This is the week that was in matters musical … 1949, RCA introduces the first 45rpm record … some record labels actually release extended classical works on sets of 45s with the playback interrupted every 4 or 5 minutes while listeners swap discs … 1952, Sun Records, future home...

Mick Brown enjoys a judicious history of one of popular music's most influential traditions...

Cadillac Records 27x41 Original Movie Poster Movie Review I saw Cadillac Records yesterday. It is a musical biopic that is now showing in theaters, it was written and directed by Darnell Martin. The film explores blues music starting in the early 1940s to the late 1960s. It chronicles the life of th...

You know, I want you to pick up on this. You know, these lyrics are something else. Just dig this. Yeah, whoever put those subtitles on that clip was... um, shall we say, not listening? Let's take a look at that one more time: "Now, I want you to pick up on this" = "Now I want you to ...

Here is a video that I had not seen before. It is of John Lee Hooker playing with the Muddy Waters' band. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Notes from YouTube: Some historic, priceless, magic footage here:The master Boogie Man backed in 1960 by the Muddy Waters Blues band, with the superb Otis Sp...

…of all time… Wasn’t what a bunch of students (© Paul Calf) from London music schools came up with in this list… Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (1973) Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (1991) Walk This Way - Aerosmith (1975) Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (1967) Sweet Chil...

Having successfully pissed off one diva at the Grammies by saying Tina Turner and not Aretha 'The Diamond Walrus' Franklin was the Queen of Everything, Beyoncé's going to harness all that righteous ego to play the incredibly awesome Etta James in Cadillac Records, a film about 60s record label Ches...