Nonesuch / Perro Verde Records release Ry Cooder’s first live record in more than 35 years, Live in San Francisco, on September 10, 2013. Recorded in 2011 during a special two-night engagement at San Francisco’s Great American Music Hall, the album includes 12 songs and was produced by Cooder. The Corridos Famosos band includes Joachim […]
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The unlikely union of Suicide’s Alan Vega, Big Star’s Alex Chilton, and singer-songwriter Ben Vaughn happened in December 1994 in a fog of cigarette smoke at two barely-lit, all-night improv sessions at Dessau Studios in New York. What transpired was the group’s only release, a brilliant album called Cubist Blues. Some kind of alchemy happened. […]
They tell us….. Features more than 30 original recordings remastered from the original BBC tape archives. Covers all of The Jimi Hendrix Experience’s British radio and television appearances and features recordings from Hendrix’s studio appearances in 1967 and 1969. This Gold-selling, double CD collection includes classic radio highlights like “Can You Please Crawl Out Your […]
First published in 2013 Ahead of a new compilation of James Brown shows, Robert Webb lists the best live records Continue
Fiona Maddocks writes ….. The Trio Wanderer, now 30 years old, sounds as sparkling and zestful as ever in Dvorák’s infectious “Dumky” trio, Op 90, truly a work to lift spirits, though not without melancholy. The last of the composer’s works for the medium, it bursts with Slavonic dance rhythms and lyrical folk melody, wonderfully […]
From scatalogical Mozart to possibly the worst music Wagner ever wrote, Tom Service unearths five pieces that rarely appear on concert programmes – perhaps for good reasons. Please click HERE to continue
‘One Man Band features Live Recordings of Taylor’s Greatest Hits. The set list is drawn from Taylor’s recent concerts at the Colonial Theatre in the Berkshires and features new performances from some of the iconic singer/songwriter’s most beloved recordings including “Something in the Way,” “Carolina in my Mind,” and “Fire and Rain,” interspersed with Taylor’s […]
The AMG review is I feel a little harsh. I’d give it 3 stars to their 2. I wouldn’t have bought it normally. However Fopp are selling the first 5 Mountain CDs as a bundle for £15.00. so £3.00 for a so-so CD isn’t too bad.
We are told ….. Don Van Vliet (born Don Glen Vliet; January 15, 1941 – December 17, 2010) was an American musician, singer-songwriter, artist and poet known by the stage name Captain Beefheart. His musical work was conducted with a rotating ensemble of musicians called the Magic Band (1965–1982), with whom he recorded 13 […]
What a talent. Entirely live. No lip-synch or technology here. All of today’s manufactured female singers can’t compare to this. MORE
So I’ve recently found myself in the early stages of a newly formed ‘relationship’. It’s definitely not just in my head as I pinned him up against a wall in a street at 5 o’clock in the morning and demanded that he say it out loud that we were in this relationship. There may have […]
An enthusiast writes: At the moment I can’t think of anything more sublime in the field of chamber music than Mozart’s output; the string quintets is surely the summit (K593!!!), closely followed by the Piano Trios, the String Quartets, and the 2 Piano Quartets. However, I am preparing to delve into Haydn’s output. I […]
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Radio 3 has announced a new, large-scale recording project that will allow listeners to hear the music of five “forgotten” women composers for the first time in decades. All five women enjoyed some recognition for music-making during their lives, but their achievements were often downplayed during their lifetimes, and in some cases forgotten after their […]
Scientists are trying to understand how amnesiacs can lose all memory of their past life – and yet remember music. The answer may be that musical memories are stored in a special part of the brain. When British conductor and musician Clive Wearing contracted a brain infection in 1985 he was left with a memory […]
Vasily Petrenko ensures the proportions and sometimes wild discourse of this symphony are held in perspective, syas Geoffrey Norris Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, cond Vasily Petrenko / Naxos 8.573188 /£6.99 The chequered performance history of Shostakovich’s Fourth Symphony has lent it a mystique over and above all the interpretations of what his message – whether […]
With 12 Grammy nominations since her 2008 debut, the US singer is already a genre leader – and her new EP seals her reputation with a cinematic portrait of six women commodified by their beauty CONTINUES HERE
“Tom Petty & Heartbreakers, who toured as Bob Dylan’s backing band from 1986 to ’87, learned ‘a kind of courage we never had’ through playing with Dylan. “I learned so much from Bob Dylan,” says Tom Petty. The Heartbreakers toured as Dylan’s backing band from 1986 to 87. “He gave us a kind of courage […]
“It used to be the collector’s dream – charity shops where ill-informed staff sold first editions and rare records for pennies. But one lucky Oxfam shop’s handling of a major donation shows how things have changed. It was a quiet afternoon in the Oxfam Shop in Great Yarmouth in the autumn of 2005. Most days […]
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A look back at the career of Glenn Frey, best known as a founding member of the rock band The Eagles, who died January 18, 2016 at the age of 67 in New York City. 1. Found Somebody 2. Take It To The Limit 3. You Belong To The City 4. The Allnighter 5. The […]
We are told: “When one thinks of Johnny Cash’s recordings, one thing is certain. The Columbia years loom larger than any other phase. A star when he arrived in 1958, when he departed, he was an American icon.” (from the liner notes written by Rich Kienzle) Representing the entirety of the musical performances released by […]
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