March 9, 2022
March 9, 2022
Featuring only Neil Young, several guitars and a grand piano on the stage, sad, lonely, bleak and poignant would all be suitable descriptors for the set list which make up Live At Massey Hall. Only eight out of the 18 songs performed during the evening’s second set had been previously recorded.
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January 21, 2022
January 21, 2022
This is a Test represents an attempt to cull some of the most impeccably produced music ever recorded with consideration for those who test, review, or strive to better appreciate audio gear, while also working as a listenable playlist for those who do not.
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December 31, 2021
December 31, 2021
The incubation period of new music is such that nearly two years into the pandemic the jury is officially in: I haven't noticed a tangible shift in either the quality or the quantity of music.
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December 26, 2021
December 26, 2021
The sonic hedonism achieved in New Order’s Technique is still felt in music today. Released in January, 1989 it heralded an end to the indulgent excesses of the ‘80s with a wink, embracing the unknown pleasures to come with the birth of rave culture.
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November 19, 2021
November 19, 2021
Born a few years too early to have experienced the heyday of the UK rave scene first hand, Burial’s evocation of the culture feels more like a dream inspired by an older sibling’s hazy account of the experience.
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October 14, 2021
October 14, 2021
Just like today, gloomy mid-‘70s London pubs were redolent with the scent of stale beer, sweat, cigarettes and the promise of a smile or a wink under the wan lighting. The difference between then and now, is that pub windows no longer flex under the punitive fury of British new wave icons the likes of skinny-suited, bespectacled, and whippet-thin Declan Patrick MacManus, better known as Elvis Costello.
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September 12, 2021
September 12, 2021
A single screening of a pop culture obsessive’s homage to martial arts/grindhouse cinema is all it takes to seriously consider director Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill Vol. 1 as possibly film’s greatest soundtrack mash-up.
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