Album of the Week: Daniel Johnston – Love Lives Forever: BBC Sessions (Staff Review) Out today on vinyl is Love Lives Forever, a 2023 compilation of recordings by the late, great Daniel Johnston (1961–2019). This collection brings together songs from various BBC radio sessions recorded between 2003 and 2011, offering a rare, intimate experience of Johnston’s incredibly beautiful […]
The protean Quincy Jones returned to the recording studio as a leader after a long stretch in Hollywood with this triumphantly contemporary big band album.</br>He re-established himself firmly with his big band jazz base while casting a keen eye on the pop scene and the world of electric instruments (even Ray Brown is caught playing […]
Culminating more than two decades of performing with some of the world’s greatest orchestras, indie music icon Ben Folds performs his hits and new music with the NSO in a live orchestral concert album conducted by Steven Reineke and recorded to sold-out audiences over two nights at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing […]
ARE YOU EATING IT… OR IS IT EATING YOU? The Stuff is the new dessert taking supermarket shelves by storm. It’s delicious, low in calories and better still doesn’t stain the family carpet… What’s not to like? Well, for a start, it has a life of its own, and we’re not talking friendly live bacteria… […]
Ben Bernie was an American jazz violinist, bandleader and radio personality, who started his career in vaudeville and founded an orchestra in the early 1920s which became the resident band at the Hotel Roosevelt in New York, and was hugely popular through the 1920s and ‘30s on radio, which Bernie being marketed under the nickname […]
Circa Waves announce the release of their double album ‘Death & Love’ with new single ‘Cherry Bomb’, premiering on Radio X at 19:00 BST on Tuesday, July 8th. Death & Love is due October 24th via Lower Third. The official video sees professional skateboarder Demi Jenkins and Kieran wearing customised Levi’s jackets and is directed by Circa Waves’ Joe. The announcement also comes […]
3 LP – Black Vinyl. This deluxe edition has been newly mastered by Joe Tarantino. Now available in it’s entirely for the first time. Released to celebrate Albert King’s Centennial, his 1999 live album In Session, with Stevie Ray Vaughan is now available in it’s entirely for the first time on LP, CD and Digital. […]
Unfairly neglected since its original low-key cinema run, Secret Friends is the only feature to be written and directed by Dennis Potter (Pennies from Heaven, The Singing Detective). Made shortly after his hugely controversial mini-series Blackeyes, the film centres on a writer, played by Alan Bates (A Day in the Death of Joe Egg), who […]
“I’ve never heard Gerry sing so well. He never fails to amaze me.” Billy Connolly, May 2021 Gerry Rafferty’s first posthumous album Rest In Blue will be released on vinyl on 15th April and can be pre-ordered here. It comes out a day before what would’ve been his 75th birthday. Rest In Blue showcases Gerry’s […]
2 LP Kylie Minogue – Can’t Get You Out Of My Head (Soulwax Elektronic Remix) * CD Only Emerson, Lake & Palmer – Peter Gunn (Live) Basement Jaxx – Where’s Your Head At (Head-A-Pella) Peaches – Fuck The Pain Away The Velvet Underground – I’m Waiting For The Man Polyester – J’aime Regarder Les Mecs […]
