The Rolling Stones Circus Returns
Getting “Real Gone”
Norman Granz: Father of Verve
The Beatles: The White Album
Tasty Year-end Leftovers
Travis Pike: Renaissance Man
THE KINKS
Apple Jammin’
Prog-Rock Anniversary
The Elusive Bluesman
The Bowie Celebration
Features
Rolling Stones announce spring 2019 U.S. Tour; Rolling Stones Live DVDs out; Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet (50th anniversary edition) available on super audio CD; expanded edition of The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus due in spring 2019. BY HARVEY KUBERNIK THE ROLLING STONES HAVE JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THEY WILL bring their hugely successful No Filter tour to stadiums in 13 cities across America in 2019. The tour […]
The Sound and the Fury
Real Gone Records strays away from the beaten path with reissues of quirky, rare records supported with high-quality sound and packaging BY GILLIAN G. GAAR I DISCOVERED THE REAL Gone Music label when I was putting together a round-up of Christmas releases last year, and producer/author Pat Thomas clued me in to the groovy stuff being reissued […]
Jazz
Verve Records to pay tribute to its founder Norman Granz on his centennial with the all-star rour-disc box set The Founder BY HARVEY KUBERNIK IN JAZZ CIRCLES, FEW names command more respect than Norman Granz. Although he wasn’t a musician, Granz (1918-2001) was as responsible as any individual for popularizing jazz and promoting the careers of many of the genres greatest artists. […]
Pop
By Harvey Kubernik On November 9th, The Beatles re-leased a suite of lavishly presented White Album packages (Apple Corps Ltd./Capitol/UMe). The album’s 30 tracks are newly mixed by producer Giles Martin and mix engineer Sam Okell in stereo and 5.1 surround audio, joined by 27 early acoustic demos and 50 session takes, most of which are […]
The Sound and the Fury
There’s never enough space to write about everything worthwhile, but here’s a roundup some items that should not be missed By Gillian G. Gaar As a music journalist, I’m always being sent “product”: CDs, vinyl, books, and, increasingly, music downloads and PDFs. So there’s never any shortage of stuff to pitch — and never enough […]
Unsung Musicians
Long overlooked, musician, songwriter and now, podcaster, Travis Pike has taken a unique career journey that’s worth checking out By Harvey Kubernik We at Record Collector News readily admit that most of the editorial in the periodical covers music and recordings initially released during the last century or music documentaries that chronicle endeavors and melodic moments […]
Pop
The 50th Anniversary rerelease of The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society is out from BMG. Interviews with Ray and Dave Davies explore the history of this seminal album. By Harvey Kubernik The Kinks have just released a 50th anniversary special edition of one of the greatest rock albums of all time The Kinks […]
The Sound and the Fury
Seattle’s Apple Jam’s lovingly interprets an album’s-worth of Beatles songs, unreleased by the band — it’s the White Album that could have been By Gillian G. Gaar Apple Jam isn’t your typical Beatles tribute band. It was meant to be a one-off project, for one thing. But the Seattle-based group had such a good time […]
Film
The 40th Anniversary edition of the concert film Yessongs revisits the band’s 1972 performance at London’s Rainbow Theater By Harvey Kubernik Based in the U.K., Screenbound emerged from various U.K. distribution, production and DVD companies founded in 2003 by Alan Byron. In 2015, the companies were all brought under the Screenbound brand, and the international […]
Documentary
The documentary, Horn From The Heart The Paul Butterfield Story takes a look at the life of a “humorous, talented and complex” musician By Harvey Kubernik Paul Butterfield learned the blues from the original masters on Chicago’s South Side. His interracial band added a rock hard edge to the blues and played a key role […]
Books
BY HARVEY KUBERNIK Pianist Mike Garson recounts his years touring with David Bowie in his newly-updated biography, Bowie’s Piano Man “It is pointless to talk about his ability as a pianist. He is exceptional. However, there are very, very few musicians, let alone pianists, who naturally understand the movement and free thinking necessary to hurl themselves […]
