Rock and Roll Daily (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
Ozzy Osbourne’s memoirs I Am Ozzy debuted at Number Two on the New York Times bestseller list for hardcover nonfiction. Read about a unique Ozzy book signing and his reflections on Black Sabbath’s early days. Robert Fripp and Tool’s Adam Jones are considering reviving a side project they started and abandoned five years ago. Blabbermouth cites [...]
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 02/08/2010
If you were to list your most played albums, would this differ greatly from what you would declare as your all time favourites. This is my "Top Played" list and of course it is skewed towards albums of the last century as I have had much more time to play them! There are certain albums that I would not have thought of listing as my favourites! OVER TO THE MASSIVE..... PINK FLOYD Dark Side...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Playlist Grand Funk Railroad – Bosnia Various – Zunior Compilation 2010 v5:03 Alice Cooper – School’s Out Another 7:30 rise and, today, compiling a list of all artists by whom I have every original studio album released to date... There are 89... I’ve split them according to the decade in which their first album appeared... 1960’s 1963 The Beatles 11 1964 Simon &...
Bubblegum Aesthetics (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
I recently finished Marc Spitz's new biography of David Bowie. The book itself, which I hope to blog more about soon, is something of a mixed bag, but its great gift is to cause readers to go back and re-discover the music; I've been listening to everything from Hunky Dory to Outside to Let's Dance to Lodger with renewed appreciation for Bowie's talents. On this cold and snowy weekend (at least for...
Cloudland Blue - A Diary (Free subscription) | 02/07/2010
Playlist Various – Recent CDs on Shuffleplay Tranceport – Tranceglobal Tranceport – Altitude Silence Alice Cooper – Can’t Sleep Clowns Will Eat Me* Crazy Wisdom – A Death Junkie’s Last Peep Show* Robert Fripp – Pie Jesu* Kraftwerk – The Robots* Pink Floyd – On the Turning Away* David Sylvian/Robert Fripp – Jean the Birdman* King Crimson...
M80s Soundtrack for an 80s Generation (Free subscription) | 02/06/2010
Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) is an album by David Bowie, released in September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie's final studio album for the label and his first following the 'Berlin Trilogy' of Low, Heroes and Lodger (1977-1979). Though considered significant in artistic terms, the trilogy had proved less successful commercially. With Scary Monsters, however, Bowie achieved what biographer David...
The KEXP Blog (Free subscription) | 02/04/2010
You know who doesn’t get a lot of respect these days? The prog rockers. Yeah, that’s right: the noodlers, the wankers, the incessant time-signature-changer-uppers, the guys with boards full of effects for their guitars and lyrics about larks’ tongues and moonchildren and crimson kings. And I totally get it. But have [...]
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 02/03/2010
I love you, Suburbanbatherstarfish, for posting this. Wait, I thought your name was Suburbanbatherson on YouTube. Or was the video done by Son of Starfish? If you like this, subscribe to him or her on YouTube. Listening to this, I'm thinking this probably influenced that collab between Robert Fripp and Andy Summers. Where is that album? I haven't seen that in at least 15 years! And who else? King Crimson?...
Line Out (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
DJ Krush, Foscil, SunTzu Sound (Neumos) Countering the technology-obsessed mindset of his home city of Tokyo, DJ Krush's music sounds as if it comes from the uncomplicated earth itself. He has an uncanny knack for bringing elements of nature into his work. Just listen to "Jugoya" from Milight, an album dropped during his stay on Mo' Wax, the Britain-based label known for its extensive and...
Hot Vimto (Free subscription) | 01/31/2010
Daryl Hall was best known for being in Hall and Oates, a classic eighties pop'n'soul duo that contained a man who looked like Freddie Mercury and man who looked Princess Diana. Relatively few people know about his collaborations with Robert Fripp. the guitarist best known as the leader of King Crimson, and whose particularly English weirdness is almost impossible to describe, but summed up very well...
Band Weblogs (Free subscription) | 01/28/2010
Guitar legend Joe Satriani has released an amazing 14 solo albums (two went platinum and four gold with 15 Grammy nominations between them) - his first album, 'Not Of This Earth' was released in 1986. His latest release, Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock!, a two-disc CD and DVD, is out in February 2010. The show was recorded in 2008 at The Grand Rex Theater in Paris, France.
CHOCOLATE BOBKA (Free subscription) | 01/25/2010
Reefs (photos by Michael Keany) Conk shell in ear, tide rolling gently through the night... all I want right now. That said, having heard Dolphins Into the Future recently played shows in Hawaii was sort of like hearing James Ferraro and Robert Fripp were doing a collaboration on the International Space Station. It's moments like when I really wish scientists would stop working on drugs to eliminate...
The Observer (Free subscription) | 01/17/2010
He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading next When influential music website Pitchfork listed its 100 greatest albums of the 1970s – which in certain other lists is calculated to be the greatest decade for rock music – the modestly immodest, driven, musical non-musician Brian...
KoreAudio (Free subscription) | 01/13/2010
We have had Post Rock now the much more fun genre of Post F**K, post coital classixxxs as selected by the avuncular Maningrey......Read on In the nuclear winter we are having what else is there to do on a freezing Sunday lie in than a pleasurable fumble with your boy, girl, fourlegged furry friend? For those non smokers amongst us we have to reach for the musical nicotine of the post coital play list....
The World Wide Glen: Welcome to My Thoughtmare (Free subscription) | 01/09/2010
In Celebration Of King Crimson's Lizard...Sort Of Music Review: King Crimson - Lizard (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) I have to honest here and say that when King Crimson's third album Lizard was originally released back in 1970, I was for the most part pretty underwhelmed by it. What I remember most about it — and to put things in their proper perspective, I was about fourteen years old at...
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