This is Part 1 of a two-part series. Part 2 will follow very soon. I have a mixture of news and reviews for you, this time around. Both vinyl and CD…
I have reviews of a 18 vinyl releases here. So I’ll give you a quick run down of the creative work itself of course but also comments on the packaging, the…
More vinyl news in this Music Magazine (well newsy previews) for you and well, this might take longer than I thought…getting through my back log here, that is. That’s what you…
A total of 15 discs for this CD section covers various genres and combines extended news items and longer-form reviews, including mastering comments JAMIE COE Title: Summertime Symphony Label: Jasmine If there…
Title: Gary Crowley’s Punk And New Wave Label: Demon Crowley has worked under many titles: DJ, NME scribbler, TV presenter and more. Now he has collected 77 tracks of a rare…
Title: Over Rock And Roll Label: Spectrum An interesting 2CD compilation from this Universal imprint, it examines the rock’n’roll outpt from the Chess label. Itself arguably more famous for its blues…
Title: A Journey Through The British Heavy Psych And Hard Rock Underground Scene 1968-72 Label: Grapefruit A big title for big music stuffed onto three CDs totalling 48 tracks and featuring…
Title: Local Objects Label: ECM I get so used to ECM trios and quartets that it becomes a bit of a shock when you come across an ECM CD that features…
Title: IRL Remixes 2000-2015 Label: Independent The first 15 years of the Independent label is celebrated with this 2CD package which takes a look at the label’s back catalogue and offers…
Title: Out in the Streets Again: The Soul Sounds of Scepter Label: Sundazed Scepter was one of the most important independent, US-based soul labels and run by…a woman! I’m not being…
Title: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney & Harrison Label: Ace I normally cringe when a Beatles covers CD is produced. I wonder why these people bother. I say this because most…
Title: More Hot 100 Chartbusters of the 70s Label: Ace This is a compilation and, all things being equal, I hate compilations. When I used to write within in the computer…
Title: Sun Singles Label: Bear Family Of late, a range of classic albums has filled this column. Sometimes, though, classic cuts do not and cannot fill an album. Yet they are…
Title: The Songs of Jerry Ross Label: Ace His career spanned several decades and he was responsible for some of the most well crafted pop songs of the sixties, there are…
Title: Various Label: Cherry Red Oh, how a time and a place can knock you for six. Blimey. I was about to give this box set a right ol’serious review. Studious,…
Title: Classic 45s Label: Demon The first is a series of box sets from Demon concentrates upon the classic 7” single and then themes them into slip cover-type box sets that…
Title: 1956-1962 Label: Jasmine Although I tend not to actively seek them out, whenever I do hear themes to films and, especially, TV programmes, then I tend to wallow in the…
Synth Wave Title: Volume 1 Label: Electro London Also contact: [email protected] According to the label, what we have here is “some of the world’s freshest innovative electronic music. Electro, synth pop,…