Parlophone. Release: May 17, 2019. 2019 is the 40th anniversary of Lodger and 17th May sees the release of the latest limited 7″ picture disc from Parlophone, Boys Keep Swinging. While originally recording the song, Bowie had hoped to capture a garage band feel with the musicians swapping instruments after a deck of Brian Eno’s…
Parlophone. Release: May 17, 2019. Following the recent Spying Through A Keyhole announcement, Parlophone is set to further commemorate the 50th anniversary of David Bowie’s first hit, Space Oddity, with a 7″ vinyl singles box set of six home demos, four of which are previously unreleased recordings. This set further documents the earliest stages of…
Easy is the debut album by the Australian rock band The Easybeats, recorded in just a few days at the EMI Studios in Sydney. The album was originally an Australian only release but became internationally available during the ’90s. Most of the songs for the album were written by George Young and singer Stevie Wright. It´s a…
Source: milesdavis.com Seventy years ago, in a nondescript basement room behind a Chinese laundry in midtown Manhattan, a group of like-minded jazz modernists formed a groundbreaking collective. Among them were jazz headliners soon-to-be: Gerry Mulligan, Lee Konitz, Max Roach, John Lewis, the arranger Gil Evans and significantly, the 22-year-old trumpeter Miles Davis, who became the leader…
For the first time on colored vinyl, here is the 50th Anniversary edition of the full 10LP set of the entire Woodstock collection.
SOURCE: Fuzz Club Fuzz Club has announced that they’ll be doing a European pressing of Star 69, the fifth album from Los Angeles garage heavyweights Cosmonauts (Burguer Records). With the album out now in the US and the band currently on a run of dates with Night Beats and The Dandy Warhols – with European…
Source: Craft Recordings Los Angeles, CA – 1969 marked a year that was full of both trepidation and excitement for Stax Records. Just one year before, the Memphis soul outlet ended its relationship with musical giant Atlantic Records, effectively leaving the label as an independent entity, without a music catalog (which had previously included a formidable…
Source: BandcampRelease Date: May 10, 2019 French modern-classical quartet astrïd return on May 10th with the first part of a new release entitled A Porthole. Conceptually the two records work in unison, focusing on portholes into the abyss, with part one delving into the depths of the deep sea. The tracks are named after various…
U.F.O.F., F standing for ‘Friend’, is the name of the highly anticipated third record by Big Thief, set to be released on 3rd May 2019 via 4AD.
In an era when networked access to information is nearly universal and wearing influences on your sleeve is normalized, it often feels like everything’s been done. Which begs the questions: What’s the point of creating? Does the world need another still life of fruit? Another film about love? Does the world need another melody?