Artist: The Beatles

Se trata de The Sound of Creation , track que compuso el músico estadounidense en el marco de la iniciativa de la firma Philips titulada Sound of Creation . La consigna para dar vida a este tema fue "crear una exploración autobiográfica de sus influencias musicales" . Conocé el resultado en esta nota.  Ernest Greene , más conocido como Washed Out , participó en la campaña de Philips Sound [...]

The Beatles, atop Apple Studios in 1969. Those were the days. On this day in January, 44 years ago, The Beatles climbed to the rooftop of Apple Studios in London to give what would be their last public live performance. The unannounced live show was a bit of a stunt, and an improvised ending to the documentary movie they were filming at the time, Let It Be . The movie was to be a fly-on-the-wall look at the Fabs working in the studio, cranking out songs for the planned Get Back [...]

Memory is a funny thing. It the power to twist over time and become the source of our greatest pride or most painful regret. This week, the list obligatory looks at those songs that are simply about remembering. For many of us, memory is the one of the strongest forces in our [...]

Does music make the man? Or does it maybe just influence him a little? Yesterday, the folks over at A.V. Club recommended a few albums meant to positively (whatever that means) influence kids' future music tastes, and we got to thinking about our favorite records as children and young teenagers and the impact they might have had on our current personalities - for good or ill. After the jump, we've collected a few of our (wildly subjective, tongue-in-cheek) conclusions. So read on to find out what your favorite record as a youngster says about you now, and let [...]

The San Diego band's January Soda Bar residency wraps up Monday night // Follow Owl and Bear on Facebook and Twitter for contests, MP3s, and links that don't make it onto the blog.

La cuenta oficial de The Beatles en YouTube ha cargado una serie de cortos donde se aprecia un poco de todos los sencillos y algunos momentos históricos de la legendaria banda de Liverpool.

A while back Ralph had a bit of a look at Scottish band The Afghan Hounds but back then they didn't have a lot of gigs under their collective belt and their music needed some fine tuning.....well seeing as it's blog a dog week Ralph checked them out again and lo and behold The Afghan Hounds have come of age. Assorted influences are..... [...]

• The Afghan Hounds - Electric Karma Blues
• The Afghan Hounds - Main Line Home

A couple of weeks back, we surveyed some fascinating conspiracy theories about literary characters, pondering everything from whether The Great Gatsby' s Nick Carraway was gay to whether Dorothy was a witch all along. We're generally not big believers in conspiracy theories, but if nothing else, they do make for amusing reading, and the whole literary characters idea has got us thinking about similar whisperings from other parts of the pop cultural spectrum... like these ones, for instance, which hail from a place where truth is often stranger than fiction: the music industry! Click through and read [...]

Whenever we watch any sort of Rolling Stones documentary, there's almost always footage of the band frolicking around their personalized private jet with a half dozen half-naked girls. Inspired by such a display, we've created a timeline of famous musicians who have been photographed with (and aboard) their very own private planes. Let it be known - as time progresses, the photos aren't as cool (and neither are the musicians, really), but go ahead and check 'em out anyway. Click through for our Flavorwire roundup of musicians and their private jets, then hit the comments to lend us your thoughts. [...]

They don't make rock stars like they used to, and that's ok.

The Beatles' drummer is planning a new U.S. tour, and his first album in years. No, not Ringo Starr: Pete Best, the group's original fourth member. John Lennon's pre-Beatles band the Quarrymen had earlier played some of its first dates at Liverpool's Casbah Coffee Club, run by Best's mom. Best would then join the group in 1960, just in time [...]

The resurgence in the Liverpool Indie music scene seems to be bringing an almost constant stream of new bands with a strong songwriting and musical ability and The Varese's from the city's Old Swan area are certainly in that mould. [...]

L'11 febbraio del 1963 i Beatles corsero nello Studio 2 di Abbey Road per registrare quello che sarebbe diventato il loro primo album: Please Please Me era in vetta alla classifica dei singoli nel Regno Unito e bisognava approfittarne. La band lo fece con un tour de force di dodici (c'è chi dice siano state addirittura 15...) ore ininterrotte, sotto la guida di un inflessibile George Martin. Nuovi brani e cover per un esordio omonimo che fu pubblicato il 22 marzo dello stesso anno. Per festeggiare i cinquant'anni dall'evento, un gruppo di [...]

Here's a headline to chill the blood : Mick Hucknall and Stereophonics to re-record first Beatles album Obviously it's not just those two; War and Famine will be also be taking part in the project to complete the team. It's apparently a project designed by Radio 2 to celebrate "the golden age of the album" - so Kelly Jones must be on board to remind us how far we've fallen since then. The idea is that Please Please Me will be recreated in twelve hours, thereby proving... something. That musicians can still work [...]

A BBC Radio 2 propôs um desafio especial: regravar o disco debut dos Beatles , Please Please Me, de 1963.  Mick Hucknall , vocalista do Simply Red , a banda Stereophonics e a cantora Gabrielle Aplin aceitaram a proposta. O projeto, que faz parte do especial The Golden Age Of The Album da rádio britânica, ainda tem um ponto bem específico e complicado: as gravações devem acontecer em apenas 12 horas. No dia 11 de fevereiro, a sessão de gravação será transmitida ao vivo pela BBC Radio 2. Além [...]

En una encuesta rápida, en donde realmente hubo una inigualable democracia en esta redacción, elegimos 3 canciones que son perfectas para esta tarde en la Ciudad de México. RHCP - "Californication" (@fer_omede) Arctic Monkeys - "Cigarrette Smoke" (@mackluna) The Beatles - A Day In The Life (@el_produc) ¿Cuáles son sus canciones perfectas?

Luego de cumplir 50 años de su creación, los temas “Love Me Do” y “P.S. I Love You”, de The Beatles, pasaron a ser del dominio público en Europa, luego de que expiraran los derechos de autor.

The ELO mothership hovers over the world's most symmetrical city skyline - Jeff Lynne must have produced it. Trust me: I don't post a song by Electric Light Orchestra here lightly. I have some very negative feelings for ELO leader Jeff Lynne, which are primarily - no, almost exclusively - connected with his efforts as a producer/destroyer of other people's music. He manages to take artists as great as Tom Petty, George Harrison, Dave Edmunds, Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison - even the Beatles, for cryin' out loud (the "Free As a Bird" single [...]

• Electric Light Orchestra - Do Ya

Filed under: News , Holy Hell , News Today, Oh Boy! Peter Macdiarmid, Getty Music retail outlet HMV has officially gone into administration (the British equivalent of bankruptcy protection) today, leaving the future of the company as well as thousands of jobs in doubt. According to The Guardian the retail chain called in administrators due to diminishing sales and a poor period during the holiday season which accounts for a [...]

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