G ROWLAND writes … ‘Something’ is a lovely song, but if you were Paul McCartney you’d have some license to regard it as charming but ultimately somewhat naive, a bit of an easy win for a composer. Why? Because the harmonic structure relies on something which is known as ‘Line Cliche’ in music theory, which […]
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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
J. Spangler writes: Yes he did. Especially John Lennon. As related by author Chris Hutchins (who for some unknown reason confused the California Bel-Air mansion with Graceland when relating this anecdote {The Beatles and Elvis never met at Graceland}), who took the Fab Four to meet the King at his mansion at 525 Perugia Way, […]
For a few weeks recently this was rarely out of our office player. A truly terrific performance, if you like this kinda thing. At first I thought, well – hmm – I can write a damn fine review of this seminal work. And then I discovered someone else had done a better job. You can […]
The jazz maestro talks about Miles Davis, the evolution of funk and writing the score for Death Wish MORE
Complete with the original Gramophone reviews of 50 of the finest Beethoven recordings available Continues HERE
The Talking Heads frontman David Byrne discusses music and its affect on people, etc. MORE
With the release of his first solo album The Messenger, the former Smiths guitarist talks about finally embracing his old sound, David Cameron and why he and Morrissey don’t talk any more MORE
Co-Artistic Directors of the LCO Hugh Brunt and Robert Ames talk about how the orchestra’s new sample library, LCO Strings, is giving composers new worlds of sound to explore Continues HERE
Live Evolution Lost: The 13th Floor Elevators Live at the Houston Music Theatre is the first ever release of the complete performance of the band?s legendary show from 18th February 1967 The trailblazing 13th Floor Elevators released the first ?psychedelic? rock album in America, transforming culture throughout the 1960s and beyond. Formed in late 1965 […]
Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduces an hour of the very best organ music and performances, including Mozart in playful mood, Rachmaninov a la Bach, and a vivid and spectacular transcription of Saint-Saëns’s orchestral showpiece, Danse Macabre. Details HERE
“To create his distinctive guitar sound, Cipollina developed this one-of-a-kind amplifier stack. All of his guitars, including the one here, were wired with two pickups, one for bass and one for treble. The bass pickup fed into the two Standel bass amps on the bottom of the stack. Each Standel was equipped with two 15-inch […]
REM’s promotional tour for their eighth album Out Of Time kicked off on 3rd March just a few days after Michael Stipe had finished producing Daisy Group’s debut Hum Of Life at John Keane studios, Athens, GA. Exactly one month later the band are in the KCRW-FM studios in Santa Monica to perform an intimate […]
Merrill Reed Weiner writes: In the coming weeks, my brother, Lou Reed, will be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo performer, an honor celebrating his incredible impact upon the world of music. Since his passing from liver disease in 2013, there have been many accolades, articles, and ruminations on […]
Jim Connolly writes: Music lovers and vinyl enthusiasts are gathering for the UK’s seventh annual Record Store Day on Saturday. Despite many predictions of the demise of vinyl, it has never looked like disappearing. But who’s still buying? Here are eight groups that are still shopping for vinyl. The nostalgic collector Sonja Bredgaard is […]
There’s Spotify, Tidal, Qobuz, Vtuner and on and on. What are these services, how do they work, what are there differences? Mike in England is dying to find out from Paul.
The War Requiem challenges us to think about what it is we ask people to do when we send them to war, writes conductor Marin Alsop Please click HERE to continue
The Velvet Underground was a band that mined a seamier side of New York. Now, a new guide has unearthed the locations where they made waves. Chris Leadbeater writes: The corner of East 125th Street and Lexington Avenue is not one of the most salubrious locations in New York. Wait here on an early summer’s […]
From the archives, but still fun According to Keith Richards’s tell-all autobiography, on the night of the 1967 Redlands drug bust, the guitarist had taken so much LSD that as the police arrived at his Sussex country mansion, he genuinely thought they were uniformed dwarves and welcomed them in with open arms. You’d assume that […]
Angela Hewitt seamlessly draws Liszt’s ideas together in a continuous, flowing musical landscape, says Geoffrey Norris Continues HERE
What Happened, Miss Simone?, documentary about the jazz singer, opened the 2015 Sundance Film Festival Please click HERE to continue
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