DYNAMICS: Bringing It Back To Music

“Turn Me Up!™ is a non-profit music industry organization campaigning to give artists back the choice to release more dynamic records. To be clear, it’s not our goal to discourage loud records; they are, of course, a valid choice for many artists. We simply want to make the choice for a more dynamic record an […]

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EDITOR’S PLAYLIST

From a long while ago! The hard (but fun) work behind the scenes in our editorial office becomes more enjoyable through listening to music in the background. Our playlist varies of course, depending on the prevailing mood. Sometimes it’s predominantly blues, rarely jazz, occasionally Mozart, and so on. And sometimes like today, a bit of […]

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Black Light (CD) – John McLaughlin

Expansive, emotionally charged album ‘Black Light’ showcases guitar legend John McLaughlin’s virtuoso 4th Dimension band. As a musician, composer, and bandleader, John McLaughlin’s vast contributions to contemporary improvisational music are only just beginning to be fully understood, appreciated, and absorbed by artists and enthusiasts alike. From Mahavishnu Orchestra, Shakti and his collaboration with Paco De […]

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TAYLOR SWIFT: Worst songs… ever

Robert Silva (for ThoughtCo) writes: Taylor Swift’s Five Worst Songs Taylor Swift is talented. And she’s won every country music award there is. But her elfin charms and precocious musical ability don’t make the singer immune from writing some pretty bad songs. It’s enticing to jump on the Taylor Swift bandwagon, but let’s keep it […]

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PS AUDIO: Try it sometime

Paul McGowan writes: When I sit in the sound room for critical listening of course I always grab the “hot seat” because certainly in my system, that’s the place where the best imaging and tonal balance take place – and not just by a little bit – it’s seriously better than any other seat in […]

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EDITOR’S PLAYLIST

I got a call a day back asking me, among many other things, for an idea of what I might like to listen to. Something that could withstand repeated plays. My first response was to look at one of my play lists when I was an exhibitor at the 2008 Heathrow High Fidelity Show. On […]

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SHIRLEY SMART: Long Story Short

Tony Andrews, our Jazz Editor writes: When I reviewed The Concert by Shirley Smart and Robert Mitchell at City University back in 2018 I hope my enthusiasm came through as intended because they not only stunned me but everyone within my group of friends who also attended. Within the review I mentioned the forthcoming new […]

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FAIRPORT CONVENTION: The Cropredy Box Old Boys XVI (3CD)

Recorded in 1997 during Fairport’s thirtieth anniversary concerts at the Cropredy Festival), it features all the surviving members of the band (with the exception of Ian Matthews) and presents them as individual line-ups. Every Fairport is represented, whether your own personal dream team is the dual-fiddle powerhouse featuring Ric Sanders and Chris Leslie or the […]

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ROBERT PLANT: Darkness Darkness

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlkTI45Q670 A few viewer comments: Youngbloods did it great. Plant does it that much better. This is fantastic These are the words my soul whispers everyday… By far the best cover song Plant ever did. The music is just incredible.

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EDITOR’S PLAYLIST

“Amelia” – Joni Mitchell / Hejira “Perpetual Blues Machine” – Keb’ Mo’ / Just Like You “One Foot On The Path” – Kenny Wayne Shepherd / Ledbetter Heights “Set Me Free” – The Kinks / Kinks the Singles Collection “The Mermaid And The Seagull” – Ralph McTell / Eight Frames A Second “What Is And […]

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Music and Personality / What Does Your Taste In Music Reveal About Your Personality?

Could the playlists lurking on your iPod really reveal information about your personality? Research conducted by psychologists Jason Rentfrow and Sam Gosling suggests that knowing the type of music you listen to can actually lead to surprisingly accurate predictions about your personality. For example, researchers found that people could make accurate judgments about an individual’s […]

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JOAN BAEZ: The Complete Gold Castle Masters (Recently/Diamonds and Rust in the Bullring/Speaking of Dreams) 3CD Box set

They tell us ….. There was a moment in 1987, when a feisty and driven Joan Baez thought, “enough is enough.” She rolled up her sleeves and accepted an offer from artist manager and label executive Danny Goldberg to join his latest start-up, Gold Castle, and start making records again. That decision led to three […]

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