Nat King Cole’s 10th Anniversary was a momentous release in 1955 because it marked one of the first times a label mined its vaults and released unreleased tracks to the public. Such a practice might not seem like a big deal in the “download age,” but back in good ol’ ’55, it was something out… [Read more…]
June 27, 2008
And there she was. The woman in red drew attention to herself like a crimson angel on the wrong side of town on a stormy night where nothing was what it seems and everything was just a little…different. I approached her from across the crowded smoky room with a drink in my left hand, and… [Read more…]
June 10, 2008
“The absence of much advance notice or information might seem a little strange and perverse but the record was made so quickly that I didn’t even tell myself about it for a couple weeks,” Elvis Costello told Billboard back on April 22, 2008 as he marked the vinyl release date of his newest album Momofuku.… [Read more…]
June 27, 2008
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