Month: October 2022

The Cult’s Ian Astbury says no recent rock album comes close to the “essential” new album from… The Cult: “It’s a gift” | Louder

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It’s a cult. The Cult. The 2022 album. Must have a listen.


“If you’re a fan of rock music, our new record’s essential,” the singer stated boldly, modesty be damned. “I don’t think there’s any recent releases of rock music that comes close to Under The Midnight Sun. And to say that, it may sound like an arrogant statement, but I’m tired of this bullshit. Stop it. Stop phoning it in. Stop exploiting your fans. Stop patronising your fans. And stop calling them fans. They’re your benefactors. Our audience are our benefactors.”

Source: The Cult’s Ian Astbury says no recent rock album comes close to the “essential” new album from… The Cult: “It’s a gift” | Louder

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A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan | The New Yorker

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“These songs didn’t come out of thin air,” he said. “I didn’t just make them up out of whole cloth. . . . It all came out of traditional music: traditional folk music, traditional rock and roll, and traditional big-band swing orchestra music. . . . If you sang ‘John Henry’ as many times as me—‘John Henry was a steel-driving man / Died with a hammer in his hand / John Henry said a man ain’t nothin’ but a man / Before I let that steam drill drive me down / I’ll die with that hammer in my hand.’ If you had sung that song as many times as I did, you’d have written ‘How many roads must a man walk down?’ too.

He’s in his eighties. How does he keep it fresh?

Source: A Unified Field Theory of Bob Dylan | The New Yorker

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Artists Finding Their Tone at Home – Music Connection Magazine

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What sets your studio apart?My instrument collection. I have a ton of interesting vintage and new instruments. An 1880’s pump organ, for example.What are some of the biggest challenges about running your home studio?Keeping my instruments, mics and computer running properly. Especially the computer.What have been your favorite tech developments over the past few years?I love the iZotope RX plugins for cleaning up audio. The PSP plugins are also fantastic. Their VintageWarmer is great. I use that for snare or lead guitar. I also like their SpringBox.

Source: Artists Finding Their Tone at Home – Music Connection Magazine

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Brian Johnson couldn’t watch Axl Rose perform with AC/DC | Louder

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“Part of the pain of it was that I blamed myself. For most of my career, I’d been in the loudest band in the world. I’d flown constantly. I’d flown even when I knew I wasn’t well.”For a while, people would ask me if I was depressed, but depression is treatable. My hearing loss wasn’t. What I was feeling wasn’t depression. It was something closer to despair.”

Source: Brian Johnson couldn’t watch Axl Rose perform with AC/DC | Louder

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Watch Bruce Dickinson drag a stage invader offstage during an Iron Maiden show without missing a beat\

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Ok, I helped set up a Maiden show once. All I can say is all the objects and props and attitude on stage and at home ARE REAL!

In a battle between Bruce Dickinson and a stage invader, there’s only going to be one winner

Source: Watch Bruce Dickinson drag a stage invader offstage during an Iron Maiden show without missing a beat | Louder

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Roxy Music review – arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems | Roxy Music | The Guardian

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I saw the band at Massey Hall in Toronto, just after their productive years were over. It was a different set with many hanging curtains and not quite as many musicians on stage. A special kind of music.

Reuniting for a 50th anniversary tour, the band have lost none of their sophisticated swagger in a career-spanning set which highlights their enduring originality and influence

Source: Roxy Music review – arch art-rockers peacock their peerless anthems | Roxy Music | The Guardian

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King Crimson: How we made In The Court Of The Crimson King | Louder

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It’s a masterpiece

The Court Of The Crimson King

The lush-textured, panoramic, epic title track that closes the album was actually the first track the band recorded, on July 16. Hearing this huge, gothic, densely orchestrated piece, it’s almost impossible to believe that it was originally “a sort of Bob Dylan song, if you can imagine that”, says Sinfield. “Ian took it and rewrote the music. He’d studied harmony, he’d studied orchestration, so his references were not just The Beatles, but also big, sweeping things like Stravinsky, Mahler, things that were emotional. And that would come out. That track did take quite a while to pull together.“I was sort of worried about the vocals. They recorded line by line and dropped in. I probably shouldn’t say that, but there you go.”

Source: King Crimson: How we made In The Court Of The Crimson King | Louder

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Alvin Lee: the story of the fastest guitar In the west

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I had always heard Alvin was a big racist. If I searched I could find a bit in the lyrics. He was a very good guitar player and songwriter and fell totally into the star trap.

“I took LSD in San Francisco in 1968 and found it very illuminating,” said Lee. “We played with the Grateful Dead in Phoenix and they had a very interesting attitude. They’d go off stage [during Dark Star] and leave their instruments against the amps, feeding back. We started experimenting. Stonedhenge slipped under the radar, despite its title. The press didn’t seem to notice that the cover had pictures of hookahs, pipes and smoke on it. We were taking a lot of hallucinogenics and made weird albums, and I was all for that. But the writers glossed over it all – how terribly British.”

Source: Alvin Lee: the story of the fastest guitar In the west | Louder

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