All posts by Aaron Badgley
THE NAMES ENCORE! SPLEEN+ RECORDS In 1981, The Names released their first single on the famed Factory Records. It wasn’t their debut, but the Brussels band did release a single, “Night Shift”, which was produced by Martin Hannett, who had [...]
BENJAMIN RUSSELL WAVES TCBE RECORDS Benjamin Russell is certainly busy. Hot on the heels of last year’s fantastic album, Pleasure Center, he brings us Waves. Russell is an artist, a visual artist, and a musical artist. In fact, quite often they [...]
GARY KEMP THIS DESTINATION EAST WEST RECORDS Gary Kemp has had a fascinating career and quite frankly continues to surprise even his most ardent fans. He was a principal writer for Spandau Ballet, an actor, and is a member of Nick Mason’s [...]
D. D. DANAHY HALF – BAKED INDEPENDENT D. D. Danahy is an interesting and talented artist, perhaps best known for being one half of Keldari Station or most recently for the music he has made with The Amaretto Sours. He has also released a [...]
24 HOURS OF ENO FILM FIRST JANUARY 24, 2025 Brian Eno is not a conventional artist. He may have produced some of the biggest albums and singles over the past 40 years, but he is anything but conventional. Eno is a documentary of sorts of the [...]
MIGHT AS WELL FACE IT A CONVERSATION WITH GUITARIST EDDIE MARTINEZ (ROBERT PALMER) The name Eddie Martinez may not be instantly recognizable, but take a few minutes and go through your albums and his name is going to pop up everywhere. He has [...]
TON ROOMS RE-TON RECORDS TON, from Berlin, started off as an electronic and sample project by Julien Siemann. However, very quickly he enlisted the help of Vincent Wedel, Lizz, and Karen Dhios on a variety of things from vocals, mixing, and [...]
TELEVISION PERSONALITIES TUNE IN, TURN ON, DROP OUT – RADIO SESSIONS 1980-1993 FIRE RECORDS Television Personalities formed at the tail end of the UK punk scene, in 1977. They released their debut EP, Where’s Bill Grundy Now? (referring to [...]
THE WEATHER STATION HUMANHOOD NEXT DOOR RECORDS/FAT POSSUM At the core of The Weather Station is Tamara Lindeman. It has always been her project and vision. Humanhood is the seventh album and the first album since the very successful and [...]
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STEVE HACKETT LIVE MAGIC AT TRADING BOUNDARIES CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS It has become a tradition for Steve Hackett to perform at Trading Boundaries, in Sussex, UK. He usually schedules shows every year between Christmas and New Year. This is a [...]
TERRY DRAPER INFINITY TERRY TUNES RECORDS Terry Draper is a brilliant artist and one of the hardest working musicians in the business. His most recent solo album, In The Beginning, was released in 2023. It was his 13th album. This year he also [...]
SON LUX RISK OF MAKE BELIEVE CITY SLANG Risk Of Make Believe is the first new music from Son Lux since 2023’s very successful and Academy Award-nominated soundtrack for Everything Everywhere All At Once (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack). The [...]
RINGO STARR PRESS CONFERENCE RYMAN AUDITORIUM, NASHVILLE (TN) Ringo Starr played two nights at the famed Ryman Auditorium in Nashville, Tennessee on January14 and 15 to sold-out crowds. Not only that, but he was joined by many special guests and [...]
PHILIP RAMBOW I’M AN ARTIST INDEPENDENT It has been far too long since we had an album of new material from Philip Rambow. Here, on I’m An Artist, Rambow has returned with 11 songs of what he does best. These are personal and emotional songs set [...]
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RINGO STARR LOOK UP UNIVERSAL MUSIC Ringo Starr has always had a love of country music. With The Beatles he recorded a cover of Buck Owens’ “Act Naturally” and always spoke about his appreciation of that genre. Country music was always very [...]
CONSIDER INFINITY AND BLOW YOUR MIND A CONVERSATION WITH TERRY DRAPER (EX-KLAATU) Since Klaatu called it a day more than 40 years ago Terry Draper has established a very successful solo career. Since his debut solo album, 1997’s Light Years [...]
I KNOW IT’S ONLY MISTLETOE (BUT I LIKE IT) SPILL MAGAZINE DIGS DEEP INTO SOME OF THE BEST/WORST 2024 CHRISTMAS RELEASES (PART ONE) Well, it is that time of year again, to gather friends and family and get together for Christmas, the most [...]
PROPAGANDA PLUS 5 BUREAU B Propaganda’s latest release, Plus 5, is a very interesting and well-constructed release, that is on one hand very techno, and on the other, quite chill and relaxing. Ralf Dörper (keyboards) and Michael Mertens [...]
BLUE ÖYSTER CULT 50th ANNIVERSARY LIVE – THIRD NIGHT FRONTIERS MUSIC From September 21 through to September 22, 2022, Blue Öyster Cult performed three very special shows at Sony Hall in New York City. They performed, in their entirety, [...]
MOVIELAND THEN & NOW 604 RECORDS Vancouver’s Movieland made a name for themselves in the 1990s with their shoegaze style of music. They established themselves due to their music being quite different from the then popular world of grunge. [...]
ALLAN KOZINN AND ADRIAN SINCLAIR – THE MCCARTNEY LEGACY: VOLUME 2: 1974 – 80 DEY STREET BOOKS BOOK REVIEW BY AARON BADGLEY Allan Kozinn and Adrian Sinclair’s first volume of The McCartney Legacy was not just well received, it has become an [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS BEST OF JETHRO TULL (REDUX) MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS Best Of Jethro Tull (Redux) is the second of two Jethro Tull tribute albums from Magnetic Eye Records. Both albums feature ‘heavy metal’ interpretations of classic Jethro Tull [...]
VARIOUS ARTISTS AQUALUNG (REDUX) MAGNETIC EYE RECORDS Jethro Tull has been classified as an art rock band, prog rock, folk rock, and just play rock. They have never been seen as a heavy metal band. Sure, guitarist Martin Barre could trade licks [...]
JETHRO TULL THE JETHRO TULL CHRISTMAS ALBUM – FRESH SNOW AT CHRISTMAS CENTURY MEDIA RECORDS/INSIDE OUT MUSIC Originally titled The Jethro Tull Christmas Album when it was released in 2003, this was Jethro Tull’s 21st studio album and the last to [...]
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