1991: The Greatest Year in Music?
I’ve resisted temptation for long enough and decided to join the swelling tide of music enthusiasts looking back at whatContinue Reading
Tag: Music History
Classic albums: Jagged Little Pill Is Still Awesome!
Before the year 1995, I have to admit I had never heard of Alanis Morissette. I think its fair toContinue Reading
‘1979’: Billy Corgan’s ode to youth.
Rolling Stone magazine best sums up ‘1979’ as “a mid tempo tune that looks back on the aimless fun ofContinue Reading
The Beatles painting Images of a Woman, Tokyo, 1966.
Images of a Woman, also known as The Tokyo Painting is one of those rare Beatles memorabilia pieces that not manyContinue Reading
The Paul is dead rumour.
I found myself, as I often do, looking over my vinyl collection of Beatles records the other day, in particularlyContinue Reading
Guitar Heroes: Neil Young’s ‘Hitchhiker’.
I was first introduced to Neil Young, when he teamed up with Pearl Jam, to perform Rockin’ in the Free World inContinue Reading
On my stereo this week: ‘I Am Mine’ by Pearl Jam.
I vividly remember how Pearl Jam almost broke up, reeling from sadness, anger maybe even guilt, when a concert tragedyContinue Reading
The Song That Saved America: Composer Trevor Kowalski on “The Battle Cry of Freedom”.
We are thrilled to have Trevor Kowalski, an American composer, pianist, arranger and songwriter, here today to talk about one ofContinue Reading
It’s All About The Bass: Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament.
Some people like to argue that Jeff Ament’s first important instrument wasn’t the bass guitar, that it was in factContinue Reading
Interview with Blues Rocker Diana Rein, ‘The Six String Siren’.
I must admit my exposure to the Blues was once limited to B.B. King, John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters. Interestingly,Continue Reading
