Posted Fri 18 Jul 2008 1:07PM BST
The art of the concept album is not dead. Indeed, Rachel Fuller begins her own conceptual week, from Monday, live, as it were, in Kew where she will record a whole album in seven days. ...
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Posted Wed 16 Jul 2008 7:08PM BST
Don't you just love the internet? At the weekend I had a craving to hear the reassuring tones of John Peel again. Comfort food for the ears. A simple search, with the wonderful word "blogspot" after it then rolled out a whole host of recordings
Posted Mon 14 Jul 2008 9:39AM BST
"Woody Guthrie's guitar killed fascists and crime, but in Hastings, West Sussex, South of England, my guitar killed time," so sang John Wesley Harding in 1993 when he recorded his Talking Return Of The Great Folk Scare Blues for KPFA i
Posted Fri 11 Jul 2008 12:02PM BST
It was 26 years ago today. The Clash opened with London Calling, rolling out the hits before the autobiographical encore Garageland which was greeted, when first released, with the one line quip, "if they're a garage band, they should stay there and
Posted Wed 9 Jul 2008 9:22AM BST
It would have been the 79th birthday of infamous producer, crooner, would-be Scandinavian cowboy and the saviour of Nancy Sinatra, Lee Hazlewood today. ...
Posted Mon 7 Jul 2008 4:00PM BST
It would be too stupid but pretty ironic to point out that the person brought in to take over the re-shaped EMI comes from a company whose major brand is Vanish! But he does. This morning it was announced that Elio Leni-Sceti will leave Reckitt Beck
Posted Fri 4 Jul 2008 1:45PM BST
It's not been a good year for the music business. The revolving door at EMI, the death of Bo Diddley and Ike Turner, the public domain availability of any music pre 1958 - Chuck Berry, Bo and co, look out - and the ...
Posted Wed 2 Jul 2008 11:55AM BST
When Sting sang "I want my MTV" over 25 years ago and Dire Straits added it to their diatribe against cash-rich pop stars in Money For Nothing, they can't have envisaged that this year's Police reunion tour would ...
Posted Mon 30 Jun 2008 12:20PM BST
Having spent most of the last five days in a ten square yard grassy knoll behind the Queen's Head venue at Glastonbury, I'm buzzing from a festival that became a family celebration with bands, kids and assorted dysfunctional lunatics making it a surr
Posted Fri 27 Jun 2008 10:55AM BST
So, the halcyon days of the Glastonbury festival are over? I think not.
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