Murphy Campbell, “Shady Grove” 🎵 More of these crazy talented young people playing folk music please. Looks like she’s just concluded a successful kickstarter for an album of her family’s North Carolina ballads.
If you are even a mild St. Vincent fan, I recommend her fantastic new live album: Delta Air Lines…responded to the continuing shutdown by suspending special services for members of Congress, including airport escorts and red coat services. I applaud Delta for doing this, but why the heck do members of congress get special services in the first place? Sure, for certain situations I could see it, but generally they should be in the airport mixed in with the rest of us citizens. Pat them down! R...
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Neil Hubbard’s guitar was a thread that ran through British rock in the late ’60s and throughout the subsequent decades as a member of Bluesology, Wynder K. Frog, Joe Cocker’s Grease Band, Juicy Lucy, Kokomo and others, and as a hired gun all the way from Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita via Alvin Lee and […]
Hello – here with a quick check-in as I recover from vacation and try to get re-acclimated to life at home. As a band, Ride are pretty online with a regular presence on all your usual platforms and channels, but did you know they had a Bandcamp? No, not the rideox4.bandcamp.com site that offers all […] The post Ride / Live Manchester Albert Hall 2015 appeared first on Space Echo.
Big Ears Transmissions Livestream Here we go! Tune in Friday-Sunday 9am-12am EST to catch me and Jason P Woodbury live-streaming from Old City Java in the heart of downtown Knoxville. YouTube | Instagram Less than 24 hours in, Big Ears has already proven to be — as advertised — an embarrassment of riches. Things are about to get more embarrassing.
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https://insitze.com/blog-posts/ Back in 2024, I put out a collection of one-off lo-fi iPhone Memo-demos using a drum machine and looper called 5 easy dems on Soundcloud. Two years later, I put a new spin on the EP by having the tracks formally cut in a small batch of 25 8″ clear vinyl by Philly-based DIY outfit […] The post “5 easy dems” – 8″ Home-Cut Vinyl appeared first on (In)Sitze.
A new video featuring Icelandic and affiliated musicians on the power of collaboration: I’ve experienced performances by most of these artists, even the perfumer! There is even a scene of Jofriður Ákadóttir in her ultra-cool studio in the Icelandic countryside as well as various backgrounds in Reykjavík and Seltjarnarnes.A perfect counter to my rant last Monday (about The Reykjavík Grapevine,)
Wonderful words by the ever erudite Adam Turner. The ambient guitarist Thought Leadership is a bit of a mystery. No press info, no bio, no background or story, no words on the songs, or the sleeves – just the knowledge that he’s from Edgeley, in Stockport, and uses Roman numerals for track titles. The three […]
Ciarán Bourke, Luke Kelly, John Sheahan Barney McKenna, Ronnie Drew. Anyone who is aware of Irish folk music over the past 50+ years will know these names point to The Dubliners – who paved the way for the global appreciation of Irish folk artists the following decades. Created and directed by Dublin-born Ged Graham, Seven […]
Two great podcasts this week, with the creator of Claude Code, and another one with Werner Herzog. And check out the links from other people, they are much better than mine. Sorry about destroying your productivity with the 100 jumps game. New addition to these posts: Quote of the Week A profusion of ideas spewed forth from his mind. There was no such thing as a bad idea, apparently. But, perhaps more important, there was no such thing as a good id...
There are three epic music albums, released in the seventies and the eighties, produced by musicians from the other side of the Atlantic (Irish and British), that describe the United States much better (and even in a prophetic way) than what the Americans ever could (or wanted).
The Heartwood Institute, the name used by Jonathan Sharp for his retro-electronica music, has previously released highly evocative imaginary soundtracks to Penelope Lively's children's novels Astercote (1970) and The Whispering Knights (1971), among other haunted and beguiling work. I greatly enjoy these wistful and atmospheric compositions, with their affinities to the BBC Radiophonic
Grace Ives “Neither You Nor I” Grace Ives is a musical shape shifter, but her shape only shifts so much. Her voice and palette is consistent, but her songwriting mostly comes across as her writing her own version of “types” of songs. And it’s rarely obvious archetypes or particular popular songs. She’s a little more […]
NEW RELEASE – JOAN FORT Spanish guitarist in a New York state of mind. [row-start] [half] [/half] [half] Personnel Joan Fort (guitar), Grant Stewart (tenor saxophone), Daniel Cohen (tenor saxophone #2), Michael Weiss (piano), David Wong (bass), Aaron Kimmel (drums) Recorded on December 7, 2024 at Bunker Studio in New York Released as 45Read more
This wonderful score is such a good fit for Dudamel’s sleek Los Angeleans. There is what I would call a tinge of Americana about Prokofiev’s big lyric melodies in this of all his pieces and within a few bars of the ballet’s intriguingly understated opening pages the Los Angeles Philharmonic violins are overheating in ways … [Read More]
Writer, Broadcaster and Presenter EDWARD SECKERSON was one of the last journalists to interview the legendary Leonard Bernstein less than a year before he died in 1990. A passionate, some might say fanatical, advocate of Bernstein’s exceptional talents as a conductor, composer and teacher, Seckerson has championed the Bernstein cause over many years now, winning the trust of the Bernstein family with his writings and live shows. In this new show – a mix of talk and cabaret – he is partnered by…
Marti Webb is renowned for her leading roles in West End musicals. She gained prominence through performances in productions such as Evita, in which she played the role of Eva Perón from 1979, and Tell Me on a Sunday, a one- woman show specifically written for her by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Don Black. Webb’s career spans over five decades in musical theatre and recording, establishing her as one of Britain’s most enduring stars in the genre. Her breakthrough came in the late 1970s with Evita at…
There have been a couple of stand-out recordings of Mahler’s ‘rogue’ Seventh in recent times – none more illuminating or hard to beat than Rattle’s Bavarian RSO account – but after Paavo Järvi’s brilliant rendering of the fledgling First Symphony with his Zurich orchestra I was more than ready for this. What I really like … [Read More]
