Television might not have sounded like a lot of the other CBGB bands, but its members were purely “punk” in their attitude. When it came to making their debut album, the guys in Television were uncompromising. For starters, Television zigged when most of the New York groups zagged. Guitarists Tom Verlaine and Richard Lloyd favored
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Adele has shot down an online rumour that she’s boycotting the 2023 Grammy Awards, labelling the person that spread the false news a “dickhead”. The topic arose in a spot of banter during Adele’s show in Las Vegas on Friday (January 27) – the 17th date of her monumental residency at Caesars Palace. Sat behind
Glen Matlock said the version of his split with the Sex Pistols seen in TV miniseries Pistol was untrue, and offered his own explanation, adding that he’d refused a request from manager Malcolm McLaren to rejoin soon after he’d been fired. The bassist – credited as writer on 10 of the 12 tracks on Never
It’s 20 years now since Meg Baird co-founded Espers in her home city of Philadelphia. With Baird sharing lead vocals with Greg Weeks, the band became a mainstay of New Weird America, striking a noble balance between psychedelic exploration and deference to the set texts of folk-rock. Espers fizzled out amicably in 2010, by which
Yes have sold the rights to their recorded music catalogue under Atlantic Records – comprising their first 12 studio albums, as well as various live recordings and compilation albums – to Warner Music Group (WMG). As reported by Variety, the legendary prog-rockers’ deal comprised a total of 29 albums. It spans all of their studio
Journey played the first concert of their 50th anniversary tour on Jan. 27 in Durant, Okla. despite the ongoing litigation between principal members Neal Schon and Jonathan Cain. The discourse stems from an American Express card meant for the band’s enterprises, with Schon and Cain each claiming the other has misused the card for their own personal expenses.
It is May 14, 1984, and as the UK Margaret Thatcher would like to see remoulded in her image tears itself apart, New Order are doing their bit on the angels’ side, playing a benefit at London’s Royal Festival Hall in support of the nation’s striking miners. At the climax, they unveil a song no-one
Korean-American singer Sam Kim’s father was killed in a robbery in Seattle. Antenna Music, Kim’s management agency, confirmed the news in a statement released January 26. “We would be grateful if you could convey your condolences to Sam Kim who lost his father and pray for the deceased,” the agency’s statement reads, as translated by
Classic songs are being used as the soundtrack to trailers for Hollywood’s biggest movies, and the trend is bringing them back to the forefront of pop culture decades after they were originally released. Oftentimes, the versions of the songs differ slightly from the original. This is due to a process now referred to as “trailerization,” where composers
An investigation into the recent crowd crush at O2 Academy Brixton – where two women died as a result of overcrowding – has a “strong possibility of [leading to] criminal charges”, according to the case’s senior investigating officer, Metropolitan Police detective chief inspector (DCI) Nigel Penney. On December 15, 2022, Brixton Academy was swarmed by
It’s a new era for the indie singer/songwriters who power the underground, and it’s bringing out the experimental side in seemingly everyone – for the best, I might add. Symphuddie returns to the headlines this January with a new set of instrumental vocal-driven songs in Back from the Brink that takes the concepts of his influences in
Varying in tone but constantly sporting just as much color as Kimberlye Gold’s vocal does, the instrumental element in the singer/songwriter’s upcoming EP Soliloquy is the most communicative component of the record outside of the lyrics. On its own, the melodic part in Gold’s cover of the Young Rascals’ 1967 song, “How Can I Be Sure” might
Longtime Elton John collaborator Bernie Taupin will detail the duo’s illustrious partnership in his upcoming book, Scattershot: Life, Music, Elton & Me. Taupin — who has written the lyrics for most of John’s songs, dating back to his 1969 debut album Empty Sky — will release Scattershot on Sept. 12. It’s available for preorder now. From the sounds of it,
Inhaler made their Live Lounge debut yesterday (January 26) – watch them cover Miley Cyrus‘ new single ‘Flowers’ below. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Inhaler: “We’re not here to be a mid-bill festival band – you have to keep pushing to the very top” The Irish band, who will release second album ‘Cuts & Bruises’ on
Not all musically inclined imaginations think alike. We live in bold and exciting times where several cutting-edge musical projects look far beyond the usual template of verse-chorus-bridge toward new challenges capable of enriching aural artistic experiences. Phi Tribe music leads the way into this uncharted territory and blazes its idiosyncratic trail using Psycho Acoustic Technology.
David Garbers’s birthplace of Gaborone, Botswana didn’t foretell a life in music. Garbers had other plans. He began playing music in his early teens as a way of escaping the tedium of his everyday life that increasingly led him into self-destructive behavior such as substance abuse and general lawlessness. It is unusual and harbinger of
Dean Daughtry, a co-founder of Atlanta Rhythm Section, has died at age 76. The news was confirmed in a Facebook post on the band’s official page. “We’re sad to announce the passing of our longtime and original member Dean ‘OX’ Daughtry,” read the post. “For 49 years he never missed a gig, until his health
Mick Jagger has announced plans to release his own limited-edition line of harmonicas. In a statement, The Rolling Stones’ frontman called his new collaboration with whynow Music and Lee Oskar as “fantastic news”, adding that “hopefully some of them will get into the hands of young harmonica players who turn out to be the legends
Joe Elliott has joined forces with Ghost, delivering a collaborative rendition of the band’s song “Spillways.” The Def Leppard frontman’s vocals blend perfectly with the Swedish metal group, as he alternates duties with Ghost singer Tobias Forge. The new version — which can be heard below — builds on the emphatic original, with Elliott’s contributions adding
I heard Time Out Of Mind’s miracle on a preview cassette in a friend’s parked car, our jaws dropping to at least four plainly great songs from a hero who’d seemed spent. Then there was Daniel Lanois’s production: an inescapable, miasmic atmosphere thicker yet than his work on Oh Mercy, technologically mutating the echoing ’50s
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