I suspect Teo was a bit miffed that is wasn’t him who’d been asked to compile those boxes.
He was willing enough to scrape together one or two collections of leftovers for Columbia when Miles was still alive but […]

So…
For Help! the average score per song is 7.46
For Rubber Soul the average score per track is 7.57
Not very much in it, is there?

Now if that was me, I wouldn’t ban his records from my shop, I’d just file them all under Alt-Right Dick Heads.

That lighting rig has been there for ages. They just use it sparingly, most of the time.

If you like Wyatt’s solo albums then the first two albums and the early live stuff, plus “Moon In June” off Third, is probably as far as you need go with Soft Machine. After that there’s rather a lot of hardcore […]

Good as they are, I’d say that This Heat is getting quite a way off the Canterbury piste.
The only direct connections are Charles Hayward’s brief and seemingly unrecorded tenure among Gong’s cast of thousands […]

The chairman of the Watford branch of the Labour Party is Mike Jackson.

As you get older, if you are a relatively normal music consumer, you realise that music, wonderful stuff that it is, cannot remain your primary focus. Although still of importance as a source of pleasure, it is […]

Going to the barber’s around 4pm on a Saturday, during the football season, should make it reasonably obvious that you’re not a footie fan.
Stangely, in my experience, you still get attempted fitba talk. I think […]

He’ll be glancing over his shoulder at least 3 times.

Free-jazzer Paul Dunmall – “Solo Bagpipes”

Have the sausage-purists here considered that some folks might like a dollop of their favourite sauce but feel that they need something (such as a sausage, for instance) to go with it, adding piquancy, […]

Starting in the later ’60s, pretty much any Young-White-Person-Music-With-Guitars-or-Keyboards that wasn’t bubblegum pop was described as “Progressive”. The term “Prog” wasn’t coined until about 1972.
Nobody […]

Can I have the world on a plate with strawberries, please?

“What will you do with The Internet, now that you’ve won it? Not that it’s any of my business”
“I think I’ll become Larry Page”, said @Pizon-bros.

Androgynous is Patti Smith’s “Horses”
Cock-crow is Los Lobos’ “Good Morning Aztlán”

When “Prog” came onto the scene, most of the bands in that category foreswore improvisation altogether and devoted themselves to note-for-note replication of complex written/rehearsed compositions, designed to […]

A tactical voting guide for the UK European Parliament election, for Remainers.

If you want as good sound quality as possible, then ripping from a YouTube clip’s sound (lossy-compressed) and then converting to (lossy-compressed) mp3 just doesn’t fit the bill. Unless it’s something that’s just […]

Yes.