GHOST is the name of a devil worshipping ministry, that in order to spread their unholy gospels and, furthermore, trick mankind into believing that the end is ultimately a good thing, have decided to use the ever so popular rock music medium as a way to achieve their ends. Standing motionless and anonymous beneath the […]
English Teacher are a British musical group from Leeds, who formed in 2020. They consist of vocalist Lily Fontaine, guitarist Lewis Whiting, drummer Douglas Frost, and bassist Nicholas Eden. The band appeared on Later… with Jools Holland in November 2023 Their song “Nearly Daffodils” was named one of the 10 best songs of 2023 by […]
CD – Everybody Is A Star: The Sly Stone Songbook seeks to celebrate the songcraft and influence of Sly Stone’s work via the interpretations of others across the past fifty years. With illustrated notes by Alec Palao Despite his status as a recluse for much of the past thirty years, Sly Stone still stands tall as […]
On The Incredible Jazz Guitar of Wes Montgomery, one of the guitarists best LPs ever, Wes was backed by Tommy Flanagan on piano, Percy Heath on bass, and Percys brother Albert “Tootie” Heath on drums (the third famous Heath brother, not heard here, is tenor saxophonist Jimmy Heath). The album was highly praised as soon […]
Dave Brubeck’s recording career began in the early forties. He formed an octet in 1946, which alto saxophonist Paul Desmond would first join in 1950. The first regular formation of the Dave Brubeck Quartet with Paul Desmond had Joe Dodge on drums and, alternatively, brothers Bob and Norman Bates on bass. The formation with Dodge […]
Rapidly becoming one of the most talked about live acts in Ireland, Bricknasty emerged from Ballymun at the beginning of 2020 as a lockdown studio project that has developed into a band taking in members from across the country – singer and guitarist Fatboy, drummer Korey Thomas, sax / keys player Louis Younge and bassist Dara Abdurahman. Featured in District Magazine’s Future of Irish […]
Limited 20th Century Masterworks Edition 180g Blue Vinyl featuring the complete album + 2 Bonus tracks. Contains new specially prepared liner notes by Penguin Guide to Jazz’s writer Brian Morton. (2025 Reissue) W. C. Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form […]
THE ARKESTRA’s LEGENDARY GUIDING LIGHT CELEBRATES HIS CENTURY WITH HIS VERY FIRST SOLO ALBUM! 6-PAGE FEATURE + FRONT COVER OF THE NOVEMBER 2024 WIRE MAGAZINE. SPECIAL GUEST : NENEH CHERRY. Two days after his 100th birthday, Marshall Allen started recording New Dawn, his debut solo album. A member of Sun Ra’s Arkestra since 1958, Allen […]
2 CD • A double CD that’s long gone in the world of incredibly strange music • Featuring 62 wild and way out tracks, the third collection of tunes, its predecessors having been acclaimed and spun all over 6Music and raved about from Shindig! to Vive Le Rock and Louder Than Bombs • Including wild […]
The classic 1962 album Duke Ellington & John Coltrane introduces the rising jazz saxophone innovator performing with the long-established piano institution Duke Ellington. “Perhaps looking to renew his inspiration or maybe simply wanting to broaden his horizons, Duke Ellington began a string of collaborations in the second half of his career — whereas before that, his own band was […]
