Blue Merle : Walking into the club, you look up at the stage in anticipation of the evening’s performance, curious about this band Blue Merle. But instead of the usual array of electric guitars and stacked amps, what you see are acoustic guitar, mandolin, violin, upright bass and drums ...
LIVE magazine | April 05 | music | rock | Blue Merle

more than 120 million records worldwide
U2 formed in their native Dublin in 1978 and remains intact with its four original band members: Bono, Larry Mullen, Adam Clayton and The Edge. The band has sold more than 120 million records worldwide in an extraordinary career that has firmly ... [ read more ] »
LIVE magazine | December 04 | March 06 | art | music | pop | rock | U2

Beck : Hell Yes
The new Beck studio album, titled Guero will finally drop March 29th 2005. Here is the tracklisting. E-Pro, Que Onda Guero, Girl, Missing, Black Tambourine, Earthquake Weather, Hell Yes, Broken Drum, Scarecrow, Go It Alone, Farewell Ride, Rental Car, Emergency Exit
LIVE magazine | February 05 | music | video | Beck

Hailed by NME as “potentially the most important group since Oasis,” the Music is incontrovertibly among today’s preeminent new rock ‘n’ roll outfits. With the eagerly anticipated “ Welcome To The North,” the UK-based quartet more than fulfills the stunning promise of their self-titled 2003 debut. The album sees the Music teaming up with legendary producer Brendan O’Brien, ...
LIVE magazine | November 04 | music | rock | video | The Music

Lenny Kravitz has described this self-produced disc as his most personal recording to date, a description that's hard to argue with, given the intimate lyrical tenor of many of the album's 13 songs and the one-man-band makeup of many others.
LIVE magazine | June 04 | art | music | rock | rock | Lenny Kravitz

Simple Kid ia a walking, talking, falling down pop paradox. the sharpest, most complex, poisonous, saddest and funny lyricist trading under a flimsy disguise of idiocy
LIVE magazine | May 04 | art | music | rock | pop | Simple Kid

is there anybody out there? Exactly what was Pink Floyd's The Wall? Rock opera? Concept album? Performance art? Mere entertainment? While the truth may lie in a combination of all of the above, during the band's tour of 1980-81, The Wall was a bona fide spectacle. More than anything, Is There Anybody Out There? captures the volume, the bombast, and the grandeur of these famed performances with remarkable accuracy.
art | music | rock | Pink Floyd

One of Depeche Mode's greatest strengths is also their greatest weakness. The band comes up with some of pop music's most inventive lyrics, and at the same time, they always give the impression that they'll arbitrarily sing about anything, as long as it's depressing. But on Exciter there's an autobiography in the lyrics that, for the first time, strikes a chord with skeptics and believers alike. art | music | rock | Depeche Mode Exciter

Bob Dylan was recently named by Life as one of the 100 most important Americans of the 20th century. Forty-three albums into his four-decades-plus career ...
art | music | rock | Bob Dylan pro.file

John Hammond, shortly before his death, said that Ned Massey was the best artist he’d heard since Dylan and Springsteen. Hammond had the right to say such things: he was the Columbia A&R man who signed both of those artists. Ned Massey’s new album, “ A Brief Appearance”, is a stripped down, powerful collection of songs ...
art | music | rock | Ned Massey

ego : composer, guitarist and singer vaunts various musical experiences; the more significant one is his militancy for almost ten years in the Trade Mark, band in the forefront of the italian rock panorama.
art | music | rock | pop | ego