humble Pie, Steve clearly had […]
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“Vladimir Ashkenazy was interviewed by John Stratford and John Riley in October 1991 while travelling by car to his hotel from Walthamstow Town Hall, where he had spent the day rehearsing the Eighth Symphony with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. This interview, conducted shortly before the attempted Communist coup which, backfiring, brought Boris Yeltsin to power, […]
8CDs, Collectors Box Set with 16 Page Full Colour Booklet with Background Liners and Rare Images Exhilarating live performances across 4 decades of Bob Dylan masterpieces Includes broadcasts from various radio stations, including WBAI-FM, WNBC-FM and others. Since coming to prominence in 1962, Bob Dylan has never ceased to create and innovate, his remarkable songwriting […]
From our archives: 6 title (8 disc) box set in hardboard outer slipcase includes download. “30 years of Giant Sand way back when it seemed like a long spans. but no. just a blink of the eye. the flutter of the lid seems like it’s in a slow-motion wow, but any motion is in fast-forward […]
First published April 2017 Canadian artist says ‘all songs should cost the same, regardless of digital resolution’ http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/neil-young-xstream-streaming-service-pono-tidal-jay-z-music-quality-a7698676.html
Born in Russia, Horowitz emigrated in 1925 and in 1939 made his home in New York. His technical and flair won him a huge following and his concerts sold out within hours. He performed and recorded with Arturo Toscanini (who became his father-in-law). During his career he recorded for RCA, CBS and, late in life, […]
“What Kind Of woman Is This?” / Buddy Guy “Days Of Rain” / Bob Mould “Up The Junction” – not the Squeeze version / Chris Difford Meanwhile, the picture below is of Mr Bob Mould, an extraordinary artist.
AllMusic Review by Mark Deming [-] Though they were little known in the United States (where none of their recordings were ever released), the Sorrows were one of the more interesting acts to rise from the British Beat scene of the 1960s.With their unabashed force, the Sorrows were in a league with the Kinks and […]
MARILYN THURGOOD writes … He is best known as the guitarist, secondary vocalist, and co-principal songwriter of the Rolling Stones. Richards attended Wentworth Primary School with Mick Jagger. Richards claims he was hooked on music when he was just 3 years old. He began to listen to artists like Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, and Sarah […]
Introduction Beethoven truly felt that he was both sent by God and inspired by God. ‘Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy,’ he is quoted as saying. People approach Beethoven with a feeling of awe and reverence, an appropriate response to one of the supreme creative geniuses of history. Read full biography […]
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David Temple introduces the first commercial recording in English since Britten’s in 1971 My first St John Passion was in the Barbican in 2011 with Crouch End Festival Chorus. It was in German, and with modern instruments at A=440. Though I was pleased with the performance, I was struck by the lukewarm response from the […]
From our archives Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters has slammed the ‘rogues and thieves’ who run free streaming sites, saying they make it impossible for young musicians to earn a living. The songwriter and guitarist said the power of the digital music providers in Silicon Valley makes him ‘angry’ as they ‘steal’ from musicians and […]
Andy Gill writes: Collected here across six CDs, Woody Guthrie’s recordings for the Library of Congress are one of the great treasures of American Demotic Art. Their mere existence seems, in an America latterly phobic about socialism, a miracle: the United States government preserving the songs and recollections of an avowed leftie – and, even […]
A quick guide to a few of the finest accounts on record of Holst’s hugely influential musical journey across the galaxy Continues HERE
Best known as the hippie revolutionaries who produced Sixties pop nuggets like “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love,” Jefferson Airplane survived myriad personnel shifts, including the 1984 departure of founder/guiding light Paul Kantner, several name changes. Over its subsequent years, the band morphed from psychedelic rockers to an MOR pop powerhouse and back again. At […]
FIRST PUBLISHED 2017 Alan Cross writes: The chart week–the period of time when music sales and streams are monitored on a weekly basis–runs from 12:00 AM Friday to 11:59 PM the following Thursday. Come Monday or Tuesday, I get the sales and streaming stats from the previous week. For the past couple of years, I’ve […]
Andrew Clements: “At the halfway stage of their Beethoven cycle for Virgin, the Artemis Quartet have turned their attention to a different but, in many ways, equally daunting challenge. Schubert’s last three string quartets make a natural two-disc set, though few listeners will want to tackle all of these intense works (which arguably sit alongside […]
4 BONUS TRACKS: 2 SINGLES ‘Dreams of Milk And Honey’ and ‘Long Red’ plus the B-sides. 16-PAGE BOOKLET WITH LINER NOTES BY MALCOLM DOME WITH QUOTES FROM LESLIE WEST In the world of rock guitar, Leslie West has that distinctive sound and tone that is unmistakable and unique.He gained worldwide fame during his long […]
Frampton’s Camel in concert at the BBC’s Paris Theatre in London in 1972, plus a session by Emily Barker & the Red Clay Halo recorded on this date (6th February) in 2011 and one by Obi (22/2/2004). Presented by Chris Hawkins, https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000dxxp
The Tubes Live at New York City’s Palladium on August 4h 1981. With their 1982 album The Complete Backward Principle, the Tubes finally brought their brand of San Franciscan satirical rock into the mainstream, with both the LP and the single “Don’t Want to Wait Anymore” denting the Top Forty. “Don’t Want to Wait Anymore” […]
Music continues to be within the very structure of my life. Consequently, I use it as non-background direct stimulus when I work, or equally as engrossing and positively mind-massaging pharmaceuticals when I am not. Even an atrocity like a Cliff Richard record must never be in the background – like dinner-party fodder. Dinner-party ‘classics’ sucked […]