Sometimes music ceases to be just music, and manages to reach outside of the vinyl it was pressed on to interact with the world around it. Zombie, the twenty-seventh full length record by Afrobeat legend Fela Kuti, is …
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By the mid 1980’s Carlos Santana had become fed up of trying to please record company executives with by-the-numbers hit records. Having proved to be one of the most ferociously efficient and violently colourful live bands on the planet throughout …
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In the winter of 1979, Public Image Ltd., fronted by former Sex Pistol John Lydon, released their grim, challenging and bleak avant-garde post-punk record Metal Box. Released on three pieces of vinyl inside a metal canister embossed …
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By 1983 the music scene was awash with synth-pop, small bands becoming established acts and established acts becoming even more popular. Out of this field of stadium rock, new wave, and in Britain, the recent birth of post-punk sprung a …
Read More: OBG: R.E.M. – Murmur (1983)
In 1987, Depeche Mode released their sixth studio album, Music For The Masses. Out of ten tracks, three became hit singles, and the album reached #35 on the US Billboard charts, the band’s highest ranking yet in the States. …
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