The Albums (and singles)
Merry Xmas Everybody
To celebrate, here’s a few tunes from outside the standard Slade/Greg Lake/Jon & Yoko axis.
6 Music Xmas special!
News just in: there’s a two hour Hail! Hail! Rock’n’Roll radio programme going out on BBC 6 Music on Boxing Day, featuring loads of our favourite rock ephemera and nonsense and narration/presentation from JH. Confirmation is here, along with a picture of a headless fella playing a guitar. We just say TUNE IN. Please.
Top 8 albums of 2009
Seeing as it’s that time of year, here’s the list of top 2009 albums I submitted to a monthly music magazine that’ll have to remain nameless.
Speed of sound
There’s a piece by JH on the BBC news website about fan-life in the digital age, and the opportnunity to live in several different rock time-zones at once
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As inventive, untamed and adorable as a John Squire guitar solo
Tony ParsonsBuy the book from:
SpotifyPlaylists
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By way of a reminder of how absurdly great Kiss could be, here’s a Spotify 12-tracker, including the best hits and more
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One more playlist, before tea: a quick sprint through the lovely sounds of effects units
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A 12-tracker charting the wildly oscillating and usually disappointing progress of The Rolling Stones through the 1980s
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To enlighten readers further, a playlist inspired by the magic of less-than-gigantic music genres, as detailed on pages 78-80
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