We are told: The entire original King Biscuit Flower Hour, WXRT, WLIR, WMMR, Washington DC and KBCO FM Broadcasts Covering performances from Nine Incredible shows; Ripley’s Music Hall 1983, The Spectrum 1984 & 1988, Chicago Blues Festival 1985, Fox Theatre 1986, Mann Music Center 1987, Red Rocks Amphitheatre 1989 and include five bonus tracks performed […]
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One of the world’s greatest pianists, Andras Schiff, played his 60th birthday concert on Saturday – a hugely demanding programme of the Goldberg Variations by Bach and Beethoven’s Diabelli Variations. Earlier he told the BBC’s Tim Franks why he gave the performance in London – and not in his homeland, Hungary. Andras Schiff takes me […]
30 Trips Around The Sun: The Definitive Live Story features one unreleased live song from each year of the band’s career plus one special re-released track from the band’s earliest recordings, under the name The Emergency Crew. Every year from 1965 1995 is represented. Also featured is an essay by Dead aficionado Jesse Jarnow dissecting […]
19 CDs of live material from the UK & EU 1973/74, 1 CD of studio material, 2 DVD-A discs & 2 BD discs of studio & live material in hi-res stereo, quad & 5.1 surround, 12” box with booklet, memorabilia, album & poster prints + 3 bonus audio CDs • 19 CDs of live performance […]
Karen Stollznow writes: Pavarotti singing Nessun Dorma from Puccini’s Turandot can bring people to tears, but can the tenor’s voice heal too? Can sounds both cure and kill? Let’s investigate some claims about healing and harming sounds. Many people seem to think there’s something magical about human speech; for example, the belief that uttering spells […]
The Bad Day – HurricaneThe Blueflies – Treacherous KicksBad Bob Bates – Get Your Shirt A Little WetAC/DC – Ride OnAlex Fawcett Band – Devil On Your BackThe Milk Men – Shoot The LightsMark Hummel – Creeper ReturnsSherman Robertson – Out Of Sight Out Of MindLittle Walter – Just Your FoolThe Cinelli Brothers – Married […]
HELEN PIDD / MARK BROWN The ultimatum to English National Opera was attacked as ‘cultural vandalism’, but raised some hopes nearer Manchester https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/27/a-fight-at-the-opera-could-forcing-eno-up-north-work-out-manchester-arts-council
ROBERT WEBB urt” – a song on Nine Inch Nails’ 1994 release The Downward Spiral – came to the attention of the country legend Johnny Cash in 2002, through a mutual friend, the producer Rick Rubin. https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/hurt-johnny-cash-nine-inch-nails-b2205081.html
So many myths have grown around Led Zeppelin, the British rock band that ruled the Seventies and continues to cast a long shadow over popular music, that their guitarist, producer and curator extraordinaire Jimmy Page has to see the funny side. The 71-year-old’s hair may be snow-white but his black-clad frame is as pencil-thin as […]
“This release is collated from all of the BBC owned Lizzy recordings that still exist in the archive and charts the inexorable rise of the band: from the first steps as a three piece on the Decca label, to this incredible archive represents a great set of previously unreleased recordings in the Lizzy catalogue. The […]
Joe Jackson is one of the most unique musicians in British pop history. Coming out of the punk musical revolution, he immediately got noticed for his skill in combining raw energy, great taste and dislike of stereotypes. Joe Jackson and his band appeared on the British music scene just after the punk revolution with iconic […]
Mastered by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio from the original analog tapes Deluxe gatefold tip-on jacket from Stoughton Printing 200-gram LPs pressed at Acoustic Sounds’ state-of-the-art pressing plant, Quality Record Pressings We are told ….. An American blues harmonica player, singer and songwriter, from Mississippi. One of the greatest bluesmen ever. His harp, vocals, and […]
Bill Graham’s love for Latin music is well documented and his association with Santana dates back to the earliest days of the band, when they were frequently featured at the Fillmores. So it comes as no surprise that the first group to be given an extended slot on the bill this day was Santana. […]
PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED 1974 BACHMAN-TURNER OVERDRIVE BROADCAST Former members of The Guess Who, Randy Bachman and Chad Allan, along with Randy s drumming brother Robbie Bachman – came together as Brave Belt in the fall of 1971 and in so doing sowed the seeds of one of Canada s longest surviving and most successful groups, Bachman-Turner […]
From the archives: Jazz guitarist Nigel Price, whose UK tour starts on September 22, talks to Sebastian Scotney about why he enjoys the passion jazz fans around the country have for the music http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/worldfolkandjazz/11091373/Nigel-Price-UK-jazz-fans-are-full-of-passion.html
We are told: Inspired by Live Aid and Bob Dylan’s appeal for aid to US farmers at that event, the first Farm Aid benefit took place at the University of Illinois’ Memorial Stadium on the 22nd September, 1985. The concert raised over $9million for American farmers struggling to pay mortgage debt, and this success persuaded […]
• Nitty Gritty’s 1987 and 1988 albums for Warner Bros. which both made the US Country charts • The country hits ‘Oh What A Love’, ‘I’ve Been Lookin’’, ‘Fishin’ In The Dark’ and ‘Down That Road Tonight’ are all featured in this package • The band continue to gig and record in 2015 • Digitally […]
Blue Milk – Hard Way To FallThe Lonely Hands Band – Did It Cross Your MindThe Milk Men – Highway WomanThe Dig 3 – Love Me Some Of YouSuperdownhome – I’m BrokeSuperdownhome – Utter DazeMick Clarke – No Fool BabyRobert Hill Band & Joanne Lediger – Preacher’s Blues Sonny Boy Williamson II – Help MeThe Rolling […]
ALEXIS PETRIDIS Rock and pop music has been obsessed with its own past almost from the start: by 1959, a New York record store called Times Square was doing a roaring trade in what it called “oldies”, selling mid-50s doo-wop singles to teenagers already convinced the golden age of rock’n’roll was over. That said, a […]
ROISIN O’CONNOR Eddie Van Halen was the guitarist behind some of the biggest riffs in rock music. Revered by his peers as much as by Van Halen’s own fans, he was a virtuoso who pioneered a number of wild new techniques. “Eddie put the smile back in rock guitar at a time when it was […]