The last two XTC albums were on Ape Records – it’s Partridge’s own label (Colin Moulding refused to get involved).

The Taylor Swift is a “band”? Like, Blondie is a band??

Well, considering Joan Baez’s voice…

But seriously, Joan Baez was the only one in the line-up who could be considered a »veteran« with a nearly ten-year (and quite successful) recording career. All the oth […]

The daily bug report from Tumblr has the usual updates on improvements and fixes (»you can now search your entries on IOS…«), but today there’s a note among all the tech speak that »we are currently checking on s […]

“Help” was a single from the album »Help«, which also had (sometimes another version of) the song “Help”, which also appeared in the movie called »Help«. The first few lines of the song start with the word “He […]

Les Barker – not as good as he used to be.

I remember I had tickets for Porcupine Tree for their Berlin gig on one of their last tours. The ticket was the usual bland computer print-out from the ticket office with tiny hologram to prevent fakes. At the […]

Don’t know what all this has to do with The Fall citing The Glitter Band, but the Ringo Starr/Jim Keltner double-drum team played on a lot of recordings from 1969-1973 – and “Back Off Boogaloo might even qualify a […]

Ray Campi, the King of Rockabilly, musician, collector and historian, left this earth on Thursday. A very nice fella, always had a story or anecdote to tell, and he always had that “music maniac” signal in his […]

I certainly have no trouble whatsoever with Mrs. Fripp’s weekend videos, and the ensuing lighthearted comments, but my (perfectly styled) eyebrows go up to 11 when I read statements like »….minority groups – bl […]

Steve Took never was in T.Rex – the Beard Years were all Tyrannosaurus Rex.

In one of the numerous James Brown biographies someone from his band tells a story about their late sixties touring days. The Godfather of Soul (and recent Sex Machine-hitmaker) happens to see some porn pictures […]

The cassette version of »Pulse« has a 20-minute ambient track to keep both tape sides up to equal length.

And of course one of the earliest Zappa covers comes from Sweden:

Another Afterword favorite – featuring Mahavishnu bass player Rick Laird:

You’re probably all waiting for a few weird ones from Germany: here’s Nena, and the mighty Adam & Eve!

Tomasz Stanko??? I’m pretty sure he died three years ago…
(Maybe it was ‘The Australian Tomasz Stanko’)

When did you last see a Keith Jarrett gig? ECM artists usually have huge merchandising stands – where you can buy everything from hardcover books with their record covers to Arvo Pärt coffee mugs.