Category Archives: Music
iTunes Store hits Europe
After all the excitement, speculation and US-envy, the iTunes Music Store arrived in Europe this week. Or at least, the bits of Europe called Germany, France and the UK. For people in these countries, Apple have arrived rather late to … Continue reading
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A more organized approach to listening
From the “so much music, not enough time” category… After interviewing Ronny Jordan for Guitarist magazine last week, I realised that I hadn’t listened to much jazz guitar recently and that I’d got this far in life without hearing Grant … Continue reading
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Earliest musical memories
Let’s see if we can get a little meme thing going here. What are your very earliest musical memories? Don’t cheat by naming the first cool teenage albums you bought; this has to be a cathartic experience for all of … Continue reading
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Opera: accessibility vs snobbery
I hate it when someone dismisses a whole cultural genre or style out of hand, but I have to be honest here. I just do not like opera. I’ve tried my best, listening to examples of Mozart, Verdi and Wagner, … Continue reading
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New music: ‘Revenge is Never Sweet’
Some new music for your downloading and dancing pleasure… Revenge is Never Sweet (3MB) I made it for a recent Collective task, the aim of which was to write a “sad” song. I’m not really a sad sort of person … Continue reading
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Stereolab without Mary
I honestly didn’t realise I’d gone so long without posting. Time must be going through one of its warped phases. I won’t say I was exactly apprehensive about seeing Stereolab in their unfortunately Mary-less format, but I did wonder how … Continue reading
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Genius smiles on us all
Oh yes, of course I’m going to write about last Friday… I just didn’t have time to do it properly until now. Friday was the first night of Brian Wilson’s Smile tour. I’d heard a few bootlegged (speculative) versions of … Continue reading
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BPI vs CD Wow!
The record industry has long since passed the point of actually caring whether it makes any friends. The latest episode in a PR catalogue of disasters is the successful out-of-court settlement with low-price online CD retailer CD WOW whereby the … Continue reading
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Christmas presents for all the family!
In all the rush to get the Zappa tribute done, I completely forgot to mention another cool musical project I’ve been involved with over the past couple of weeks. Regular readers will know all about the
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