If You’ve Got a Fuzzbox…
An unheralded hero of the music world passed away on May 21st, Glenn Snoddy, inventor of the fuzztone. Invented is slightly misleading, as the now […]
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From A to Zé – A Beginner’s Guide to Brazilian Music
To imagine the music of Brazil for many is to immediately hear the frantic battering of percussion almost drowned out by even louder carnival colours. […]
Animals in Bands – An A-Z
Animals in band names. Spare a thought, it seemed easy when we started it: A Alien Ant Farm Covered Michael Jackson’s Smooth Criminal. Badly. B […]
Tom Jones Vies for Inglorious Honour of Worst Ever Musical Collaboration
As Shaggy and Sting release their barely plausible collaborative album, My Dad Rocks 24/7 has published its own thoughts on what the most heinous musical […]
Record Store Day – The View From Behind the Counter
Whilst you’re trying to elbow everyone else out of the way so that you can get shaped puce-coloured 7″ which is limited to 3 copies […]
Screamin’ Jay Hawkins – A Most Peculiar Shade of Blue
In 1956, ex-boxer, soldier and R&B sideman, Jalacy Hawkins recorded a song so shocking that, having recovered from the drunken stupor he was in when […]
Goodbye 21st Century, Hello 1995! Music Sales Continue to Soar
The British Phonographic Industry, or BPI to its friends, has published its yearly data for UK music sales and the top and tail of it […]
After 66 Years, The NME Ceases Publication
Perhaps the saddest aspect of the news that the NME is to cease as a weekly publication is that it is no surprise whatsoever. “Pay […]
The Theremin – The Sound of Beyond!
The theremin is an early electronic musical instrument, controlled without physical contact from the player. It was originally also known as the ætherphone, etherphone, thereminophone, termenvox or thereminvox. In the 1950s, the emergence of science […]
Contra Affairs – The Cult of Out-Sized Musical Instruments
When choosing a musical instrument to learn to play when the opportunity comes around at school, there are several factors which may influence a child. […]