Hi Howard. I know you are into this type of 60’s music and so what can you tell me about The Blues Magoos please? What should I avoid of theirs? Thanks Laurence Rode. Hmm, well ….. the short answer is ‘not much’. But yes, I am into this genre and many similar ones too. I […]
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Greg Brice – Work For A LivingFive Points Gang – The Only OneBates Motel – Bar TenderBrave Rival – Run & HideRedfish – Together Is BetterDom Martin & The Savages – Drink In Blue ColoursDC Blues – Rollin’ & Tumblin’The Cosmic Trip Advisors – Going DownThe Bad Day – Wake Up CarolinaThe Milk Men – […]
From the archives Michael Henderson writes: The BBC threw a party last week at New Broadcasting House, and invited 300 guests to enjoy the kind of spectacle the BBC likes best: patting itself on the back. Tony Hall, its director-general, led the proceedings, and he didn’t lack support from the underlings, who spoke of how […]
Born in New Orleans New Orleans in the first two decades of the 20th century was a musical melting pot of musical styles. African music was still prominent, as drumming and dancing were some of the few freedoms allowed slaves before emancipation. Ragtime was popular, and its up-tempo and syncopated rhythms had a profound influence […]
Charles Shaar Murray: Three changes of dress and a kiss from Lou Reed. The waiters were horrified. Jill and Lyn are 17 and they’re into Bowie. They’ve both seen David working three times in as many weeks. They’ve both got Ziggy Stardust and neither of them like Marc Bolan. Jill says she likes the way […]
Beth joins Lauren Laverne in the 6 Music Live Room to perform Oo La La in session. Details HERE
Contributing editor (jazz) Tony Andrews writes ….. When I was first asked to write occasional Music Review by Howard Popeck one of my first attempts was to feature The CD Hidden Colours by the amazing David Rees Williams Trio. Although the Trio had been together since 1988 with David on piano, Neil Francis on electric […]
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Rare Recordings From The Dawn Of Cream’s Short But Dynamic Career A vital power trio and probably the first ever supergroup, in a career lasting little more than two years Cream sold over 15 million albums and had a number of Top 20 singles to boot. This compilation features the recordings that have come to […]
THE GUARDIAN: The Austrian composer’s first symphony meshed the imagination and narrative of the symphonic poem with the architectural cohesion of earlier models. His crazily ambitious project changed the genre for ever. It’s one of the most spellbinding moments of symphonic inspiration in the 19th century: the opening of Gustav Mahler’s First Symphony. It’s not […]
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Buy rare vinyl records, LPs and CDs from independent record sellers worldwide. When you search MusicStack you are not just searching one record store, instead you are searching over 1000 record stores and looking through the inventory of millions of vinyl records and compact discs. With so many record stores and vinyl record albums located […]
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Gustavo Guardiola, Composer, bass player and professor of music composition for more than 22 years. He was certainly angry. On October 6th of 1802 Beethoven wrote a letter to his brothers Carl and Johann. This letter has been known as the Heiligenstadt Testament -or you can call it the testament of Beethoven. In this letter […]
The thread starts ….. Soul music started to appear in the late 50’s early 60’s, combining the religious inspired Gospel sound with the already popular Rhythm & Blues sound helped to form Soul Music as a more secular styled music, which quickly made it a hit with the young Black communities of the time. It […]
Our Jazz/Contemporary music editor Tony Andrews writes ….. I am very fortunate to live close enough to travel in to Central London whenever the whim takes me.One of the benefits of this luxury is that I can attend what appears to be an ever growing number of Free Concerts of Classical and Jazz music by […]
Frank Zappa claimed “rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read” That’s a bit extreme, but it does have its problems… If there exists any substrate of society which is deserving of more sympathetic attention, surely, that substrate is the critics. Those who leadenly lift their […]
PHILIP RICE answers: Not “supposedly deaf”. DEAF! Here’s the thing. When you know enough music theory and have been around the block, and are one of the most talented musicians in history…. You look, or write notes on a page and know EXACTLY what it “sounds like”. This is called hearing a score in silence […]
Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones – the surviving members of the legendary rock band – made a rare public appearance (September 21) to discuss the movie, which is a concert film of their 2007 show at the London’s 02 Arena, and answered questions from the assembled press after screening the flick at […]