In one fell swoop, Speech Therapy’s poor sale, and Debelle’s subsequent disappearance from the media spotlight, revived the “Curse of the Mercury Prize” after Elbow’s success the previous year had done much to dispel this most amusing of media myths (in which winning the Mercury Prize appeared to presage the immediate decline, disappearance or disbandment [...]

Shake Verdict:
I starting my vinyl selection seriously in the 60s with the Beatles, Barbra Streisand, Sergio Mendez and this guy, Herb Alpert. Back in 1967 he stamped his mark on the USA music scene with no less than five albums in the Billboard chart, with four of them in the top ten. It’s a [...]

SNIPPETS
BC. Tell me a little bit about Rainer, his influence on you as a friend and a musician. He’s obviously still a big influence on your whole life, though he died in 1997.
HG. I’d been in Tucson off and on for two or three years and then I finally moved here when I was 19. [...]

But moving on to more ethereal elements…
BODY & SOUL will be shape-shifting this year – pushing the ever-evolving village to fresh extremes: adding a new spark of energy, passion and raw talent into the creative, enchanted landscape that has become synonymous with the name. We feel its time to build a new stage to show [...]

MARY GAUTHIER BIOGRAPHY
“There’s freedom in knowing that you don’t have to know it all,” she says, “which is why to me, a song should end with a question, not an answer.” It might seem that after six groundbreaking albums of original songs, more than a dozen years of recording and touring around the world, a [...]

Devo’s sound, style, and philosophy have been an influence on artists from Rage Against the Machine to Lady Gaga. Kurt Cobain once said, “Of all the bands who came from the underground and actually made it in the mainstream, Devo is the most challenging and subversive of all.”
In 1990, Devo morphed from a recording and [...]