STEREOPHILE: Todd Garfinkle, guiding light of M•A Recordings, travels the globe recording provocative music in unbelievably wonderful acoustic settings. Todd travels to exotic climes such as Macedonia and Southern Siberia to capture unique and beautiful traditional ethnic music and song. He records with only two omnidirectional microphones, the signals of which are fed into handmade […]
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Jules Coleman is Wesley Newcomb Hohfeld Professor of Jurisprudence, Yale Law School; Professor of Philosophy, Yale University; Visiting Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Rutgers University. Professor Coleman teaches in the areas of philosophy of law; torts; law, language and truth; political philosophy; and rational choice. His books include Hart’s Postscript, The Practice of Principle, Oxford University Press, […]
Recorded in just thirty hours, Shake Down was released in September 1967. This debut studio album by the British Blues Rock band Savoy Brown is a collection of blues covers. It features songs penned by Willie Dixon, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker or Freddie King. The band was formed and led by legendary blues guitarist […]
“He knew he was totally mediocre, he was a measly old poet, Wordsworth, and never made it at anything like Coleridge,” Shane MacGowan said, adding, “He had really bad teeth.” Mr. MacGowan, the principal singer of the Celtic rock band the Pogues and a man fabled for his thirst, affinity for illicit substances and terrible […]
Megan Conner: The jazz musician, 49, on standing up to the ‘jazz police’, playing saxophone on the moon, and being saved by the Pet Shop Boys Continue HERE
Prices Only Go One Way – Don’t They? If you’re of a certain age, you may still have a misguided notion that price is a one-way street. Since the end of the Second World War, we’ve lived through a long period of near constant inflation. Prices only ever went one way – up! You were […]
John Cahill writes: I’ve always had mixed feelings around concepts albums; some of my favourite albums of all time are concept albums; yet the amount of really bad concept albums is huge – and this style of album has been responsible for some really bad music. Here below is a brief overview of the concept […]
We are told: The complete BBC recordings 1965-1968. Includes extensive linernotes with comments by Chris Farlowe. Chris Farlowe was one of the hottest young British artists to emerge from the Sixties R&B club scene, much admired by Tom Jones and Mick Jagger. Farlowe’s band the Thunderbirds included top class musicians, notably guitarist Albert Lee and […]
Keith Sivyer bought every new release from 1952 until February this year. Now his extraordinary collection is going under the hammer. Please click HERE to continue reading
Let Me Get By is the third studio album from Tedeschi Trucks Band, featuring ten new, original songs that stand together as a testament to the spirit and commitment of the tightly-knit 12-member ensemble. Driven by Susan’s soaring, spiritually charged vocals and Derek’s masterfully lyrical slide-guitar, the band’s musical talents are on display in full […]
Boogie Bombers – Boogie BombMud Morganfield – Leave Me AloneJohnny Rawls – Love MachineJed Potts & the Hillman Hunters – Where’s Your ManSamantha Fish – Blame It On The MoonAltered Five Blues Band – Holler If You Hear MeSpencer Mackenzie – Don’t Wanna Be Your DogBoogie Beasts – Still A FoolDr. Feelgood – She’s A […]
Editor’s note: If this doesn’t bring tears to your eyes then, quite possibly, you are not fully alive! MORE
HeatherMacdonald writes: Think that sound engineering might be the music industry job for you? Sound engineers get to be there for the all the good times – at the end of a really great show, chances are that the sound crew will be buzzing just as much as the band. But for all the good […]
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“At last the times have caught up with Joni Mitchell — musician, artist and now inspiration for a ballet. By Robin EggarJoni Mitchell is watching The Fiddle and the Drum for the first time. It’s ballet with a twist — vivid, sexy and of the moment. Classical movements lie at its base, but the dancers are […]
We are told ….. With the new Live At Pompeii, of the five formats being issued only one combines separate audio CDs with video, and that is the four disc (2CD, 2 x blu-ray) deluxe box set. This also offers an exclusive bonus blu-ray which delivers 65 extra minutes of performance from the same tour […]
22, A Million is part love letter, part final resting place of two decades of searching for self understanding like a religion. And the inner-resolution of maybe never finding that understanding. The album’s 10 poly-fi recordings are a collection of sacred moments, love’s torment and salvation, contexts of intense memories, signs that you can pin […]
After 30 years in the limelight, the Pet Shop Boys are tackling an unusual subject for a pop album – ageing and death. The Pet Shop Boys are sprawled at opposite ends of a sofa in a perfectly white room on the top floor of their record company’s London headquarters. Neil Tennant, professor of pop […]
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xoke1wUwEXY First band signed to Apple Records – and the best. An era of music that will never, ever be repeated. One of the very best pop songs ever composed ! So sad to hear about the suicides of two of the band’s members. Tragic ! This song was just on the radio, and even […]
Classic live radio broadcast from 30th May 1973 Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for enhanced sound quality Background liners Muddy Waters had only recently completed his Australasia tour that had started in late April and finished in Perth on 11th May 1973. He arrived just two days later in Vancouver before performing five dates […]
Singer Cerys Matthews and music expert Tristram Penna go back to summer 1898 when The Gramophone Company opened offices in London’s Covent Garden. This was the very first disc record company in the UK, later becoming well known as HMV and EMI, and was the London affiliate of inventor Emile Berliner’s US National Gramophone Company. […]