This week on New Tracks on the Trail: • Kate Bush is taking a look back at her illustrious career with a series of “super deluxe” box sets featuring remasters spanning the entirety of her 23-year recording career. Remastered is being released in two parts. The first, which dropped Nov. 16, extends from Bush’s pair […]
Vinally Friday – 4/27
We take it for granted now, but there was a time when the concept of computer-assisted music was downright revolutionary. Sure, sampling had been around for years; but there was something uniquely inspiring about the synthesizer, and none more so than the Fairlight CMI. Nicknamed the “mother” of all samplers, the Fairlight was an expensive […]
Vinally Friday – 12/23
Gene Autry balked for quite some time before his wife finally convinced him to record it. Now, with sales exceeding 150 million copies, the western singer’s 1949 version of “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” has gone down in history as the No. 2 Christmas song of all time. The lyrics were put together by songwriter Johnny […]
New Tracks – 11/29
In case you haven’t noticed, Portland is stirring up quite the musical flurry of late. Richmond Fontaine is currently touring Europe, record labels Fluff and Gravy and Mama Bird each just celebrated their five-year birthdays with a series of performances and releases, and The Decemberists, of course, continue to make their mark on the national scene. […]
