Before there was Peter Frampton, before guitarists like the Edge and Andy Summers cluttered up the stage with more effects pedals than you found in the average music shop, there was Pete Drake. (More info here.)
PETE DRAKE: FOREVER
by mrjyn
My extended break while I work on another project is still in force and I want to thank everyone for their patience, though maybe disappearing for a while isn’t such a bad career move: I also turned off Twitter last week, went completely silent, and noticed this morning that my number of followers increased.
Anyway, despite [...]
I’ve got fifty free eMusic downloads to use — part of their make-up-for-the-mess-we-made-of-recent-price-changes strategy — and I’ve been noodling through their lists working out what to get. I thought I’d top up some of the back-catalogue and so have been checking out the likes of Eno, Tom Verlaine, Lou Reed and co, Jefferson Starship and [...]
I’m shamelessly ripping this idea off No Depression, but it appealed to me.
So here’s the game: you can bring back from the dead one musician or songwriter so that they have another 25 years of productive work. Whom do you resurrect?
There were lots of arguments about music back in the day, most of them really important and crucial to the future happiness of the world. Stones or Beatles was the classic example, and, if I’m not mistaken, it still has some potency today.
But there were others. Who was the better keyboard player, Rick Wakeman or [...]
When the Triple J Hottest 100 results appeared, many people noticed the lack of female talent represented in the list. As I mentioned last week, Naomi Eve decided to do something about it.
She set up a Facebook group and a matching Twitter account and invited people to vote for their favourite female artists. The votes [...]
It mightn’t be the greatest song ever written but it fulfills the working definition of country music — three chords and the truth — plus it strikes a worthy blow for airline passengers everywhere who’ve been pissed around by airlines.
Back story: In the spring of 2008, Sons of Maxwell were traveling to Nebraska for a [...]
Ah, don’t you just love it when celebrities appoint themselves spokespeople for idiocy?:
Some rock stars want to free Tibet. Others want to save Mumia. The Foo Fighters, on the other hand, want their fans to ignore accepted medical wisdom about AIDS.
The multimillion-album-selling alternative rock outfit has thrown its weight behind Alive and Well, an “alternative [...]
Here’s some tracks to listen to online from around the traps.
Entertainment Weekly, of all places, has a complete stream of the new Levon Helm album, and that’s definitely worth a click.
The EMI blog, The In Sound From Way Out, is streaming a new track from The Black Ryder. On the strength of this, I’d definitely [...]
At the end of next week I’m heading off to the US for a couple of weeks. This was all planned well in advance of the launch of Johnny’s so I didn’t really have it mind to be listening to a lot of music while I was over there. The trip was just a return [...]
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