Following up from the excellent “Show Me The Place,” shared back in November, Leonard Cohen has made another new track from his forthcoming album available. “Darkness” is yet another reason why I can’t wait to hear this album. After 15-20 years in a haze of synthesized production sounds (not exactly lost), he’s returned to a more […]
1973 marks the 50th anniversary of The Dark Side of the Moon from Pink Floyd (Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright, Nick Mason), the group’s eighth album. Earlier this year a variety of releases came out to commemorate the anniversary. Those who wanted to purchase a 50th anniversary reissue of the vinyl album had to […]
The return to activity of Independent Project Records, founded by musician and graphic designer Bruce Licher way back in 1980, has been one of the sweeter developments on the contemporary scene, especially right now through a handful of vinyl releases that carry forward the label’s magnificent design aesthetic. As the bands are The Ophelias, Shiva […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Creators of what Uncut magazine editor Allan Jones lauded as “…timeless, brilliant music” Shiva Burlesque was founded by transplanted northern Californians Jeffrey Clark (current IPR partner) and Grant-Lee Phillips (later of Grant Lee Buffalo), emerging from the alternative music scene of subterranean Hollywood/Downtown Los Angeles in the mid-1980s. Drawing comparisons to […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Craft Recordings celebrates the 25th anniversary of R.E.M.’s bestselling 11th studio album, Up, with a series of expanded and remastered reissues, all of which are available for pre-order today and set for release on November 10th. Created in partnership with the band, the Deluxe 2-CD/1 Blu-Ray edition offers a wealth of […]
Remembering Dave Van Ronk, born on this day in 1936. —Ed. ELIZABETH ECKHART FOR TVD | Smack dab in the middle of the second side of Bob Dylan’s debut album is a rendition of the folk standard “The House of the Rising Sun,” listed as “House of the Risin’ Sun” on the record. For most listeners […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Nobody wrote songs like John Prine, filled with humor, humanity, and perfectly cock-eyed detail. But what this elegantly curated collection—culled from interviews, TV and radio appearances, and even recipes—reveals is that…well, that’s just who the guy was. Whether he’s at the Library of Congress or in the pages of Hot Rod […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “These are wonderful stories across the whole range of popular music, by one of rock’s finest journalists. As history lengthens and some of these legends move on, these become increasingly precious fragments of lives lived at the sharp edge of music.” —Richard Thompson Trouser Press Books is proud to announce Backstage […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | “Folk music has a contradictory mission—to preserve tradition and to screw with it. In his incisive collection of interviews with key folk stars from the ‘60s through the ‘80s, Bruce Pollock captures both functions perfectly. His flowing conversations with the stars show the traditions they honored as well as the many […]
Record Store Day 2023 features fresh vinyl from Taylor Swift, Rolling Stones, more: How to buy. Vinyl fans, rejoice. Record Store Day returns April 22 with dozens of exclusive new releases as well as reissues from artists in an array of genres, from Paul McCartney to Pearl Jam, RZA to Wilco, Miles Davis to the […]
What species of geniuses names their band after pond scum? You would have to ask Buffalo, New York’s Spyro Gyra, the everything-but-the-kitchen-sink fusion outfit whose easy listening vibes are designed to please the sorts of people who consider latter day Steely Dan a free jazz band. Don’t get me wrong—I have no personal animus against […]
To expand upon the intro to yesterday’s kick-off, these lists aren’t about one-upmanship. If the majority of the entries below are from lesser-known artists, they made the list legitimately, by bringing joy to the ears, which is fitting for the season. Scaling down to single disc and double disc sets, here’s part one of the […]
VIA PRESS RELEASE | Stories of Baton twirlers, a young Bob Dylan, poets and wizards… You’d be hard pushed to write a more romantic tale about lost folk troubadours and psychedelically enhanced neo-hippies than the story that revolves around the late great Tom Rapp and his revolutionary combo Pearls Before Swine. The roots of the […]
Two recent reissues from female artists who began their careers in the 1960s reflect how their talent and longevity transcend their ’60s image and early musical persona. First up is Nancy & Lee from Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood from Light in the Attic, part of the Nancy Sinatra Archival Series. The 1968 album is […]
David Blue had an eventful if largely under the radar career as a singer-songwriter and actor; most people likely know him, or better said, know of his achievements, through the composition “Outlaw Man,” which was recorded by the Eagles. Starting in 1966, he cut a string of albums, and for a while, each one was […]
