When making the right first impression on record, there’s two ways the unknown musician can go with it: grab everyone’s attention via the credits list by enlisting some big names to play on the record and hope everyone clicks in the studio, or forgo the name checking You May AlsoRead More
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The Rolling Stones played a surprise warm-up show at Paris’ Champs-Elysées on Thursday night, announcing the show earlier today — then playing for a little more than an hour. See the complete setlist here! You May Also Like: Rolling Stones – ‘Tattoo You: 40th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition’ (2021)
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Shattering, yet redemptively propulsive, A Fragile Tomorrow’s lovelorn new single “Kernersville” probably betrays its 1980s influences right there in the liner notes. You May Also Like: Far Out Monster Disco Orchestra, “Give It to Me” (2018): One Track Mind
For Mungo Jerry band founder Ray Dorset, summertime never ends. Coming off the 2011 release of Cool Jesus, Dorset and Co. have continued a fun genre-melding career dating back to the turn of the 1970s. You May Also Like: Mungo Jerry – Dawn Albums Collection (2017) Tony De Meur, ofRead More
The newly released debut album from Andy Jobe and Neeley Bridges seems, at first, to be like an easy peg: Heartfelt, kind of country-ish? Got it: 1970s singer-songwriter. You May Also Like: No related posts.
The man better known as drummer to Peter Gabriel, Joni Mitchell, Robbie Robertson, and Simple Minds, Manu Katché leads a double life as a restless, serious jazz musician and composer. “Restless” comes to mind on the eve of his fourth record for ECM, simply titled Manu Katché You May AlsoRead More
