Judas Priest – ‘Redeemer of Souls’ (2014)
Judas Priest’s ‘Redeemer of Souls’ shows you don’t need new tricks if you can perform the old ones with the fire, passion and energy of 30 or so years ago.
Archive for July, 2014
Exclusive stream: Elizabeth Shepherd, “What’s Happening” from Signal (2014)
She will change your perceptions of what a “jazz vocalist” in this day and age means.
One Track Mind: Jerry Garcia Band, “The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down” from GarciaLive: Volume Four (2014)
Jerry Garcia’s take is simply enveloped in an atmosphere of absence.
The Ugly Beats – Brand New Day (2014)
Spartan but sturdy arrangements, capped with hummable choruses and spiky breaks.
Steely Dan Sunday, “Kind Spirit” (1980?)
Another unfinished diamond in the rough that evokes a feeling of what could have been.
Is this ambient track from Pink Floyd concerts part of the new Endless River album?
Their atmospheric, unreleased ‘Big Spliff’ sessions apparently sparked a new project.
Nick DeRiso’s Mid-Year Best of 2014 (R&B, Jazz and Blues): Paul Rodgers, Rebirth, Walter Trout, Brad Mehldau, Wilko Johnson + Roger Daltrey
Little other than a sense of soul holds this list together. That’s more than enough.
Micky Dolenz pushes back on criticism of early Monkees recordings: ‘So many groups used studio musicians’
The Monkees, in fact, employed the same sidemen as the Beach Boys, and the Byrds.
‘Such an amazing band’: Adam Lambert selects his all-time favorite Queen song
In the midst of a world tour, Lambert has been working with Queen since 2009.
There’s more to Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon than its trippy music: ‘Astonishingly relevant’
A key element to the album continues to resonate, Nick Mason says.
