The GENESIS top-5 album panel convenes
Genesis is one of the most popular progressive rock bands of all time. Actually, one of the most popular bands, period. The band released a lot of albums in very […]
Monthly Archives: September 2014
Recomposed by MAX RICHTER: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (2014)
by Allister Thompson The worlds of classical and electronic music are strange and uneasy bedfellows with a long history going back to the days of the first avant-garde tape experiments. […]
An Appreciation of BARCLAY JAMES HARVEST
This page contained a long article praising the discography of Barclay James Harvest. I received an email from a guy who apparently had some association with them, correcting factual errors […]
COUSIN SILAS – The Sound of Silas (2014)
by Allister Thompson Cousin Silas is the musical persona of Englishman David Hughes, and he has been making music under this name since 2003 — a LOT of music. In […]
Last Week Apple Broke My Heart
A thought piece by Thomas Mathie Last week Apple broke my heart. During the strammash that is an iPhone release … including the frenzy of the Watch … they quietly […]
CONCERT REVIEW: Nik Turner’s Hawkwind in Toronto, September 15, 2014
by Allister Thompson I don’t get out to club gigs much any more, having played a billion of them in my day and gotten really fatigued by it. When a […]
MYOT’s TOP 10 OF THE BEACH BOYS!
by Allister Thompson A lot of music aficionados and connoisseurs, both musicians and non-musicians, go through a Beach Boys phase, which I suppose is not unlike going through a Beatles […]
HANAN – Sonder (2014)
by Allister Thompson Sonder is an album on a new label, Inspirus Records, from Minneapolis (never been there but I did play a gig in Mankato once…), and Hanan is […]
MIGUEL ISAZA – Uji (2014)
Uji is a release on the newly formed (as of 2014) Eilean Records label, based in France, which focuses on electronic, ambient, electro-acoustic, experimental, field recordings, post-classical, contemporary music, post-folk […]
Fela Kuti and the Fall of the Kalakuta Republic
by Simon Slator There’s something about African music I find quite satisfying, whether it’s drumming from Burundi, Senegalese Mbalax or South African Mbube … I love it. A couple of […]
Make Your Own Taste 