Category: Review

How The Beatles made Revolver, the album that changed Everything | Louder

August 5, 2020 Editor

Revolver’s commercial impact was immediate, the album topping the UK chart for seven weeks and the US chart for six. Culturally, although there had been earlier instances of psychedelic music, mostly in San Francisco, London and New York, Revolver opened the floodgates, and changed the thinking, and the chemical preferences, of young rock and pop…

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Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker on the five-year anniversary of his disco-pop opus ‘Currents’

July 14, 2020 Editor

I’ve been following this guy for a couple of years now. It’s good stuff. And the songs are quite mercurial. Following its release – when he finally let go – time and touring helped heal those wounds. The ensuing tour in support of ‘Currents’ took Parker to festival headline slots and arenas across the globe….

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Space Oddity by David Bowie: The Story Behind The Song | Louder

June 20, 2020 Editor

It’s a classic story of songwriting. “When I originally wrote about Major Tom,” Bowie said, “I thought I knew all about the great American dream and where it started and where it should stop. Here was the great blast of American technological know-how shoving this guy up into space, but once he gets there he’s…

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The 200 Best Songs of the 1970s | Pitchfork

March 8, 2020 Editor

“Metal Guru” 154 Glam-rock wasn’t just about dudes putting on women’s clothing, it was about giving rock ‘n’ roll itself a makeover by filtering ’50s hot-rod rave-ups through ’60s psychedelia and turning pop music into science fiction. At T. Rex’s early ’70s commercial peak, Marc Bolandidn’t so much write tunes as devise characters begging for…

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10 Tours That Changed the World | SPIN

February 8, 2020 Editor

3. The Beatles U.S. tour, 1965 The Beatles made their second major tour of the States in the summer of 1965, and I was lucky enough to win tickets to one of the shows. It’s the only thing I’ve ever won. I was 14, living in Portland, Oregon, and the concert was at the Memorial…

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Josh Homme’s Desert Sessions Are the Coolest Ongoing Experiment in Rock & Roll | GQ

February 3, 2020 Editor

Rancho de la Luna, part of a sprawling compound of outbuildings at the end of a dirt road, is a place you’ll find only if you’re looking for it. On the property, studio owner (and Desert Sessions vet) Dave Catching has established an enchanted zone of digressive, maximalist entropy: cacti and bleached cinder blocks, Christmas…

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Prince: requiem for a bass hero | Guitarworld

January 9, 2020 Editor

Nielsen: “I learned so much from him. He was a genius and such an unbelievably gifted musician. And I feel so lucky to have been on the front row and seen him work. I will do my best to honor him by keeping the level high.” Advertisement Thompson: “The last time I saw him, at Bunker’s…

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Sleater-Kinney Return to Their Roots as a Duo on ‘The Center Won’t Hold’

August 20, 2019 Editor

More from Portland OR. Also with Annie Clark, aka St Vincent. Source: Sleater-Kinney Return to Their Roots as a Duo on ‘The Center Won’t Hold’

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Brian Eno Interview: ‘Apollo’ Expanded, Moon Landing – Rolling Stone

July 19, 2019 Editor

I definitely grew up with this album. I still have the original on cassette and I recorded my own album in the same studio as Apollo which hangs in shimmering gold on the studio wall. The excerpt below is from the end of the article. Much more good stuff. Read from the beginning. Being grown…

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