Congratulations to Tony, who narrowly edged Sheik Yerbouti for bragging rights in last week’s Shopping List quiz. This week’s quiz has amazing breadth, covering more than a century of recorded music. You need to link the three albums to the…
The title New Music Reviews is a little misleading this week, given that one of the new releases is a compilation of songs released between 1989 and 1996. Additionally, two of these three albums are from 2021. But read on…
Last week’s Album by Shopping Receipt IV was a toughie, but a couple of contestants made it to 23/24 – good work Tony and Sheik Yerbouti. I’m not necessarily planning on doing every quiz in the series, but I wanted…
Progressive rock behemoths Yes emerged from London in the late 1960s. Starting out as a psychedelic pop band, they became one of its leading exponents of the emerging genre of progressive rock. Despite a revolving crew of members – bassist Chris Squire…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965 to 1968…
Congratulations to Rich Kamerman, who scored the only 24/24 on last week’s quiz. This week, we’re looking at “Shopping Receipts” from artists – they’re actually tracklists with track times. I liked how it covered a wide variety of music. …
Welcome back to the first instalment of new music reviews for 2022. This week I feature three female artists in their thirties of Asian descent – the art-rock of indie heroine Mitski, the jazz/Hindustani classical hybrid of Arooj Aftab, and…
Noone scored a full 24/24 in last week’s quiz, but we did have a bunch of 23s. Tony had the fastest recorded time with 3:54 remaining. It’s the final quiz in the series this week. I managed to arrest…
Joni Mitchell emerged at a time when the women’s rights movement was still building steam. She had to fight for recognition as a serious artist. Her image was often defined in terms of whom she was dating – a Rolling Stone…
Before he became Patti Smith’s lead guitarist, Lenny Kaye compiled the 2 album set, Nuggets: Original Artyfacts from the First Psychedelic Era. Released in 1972, the two-LP set covered American garage rock and psychedelia from the years 1965 to 1968…
