Voice of the outcast: an introduction to KEVIN COYNE
The history of rock is littered with the careers of singer-songwriters possessed of talents too big to be ignored but too distinct to be popular. Think of Nick Drake pre-car […]
The history of rock is littered with the careers of singer-songwriters possessed of talents too big to be ignored but too distinct to be popular. Think of Nick Drake pre-car […]
The history of progressive rock is literally littered with super-ambitious albums exploring well beyond the boundaries of the three- to four-minute pop song. Some of these albums fall well short […]
Horslips is a band that once held a dominant place in the Irish music scene. And now, even today you still won’t find an Irish person who doesn’t know of […]
The late seventies are remembered primarily as the time when music tastes (at least for the average music consumer) changed drastically, as the pomp of prog, the boogie woogie of […]
I’ve had a thing for Central Asia, which I’ve never visited, since I was a kid and my mother took me to the museum, where she said I could choose […]
Jethro Tull. The name is familiar to millions of rock fans, but the music is probably not as familiar as it should be (“Aqualung” excepted). We’re talking here about a […]
Very few people who listen to music appreciate the value of pure sound. I don’t mean pretty melodies and exquisite harmonies — most of us enjoy those things. But then […]
I am Canadian. That doesn’t mean a heck of a lot to me particularly, but I say it by way of introducing this Canadian rock album. Canada probably has as […]
It seems I say this all the time, but this is a very special post about an incredible musician who is no longer on this plane to share his wonderful […]
Time to delve into another of my passions. My parents weren’t so into rock music when I was a kid (well, Mom wasn’t), but they did have quite a lot […]
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