AvatarGravel Pit AvatarAvatar20 hours agoThe Devil is a flawed everyman in Nick Cave’s ceramicsWallpaper* - Hannah SilverIn musician and artist Nick Cave’s ceramics, the devil is a flawed individual, blessed and cursed with human weaknesses. In his 17 figurines, Cave traces the fluctuations of a life punctuated by a series of defining events, an artistic echo of Shakespeare’s ‘seven ages of man’. ‘What started as a …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoThe night Frank Zappa was arrested for making a sex tape and “conspiracy to commit pornography”faroutmagazine.co.uk - Joe TaysomIn 1965, Frank Zappa found himself in cuffs, but in true Zappa fashion, his arrest carried with it a wild backstory. As stories with the mercurial …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoJordan Rakei is the first ever Artist In Residence at London’s Abbey Road Studiosthelineofbestfit.com - Tyler Damara KellyJordan Rakei has been announced as the first ever ‘Artist In Residence’ at Abbey Road Studios. The role is the first in a series designed to enhance …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo1 day agoMF Doom & Madlib's "Madvillainy" Receives RIAA Gold Certification 20 Years Laterhotnewhiphop.com - Zachary HorvathThis just furthers solidifies how fantastic and beloved "Madvillainy" is. When you think about essential hip-hop records, where does your mind go? For …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo3 days agoThe Ringo Starr stories with John Bonhamrockandrollgarage.com - Rafael PolcaroRingo Starr joined The Beatles in 1962, shortly before the group recorded their first album and he became one of the most influential drummers of all …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo3 days ago“I never looked at it as a single 'til everybody started saying it was great”: The Wham! song that George Michael called his favourite and he made on his own with a Roland Juno-60 and a LinnDrummusicradar.com - By Ben RogersonAs Wham!’s two full-length studio albums, Fantastic and Make It Big, are re-released on vinyl - marking the first time that they’ve been available in …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo4 days ago"I heard it for the first time at a dope dealer’s house one night": My 10 favourite British albums ever, by Status Quo's Francis Rossiloudersound.com - By Dave LingIn 2006, Classic Rock compiled the definitive guide to the 100 Greatest British Rock Albums Ever. We consulted a panel of experts: rock DJs, rock …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo5 days ago“Playing with a pick is not something you learn over the weekend. It requires the same commitment as learning to play upright bass with a bow”: Listen to Anthony Jackson’s landmark bassline on the O’Jay’s For the Love of Moneyguitarworld.com - By Chris JisiWhen it comes to songs about money, few have retained their value like the O'Jays' 1974 hit For the Love of Money. While the song initially reached …
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo6 days agoFolk Futurism: how Francis Bebey transformed Cameroonian musicfaroutmagazine.co.uk - Ben ForrestThere is an assumption that much of African music is rooted in centuries-old folk traditions and archaic instrumentation. While this hypothesis is …
AvatarGravel Pit AvatarAvatarMar 22, 2012Hated in the Nation: The 30 Biggest Punching Bags in Pop History - SPINSPINNow that Osama bin Laden is dead, America needs new enemies upon whom we can dump our never-ending supply of scorn and bile. We decided to look at …
AvatarGravel Pit AvatarAvatar6 days agoHow Berlin's techno scene transformed the city and gained Unesco statusverified_publisherBBC Travel - Lynn BrownIn abandoned warehouses and squats of this once-divided city, young people thirsty for freedom started a cultural revolution that has now been recognised by Unesco.
AvatarGravel Pit FlipboardIcon version of the Flipboard logo'I was at Elvis Presley's final concert, it's like he knew it would be his last'verified_publishermirror.co.uk - Paige FreshwaterElvis Presley's death in August 1977 shocked the world - as fans came together to mourn the loss of the King of Rock and Roll. Between 1974 and 1976, …