Friday's Playlist: Layla and Assorted Songs For Patti Boyd

Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, the seminal double LP by Eric Clapton's short lived band Derek & the Dominos, is as legendary for the music it contains as it is for the painting that adorns its cover and the circumstances that led to its writing and recording. It's a necessary item for any music lover's collection: if you like blues, rock, soul, guitar, love songs, then you owe it to yourself to listen to this masterpiece.

Friday's Playlist: Slash - Sessions & Contributions

This Friday's Playlist features some of Slash's guest appearances outside his usual bands, for no reason other than Slash is fucking awesome. I know it's common knowledge, but it bears repeating.

Friday's Playlist: Great Live Performances (part one)

Happy New Year!

To celebrate the advent of 2020, here is little selection of great live versions of songs we know and love.

2019 Concert Recap - Part Four

Here is the last instalment in our 2019 Concerts Recap series. This kind of feels like one of those shitty sitcom clip shows doesn't it? Click HERE for part one, HERE for part two and HERE for part three.

Friday's Playlist: Blues Classics

2019 is drawing to a close, and we feel submerged by a feeling that's hard to describe... Something akin to nostalgia, but not quite. Not sadness, although there is some of that in there too. You know what it is? It's the Blues.

2019 Concerts Recap - Part Three

This is the third instalment in our 2019 Concerts Recap series. Check out part one HERE and part two HERE.

2019 Concerts Recap - Part Two

This is the second instalment in our 2019 concert recap series. Click HERE for part one and make sure to click on the links to access the full gallery and review. Happy holidays and happy new year!

Greatest Hits Live (2011-2019)

As the decade is coming to an end, here are a few of our favorite concert shots from the past ten years. Well, nine to be exact. And to be honest, the bulk of it is from the past four years. There are quite a few legends in there, and some great up and comers too. Click on the links to access the full gallery.

There is still one Friday's Playlist to come, and a couple of more instalments in our 2019 concerts recap series, but apart from those this will be it for us this year. See you in 2020 for more fresh content, and enjoy the holidays! We sure will.

Angus Young (AC/DC)

Friday's Playlist - Trip-Hop, Techno, Electronica

Yeah, I know. We usually like to focus on Rock and Roll. Hard Rock. Punk Rock. Hell, Jazz Rock even. We've been known to do the odd Jazz setlist. And we're really into Blues and Funk as well. Electronic music isn't usually our glass of beer.

2019 Concerts Recap - Part One

We're nearing the end of 2019, and we won't be attending any more shows this year. So this is as good a time as any to look back at this past year's concert experiences. We'd be hard pressed to rank them, or even extract a top ten list, so we're just going to do a recap of the last year.

Friday's Playlist: New Jazz

"Jazz isn't dead, it just smells funny"

Frank Zappa

Jazz has been declared dead every year since hard bop. Jazz Nazis refuse to acknowledge its evolutions and mutations. This American tradition has used European classical music, Rock, Funk, Latin, Electronica to rejuvenate, adapt, survive and today, the idiom is richer than ever.

Rhiannon Giddens & Francesco Turrisi @ Café de la Danse, Paris - December 9th, 2019

Rhiannon Giddens is probably the best ambassador of American roots music today. Through her various projects and the multitude of instruments she masters, including her spellbinding voice, she tells the stories of the people and the myths that have informed America, wherever they may be from.

Delain @ Cabaret Sauvage, Paris - December 6th, 2019

The Netherlands are one of the world's foremost purveyors of the musical style that has come to be known as Symphonic Metal: epic, heavy riffs, soaring (usually female) vocals, and bombastic arrangements that evoke the string and brass sections of an orchestra. Check out our playlist HERE if you want to hear what that sounds like. 

In the decade-plus since their creation, Delain has become one of the front bearers of a genre that include such acts as Within Temptation, Nigthwish and The Gathering.

Friday's Playlist - Awesome Guitar Solos (part one)

This Friday's Playlist is the first of several instalments. Most of the solos featured here are classics. Some might call them overplayed. Don't listen to them. You don't need these people in your lives. The next instalments will feature more obscure ones but in the mean time, feel free to rock out to these fist pumping, head-banging, face-melting, air guitar-wielding solos.

Butt Rock is back, baby!

"The Stadium Tour" was just announced a few days ago after weeks of speculation thanks to new Black Crowes' manager (I use the term "Black Crowes" loosely...) Mark Didia, who spilled the beans on the Live Nation venture a little too early.

Joan Jett & the Black Hearts, Poison, Def Leppard and Mötley Crüe. Here we are. Hairspray, mascara, bandanas, ugly pink guitars and sophomoric songs about strippers and cocaine are bankable again.