My latest article in PopMatters, on the folksinger Vashti Bunyan. www.popmatters.com/vashti-bunya...
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My latest article in PopMatters, on the folksinger Vashti Bunyan. www.popmatters.com/vashti-bunya...
My new interview with the Toronto multi-instrumentalist and artist Avi C. Engel, published in The Tonearm.
www.thetonearm.com/ancient-stri...
#TheTonearm #Music #AviCEngel #PeterThomasWebb
PopMatters presents 2024's best album reissues, including my reviews of David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Joni Mitchell, and a box set compilation of 80s darkwave.
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New feature interview with Chicago rock band Spun Out... My first feature for US journal The Tonearm
www.thetonearm.com/chicagos-spu...
GREAT article, Rob. Articulates so much of what I've felt about Nick Drake's legacy in the 3 decades since I discovered his music.
Thanks for the link, Rob.
Marc, I'm writing a feature on current indie/ cassette culture culture for The Tonearm music journal. Would love a quick quote or two from you. If willing, please email me at ptwamps(at)gmail.com. Thanks
Image shows vinyl LPs and cassette tapes arranged on a wooden table.
Visited Aux 33 Tours record stores in Montreal to interview the owner for an upcoming article. What an amazing store... heaven for a music junkie like me.
The old cigarette machine has been turned into a tape vending machine at the very cool Vera Project.
White Stripes, Grammy's 2004, interrupted their performance of "Seven Nation Army" to break into Son House's "Death Letter." Torching their own hit crowdpleaser to give props to traditional Delta blues. youtu.be/TPvPR69ddyk?...
It was happening to me too, even with my entirely normcore handle. According to The Verge, it was a symptom of a server slowdown due to a broken fiber optic cable -- apparently now fixed.
Working my way through this year's #DavidBowie box set Rock 'N' Roll Star... demos and live tracks from the Hunky Dory/ Ziggy Stardust. As for this live appearance on TOGWT, rock music just doesn't get any better than this. What's your fave Bowie track from this period?
youtu.be/iuDJue0r2G8?...
Image shows an animated Beatles in a scene from the film Yellow Submarine on the cover of the soundtrack album.
#AlbumForToday - #TheBeatles - Yellow Submarine. The animated film premiered in the US on 13 Nov 1968, introducing a generation of schoolkids to psychedelia (minus the drugs). The 1969 soundtrack LP included "Hey Bulldog" and "Only a Northern Song" -- two of the Fabs' hidden gems.
#GreatRockAlbums
Whether or not one is a fruit bar guy, your choice has the sound logic of being the most likely filling to inhibit stomach growls during the flight.
Happens all the time where I'm asked to review an album by a "new" artist I've never heard of, and it turns out they have a twelve album back catalog on Bandcamp.
Image shows the shaved head of Isaac Hayes as he leans forward on the cover of Hot Buttered Soul.
#AlbumForToday #IsaacHayes - Hot Buttered Soul (1969). In which Hayes extends "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" to eighteen minutes and not a single molasses-grooved moment of it is wasted.
What are your thoughts on this album?
#GreatSoulAlbums
Pretty much every song on After the Gold Rush, but "Don't Let It Bring You Down" hits me where I live.
Mary Timony. Thompsonesque guitar playing, and her new album Untame the Tiger even has former Fairporter Dave Mattacks on drums.
Image shows the yellow and orange proto-psychedelic cover of Donovan's Mellow Yellow LP.
#AlbumForToday #Donovan - Mellow Yellow (1966). This US-released LP had one of Donovan's catchiest hits, but also contained pastoral folk numbers inspiring to the likes of #NickDrake.
Tell us your thoughts on this album.
#GreatRockAlbums #Music
Image shows a large space rock, like an asteroid, on the cover of the new Cure album.
#TheCure – Songs of a Lost World (2024). “Alone,” the opener of the Cure’s first studio album in 16 years, is half over before Robert Smith begins to sing. This unhurried pace is reflected in each of the nine tracks. Not quite #Disintegration, but a fine return to form. #GreatRockAlbums #Music
Really enjoyed this piece, Josh. Thanks for following.
