Songwriting and Music Production
Before Black Sabbath, there were plenty of rock groups that played heavy: The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream, Blue Cheer, Iron Butterfly, Led Zeppelin. But the music that Sabbath created in the early 70s was heavier and darker than anything that had come before, and it would prove seminal. “Black Sabbath are the forefathers of heavy…
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“No, I don’t think I ever saw Iggy when he wasn’t shirtless. I made a big mistake one time; he said, ‘Hey, you’re going to Germany, could you pick me up a switchblade?’”And I went, ‘Yeah, I’ll pick him a stiletto.’ Of course, he gets on stage and starts cutting himself with it, and we…
“We’ll never be one of these sellouts that’s gonna go play a drive-in show or play a venue that holds 100,000 people and there’s only 10,000 people there. That’s bullshit,” Commerford stated. “Rage will never do that. It’s not a good show unless the audience is going off too. It’s gotta be a shared experience.”…
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“My Saturday night headline show at NHBD Weekender Festival will now not happen! I refuse to accept vaccination proof as condition of entry. Refunds are available!” Brown tweeted. “My Saturday night headline show at NHBD Weekender Festival will now not happen! I refuse to accept vaccination proof as condition of entry. Refunds are available!” Brown…
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There were also some moments where cloaked references to Page’s ongoing obsession with the occult could be discerned: images of ‘Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace’ and a ‘pilot of the storm who leaves no trace, like thoughts inside a dream’ – pilot? Or Magus, perhaps?Performed for the first time on the band’s…
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What this means is that it’s way easier and cheaper to gain followers in Mexico City, Lima, Peru, and even Istanbul than it is in New York or London, even though those cities are major music centers. I’ve written about this in the past, but as with everything online, the data changes constantly and the…
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“It may have taken years to gain traction, but nothing would ever be the same after White Light/White Heat – not least the Velvets, following Cale’s enforced departure in autumn 1968. It’s one of a precious handful of albums that helped rock music turn a significant corner… before dragging it down an alley and beating…
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This is so wrong… on so many levels PRS for Music suggest otherwise Source: “A tax in the middle of a crisis, on people who need the money” – is the new licence fee for live-streamed gigs a kick in the teeth for UK music? | MusicRadar
Some of the tracks on Led Zeppelin sounded like they were being jammed, but there’s a real magic in that. Good Times Bad Times is the perfect way to kick off an album; and I prefer the studio version of Dazed And Confused to the live one on The Song Remains The Same. I also…
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Neil Young, Lindsey Buckingham, Shakira, and others recently sold their song catalogs to the flashy music publishing upstart Hipgnosis, in deals that have implications for the future of the recording industry. Check the whole article at Source: What to Know About Music’s Copyright Gold Rush | Pitchfork
SIZZLING–geddit?–PLATTER OF THE WEEK: David Bowie – Blackstar (ISO) :: You’d think that suffering a heart attack after recording the less than holy holy Heathen would’ve warned him to resist the dark side, but nooooooooooooo. Various Artists – Moogfest 2006 Live (MVD Visual DVD) :: When it comes to aural affection, Moog synthesizer adherents are…
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Prince rarely gave live interviews, but when he did, he had a way of mesmerising the audience. We dug up this rare clip from 1985 when the artist agreed to talk in front of cameras for the first time ever. It’s a rather peculiar conversation in which his then-manager Steve Fargnoli (who later sued the…
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I saw Carlos Alomar play with Iggy Pop in a couple of different venues. Always so cool and conscious of the impact he made on stage with his instrument. This is a great read. Station To Station and the Berlin Trilogy When we went to California to do Station to Station, and we did the other albums later, the Brian…
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I was always a big Generation X fan. “We wrote the Rebel Yell songs ‘Flesh for Fantasy,’ ‘Eyes Without a Face,’ and some others during rehearsals,” Stevens recalls. “But ‘Rebel Yell’ didn’t come about till we went to Electric Lady Studios to start recording. We had the music first. We ran tape as we were…
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