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Frank Doris continues to mine his experience accrued over 50 years of playing in bands, offering insight into brand identity, having a set list, and playing music you don’t like for the sake of entertaining the crowd!
“On a Mobile Fidelity version of Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms, I heard a wealth of scintillating detail and instruments that popped out from the background with shape and aliveness.”
Before the Berlin Wall fell, it wasn’t just a physical barrier; it was a scar running through the heart of a divided city. For nearly three decades, it symbolized the ideological conflict between East and West, splitting families and friends, and casting a shadow over Berlin. Potsdamer Platz, the concert’s location, held heavy symbolism from…
On July 15, 1989, the historic and picturesque Venice Lagoon in Italy became the stage for one of the most iconic concerts in rock history. Pink Floyd, the legendary British rock band, performed a free concert that drew an estimated 200,000 people, with countless more tuning in to the live broadcast. This event is etched…
“What I’m going to say now with 100% certainty is that I had never heard these two recordings sound better than they did in that room.”
(New York) May 13, 2024 David Gilmour today announced his first live shows in eight years in Los Angeles, CA, and New York, NY, in support of his new album Luck and Strange, to be released on September 6 on Sony Music.
Frank Doris interviews Nick Getz, son of sax legend Stan Getz, and Abey Fonn of Impex Records, about the new Getz/Gilberto LP reissue of the bossa nova classic.
Hi, my name is Claude and I’m a… disco addict. There I said it. Now that wasn’t so awful after all. Truth be told, I never shied away from admitting my lifelong disco dependency to strangers. I was always an unabashed member of the disco brigade, but from what I’ve gathered from friends and acquaintances,…
“Legendary bassist Reid and up-and-coming pianist Cardello perform a selection of originals and standards with a relaxed ease. Non-spoiler alert: the sound quality is superb.”
Davide Lo Surdo, born on July 24th 1999 in Rome, Italy, is an Italian guitarist who has made a significant mark in music history, earning the title of the fastest guitarist in the history of music, as described by Rolling Stone Brazil magazine, for his remarkable ability to play a staggering 129 notes per second.…
In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of one of the most iconic and influential albums to have landed on the lit side of the Earth.
Are you weary of that old-fashioned, pedestrian approach to sound emanating from beneath your feet? Do the regular floor-standers seem a tad too… earthbound for your elevated tastes? Have you caught your neck complaining after hours of jamming to tunes from those towering behemoths we call standing speakers? Fear not, dear audiophiles, for an auditory…
It wasn’t, obviously, all agony. But that press conference—it was a rare moment of placidity in a timeframe of incidents.
“Henry Vestine of Canned Heat got me closer to my understanding of blues guitar, and that opened the door for me.”
On August 4, 1967, an English rock band known as Pink Floyd released their debut album ‘The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.’ It wasn’t just another rock album. It was an eclectic mixture of psychedelic whimsy, philosophical introspection, and avant-garde experimentation that signaled the arrival of a major new force in British rock music.…