TTSSFU – Causing a stir – making waves – upping the ante TTSSFU at the 6 Music Festival put on by the BBC this past March and recorded live on March 25. TTSSFU which stands for (kind of) Tasmin Nicole Stephens was originally with the Post-Punk band Duvet before heading
– The Walker Brothers – Demo Sessions – 1964 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection When they became overnight sensations with their smash hit The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore, it was assumed The Walker Brothers were yet another British Invasion band. Their debut hit got started in the UK. Their
Getting Saturday up and rolling with a set from the 2009 Primavera Sound Festival in Barcelona on May 29, 2009 by Saint Etienne – all coming from RNE Radio 3 in Madrid. Saint Etienne were associated with the “indie dance” genre in the early 1990s. Their typical approach was to
– Tori Amos – Live At Baloise Session – November 6, 2015 – SRF – With over 16 albums to her credit, and a career spanning over 40 years, Tori Amos is considered the Grande Dame, of Indie. But she’s a lot more than that – with musical interests embracing
– Disclosure – Live at Alexandria Palace, London – March 8, 2014 – Disclose this morning to end of the week – time to dance and forget about it, and Disclosure are just the ones to do it. As a colleague pointed out to me – I don’t usually run
Always interesting when you get a concert and it’s labeled wrong, or at least wrong from your standpoint. Elephant9 are about as Prog as you can imagine. Yet, in some circles they are labeled Jazz, and this runs the risk of ignoring one large audience while raising curious eyebrows in
Be a Subscriber – it’s wonderful: Become a Patron! The Offspring this weekend – recorded during the 2024 Lollapalooza Festival in Brazil on March 22. The Offspring, from Garden Grove, California, formed in 1984. Originally formed under the name Manic Subsidal, the band’s current lineup consists of lead vocalist and
I’d love it if you’d subscribe: Become a Patron! Diving back to 1980 this weekend for a concert by one of those defining bands of the late 70s/early 80s The Police managed to straddle the non-conventional Punk and New Wave audience with the more mainstream Pop Music audience to become
Coffee works wonders: – Bob Dylan – Live At Free Trade Hall, Manchester – May 7, 1965 – Soundboard Recording – Pivotal year, 1965. After the initial wave of bands from Britain had flooded the U.S., and as America jolted itself out of the musical doldrums, the next phase; the
– Toru Takemitsu: Woman In The Dunes (soundtrack) – JVC-Japan – Known largely on this side of the Pacific as a composer of the Avant-Garde, Toru Takemitsu was a huge fan of cinema and was very much in demand by some of the legendary figures in Japanese Cinema to provide
