Saturday, September 28, 2013

Facing The Other Way: The Story of 4AD - A Review

In this episode, I'm reviewing the upcoming book 'Face The Other Way: The Story of 4AD' by Martin Aston. At 650 pages, Aston traces the history of the iconic UK label known as 4AD - once home to seminal bands like Bauhaus, Pixies, Dead Can Dance, Cocteau Twins, etc. Be sure to stick around through the second half of the video, where I show a batch of important 4AD records from my collection.

'Facing The Other Way' will be published by The Friday Project on November 12 in the U.S. | and is now available in the UK/Europe.




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Friday, September 27, 2013

[Friday On The Turntable] Mazzy Star - Seasons Of Your Day

Welcome to this week's Friday On The Turntable feature! For those of you that follow my blog on Facebook, you'll recall that each Friday I post a featured record that I'm currently enjoying. To enhance the experience, I've been filming short videos - discussing a brief history of the record, my favorite tracks and what it means to me. The video is embedded below - and don't forget to subscribe to my youtube channel here.

This week's featured discussion is on the band Mazzy Star - and their brand new release, Seasons Of Your Day. Check out the video below where I give a track by track review, show the vinyl packaging, a history of the band - which includes a showing of related bands/project - and some other discourse. Please enjoy.




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Monday, September 23, 2013

Planet Rotations #109

In the age of digital music, we tend to skip through albums, listening to one or two tracks - missing some of the deeper cuts that may be brilliant. I am a big fan of the album format, and love to experience the entire album the way the artist intended. Listening to one or two songs is like randomly reading a few chapters of a book and expecting to understand the completed work. Like any music lover, I love to share what I'm listening to and discover some new things from friends. Here's my playlist for this week. Please put your lists in the comments below, or interact on Facebook or Twitter.





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