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Belcairn

·10 hours ago

8 Island Tracks — I’ll Show You Mine If You’ll Show Me Yours

Let’s face it, we’ll never be famous — If you know me, you know that I love a good podcast, and one of my absolute favourites is BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs. One of the longest-running radio shows ever, celebrities are asked to pick 8 discs that they’d take with them if they were cast away on…

Music

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8 Island Tracks — I’ll Show You Mine If You’ll Show Me Yours
8 Island Tracks — I’ll Show You Mine If You’ll Show Me Yours

Terry Barr

Terry Barr

·11 hours ago

Rewind: May’s Riff Album Discussion

And You Were Here! — Yesterday, seven other music lovers joined me for the May Riff Album Discussion, which featured Pink Floyd’s sometimes overlooked 1975 release, Wish You Were Here. I say “sometimes,” because in doing research on the Best Ever Albums site (the one I use for my “Worst Best Album Series,” I discovered…

Music

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Rewind: May’s Riff Album Discussion
Rewind: May’s Riff Album Discussion

Frank Mastropolo

Frank Mastropolo

·13 hours ago

Top Songs by Bands Named for Food

“My doctor told me I had to stop throwing intimate dinners for four unless there are three other people.” — Orson Welles — 11. “8:05” by Moby Grape Moby Grape got its name as the punch line of the joke, “What’s big and purple and lives in the ocean?” “8:05” was written by guitarist Jerry Miller and drummer Don Stevenson. It was a highlight of their self-titled 1967 debut album. …

Rock

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Top Songs by Bands Named for Food
Top Songs by Bands Named for Food

Kevin Alexander

Kevin Alexander

·14 hours ago

A Quick Look at Pearl Jam’s Binaural Album As It Turns 22.

In a lot of ways, Pearl Jam’s Binaural record represents a lot of beginnings and ends for the band. The band said goodbye to producer Brendan O’Brien, and hello to Tchad Blake. They’d already bade farewell to drummer Jack irons, and Matt Cameron joined them in the studio for the first time. Mike McCready went into rehab to say goodbye to an addiction. This would be the group’s 6th studio album, and by this point they’d long left chasing chart numbers in the rearview mirror.

Music

2 min read

A Quick Look at Pearl Jam’s Binaural Album As It Turns 22.
A Quick Look at Pearl Jam’s Binaural Album As It Turns 22.

Sarah Paris

Sarah Paris

·14 hours ago

How I’ll Toad Your Wet Sprocket, Baby

A look at the 90s heyday of a fantastic band — I’ve spent most of the past two years skipping through a meadow of 90s music nostalgia. I love stumbling upon new bands and new genres. My appreciation for more modern music hasn’t waned, but I find the music of my youth oddly comforting. Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic…

Music

6 min read

How I’ll Toad Your Wet Sprocket, Baby
How I’ll Toad Your Wet Sprocket, Baby

Kevin Alexander

Kevin Alexander

·15 hours ago

Brian Eno: The “non-musician” Who Helped Shape Popular Music

For someone who describes himself as a non musician, Brian Eno has had an outsized influence on music & musician both. — From his early days as a member of Roxy Music, to his own solo albums, to working with a multitude of artists and producing 100s of records, his body of work is massive. Going through them all is far beyond the scope of this essay, but writing this on his…

Music

2 min read

Brian Eno: The “non-musician” Who Helped Shape Popular Music
Brian Eno: The “non-musician” Who Helped Shape Popular Music

Frank Mastropolo

Frank Mastropolo

·1 day ago

What’s Your Rock IQ?

A Yardstick for Lunatics — 1. Guitarist Ed King of Strawberry Alarm Clock (“Incense and Peppermints”) later joined A. The Marshall Tucker Band B. The Allman Brothers Band C. Lynyrd Skynyrd D. Atlanta Rhythm Section 2. Professional wrestling manager Jimmy Hart, known as “The Mouth of the South,” was once a member of what band? …

Rock

1 min read

What’s Your Rock IQ?
What’s Your Rock IQ?

Chris Zappa

Chris Zappa

·1 day ago

“What’s in My Bag?” is Great for Discovering New Music

Amoeba Music explores what your favorite artists are listening to — Even if you’re not from California, you’ve likely heard of Amoeba Music. Billed as the world’s largest independent record store, Amoeba’s flagship location sits square in the center of Hollywood on Hollywood Boulevard. There are bustling satellite locations on Haight Street in San Francisco and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Music…

Amoeba

2 min read

“What’s in My Bag?” is Great for Discovering New Music
“What’s in My Bag?” is Great for Discovering New Music

Scott-Ryan Abt

Scott-Ryan Abt

·1 day ago

You Need to Hear this Song #19

Heavy Rotation — Stars of Warburton, Midnight Oil (Blue Sky Mining, 1990) — Heavy Rotation was a music industry term for songs that one way or another got a lot of airplay. It referred to the large amount of rotation that a particular record got on turntables at radio stations. Since, until the 1980s, this was the only way to get new music…

90 S Music

7 min read

You Need to Hear this Song #19
You Need to Hear this Song #19

Paul Walker

Paul Walker

·1 day ago

1001 Songs To Listen to Before You Die: Part 5

We travel to four continents in this week’s selection — Greetings music lovers — if you’ve just landed here, this is part5 of a long-running series as we listen to 1001 songs to hear before you die, based on the book of the same name. Catch up on previous instalments via this Medium list. 1001 Songs to Hear Before You Die medium.com Here we go with our eclectic…

Music

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1001 Songs To Listen to Before You Die: Part 5
1001 Songs To Listen to Before You Die: Part 5
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Noah Levy

Noah Levy

Don’t sweat the small stuff. Lifelong learner. Sometimes I write satire, but it’s kinda true…Want to say hi? Email me! noahlevywriter@gmail.com

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