Originally published 2009 America already had High Fidelity and Audio when the first British hi-fi magazine emerged. Before that, to find coverage of audio developments you’d have had to search through the pages of Wireless World, the major technical journal that covered the entire field of electronics. But in June 1956, just a couple of […]
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After a lifetime conducting Bach, John Eliot Gardiner has written an in-depth study of a genius touched by God. He talks to Ivan Hewett. Continue reading HERE
As an in-demand orchestrator, with her works recorded by the London Chamber Orchestra, Fuller met The Who’s Pete Townshend in 1996, becoming the arranger for his The Lifehouse Chronicles album and subsequent concerts at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theatre. With Townshend she co-wrote a song titled “It’s Not Enough” featured on The Who’s studio album Endless […]
For over 40 years Nils Lofgren has been playing and performing with some of the biggest names in music including Neil Young, Ringo Starr and of course Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. A multi-talented musician and songwriter, this sell-out concert recorded at London’s Town and Country Club sees Lofgren at his very […]
Blues rock icons Canned Heat teamed up with blues legend John Lee Hooker for the classic 1971 double album Hooker n’ Heat and embarked on a subsequent historic tour together that has been captured here in all its glory! This vintage set shakes and boogies with tons of authentic blues rhythms including the fantastic “Back […]
The ‘tremendous’ Third Symphony is both great music and a force beyond music. How, asks Richard Osborne, have conductors met this challenge during the work’s 90-year-long recorded history? Continues HERE
THE GUARDIAN / Alexis Patrides U2 have always dealt in grand gestures. No other rock artists from the world of post-punk chased megastardom with the same missionary zeal: they seldom made any bones about wanting to be the biggest band in the world, something they duly achieved in grandstanding style. Their tours have involved everything […]
THE GUARDIAN / Alexis Petridis https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/16/sly-stones-greatest-songs-ranked
THE GUARDIAN Fans and fellow musicians rushed to defend Meg White after a journalist branded her a ‘terrible’ drummer and suggested the White Stripes would have achieved more without her MORE
THE GUARDIAN / Andrew Clements The pianist Lars Vogt died in September last year. His cancer had been diagnosed in 2021, and he was already ill when, against doctors’ advice, he had travelled to Bremen to begin these Schubert recordings with his longtime collaborators, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his cellist sister Tanja. They began […]
THE GUARDIAN / Ben Beaumont-Thomas https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/14/metallica-buy-vinyl-factory-thrash-metallers-format
THE GUARDIAN / LAURA SNAPES After a five-year wait, Henry Rollins is finally back in the UK. From this week, he’ll embark on one of his famed speaking tours – the Good to See You jaunt that was postponed as a result of the pandemic. It’s good news for fans as well as the former […]
THE GUARDIAN Jim Gordon, the drummer who played on the Beach Boys’ iconic album Pet Sounds and for Eric Clapton in Derek & The Dominos, has died in prison aged 77. The session musician was serving a life sentence when he died of natural causes on Monday (14 March).
Recorded at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, Mountain View, California in the San Francisco Bay Area – August8, 1991 Jon Anderson – lead vocals / rhythm guitar / tambourine Steve Howe – guitar / vocalsTrevor Rabin – guitar / vocals Tony Kaye – keyboards / sound effects Rick Wakeman – keyboards / synthesisers / percussion on “Your […]
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 9, The Capitol Theater on September […]
British Composer Awards? Make that British Male Composer Awards. Last week, of 13 prizes awarded by the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors (BASCA), 13 went to men. Yes, every last one. Women composers were not merely sidelined – they were completely absent. This is a disgrace to the UK’s whole classical music industry. […]
Jeremy Spencer, legendary British Blues slide guitarist and original member of Fleetwood Mac announces his new album “Coventry Blue”. If you consider yourself a Blues aficionado and recognize its elemental role in the evolution of Rock history, then you are aware of Jeremy Spencer as one of the premier guitarists of the late 1960s and […]
Santana live at the Cow Palace, San Francisco on New Year’s Eve 1975 broadcast by KSAN-FM. A smokin’ live band in full flow with a rejuvenated Carlos giving the material from the early albums new focus and energy. All captured in pristine sound quality. Limited Edition pressing of 1000. Disc 1 1 Incident […]
We are told ….. Complete collection includes all four public shows, invite-only soundcheck, rehearsal and Bolic Studios session. Forty three years ago in December 1973, Frank Zappa played a series of legendary concerts at the famed Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in Hollywood. Considered a high-water mark of his career, owing to the incredible, […]
This is the story of the Underground movement in the UK during the sixties and leads up to its culmination at The 14 Hour Technicolor Dream, an all night “musical happening” that was held at Alexandra Palace on the 29th April 1967. The story takes in CND marches, the foundation of the London Free […]