Oldawg: Nearly 30 years after its release I find It’s Hard to be very representative (unfortunately) of what is happening in the world today. In particular John’s Dangerous, Eminence Front and Cooks County. How do you feel about It’s Hard today? P.T.: It’s Hard is the only record the Who made where the individual members […]
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The aim of the Study Group is: To provide a distinctive long-term forum offering opportunities for those with an interest in music and philosophy to share and discuss work, in the hope of furthering dialogue in this area. Our Third Annual Conference was held at King’s College London, 19-20 July 2013. Our 4th Annual […]
Two shows, one CD. Classic performances at Portland, Oregon and The Palladium, NYC Includes the entire syndicated King Biscuit Flower Hour broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners and images In late 1976 and early 1977, Stephen Stills was operating on his own after the collapse of the short-lived Stills-Young Band, and […]
It’s hard to read Heidegger, especially if you spent the night before sitting in with Chicago’s jazz musicians’ MORE
The greatest bassist leader jazz has ever known, Charles Mingus, with his spirited playing and spontaneity, always kept his ears and fingers on the pulse. The albums this giant of music recorded for Atlantic between 1956 and 1961 are rightly considered his best. This lavish collection of the jazz legend’s entire mid-’50s to early ’60s […]
Rich Trenholm writes: When you’re rocking out to your favourite music, or surround sound has slapped you in the heart of your favourite movie, you know how important stereo sound is. And it’s all thanks to Alan Blumlein, the 20th-century pioneer of various technologies who was inspired to invent stereo after a trip to the […]
We are told: • Regardless of the brilliance of Dudley Moore’s celebrated comic partnership with Peter Cook, his marriages and abundant romantic assignations, the relationship which was surely most dear to him was with music. He could pull hilarious classical pastiches – like Beethoven ‘variations on Colonel Bogey’, and Britten’s ‘Little Miss Muffett’ – out of […]
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Rebecca Nicholson (The Guardian) conducts the interview: Hello, Dolly! Hello, Rebecca! You know Rebecca is my middle name also? I do know that. It’s a good name. All right! At Glastonbury last month you played to what must have been 180,000 people. Is that the biggest show you have ever done? It probably is. I […]
This first ever compilation of Dave’s work for the Kinks combines all his great work for the band as well as his highly under rated solo material. This newly remastered set done with the approval of Dave and mastered by Kinks archivist hopes to prove that there was not only one talented song writer […]
As the Now compilation albums reach their 30th anniversary, a keen collector charts the tunes he will always associate with moments in his life Like so many things in the music/hifi world we invite you to take what you like HERE and …. leave the rest
The Bach Mass in B minor, BWV 232, assembled from bits and pieces over some years, coheres in its final form in ways that perhaps only the composer understood. This recording by the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge and Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment under Stephen Layton has been road-tested in performances around Britain […]
NEIL A writes … Many writers use various means to create music, and Bowie seems to have been one of these. The early songs appear to have been written in a very traditional way, by sitting down at a guitar or piano and finding chord structures that worked, then putting a tune to that, and […]
I rather likes these 3. All new to me as of today: The Dears: “Whites Only Party” The Young Knives: “Loughborough Suicide” Mudhoney: “Who Will Be The Next In Line?”
Tom Service writes: There’s a lot more to the way Rachmaninov’s third and final symphony works than the simple attractiveness of its tunes Continue HERE