BRISTOLFEATURES: MAKING A SCENE - BRISTOLNearly 20 years after Portishead and Massive Attack put Bristol on the musical map, the city's music scene still lives in the shadow of the trip hop giants.
LONDONFEATURES: TYLEAN IS ANYTHING BUT FORGETTABLEAmerican ex-pat and former Attrition member TyLean talks to SoundProof about eating endangered animals, raping cellos and why she doesn't like America.
LONDONFEATURES: YOU SHOULD ALREADY OWN: FOSSILS AND OTHER PHANTOMS BY PEGGY SUEFolk roots is certainly one of the of the most overlooked genres in modern music, but Fossils and Other Phantoms by UK-based trio Peggy Sue manages to make it more accessible with musical talent that would impress even the biggest skeptic.
GLASGOWFEATURES: QUICK & DIRTY: BIKINIBikini: New York's answer to Swedish minimalism?
GLASGOWFEATURES: WHY GLASGOW IS A MAGNET FOR THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE MUSIC-MINDED MASSESPersonal reflections on a move from Dublin to Scotland and the joys of exploring a new music scene.
BELFASTFEATURES: QUICK & DIRTY - COLENSO PARADERiding the crest of Northern Ireland's new wave.
GLASGOWFEATURES: WE WERE PROMISED JETPACKSYou don't have to be Scottish to be depressed. But it helps.
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Shuffle Better: Sharing a track a week in various categories that I hope you might enjoy, and that will improve (I hope) your ipod shuffling.
Cats sets a record; funeral for John Bonham; Saturday Night Live debuts; Bing Crosby dies.
The shortest single to go to No. 1 enters the charts; Janis Joplin dies at 27; Van Halen goes Extreme; Jolson makes film history.
David Lee Roth unsuccessfully channels Toshiro Mifune; MJ sleeps in an oxygen chamber; a surprising UK music fact; The Bangles bang no more; Bryan Adams sucks, but apparently not in the UK.
New York Dolls begin to dissolve; the debut of MTV Video Awards; David Bowie wins; and three in the same week from Dire Straits.
Although Bowie's The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders From Mars album was released when I was only about a year old, I would discover it later, at about 15. In my small basement bedroom in our duplex home deep, deep in the painfully straight, white, and conservative suburbs of Calgary
In the world of jazz, Oscar Peterson is such a towering figure that he isn’t considered a Canadian pianist but rather one of the greatest pianists in history from any place.