Songwriting and Music Production
August 18, 1975 Arabian swelter, and with the air-conditioning broken, CBGB resembled some abattoir of a kitchen in which a bucket of ice is placed in front of a fan to cool the room off. To no avail of course, and the heat had perspiration glissading down the curve of one’s back, yeah, and the…
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I have kept my Akai Reel to Reel that I used in the 70s. Real sound-on-sound. Combining digital and analogue has been my plan since my first record in 2008. I’ve never looked back… It began with vinyl, and cassettes closely followed. But now reel-to-reel tape decks have joined the analogue revival and are making…
Quit defending the Eagles! They’re simply terribleZip it, Chuck Klosterman! Rock critics want you to reexamine the much-hated band. Don’t — they’re still loathsome One of the sliest and funniest jokes in the Coen brothers film “The Big Lebowski” is the constant conflict between Creedence Clearwater Revival fans and Eagles fans. The film is set…
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Tom ConnickNov 9, 2018 1:16 pm Paid-for Facebook likes and YouTube comments, and false ticket sale figures, have led to one of the strangest stories of the year Bands buying Facebook likes is nothing new. The (very silly) practise has been going on for as long as Facebook Pages have existed, businesses and bands alike…
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Springsteen at the Wonder Bar for a Stone Pony reunion show.CreditBobby Bank/WireImage, via Getty Images So as I went about telling the oral history of the Stone Pony, the legendary rock club in Asbury Park, N.J., an interview with Bruce Springsteen was essential. Here’s the full transcript of what he said. NICK CORASANITI When was…
Those lucky enough to have socialized with William Burroughs report the best situations had the smallest number of people, and the very best were often when Allen Ginsberg was present. As Steven Taylor, editor of this book, observes in his introduction, this is because of Burroughs’ “great shyness hiding behind a stern exterior and formal…
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The Beatles in London, July 28th, 1968. © Apple Corps Ltd. Everything we know about the White Album is about to change. The Beatles’ 1968 masterpiece has always been been the deepest mystery in their story—their wildest, strangest, most experimental, most brilliant music. But as it turns out, the White Album is even weirder than…
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AWSOME Performance by all. WE don’t die. More here: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/see-living-colours-fervent-come-on-on-seth-meyers-w502481 Shade is Living Colour’s first new album in eight years; the LP was inspired by a Robert Johnson tribute performance in 2012. “I think the blues is overlooked in its complexity,” Reid told Rolling Stone. “We see it so much that we don’t even see it…