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  • Paul Whitehead: iconic Genesis band collaborator and surrealist artist

    Iโ€™d heard about Paul Whitehead from my colleague Michel Plante, who clued me in that Paul is a California-based artist who paints wonderfully complex, spiritual, surrealistic art, who also did the artwork on three Peter Gabriel-era Genesis albums: Trespass, Nursery Cryme, and Foxtrot. Michel thought itโ€™d be a good idea to interview Paul for PMA…

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  • Will you commit to being artist-friendly?

    More than 30 years ago, the tabling of the Brundtland report introduced the concept of sustainable development, of which there are three pillars: economic, social, and environmental. This begat fair trade, at the time considered avant-garde, which instituted a set of policies that spanned the world and forever altered the standards we use to buy…

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  • Measurements can suck

    ย ย ย ย  As a youngster in the late sixties, I was keenly interested in music. Virtually every day, I came home from school, and after doing my homework, spent my afternoons hanging out at the familyโ€™s Philco stereo console spinning LPs. My familyโ€™s relatively meager collection of albums consisted mainly of Momโ€™s selection of easy listening…

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  • The Jay Jay French Connection, Episodes 6-10

    Episode 6 On this weekโ€™s episode of The Jay Jay French Connection, Jay Jay interviews guitar virtuoso Nuno Bettencourt, known for his otherworldly chops and being the lead guitarist of the Boston rock band Extreme. Tune in to hear these two discuss Nunoโ€™s early years and his deep rooted connection to The Azores, the importance…

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  • Can music actually save a life?

    We all know about musicโ€™s power to change a life, but can it literally save one, to make the difference between life and death? According to a Nashville FOX 17 report, thatโ€™s exactly what Johnny Cashโ€™s grandson, Thomas Gabriel, says music was for him โ€” a determining factor in keeping him alive. After spending eight…

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