Musikrecensioner & musikkritik

Sympathy for the Drummer: Why Charlie Watts Matters is both a gonzo rush capturing the bristling energy of the Rolling Stones and the times in which they lived and a wide-eyed reflection on why the Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band in the Worl...

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This Is Hardcore is Pulp's cry for help. A giant, sprawling, flawed masterpiece of a record, the 1998 album manages to tackle some of the most inappropriately grown-up issues of the day - fame, ageing, mortality, drugs, and pornography - and still...

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In Please Please Tell Me Now, bestselling rock biographer Stephen Davis tells the story of Duran Duran, the quintessential band of the 1980s. Their pretty boy looks made them the stars of fledgling MTV, but it was their brilliant musicianship that...

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On February 25, 1963, Columbia Records released The Barbra Streisand Album. The first song was Cry Me a River, and with that a star was born. Barbra Joan Streisand had a zany personality backed by a talent that Stephen Sondheim once described as o...

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As Megan Volpert stood over train tracks preparing to surrender to the psychedelic blindness of simple human misery, of all the Heartbreakers tracks available to come through her headphones, Straight Into Darkness is the one that did. In this high...

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On Ice-Ts 1991 classic O.G. Original Gangster, he introduced his all-Black hardcore band Body Count with lead guitarist Ernie C, bringing them on the first-ever Lollapalooza tour that summer. The next year, Body Counts self-titled debut album, rou...

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Come to My Garden (1970) introduced the world to Minnie Riperton, the solo artist. Minnie captivated listeners with her earth-shattering voices uncanny ability to evoke melancholy and exultance. Born out of Charles Stepneys masterful composition a...

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Music after the Fall is the first book to survey contemporary Western art music within the transformed political, cultural, and technological environment of the post-Cold War era. In this book, Tim Rutherford-Johnson considers musical composition ...

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Happy Doing What We're Doing tells the story of Brinsley Schwarz from their earliest days in amateur beat groups to their last gig at London's Marquee Club. Catapulted into the limelight by a dodgy management company looking to make a fast buck, t...

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Breaking the global record for streams in a single day, nearly 10 million people around the world tuned in to hear Kendrick Lamars sophomore album in the hours after its release. To Pimp a Butterfly was widely hailed as an instant classic, garneri...

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Britney Spears barely survived 2007. She divorced her husband, lost custody of her kids, went to rehab, shaved her head and assaulted a paparazzo. In the midst of her public breakdown, she managed to record an album, Blackout. Critics thought it s...

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Since first becoming a true believer in the power and importance of rock & roll as a boy in the 1950s, Art Fein has been immersed in music and the music business, taking on many diverse roles: Journalist : onetime music editor of Variety , con...

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NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER, HIP-HOP (AND OTHER THINGS) is about, as it were, rap, but also some other things.It's a smart, fun, funny, insightful book that spends the entirety of its time celebrating what has become the most dominant form of ...

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In 1991, a loose-knit collective released a record called Blue Lines under the name Massive Attack, splicing together American hip-hop and soul with the sounds of the British underground. With its marauding bass lines, angular guitars, and psyched...

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To millions of fans AC/DC will always be the greatest hard rock band of them all. From their formation in Sydney, Australia in 1973 by brothers Angus and Malcolm Young, AC/DC have made the most visceral and single-minded rock, and inspired generat...

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Fleetwood Mac is one of the most successful bands of all time. Despite a long and complicated history, the band has survived dysfunction on a scale that would see many others implode, and remains a perennial favourite across generations. Formed in...

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Simply put, Billy Boy Arnold is one of the last men standing from the Chicago blues scenes raucous heyday. Whats more, unlike most artists in this electrifying melting pot, who were Southern transplants, Arnolda harmonica master who shared stages ...

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Blackstar Theory takes a close look at David Bowies ambitious last works: his surprise comeback project The Next Day (2013), the off-Broadway musical Lazarus (2015) and the album that preceded the artists death in 2016 by two days, Blackstar. The ...

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A beautifully produced, photo-packed celebration of the ultimate rock band, AC/DC at 50 examines the extraordinary history of the Australian rockers through the lens of 50 milestone events and an illustrated gatefold timeline. Formed in Australia ...

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'A magnificent treasury . . . a fascinating tour de force.' Observer 'Year of Wonder is an absolute treat - the most enlightening way to be guided through the year.' Eddie Redmayne Classical music for everyone - an inspirationa...

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During the rise of second-wave feminism in the 60s and 70s, political activists were not the only ones at work to usher in a more equitable world. In the music world, female rock performers were pursuing a revolution of their own: rejecting the in...

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The Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century Music, first published in 2004, is an appraisal of the development of music in the twentieth century from the vantage-point of the twenty-first. This wide-ranging and eclectic book traces the progressive ...

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This update to Barbara Hannings concise survey aligns it with the Eighth Edition of the Norton Anthology of Western Music and supports your students with a more robust media package. New resources include Audio Timelines, tutorials to help build m...

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If writing about music is like dancing about architecture, youd do best to hone your chops and avoid clichs (like the one that begins this sentence) by learning from the prime movers. How to Write About Music offers a selection of the best writers...

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BASS NOTES: REFLECTIONS ON MY LIFE IN JAZZ AND JAZZ IN THE LIFE OF OUR CULTURE

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Inside the making of one of the biggest-selling albums of all time: Fleetwood Mac's Rumours Fleetwood Mac's classic 1977 Rumours album topped the Billboard 200 for thirty-one weeks and won the Album of the Year Grammy. More recently, Rolling Stone...

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Bach's Art of Fugue and Musical Offering unpacks two closely related masterworks from the composer's final decade. Bach scholar and keyboard player Matthew Dirst provides essential background on this music, explains its specialized vocabulary and ...

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Trip-hop described some of the 1990s best music, and it was one of the decades most revealing bad ideas. This book chronicles the music and its leading artists, packed with recommended listening, essential tracks, great remixes, and under-recogniz...

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By 1985 Tom Petty had already obtained legendary status. He had fame. He had money. But he was restless, hoping to stretch his artistry beyond the confining format of songs like The Waiting and Refugee. Pettys response to his restlessness was Sout...

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Babes in Toyland was one of the most influential and underrated bands of the 1990s. They rode the wave of the Minneapolis grunge scene crafting a unique sound composed of self-taught instrumentation and unabashed banshee raging vocals. Their stage...

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