This week we’ve got a 90s/00s Eurodance throwback, a post-rock wall of sound and an infectious falsetto chorus MORE HERE
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Harriet Smith writes: For the virtuoso Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, championing the lesser-known composers will always be at the heart of what he does, albeit with a little Rachmaninov and Schubert thrown in ….. Continues HERE
We are told: • 15 CDs • Over 200 tracks • 24 page full colour booklet with rare photos and detailed liner notes • The entire original KMET, WMMS, WNEW, KSAN and over twenty more, FM radio broadcasts from explosive 1978 live performances at The Roxy Theater on July 7, The Agora Balroom on August […]
We are told: SUPERB “UNPLUGGED” BROADCAST RECORDINGS FROM YOUNG’S SOLO SETS ON HIS 1976 TOUR OF THE US Neil Young took a newly assembled Crazy Horse out on the road in November 1976. The sets performed by Young and the Horse were, by all accounts, raw, dynamic and LOUD! But at each date Neil was […]
This CD/DVD is taken from performances from a German television broadcast filmed over two dates in 1971 and 1972, the band at this time featured Roger McGuinn alongside Skip Battin, Clarence White Gene Parsons. The first session from May,19, 1971 featured newer material including Chestnut Mare, Mr Tambourine Man and Eight Miles High. On the […]
5-CD set brings acclaimed series to an end, with 100 classic & rare tracks. The Complete Motown Singles, an acclaimed, multi-disc series covering the companys wide-ranging and massively successful output from 1959-1972, comes to its conclusion with the release of Volume 12B, a 5-disc set of the companys output from the last half of 1972. […]
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For seven summers, Philip and Stephanie Barber, the proprietors of the Music Inn, a rambling, relaxed summer resort outside of Lenox, have been offering their guests panel discussions of jazz and folk music. (…) Complementing these discussions, the Barbers have staged jazz and folk music concerts in their Music Barn (…) During the summer of […]
We are told ….. In February 1994, Marillion surprised many with the release of their dark and sprawling concept album, Brave. This ambitious double album charted at No.10 in the UK, making it the band’s seventh consecutive Top Ten album, a streak that began in 1983 with the group’s debut, Script for a Jester’s Tear. […]
“A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it.” Bertrand Russell
Andrew Clements writes: In 1910, Ravel was commissioned by Paris’s Théâtre de l’Odéon to provide the incidental music for a new play by the Lebanese writer Chekri Ganem. It was based on The Romance of Antar, a 12th-century Arabic epic about the exploits of the pre-Islamic poet and knight Antarah ibn Shaddad, and the […]
My friend, Gordon, sent me a link to a great YouTube video worth watching. It’s about how music has changed and, in the opinion of the presenter, not for the better. You can watch it by clicking here. The program goes into great detail how most of today’s pop music has been reduced from creative […]
Introduced in the mid-nineties to production duo du jour The Dust Brothers, producers of the Beastie Boys 1989 classic Paul s Boutique, Beck brought the pair in to work on the follow up to his 1995 major label debut Mellow Gold. Blending together elements of country, blues, rap and jazz, augmented by months of dubbing, […]
David Byrne’s new solo record, American Utopia, will be released on Todomundo/Nonesuch Records and accompanied by a world tour that will bring a choreographed concert that Byrne has called “the most ambitious show I’ve done since the shows that were filmed for Stop Making Sense.” The album includes the track ‘Everybody’s Coming To My House’, […]
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Clear Light’s eponymous 1967 album is one of the jewels of Elektra Records’ 1960s catalogue. A short-lived, much-loved Los Angeles aggregate, the band is best known for including sometime Doors bassist Doug Lubahn and future CSNY and Manassas drummer Dallas Taylor, but Clear Light’s blend of quirky songwriting and psychedelic arrangement has helped make […]
During the British Invasion, there was another Liverpool band topping the charts worldwide. The Searchers had 11 Top 40 hits between 1963 and 1966 in the U.K., including 3 #1s with “Needles And Pins,” “Sweets For My Sweet,” and “Don’t Throw Our Love Away.” They had 8 in the U.S. including their #3 cover of […]
This 3 disc collection celebrates the music of REM across this lengthy time-span, and include two superb CDs containing radio broadcasts of concerts from 1984 and 1989, along with a third disc containing media interviews with the guys from various points across their career. 3CD SET FEATURING CLASSIC R.E.M. BROADCAST RECORDINGS AND INTERVIEW COLLECTION. This […]
Time was when celebrity children had a hard time being taken seriously, but a new wave are embracing their family legacies – and even working with their parents. Alli Patton speaks to the Kutis, Andrew Hagar and Lola Lennox about carrying the rock’n’roll mantle MORE
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We are told: The First Show Without The E Street Band Following stupendous international success throughout the 1980s, the early 90s were an oddly subdued time for Bruce Springsteen. He had not put out a new album since 87 s Tunnel Of Love, had dissolved his usual cohorts, the E Street Band, in 1989, and […]